Cthulhu's Librarian
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Rodrigo Istalindir said:I don't think anyone ever (seriously) considered it anything but a modern-day Buck Rogers or Flash Gordon. Certainly Lucas didn't, or the film critics. It's a popcorn movie, perhaps one of the best ever made, but that's subjective. For those of us that saw it when it first came out, I don't think it hyperbole to claim that it changed how we looked at movies. I know most of my friends were awakened to science fiction (which led to fantasy fiction and then to gaming) by it. It was certainly remarkable for its time, and combined a myriad of sources in a pretty original way. Not to mention the fact that it completely revolutionized the movie industry in terms of marketing, promotion, and special effects, and almost single-handedly (with some help from Jaws) created the concept of the 'summer movie season'.
Sure, it's just a movie. So was Casablanca, The Godfather, and Citizen Kane. But as Roger Ebert says, it's not what it was about, it was how it was about it.
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