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Originally posted by: C3PX
I would say Star Wars is really a classic rather than a pop-phenomenon. Sure it has a lot of baggage trailing behind it, and the vast majority of that baggage is crap. But honestly, who actually says Star Wars is their favorite movie? Who even watches Star Wars anymore? Everybody watches ESB, ROTJ, TPM, AOTC, and ROTS, they only watch Star Wars for good measure, but most would admit to it being slow and boring. But then there are those of us who watch Star Wars in the same way we watch Casablanca. If Star Wars was still only Star Wars, I don't think too many kids today would even care about it except for loyal sci-fi and film fans. I think Anchorhead has it right. Take away all the baggage and ignore it and you have a fantastic story. Keep all that baggage and you have a a pile of tripe you almost have to feel ashamed for even trying to like. Star Wars is a classic. I would even say that the original triology is a classic. The PT is simply a rash on the teet of the cash cow. Something that unfortunately hits every great work of fiction if it is too popular for its own good. Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings are three of my favorite stories in their original forms (film, film, and book respectively) that have way too much baggage attached to them that drag their quality through the mud. All three could be considered pop-phenomenea, but are also all undoubtably classics. In the end, the originals are still available and the baggage can be ignored. I think it is less rather than more that makes/will make these tales classics.
I would say Star Wars is really a classic rather than a pop-phenomenon. Sure it has a lot of baggage trailing behind it, and the vast majority of that baggage is crap. But honestly, who actually says Star Wars is their favorite movie? Who even watches Star Wars anymore? Everybody watches ESB, ROTJ, TPM, AOTC, and ROTS, they only watch Star Wars for good measure, but most would admit to it being slow and boring. But then there are those of us who watch Star Wars in the same way we watch Casablanca. If Star Wars was still only Star Wars, I don't think too many kids today would even care about it except for loyal sci-fi and film fans. I think Anchorhead has it right. Take away all the baggage and ignore it and you have a fantastic story. Keep all that baggage and you have a a pile of tripe you almost have to feel ashamed for even trying to like. Star Wars is a classic. I would even say that the original triology is a classic. The PT is simply a rash on the teet of the cash cow. Something that unfortunately hits every great work of fiction if it is too popular for its own good. Planet of the Apes, Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings are three of my favorite stories in their original forms (film, film, and book respectively) that have way too much baggage attached to them that drag their quality through the mud. All three could be considered pop-phenomenea, but are also all undoubtably classics. In the end, the originals are still available and the baggage can be ignored. I think it is less rather than more that makes/will make these tales classics.
It could be the video quality of any release of ANH ever put out, fan or official otherwise.
I had just edited One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (which is also a "classic", like Star Wars, can be boring) last year in my English class, it was a sort of "book cut," I added some trippy effects to emulate the 60s psychedelic feel of the book, tried to work the Chief into the movie as a background narrator, like in the book, rather than a simple spectator, just seeing if I could do it, plus get some practice fanediting and get some school credit as well. Anyway, I was working off an old, nonanamorphic DVD of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest, so the quality was terrible, but I had to watch the film over and over, as it is with fanediting. So when my class watched the film as a follow up to the book, I thought I'd be really bored. But somebody brought in the new special edition DVD, anamorphic, color corrected, basically put together like any standard DVD release. I just watched the TV screen in utter amazement the whole time! I was completely enraptured by the film, all because of the quality of the video. The walls were white, there was no grain whatsoever, and the picture clarity was amazing. I was just into the film, though I'd watched it so many times--like--that week to get my project done. It's the same thing with something like maybe 2001: A Space Odyssey, who could watch--like--an old pan and scan VHS of that movie and show any interest at all? You need HD, you need to see the stars, read the labels on the ships, see each and every little detail.
Anyway what I mean is that we don't have a good looking Star Wars yet at all. The GOUT is basically like the old One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest DVD, and the proper DVD release, of course, is oversaturated, too dark, blue this, green that, and the annoying changes. There just isn't a proper way to watch it after we've all seen it soooo many times, as nerds will do. All I mean is, Star Wars is kinda slow as it goes into the second act, true, but it might be it just hasn't been seen right since 1977, so when you watch it, you just tune out.
