Simon ,'Objects In Space'
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People talk about Star Wars all the time.
I think he means that might be why he doesn't know of the blockbuster of say 1976.
I'm not sure I read fluent Strega yet, despite my deep desire to do so, but I think she was making a joke. Specificially, that Star Wars was not actually a good movie, but people still talk about it.
If so, I say "pppphphphphbbbbbbbbbbbbbt!" but then I get bored and walk away.
P-C, I was making a joke at the expense of Star Wars.
Not a very successful one, apparently, but ah well.
ETA: Gris can be my official interpreter.
Oh, bollocks. I do believe you're right, Gris.
And now I know you're right, Gris.
I win!
... can my prize be something dinnerlicious? I'm kinda hungry.
You are welcome to some of my guava paste and mozzarella. Yummy.
I'm eating a mozzarella stick. Er, the string cheese kind, not the fried cheese kind.
Wait, do people think STAR WARS was a good movie?
I mean, I enjoyed (even LOVED) the hell out of it, but the only one that was remotely a GOOD movie was EMPIRE STRIKES BACK.
Why even Star Wars fans hate Star Wars: [link]
I'd date the action movie back to the '30s (Errol Flynn) or even 1920 (Douglas Fairbanks plays Zorro). But I'll agree that the action movie has changed over the years.
Personally, I like to think I was the big summer blockbuster of 1976.
They had lots of fireworks! And released a special quarter! And built scaffolding around the Statue of Liberty!
This is the second time today somebody has brought up The Towering Inferno, although really, I tend to think that the weirder and more obscure the 70s disaster movie, the better. That one about how a psychopathic anti-Nazi agent might have downed the Hindenberg? Classic!!