Word: lucases
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Director George Lucas has come out with a film that has "Billion Dollar Baby" stamped all over it. "Star Wars" is a rousing crowdpleaser, a reaffirmation that the good guys still win some of the time, and an affectionate needle at the legendary Flash Gordon movies of yesteryear all wrapped...
The publicity mill of Twentieth-Century Fox makes abundantly clear--in the course of leafing through some 39 handouts--that Lucas has maintained an ongoing infatuation for many years with the sci-fi heroes who thrilled a generation, and then some, of American youths from the 1930s onwards. Lucas worked...
The hackneyed dialogue and other familiar staples in "Star Wars" will impress itself on the moviegoer from the very beginning. Much of the national media has played up the Flash Gordon comic book angle in the last two weeks, at the expense of toning down some of the other classic...
Half the fun of "Star Wars" comes from taking in all those special effects. Although the technology never approaches the rarefied levels of visual fireworks achieved in "2001: A Space Odyssey," special photographic effects supervisor John Dykstra has pieced together an impressive collection of robots, futuristic weaponry and spaceage interior...
But it's no surprise that Niedzwiecki enjoyed Lucas' production so much.