luckydube56 said:

imperialscum said:

CO said:

The whole 'Post-Vietnam' argument about Star Wars in the documentary is another attempt by Lucas to re-write history.

I don't think that this was Lucas' doing. The documentary creators just threw in some stuff that would make it look smarter. Now fans are taking that kind of crap as the holy truth. This is just one of many such cases.

Perhaps you two are correct. Of course it pre-supposes the notion that there is really nothing special about this film series you love so much. Maybe it is, indeed, just another movie. A mere hobby. An over loved one trick pony.

Maybe Lord of the Rings is the same?

Well I am saying that the historical contexts had little to do with success of the film. It was successful because it was just great. It was equally popular in Europe or Japan and we had no Vietnam war. And almost 20 years leater, when I first watched it I loved it just as much as people who watched it at release (I think LOTR came out a little later and compared to SW trilogy it was unappealing to me). Many films we had in the past 30 years were actually influenced by the Star Wars. Star Wars changed, influenced and shaped the cinematic history like no other film did.