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A perhaps odd comparison
You might think a debate about which was the better movie, The Godfather, or Star Wars, might be a little strange, but I was discussing it with a friend tonight, and came up with some perhaps off the wall comments, so I thought I'd post them here. Interestingly, one can find Star Wars on some movie website's top 100 films, although usually, such as on the AFI (American Film Institute) website, if there's a great sci-film in the top 100, it's usually 2001.

Although many people might not put the original Star Wars movies up there with the Godfather as films, they were, although perhaps not great flicks in the sense that they had great acting, a great plot, a great script and dialog and other traditional film values, still, they were a lot of fun and the special effects were terrific. If I want great acting, plots, and writing I can always rent Citizen Kane, Bad Day at Black Rock, Mutiny on the Bounty, The Shawshank Redemption, The Godfather, etc.

Most film historians would probably say 2001 is a greater sci-fi film, but it's a very different movie from Star Wars in that it's almost as much a mood piece as a sci-fi flick, and really gets by on the superb direction and vision of Kubrick, not because the plot or script or acting is that great. In fact, unless you read the original book, the ending is completely nonsensical (it's nonsensical anyway although I like Clarke).

And as for the Godfather movies, it seems to me that all you had to do to make an impression in this movie was have an appropriately Mafioso-esque mug and demeanor (meaning that you look like you're going to kill the next guy who cuts ahead of you in line all the time) and go around with a beetled brow and a sedulous but crazed look in your eyes, occasionally shooting people in restaurants or in bars and such, and apparently that counts for great acting and atmosphere. No doubt there was some great acting in the movie by the admittedly notable cast, but sometimes the movie's reputation seemed to be as much the result of the shock effect of some of the more grisly violence scenes (such as the horse's head one) as anything else.

Well, clearly I'm being a little facetious here. But also the question is a legitimate one, which is how one really objectively evaluates the aesthetic and dramatic qualities of films that are so different in one sense, and yet so much alike in another (all films basically simply being more visually dramatic presentations of your typical printed story). I don't pretend to know the answer to this question myself, except to say that what makes both novels and films different is easy to say, because of the problems in translating the book into a film, but what makes them truly great enough to stand out from the herd isn't always that easy to distinguish or to articulate.

That having been said, I'm a great fan of the whole Star Wars trilogy and whether they are truly great movies or not doesn't really matter that much to me. Besides, people get snobbish about movies the same way they do about wines and such, and I think a movie should first and foremost be entertaining rather an attempt to create "great art,"--whatever that might be--and the whole Star Wars trilogy had more of that as far as I'm concerned than ten of the greatest "art" flicks.

Original Trilogy? Lies! Lies! Lies! .....
I guess I should have checked out some websites or reviews of this DVD set before I bought it, but unfortunately I failed to do so.
I was so excited to see that finally, the Star Wars Original Trilogy (as they call it) was on DVD for everyone to enjoy. But when I bought the DVD and brought it home to my family, we were horrified to find that these were not the wonderful movies we remembered at all, but the awful 1997 Special Edition versions with even more awfulness added in.
Needless to say I returned the set immediately and got a full refund. Calling these mockeries of Star Wars the ORIGINALS is an outright lie and total false advertising. Who does Lucas think he's fooling here? He may have tricked me into buying these DVD's once from the cover's false facades, but everyone, even I, know this is not the original trilogy.


Our movies, our choice!
Lucas keeps saying that these are his movies and he can do with them what he pleases. This is not true. We, the fans, paid for these films when we bought tickets, videos and other various merchandise. He's living rich off of our money. We own these movies as much as he does. They may be his ideas, but we ultimately bankrolled them. We deserve a choice and I truly hope that one day Lucas will recognize that.

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