Yikes, this is horrific.
I can't believe this ever succeeded, it is so ridiculous.
sharegood trolling. short and offensive. 10/10.
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MovieChat Forums > Star Wars (1977) Discussion > Yikes, this is horrific.
I'm not as appealed by Star Wars as everyone else is, but I can understand it's appeal. Because I remember first watching Episode IV on VHS and remember how striking it was a for a kid like me. The whole atmosphere and not too mention it had the right group of actors. John Williams' music (and the sound effects in general), as said by a previous poster, I think had a lot to do with its appeal. He arranges the orchestra in such a way that it's unlike anything you've heard before, it sounds like the future. And yeah people didn't really have much to choose from in the 70s, Star Trek: The Motion Picture (which has fun special effects, other than that it's a total snooze-fest) and Black Hole.
shareApparently you have never watched action sci-fi movies from before 1977.
shareANd yet still 1000x better than 99% of the crap out today
sharenot really, but today is crap for sure-.
shareIt came out in the 70s and was groundbreaking.
You can’t analyze a film out of its time. It’s like saying the trains comes into the station from 1911 sucks because it was a single take and boring.
A new hope still stands up today especially if you watch the despecialized edition
How??
shareAnyone who did not see the original trilogy when they were first released can not come close to appreciating the experience the way those of us who did can.
The same way that none of us here can appreciate the original King Kong the way audiences in 1933 did.
I watched it when it was first released, nothing came close to it , absolutely breath taking at the time, 10 out of 10 , changed everything
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not true at all, you just prove my point, if something can't get past its time then it's not very good at all. I've seen the original King Kong, even in my teens, I was very impressed by it, and now at 35 I consider it one of the greatest films ever made. If one has the sensitivity to appreciate art, one can still be impressed by it because King Kong is art and a masterpiece, and it's actually way better than the films today.
shareSo, when you saw King Kong, were you completely mind blown by special effects you never even knew were possible in a film?
sharenot sure what you mean by the last part but yes, when I saw King Kong on tv right at the scene were the pterodactyl was attacking fay wray, yes I was impressed and engrossed, and this was after seeing Jurassic Park and countless other "great" special effect movies.
shareWhat I meant was, when the original Star Wars came out, most of us couldn't even comprehend HOW what we were seeing was even possible as far as the space battles and such.
It was so far and beyond anything any of us had seen before, everyone was awestruck.
It wasn't just a 'those are great effects' moment. Those are a dime a dozen. Peoples minds were completely blown and they left the theaters dumbfounded by what they had just seen.
Maybe someone today could still get the same effect IF Star Wars was the first thing they ever watched with special effects in it....
I see, well it still looks like a b movie. And it's not all about special effects, that's not what makes a film legendary, people should have gotten over it ages ago.
shareDo you think the first movie to have sound should be disregarded, just because it's a crap movie by todays standards?
shareI can't say it's a crap movie because I haven't seen it, I also don't believe in anything being crap by "today's standards", what does that even mean? How old is Swan Lake?, The Illyad? Medea? I don't believe in "today's standards", good things are good no matter what time they are seen. Star Wars is not really that.
shareTHIS MOVIE IS GREAT!!!!!
shareI saw it in the theaters in 1977 and I've never been so blown away from a film. This turned the world of special effects on its axis back then.
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