Anchorhead said:

That wouldn't be possible now. People go into the theater expecting HD CGI realism. If it isn't Avatar, Matrix, Transformers, or a Marvel-based comic action piece, it doesn't land at the level Star Wars circa 1977 did.

Yet these films doesn't have that something special as Star Wars has. That is why they were popular for a year and then forgotten.

Anchorhead said:T

The time to capture the world with an event comes along seldom. Once it does, you can't get your innocence back. There was only one Apollo Space Program, one The Beatles, one Facebook, and one Summer of Star Wars.

We are in agreement about that. But I assume from what was said so far that I attribute the main reason for the success to these things itself while you claim that the historic context around them was the major factor. It is the opposite, the greatness of these things shaped the history and not the other way around.

Anchorhead said:

You can read all you want about Star Wars 1977, you can imagine you understand it, and you can equate your TV experience decades later to it, but unless you were there, you can't feel or understand the emotional moment the way some of us did.

I have never claimed I understand anyone's emotional feelings... I said I love the film as much as someone else. I did not say I love it in the same manner.