> Howard,
> I was mentioning this to eric in Chat earlier. Lucas wanted to make a 50's style, up to date, matinee for kids like the ones he grew up on, a la Flash Gordon

That's exactly what I liked about Episode 1 -- how it thrust you right into the story, like Gene Autry's Radio Ranch (The Phantom Empire) or Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe or The Adventures of Captain Marvel. Neat stuff...


> An example of what I mean by the director's vision is similar to Star Wars. Tim Burton made Mars Attacks because he wanted to make a 50s sci-fi like the director's of the time would have made if they had today's technology.

I always thought that Mars Attacks! was more of a parody of the great disaster movies.

-Faux "egah!" Pas