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Oh definetely!

It is a question of cycles I guess.

I just picked films explicitly from 1977 to not only get an idea of the films that Star Wars went up directly against but also to immerse myself in the cultural and cinematic world of that moment in time.It is wierd but if you watch a couple of these films like The Deep, Saturday Night Fever, Annie Hall and Smokie And the Bandit back to back your "movie senses"--so to speak!-- acclamatise to the beats and rythms of these movies; i.e the slower editing, the emphasise on character(something which is missing from a lot of movies these days), the colour pallettes that are distinctive of 70's cinema,the mono sound!(for Annie Hall or Smokie And The Bandit) and the earth bound reality of the stories that comprise these films(even Close Encounters).

And then you watch Star Wars and the whole thing just leaps out at you!