The film that forever changed filmmaking!

Rating: 10/10 (20 March 2001)

What can I say that hasn't already been said? Star Wars is the most influential film of the 20th century. It took a dying genre (science fiction) that after 2001 A Space Odyssey, was reduced to low budget horror films with creepy organ music and made it hip again with it's "larger than life" sights and sounds. By borrowing elements from fairy tale stories and western movies, George Lucas created a universe that none of us had ever seen before! Star Wars changed the way movies are made. Most of the special effects were experimental and created just for the film by FX guys Who had just came out of film school. Those same FX have now become the standard way of doing things in films and TV. Feeling that sound is 50 percent of the movie experience, Lucas also changed the way movies are heard by creating the surround sound system that puts the audience right in the middle of the action. This movie must be seen in the theater in it's full 2.35:1 widescreen ratio to fully feel the magic.