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I saw Star Wars as a child and it did nothing for me. I watched it again recently and again it did nothing for me. What new ideas did Lucas present in it? It was entirely shopworn from start to finish. Including the ahem...metaphysics.

The spirtuality of the suburbs is what's new about Spielberg's films. What was once considered plastic and shallow he made seem alive and peotic in films like Close Encounters and E.T. Ray Bradbury has said that CE is one of his favorite films of all time. Schindler's List was a new way of depicting that subject in a non-documentary feature. It was much more complex then some people gave it credit for (which I admit is as much due to the script as to Spielberg). I never much agreed with Kael either.