From: you@somewhere.intime   
      
   "Anybody"  wrote   
      
   > I doubt there ever will be anything as ground breaking as Star Wars -   
   > it came along at just the right time and pushed the boundaries 10 times   
   > further than any previous movie, as well as having a multi-gernational   
   > appeal. These days almost every new movie is considered a "blockbuster"   
   > (and often breaks all previus "records", largely because prices keep   
   > going up!) even when 90% are simply garbage, but none really do   
   > anything new. Most are in fact fad franchises cloning the one good idea   
   > someone had until everyone is throughly sick of them.   
      
   So they should  keep tally like the record industry does with number of   
   copies (i.e. tickets) sold, not monies gained.   
      
   > The same thing is happening in the computer games industry - the   
   > graphics may be getting more realistic, the speeds getting faster,   
   > etc., but most games are really just another clones of what's come   
   > before (usually yet another Doom clone).   
      
   Even this year I saw Dark Forces and Tie Fighter named as best video games.   
   They were lumped in with more modern stuff like HALO and Q4.   
      
   > Maybe when a real Star Trek style holodeck arrives there will be   
   > something that can be considered the "new Star Wars".  :-)   
      
   Admit it. If you had a holodeck you'd be programming in SW adventures for   
   yourself.   
      
      
   I admit it.   
      
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