> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 16 August 2004 18:25 > > >The general point I'd make is this: when someone in 2004 thinks to > >themselves, say, "what movies came out in 1971?", I would be pretty > >confident that they'll forget a whole heap of awful cash-ins, turkeys, > flops > >and bombs that came out this year. > > Hopefully they wouldn't mention Star Wars because it came out in '77
Obviously! But here we're talking about Star Wars having been a watershed - this little sub-thread has come out of Rob's original comment that Star Wars marked a turning point for Hollywood. That things were good before Star Wars and bad afterwards. That's why I used 1971 as the year in my example above... Brendan
