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Originally Posted by chadizzy1
And I'm sure the majority of us are somewhat in the same age group, so JP was part of our youth/teenage years. Like they said in the interview, it was our "Star Wars". I wouldn't go that far - but you can't deny how HUGE JP was.
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So true. The movie was a game changer. I still remember going to see it with my dad. I was 13 and he had read the book and liked it. The theatre was packed and we could only get seats in the front (god things were different back then). Although not a perfect movie (it has some cheesiness and bad plot holes) it set a new bar with effects and the story is good enough that I've probably seen it a hundred times and would watch it again if it were on right now.
Think about how different were are as a society (or as viewers with access to google). It staggers me how much people complained about things that "didn't make sense" in Prometheus (just picking a movie as a random example) when it came out, rather than just enjoy the movie. If the original JP came out today we'd all be bitching about the uninspired solid color costume design, the unrealistic "it's a unix system" computer scenes, poor child acting, and don't even get me started on the lysene contingency lol.