toobfreak
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Of course. Mental block. I generally think of that film as really the best and most pivotal of the original trilogy.
While Star Wars left itself open to a sequel, and Jedi was the wrapping up of all the loose ends leftover from Empire Strikes, Empire was the PB&J which tied the entire trilogy together into one big movie saga.
And to think, when all these movies were coming out, if only we had realized at the time that we were living through historic times and that such movies and sagas were but a passing fluke in the lexicon of Hollywood. People before and since will never live through the kinds of movies we enjoyed seeing come out from the latter 70s to the early 90s.
Blockbusters of the 80s and 90s really were the last gasps of a dying industry. Think about it--- Star Wars and the like occurred at that point which really was the juxtaposition or perfect storm between Hollywood finally having the technology to do such movies practically and affordability while still having such movie treatments left which still lay unexplored as fresh, new ideas.
Any earlier and the technology just isn't there to do such films well, and much later and Hollywood has already explored such ideas and beaten them into the ground as no longer new or original. Lucus smartly sold off the franchise to Disney, now Disney is flogging us over the heads with repetitive, tired, worn-out movie ideas.
Put simply, Hollywood is out of fresh, original ideas. They have wonderful technology now that I wish had been around years ago for many earlier films, so instead, what else can they do but continuously hit us now with remakes and squeals, unfortunately, the best ideas generally get used first and neither the writing nor acting is up to the standards they once were anymore, so the special effects now are all the movies are--- visual eye candy.
