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Re: Jawa Sandcrawler '02
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lugnet.starwars
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Thu, 11 Apr 2002 15:45:42 GMT
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In lugnet.starwars, Steve Bliss writes:
> Another thing that made a big difference (IMO) is that before Star Wars,
> there was a fairly long drought of 'big' science fiction movies. Sure,
> there were some movies around, but not many. So I think people were
> much more receptive to Star Wars in 1977 than they would have been if it
> came out a couple of years later, after Close Encounters of the Third
> Kind, and some other late-70's movies.
I think this is exactly right, and I would suggest that the other
late-70's might not have been possible or successful without many of the
techniques established during Star Wars, not to mention the
market-credibility of science fiction following the 1977 blockbuster release.
Dave!
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| (...) I believe that most sci-fi after Star Wars used Lucases own special effects production company, ILM, to do the effects in their movies. Before this, most studios did cheesy effects 'in house' (2001 being a noteable exception, those were pretty (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) Another thing that made a big difference (IMO) is that before Star Wars, there was a fairly long drought of 'big' science fiction movies. Sure, there were some movies around, but not many. So I think people were much more receptive to Star (...) (23 years ago, 11-Apr-02, to lugnet.starwars)
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