Complex sentence: Released the same year as "The Empire Strikes Back", the middle of the original "Star Wars" trilogy, audience taste had moved on and the film was a major flop-Grade remarked "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic".
Split into simpler sentences: Released the same year as "The Empire Strikes Back", the middle of the original "Star Wars" trilogy, audience tastes had moved on. Grade himself remarked that "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic".