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Posted by Alric Knebel on 07/21/07 15:28
Jim Beaver wrote:
> "Dave" <dapp64@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:1184989032.256973.203670@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>>Compared to any other ones you also dislike, what 1 or 2 (live action
>>or animated)
>>film franchises do you regard as the most overrated one/s and please
>>say why, for each one mentioned.
>>
>
>
> STAR WARS. I saw the first three when they came out and was increasingly
> bewildered by what audiences could find to like in them beyond a certain
> (initial) fun with the special effects. Years later, I went back and saw a
> couple of them again and wondered why I had not hated them any more in the
> first place. I cannot bring myself to see the new batch. While there are a
> couple of Gene Autry movies I've enjoyed less, there are no Roy Rogers
> movies I've enjoyed less.
>
> Jim Beaver
I couldn't agree more. I saw all three of the earlier ones in the
theater, because they were these BIG movies, with cutting-edge sound and
so forth. But they're boring beyond special effects. The relationships
are so childish, especially the one between the princess and Hans. They
behaved like two elementary school children making faces and sticking
their tongues out at one another. When the first chapter of the new
batch came out, a friend of mine (who was at an impressionable age at
the time the first movie came out) insisted we go. I was bored numb by
the time it was over, though the special effects were light-years
advanced from the original trilogy. But eye candy is everywhere these
days, so context matters now. And I left baffled by the enormous
popularity of the whole phenomenon, which hasn't been without its
negative effects, primarily that science fiction became an action genre,
and dumbed down again afer Kubrick and Heston had reframed it as
something mature.
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