Overrated and BORING!!!

Rating: Null/10 (8 September 1999)

I watched Star Trek the first time around from 1966 to 1968. Then poof. Low ratings. No more Star Trek. Every now and then an oasis (such as 2001 or Soylent Green) would pop up and temporarily satiate my apetite for good sci-fi.
Then...Star Wars!!! Man, was my adreneline pumping! I went to the theatre, plucked down my money and was blown away by the special effects, the story, the FORCE!!!
Well...it's 30 years later and I realize it takes about an hour and a half for Star Wars to start. The effects are still great (I judge movies by when they were produced, not by today's standards) but the script is drawn out (how many sand dunes do I REALLY want to see), the dialog is not quite as witty as I remember (though some of the quips between Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher are still quite amusing) and the space battles are very badly editted.
Yes, Harrison Ford became a mega-star which I do not at all attribute to Star Wars because Mark Hamill's career went absolutley nowhere and Carrie Fisher only managed to pop up in a Woody Allen film (sorry, can't remember which one).
All in all, it's not Gone With The Wind or Citizen Kane or 12 Angry Men. It's just an average movie that was produced when the genre was considered too risky for studios to pump money into it's production.
See Return Of The Jedi or Phantom Menace; they're more fun.