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Originally Posted by UngodlyWarlock

Unless you are talking about something different that I am not aware of...
http://www.cinerama.com/TemplateHome.aspx?contentId=1

Seattle most definitely has a Cinerama. It *was* closed, but Paul Allen bought it and paid for it to be refurbished. It's an amazing theater. A little less so now that all these new theaters have the IMAX thing, but the screen is still an absolute behemoth....and I usually choose to see the big movies there when I can.

You're right- I was unaware that theatre was open.

As for the topic of this thread:
I think it's interesting that so many of you don't consider *when these movies came out* and measure them against their contemporaries at the time. Sure, by todays standards some of them might be "overrated", but a lot of the classics are deemed as such because of what they did at the time. I'll use Star Wars as an example, because it's easy....Sci-fi was completely DEAD at that point in history.

I put Star Wars on my list and I meant it-based on any scale. I saw Star Wars the week it was released and I hated it. As I mentioned in another post in this thread- even when I'm watching escapist entertainment I want my mind engaged. Star Wars was such a muddled mess, full of plot holes and IMO set sci-fi cinema back 30 years. I want intelligent sci-fi dammit!

I couldn't disagree with you more about the state of science fiction films in the 70s. Some of the science fiction films that came out in the 70s which I consider far, far better movies than Star Wars:

Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind
THX 1138
A Boy and His Dog
The Andromeda Strain
A Clockwork Orange
Fantastic Planet
The Man Who Fell to Earth
Silent Running
Sluaghterhouse Five
Soylent Green


"Completely DEAD?" Well, if by completely dead you mean "experiencing a rennaisance by producing science fiction films of a higher quality and greater depth of storyline and width of subject and theme than ever before" you may be right.