A classic...but it's ONLY a movie!!

Rating: Null/10 (2 January 1999)

Star Wars. Definitely the progenitor of the most powerful, tightknit, popular and above all RICH movie cult in history. There are few other movies that virtually every man in the street can give a brief but sentimental speech about. Even the sound of the music can send Starwars buffs reeling with memories of a galaxy far, far away... But, what of my own point of view? I think that, although Starwars is a classic, it's ONLY a movie. In other words, people writing literally whole bookshops full of star wars novella, have one year courses on the various intricacies of the Star wars universe, and literally crawl under wire to sneak snapshots of Episode One at risk of life and limb...they are overdoing it juuuuust a bit. Juuuust a little bit. On the whole, a remarkable piece of world-creation at a relatively low budget. Just leave the wire alone...