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Originally Posted by keirarts  Well aside from the first film being rescued in editing (and ultimately cementing George Lucas decision to walk away from cinema) I was thinking more the weak narrative arcs, underwritten characters and plot contrivances that hold the films together like superglue. It's a shame when you think how a lot of 70s Hollywood cinema strove for the sort of intelligence and artistry found in European cinema and with a stroke Lucas and Spielberg went and pinched a lot of Roger Cormans showmanship and invented the summer blockbuster. |
If only those editors that rescued
Star Wars could have worked on some of todays blockbusters.
Corman's over rated anyway. Even his Gothic films aren't a patch on what Hammer were producing. Take Vincent Price out of them and there's a few lovely sets left and not a lot else. Just my opinion.
70's Hollywood was dead in the water until the likes of Lucas, Scorsese, Bogdanovich and Coppola came along with their films made outside of the Hollywood system.