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I'm entirely with you on this being one of the greatest movies in film history, but I'm among those who regard Star Wars as fantasy, not Sci-Fi. Star Trek is Sci-Fi. Star Wars is fantasy with a sci-fi-ish theme. It shits on Lord of the Rings in the fantasy subgenre.@Madmick
bro...help me school these youngins.
I’m thinking a lot of you guys are going to disagree with me for arguments sake all the PhD level geeks in the berry surely I’m not the only one that knows ESB is the greatest ever...
and the first person that Mentions Avatar gets their geek credentials suspended
No movie has been more influential over the past half century. Ironically, in the opinion of the generation of elite countercultural American filmmakers for whom this was their crowning achievement, this has been to the detriment of cinema.
Blade Runner hasn't been as profoundly influential on all film, but it has on its own subgenre of Sci-Fi. I was recently reading a review of the failed YouTube Red series, Origin, and the review had a line that went something like, "...and in accordance with the unwritten law that every Sci-Fi made since Blade Runner has to look at least a little like Blade Runner..." I nodded my head. It's unbelievably cool, too, how it achieved this otherworldly effect that was so sui generis it is now completely the opposite of sui generis. Because the interior building where the toymaker's home is which the cyborgs adopt as their own is, in fact, arguably the most filmed building in the history of major motion pictures. It's a famous historic hotel. Watch the astonishing documentary Los Angeles Plays Itself to see this. It's awesome. You'll immediately recognize you've been seeing the same space over and over and over throughout your life without realizing it was always the same space. I now find myself finding it in other films not shown in the documentary. I look for it in new films.