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Originally Posted by Matata
A New Hope has perfect structure, perfect pacing and is bursting at the seams with memorable characters, visuals, scenes, locations and iconography. All of it's flaws are peripheral to the objective of it being a fun action-adventure and I would argue that the flaws only add to the overall charm.
If you want to disqualify Star Wars as "space fantasy", there's a good argument for that, but it stands on its own as a great film.
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No, I would definitely still count it as sci fi. I'm not particularly rigid about where those borders are and there are a lot of things about it that make it look like sci fi, but it doesn't even
attempt to do what sci fi is traditionally supposed to do as a genre, so rated as an example of the genre, it's not great, and rated as a movie... I mean I agree with some of the things you just said, but those statements would also apply to a bunch of Marvel movies that I also don't consider great examples of movie making, no matter how entertaining they may be.