I love Green Lantern. I love the Corps. I love the gang of Earth-based GLs (Hal, Guy, John, and Kyle at least - and especially Alan, but he doesn't really count). I love Kilowog and Mogo. I love the conceit of the rings, ultimate but not unlimited power, driven by will and opposed by fear. I loved Sinestro's…

The crabface mask is back? I'm ridiculously excited to see that return. I really am a sucker for nostalgia, I guess.

You know, I've never seen it. I've heard of it, but never seen it. I like Bruce Dern, too. I should do something about that.

It's a pretty good movie on its own - and illustrates just exactly what a mid-70s PG movie could feature - so you hopefully won't be bored with it. The effects were top knotch for '76, too. I think Logan's Run even won an award for its effects. But then Star Wars came out a year later…

Don't even get me started.

I had V.I.N.C.E.N.T. for definitely, but I can't remember if I had Maximilian… but oh yeah, if I did, Darth Vader would have run and hid.

Oh yeah, I love Logan's Run (and not just because Jenny Agutter is utterly gorgeous in it) but it offers the perfect example for people who don't "get" what a big deal Star Wars was when it first came out.

Okay, but Flash Gordon was very consciously aping the appearance and effects of the originals serials. That wasn't just an issue of money - that was a design and stylistic choice.

One of the great (simple) innovations in effects that the Lucasfilm people came up with was to move the camera in the first place. Before that, all the time effects guys would be trying to come with ways to make the space ships move, and probably have sparklers coming out of their backsides or something. But Star Wars…

Look kid, anyone who refers to Star Wars as "A New Hope" can get the fuck offa my lawn, capisce?

Almost exactly my response. I may have even seen it a third time in the theater, really trying to trick myself into liking it, but it wasn't working.

I think I ended up using that thing as more of a Dalek, especially when it fought Perseus and the Lone Ranger.

Of all the souls I've met in the universe, Chewbacca's was the most [choke] human.

Ok, tell you what. Do a double feature. Watch Logan's Run and Star Wars back to back, one of them the sci-fi extravaganza of 1976 and the other the sci-fi extravaganza of 1977 and then maybe you will see why Star Wars blew people's fucking heads off and became a global phenomenon.

S'cool. It was for me and then I grew out of it. I get you.

My earliest memory period is going to see Star Wars. My dad covered my eyes when Walrus Man got his arm chopped off - I would be floored, years later, when I finally saw it on video tape. I can sort of remember the house we lived in before we moved that summer, but not really. I remember Star Wars, though.

Yeah, don't. Aside from the title and the existence of A "fountain of youth," they share nothing in common.

Well, Professor John also wrote a story where Father Christmas and a polar bear teamed up to absolutely murder a shit-ton of goblins, so I don't think he would have been totally opposed to the concept.

The fourth one had Barbossa, which the second did not, so right there the fourth one is actually a little bit better than the second. Otherwise, I completely agree with you.

Ah, yes, okay, I am in total agreement.