star wars

What: "Star Wars is like a King Aurthur's knights of the round table, or spiritualist story about good vs. evil, just set in space. It discusses a quasi-religious struggle between right and wrong, and the struggle of rightful Camelot style kings vs. vicious tyrants. It is a fairy tale, or fable."

Writer: Zombie Ryushu

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:32 AM

What: "Star Wars is pretty campy and light-hearted. I would say Star Wars is like Winnie the Pooh with lightsabers."

Writer: remyburke

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:36 AM

What: "Star Wars is like a sandwich. Not too fancy, highly satisfying, and made of what we put into it."

Writer: koonfan

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:39 AM

What: "'Star Wars' is like 'Casablanca'. By that I mean when I was young Casablanca was 34 years old and seemed remarkably dated, and to young folks today Star Wars is also 34 years old and seems remarkably dated." A comment on the timelessness of some movies.

Writer: MikeDu

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:42 AM

What: "Star Wars is like a modern fairy tale, it creates it's own universe while Star Trek is more connected to the real world, shows a quite possible future for mankind. In my eyes Star Trek is the much more realistic show and that's why I love it as my personal preferrence in Science Fiction havily lays on the Science part of it."

Writer: Lenny

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:46 AM

What: "Star Wars is like nerd scripture: moral homilies, scrupulous exegesis, debates over canonicity, commentaries on commentaries, gnostic gospels, and after-the-fact revision and then purging of the source texts."

Writer: Jason Kottke

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:01 AM

What: "No, Star Wars isn't science fiction. Star Wars is like unicorn fantasy, except the stage setting is psuedo-technological. Star Wars is more like Tolkien than science fiction."

Writer: William Gibson

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:05 AM

What: "Star Wars now is like those actors who have so many plastic surgeries they look barely human. Star Wars is like Mickey Rourke. Still plenty of substance, but Kim Basinger isn't going to let him feed her strawberries any time soon."

Writer: Philip Berne

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:09 AM

What: "As a child, that was daddy-daughter time with me and my dad. That goes double for big brothers. I've had friends, who are girl fans, who grew up wanting to do everything just like their big brothers. Star Wars is like a chemical bonding agent between people."

Writer: Castle

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:12 AM

What: "Star Wars is like a Happy Meal. You can mass-produce both the meal and the movie so cheaply and sell them in such quantity that you can almost give them away. Art is different. You just can't make great works of art that cheaply and count on selling billions and billions of them. In line with the example of an independent restaurant in comparison with a McDonald's, the independent theater should stop trying to compete with the mainstream theater on ticket price." The link is a discussion and analysis of the economics of Art House Movie theaters.

Writer: Ray Carney

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Date: Dec 3 2011 11:15 AM

What: "George Lucas' endless tinkering with Star Wars is like someone pitifully addicted to plastic surgery. A cinematic Michael Jackson's nose."

Writer: Patrick_Ness

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Date: Dec 3 2011 10:55 AM