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...subdued work than its predecessors but is nevertheless a fun and interesting piece of music. It is one of the few essentials of Star Wars collecting, and while it may be somewhat derivative, it is also creatively inspiring and interesting. John Williams creates some of the best film soundtracks today, and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace is one of them...
...music, elaborate costumes and massive sets. The actual content of the opera is secondary at best. Perhaps the most impressive aspect of King Kong is that it is able to take this emphasis on theatrical experience over story-line--the essence of opera--and make it relevant to audiences today. (The type that wouldn't enjoy Wagner's original score, at least...
...course, this is a concept we're quite familiar with today. We are living in the age of the multi-media conglomerates. Our newspapers, our TV stations, our movie studios, our books are usually all controlled, in one way or another, by the same few multimedia enterprises. Perhaps it would be a stretch to say that Star Wars is responsible for this trend, the centralization of pop culture. But it at least laid the foundation for this modern phenomena by inaugurating a perhaps more important process: the unification of pop culture...
...hard to criticize a movie that comes with so much baggage. The eight-year-old's who see Episode 1 and are today taken with its action may grow up to imbue it with as much meaning as our generation has found in the original movies. Some scenes have the potential to become psycho-emotional monuments in our cultural memory: just as Han Solo rocketed out of nowhere to send Darth Vader hurtling through empty space in Star Wars, so does Anakin Skywalker throw his racing pod into a breathless ascent and flame-out half-way through Episode...
More than just an exploration of space, Star Trek serves as a vessel for the exploration of the human condition, as well as social conditions relevant to the world today. Indeed, it has come to embody optimism and the hope that one day, Roddenberry's dream of a peaceful, explorative society can perhaps be realized...