Hell Ice Pirates and Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden
zone in 3-D were better then those prequels
-Bruce
On Oct 26, 2007, at 2:38 PM, James Reasoner wrote:
> I seem to recall reading that very little of
Brackett's script made
> it into the film.
>
> And maybe I'm just contrary, but I like EMPIRE the
least of the
> original trilogy. It's much better than any of the
second trilogy,
> though.
>
> James Reasoner
>
> foxbrick <
foxbrick@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, Patrick
<malone.ps@...> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/26/07, Richard Moore <moorich@...>
wrote:
> > > [Leigh] Brackett's brooding loner hero is
exemplified in her
> stories of Eric
> > > John Stark. She wrote in a sub-form
sometimes called science
> > > fantasy as it has elements of both SF and
fantasy. In clumsy
> hands
> > > this can turn into a silly, juvenile mess
but Brackett was a
> master
> > > and her best stories are
transporting.
> >
> > Note, also, that Leigh Brackett wrote "The
Empire Strikes Back."
>
> Just before she died, she wrote the first draft of
the script, which
> I suspect was dumbed down by both credited
re-drafter Lawrence Kasdan
> and by George Lucas, at least one of whom should've
known better.
> Still, the least bad film of that franchise that
I've seen (I've
> missed two of the six, and intend to go on missing
them, having been
> dragged to all but the first by family or
friends).
>
> Todd Mason
>
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