Review of Star Wars (1977) by John Simon for New York Magazine (Vulture) — 02 May 2014
Strip Star Wars of its often striking images and its highfalutin scientific jargon, and you get a story, characters, and dialogue of overwhelming banality, without even a “future” cast to them: Human beings, anthropoids, or robots, you could probably find them all, more or less like that, in downtown Los Angeles today.
Certainly the mentality and values of the movie can be duplicated in third-rate non-science of any place or period.
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This review of Star Wars (1977) was written by John Simon and published by New York Magazine (Vulture) on 02 May 2014.
Star Wars has generally received very positive reviews.
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