re: Finally watched Star Wars......My lord

The dialogue in Star Wars has never been strong. It's got some quotable lines, especially the Jedi stuff, but it's always been about the unique world/universe. Honestly it's hard to put a finger on what differentiated it and why it became as popular as it did.

I've always attributed a lot of it to the recent Apollo missions and moon landings that imbedded space exploration into the public conciousness, which carried on through the generations and reached a point to where it became a pop-culture phenomenon; basically it was one of the first blockbusters released at the perfect time. Now the original trilogy (especially 4 and 5) is almost sacred to its fans and beyond criticism, no matter their flaws.