Posted by Dick Sidbury on 05/29/06 14:33

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<447a47b2$0$7884$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au>,
"franky" <dooby@msn.com.au> wrote:

> > He already had some experience with the sci-fi genre, having filmed the
> > grim, low-budget Orwellian tale THX 1138 (1971). He now aimed to tell a
> > more optimistic and straightforward story of good versus evil, right
> > versus wrong-a story that he felt would particularly appeal to
> > children.
>
> And when the prequels came out, those children, now grown up, hung
> shit on them because the films failed to grow up with them. Poor
> George.

Some of us who were adults in 1977 did too. And it wasn't because my
level of sophistication increaded between the time I was 30 and the time
I was 60.

dick

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