Loved it at the time, but wow, everything was different in every way.
How modern sci-fi TV and films have shamed those old ''sci-fi'' movies.
Yea, no movies from the 70s are any good anymore, not just this one
shareEverything was better in every way. Solid objects were filmed on real sets. Go watch whatever Xbox game looking CGI crap you love now.
shareI think Hybrid is going on about the styles and costumes and so forth, and I agree. I mean, even though it's bleedin' obvious, A New Hope SCREAMS 1970s hairstyles and sci-fi tropes, despite the presence of a lot of cutting-edge effects, ship designs and sound effects.
A beef I have in particular is the background sound of the Death Star scenes, a sort of very low-pitch regular beeping noise that doesn't really give off the impression of a super-powerful and vast battlestation. Compare that to Return of the Jedi with all of its early 1980s sophistication and superior sound effects, and the deep rhythmic rumbling signifying a massive amount of power deep in the bowels of the Death Star, and it sells its intimidating image a lot better.
It's like comparing Star Trek: The Original Series' background sound effects with The Next Generation, even though they are a couple of decades apart in production and standards: the Enterprise-D in TNG just sounds more like a futuristic and vast starship, with its various rumbles and everything.
It's hard to watch for me now watch given the state of what Star Wars is today.
sharei dunno... it's too much part of my fabric now. watched it so many times, as a kid and still the theatrical cut, I can't even see it as bad any more.
it's just like a favorite warm blanket to me now. I know all the lines, all the scenes, all the mistakes, its always the same, and it is fine, fun, comfortable as is. I like it. But, it probably doesn't stand up compared to today's modern CGI parties, but maybe I like that aspect of it too: the live sets, models, very few blue screens.
bad or good, it's a flavor I'll enjoy again and again until I die.
disagrees. film still look fresh today. a good story never age.
special effect in end space battle look better than CGI today. death star trench runs - best action scene of all times.
for this film they build sets with bare hand, shoot on locations, use real people in costume. this type of film making does not age. very important because everything CGI since. this is lost art.
star war 1977 is timeless.