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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Darrell" data-source="post: 3238960" data-attributes="member: 680">As has already been pointed out, no, it wasn't really that surprising.  Westerns (and war movies) had been doing the 'good guy scoundrel' bit for years, and far more people had seen those types of movies than had watched sci-fi movies when SW first emerged onto the scene.  For what it's worth, in a sense, I would consider Star Wars to be one of the best 'westerns' ever made (too bad its 5 follow-up flicks dropped the ball).No, that's a climax...an 'ending' is not the same thing.  ESB started out in the middle of something and ended up in the middle of something, and had no real 'beginning' or 'ending' point.  It was two-plus hours of 'middle.'I just don't think so.  IMO, movies should stand on their own feet (one of my problems with ESB, by the way...if you hadn't seen SW and didn't know about RotJ, it would make no sense whatsoever), without comparison to any other movie, regardless of genre.  A good movie is a good movie is a good movie...period.  Ditto, a bad movie.  What's more, in the end, only you can assign a movie any type of worth.  If I think the D&D movie is good (I don't, btw, it's just used as an example), it is good...no matter what all the rest of the world thinks.  If you think Citizen Kane is a bad film, it is bad...no matter what all the rest of the world thinks.  Comparison with ANY other movie is just pointless.  It should 'pass or fail' on its own merits, or lack thereof, and in your own opinion.Regards,Darrell King</blockquote>

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