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The first STAR WARS stands as one of the all-time great 'concept' movies. It rolled old serials, fantasy sci-fi, and imaginative f/x into a devastatingly appealing package ...whose actual execution needed merely to be credible (...though it was often much better). Whether or not that makes SW great , I have to appreciate such a well- aimed tapping of the public tree, even if what ran forth was sap. The first one doesn't hold up well at all; the second one was pretty good, worth seeing twice when it first came out; the third one was fatally flawed; and the last three have been overdone, tedious bores. It all amounts to just one pretty good movie, 'The Empire Strikes Back'. (IMO) Reply: If someone told me the first one (or second, I guess
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