Given that Star Wars Episode 4 was actually a pile of pants I really shouldn't have expected anything better really.

Is it working? Has Pete exploded yet?

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Seeing it on thursday. It should be impossable to turn it into a bad film and therefore my expections are skyrocketing

It's quite funny how they are calling tonights performance the "premier" when it was actually shown a week ago yesterday (Sunday) in London for the familes/friends of the english production staff.
No Bull - this can be proved.

Still I wasn't lucky enough to see it but can't wait the same as everyone else

Come on now Woz - Yes Hidden Fortress influenced George Lucas and yes there are similarities - but only vague ones.

Kuniswa (sorry dont know how to spell it) is responsible for influencing the ENTIRE MOVIE INDUSTRY - since he made films in the very very early years - including seven samurai which influenced Magnificent Seven to highlight the most notable - and the "similarities" are far greater in that link.

To say that George has somehow "ripped off / plagurised" is just too harsh - Kuniswa (or whatever) was such an influencial filmmaker that you could levy that arguement against most of the Western Cinema world as we know it.

Its like saying anyone who followed the Beatles in music "ripped them off" by using a drumbeat.

Besides, don't corporate capitalist pig dogs such as yourself encourage "re-use" of materials to decrease costs and increase profits>

haveatyou!