Best story of all-time?
06 January 2007, 03:31 PM
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Best story of all-time?
In the last few days I've watched most of the 6 Star Wars films and I've seen all of them within the last few months. At the end of Return of the Jedi I couldn't help but think that the Star Wars story is, as far as I am concerned, the best story ever. The core theme (good vs evil) is nothing special but the way it is told accross several generations and the setting (i.e. a galaxy far away, etc) really captures the mind IMHO.
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
06 January 2007, 03:34 PM
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big fan of star wars as a kid still watch them now and again. not so much of a fan of the last 3 made.good story
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06 January 2007, 03:46 PM
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Ooooh forgot about LOTR - another excellent story. Probably my 2nd place but I like a more tangable form of fantasy. The aliens in star wars are more realistic than angry talking trees 
06 January 2007, 03:52 PM
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big fan of the alien films.for me alien is near perfect horror and aliens is good action film.the 3rd about passable and the 4 th is just ****
06 January 2007, 03:52 PM
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I've always been a big fan of the Matrix but my problem with that is there were too many unanswered questions at the end. LOTR and Star Wars tie things up nicely but Matrix leaves you working too hard trying to figure out what happens (if anything) next.
06 January 2007, 06:39 PM
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Not really. The Hobbit was first published in 1937, with the LOTR books following by 1954. As for Star Wars crossing generations, if you read the supplimentary material relative to LOTR then the story crosses not just generations, but civilizations and millennia.
06 January 2007, 06:50 PM
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In the last few days I've watched most of the 6 Star Wars films and I've seen all of them within the last few months. At the end of Return of the Jedi I couldn't help but think that the Star Wars story is, as far as I am concerned, the best story ever. The core theme (good vs evil) is nothing special but the way it is told accross several generations and the setting (i.e. a galaxy far away, etc) really captures the mind IMHO.
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
All the best stories have the 'good V evil' theme. What is brilliant about Star Wars is that it tells the story of redemption. How could something so utterly vile and horrific as Anakin/Vader be redeemed? But he gets there in the end. Same overarching theme is found in Susan Howatch's Starbridge books, only Howatch is brilliant at characterisation and a much better storyteller than Lucas. IMHO of course!
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06 January 2007, 06:56 PM
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Seriously, I do prefer both the Matrix and LOTR to Robocop !!
The point is that each creates their own world ie true fantasy.
06 January 2007, 07:04 PM
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The Bible.
Biggest fantasy ever created;
good story, though, albeit factually inaccurate in a number of areas.
Great piece of fiction literature.
C
Biggest fantasy ever created;
good story, though, albeit factually inaccurate in a number of areas.
Great piece of fiction literature.
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06 January 2007, 07:08 PM
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And if you are looking for the daddy of them all, again I bring up the bible.
07 January 2007, 02:47 AM
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In the last few days I've watched most of the 6 Star Wars films and I've seen all of them within the last few months. At the end of Return of the Jedi I couldn't help but think that the Star Wars story is, as far as I am concerned, the best story ever. The core theme (good vs evil) is nothing special but the way it is told accross several generations and the setting (i.e. a galaxy far away, etc) really captures the mind IMHO.
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
What do you guys think is the best story of all time (doesn't necessarily have to be a movie).
Star Wars gets my vote
On a different note, LOTR was fantastic too, but totally different so could not be compared with Star Wars
07 January 2007, 02:51 AM
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