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i want to talk about it though , I want to share my views on a movie forum and talk about why I like and dislike movies , lots of people have differing opinions so I talk about those opinions with other users, then I think of something ive not talked about or want to get of my chest so create a new discussion with the hope others may have an opinion on what ive just started a discussion on.
shareThis is a 40 year old discussion about a fluke movie series. There's not much more to add. Characters either use the force or shoot lasers. It's only a few movies.
sharea fluke movie? explain
shareStar Wars was a fluke. It was a silly space adventure with puppets. If it weren't for the special effects being revolutionary, it wouldn't amount to much. It was a lucky break.
shareso why did it amount to much then ?
shareLook up the word "fluke."
sharei know what it means, a new hope was not a fluke, empire strikes back followed and was even better , the OT is the greatest trilogy ever made , if you dont want to talk about it, then fuck off
shareA new hope was a fluke. No one thought it would make good money never mind become the cultural phenomenon it did. Just ask the bros at Fox if they thought it was going to be anything more than slight return on investment.
How else do you Lucas was able to hold on to the rights?
fluke is not the right word.
shareWhat is the right word then?
shareThe right words are quality and imagination.
The reason they weren't sure about reception is because there wasn't really anything like it at the time to compare it to. The same issue still exists today with publishers. This is why we are seeing SW in it's current state - it needs to conform to an established corporate checklist.
But it IS a well crafted film, especially from a technical standpoint - that certainly is not a fluke at all. Fluke denotes luck as opposed to skill - this is not the case at all; hence why it's the wrong word. All this was prior to the completion of the film anyway, so basing the reception of the film on the standpoint of a publisher before it was even started is false equivalence.
So no one knew it would be a hit, luckily it hit the mark with audiences. Fluke works here.
For example, firefly, a well crafted tv show that did not hit with audiences until it was too late. The thing, a failure at the cinema, now considered a classic.
Taking chances works sometimes, others it doesn’t. It’s no measure of quality of the product.
lol.
shareWhy bother replying if you’re just a knob?
shareI'm laughing because for some reason on the internet no-one's mind can ever be changed about any issue/topic ever. It's just the way things are (not saying I'm different).
I'm also thinking a more appropriate word would be 'unexpected' as opposed to a fluke.
Thats as wrong as it could get. But there were SciFi movies with way better effects then Star Wars. But none of them are as well remembered as Star Wars. You still dont get the complete package delivered with Star Wars. Im not a Star Wars fan, but even I understand that reducing Star Wars to special effects is simply amateurlike.
shareOr people put more meaning into a space story with puppets than what was really there. This movie is a fluke. Yes, the effects were revolutionary. The only difference beyond the effects was the swashbuckling plot. It's a pirate movie with pupperts in space.
shareCalling Star Wars a pirates tale is really strange. ITs a fantasy fairy tale located in space. And it contains a lot of cliffhanger elements of the good old Flash Gordon serials of the 1930s.
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