I think my generation was really fortunate to have Star Wars when they were growing up, it's certainly no accident that it inspired so many of today's biggest film-makers and storytellers. I spent every spare penny of my pocket money on the toys and action figures. I cried at the end of Return of the Jedi, not just because it was such a perfect emotional ending to the saga but because I knew that the story was over. Yeah, I'm definitely of that generation for whom the original trilogy was pretty much a defining event. You were a child in the 1970's during just the right time when Star Wars must have been seminal. It's easy now to make fun of the cheesiness of it and the visual effects, but for me it's right up there with the best of the sci-fi/adventure movies of the 1980s. What were your favorite films growing up?Īside from the ones I just mentioned, the big ones for me were Raiders of the Lost Ark, and The Last Starfighter – which to this day I maintain is a criminally under-appreciated film.
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