Tallguy
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29 minutes ago, Andy said:
Wow I haven’t seen Starman since I was a kid. Need to watch that again or turn in my John Carpenter fan card.
Did any other Carpenter films get a best actor nom?
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Yeah, for whatever butcher job Jackson did on The Hobbit, it still existed before Lord of the Rings.
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The two things that kept trying to find their way back into Star Wars in the 90s was The Whills and The Sith.
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6 hours ago, Badzeee said:
These days, I come at any new Trek project as if a new creative team has been assigned to a fave comic book - see what they do with the tropes, how they handle classic characters, that sort of thing. It absolves me of me having to have any strong feelings about it one way or another, and I can happily enjoy all the ST shows I loved in my youth.
That's not a bad take.
6 hours ago, Badzeee said:I guess they could set it before ST: Enterprise.
That puts them right into James Cromwell territory. Best of luck!
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This could be funny. The Kelvin timeline was a kind of "eat your cake and have it" so they could say "No! We didn't get rid of classic Trek! Or TNG! It's ALL there. Just in another timeline!"
Well, if you go to before the Kelvin then that has to be Star Trek: Enterprise. (Or some time after.) Right where we left it. Right?
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2 hours ago, Chen G. said:
Quite. Now, I know the comeback will be “well, technically they don’t blow up those planets wholesale!” But frankly that blowing up of Jedha looks far more cataclysmic than the blowing up of Aldeeran, insofar as we see the effect FROM THE PLANET SURFACE.Definitely undermines the impact in the original.
That's only the comeback because it's true. Technically Darth Vader didn't kill Luke Skywalker, he only cut off his hand.
Alderaan's destruction is physically not very dramatic. It's a popping balloon. Even from the surface it would be a flash and then nothing.
Jedha was horrific devastation. But it was devastation that could be run from and escaped. If you watch Rogue One before Star Wars then, well, you need better friends who wouldn't let you do that. But if you did, then Alderaan is what is teased at in Rogue One. There's a whole planet left in Rogue One. In Star Wars it's just rubble. In an instant.
"The entire star fleet couldn't destroy the whole planet..." But I bet the entire star fleet could paste the hell out of a good chunk of it. What happens to Alderaan is unique.
Also we're told from the first moments of Star Wars that the Death Star can destroy a planet. That's not the drama. The drama is that this is the Princess' home planet.
Of course all of this is done away with if you accept the simple truth that the first Star Wars movie that one should ever watch is Star Wars. No one has made a film that could naturally be seen before it.
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37 minutes ago, Chen G. said:
Vader's entrance? Meh. Seen him plenty for that to maintain its drama
As a card carrying prequel hater, the two entrances that work in Star Wars as part 4 are Vader (a bit) and Obi-Wan (really well). They go from entrances to re-entrances. Actually they work better than Han's entrance in The Force Awakens. (Not nearly as good as the Falcon's.)
38 minutes ago, Chen G. said:We've seen the Death Star blow up several planets by this point.
Really? Do name these planets.
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1 hour ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
It's got Doctor #9 in it, so... how bad can it be?
I dunno. I loved Thor: The Dark World.
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* As seen back in ish 47! But you knew that, didn't you True Believer? - Smiling Stan!
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The difference between Nicholas Meyer's Wrath of Khan and Gilroy's Andor and to a lesser extent Rogue One: Meyer made a Star Trek movie that was in many ways more Star Trek than Star Trek. It wasn't trying to go in another direction. It was trying to get back to basics.
Andor is addressing the Star Wars universe and presenting it in a different way. Andor is like if Star Wars was a real place and Coppola or Fincher decided to make a movie there instead of Lucas.
Oh, and Starfleet is definitely a military. Before TNG that wasn't even a question. (Dammit. I slipped back into Star Trek.)
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18 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:
I know most people seem to prefer it and it IS "bigger" and more "in your face"... but I actually like the original Hellraiser more, personally.
I did say "maybe". All I know is that whichever one I had I would be missing the other one.
Yes, II is bigger. 1 is spectacular in it's smallness.
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I forgot that I was working in a call center when the OJ verdict came down. Directory assistance. Busy place. It went silent for about ten minutes before the verdict. And the people that did call were in a hurry.
Wild.
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On 10/04/2024 at 1:51 AM, GerateWohl said:
There is another not unlikely scenario. Your kid likes Star Wars, but only the new Disney stuff and calling the OT boring and old fashioned.
My kids love the OT and the ST. But I would argue they never got to "see Star Wars for the first time".
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It's the difference between paying ~$300 for a concert where I won't be able to hear the orchestra on purpose (dialog and SFX) and ~$120 for a concert where I won't be able to hear the orchestra by accident (distance from stage).
I'm not expecting a life changing orchestral experience but I might get a nice night out with the family.
I haven't been to Blossom in over 30 years but I recall it's a nice place.
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15 minutes ago, Edmilson said:
Quite the opposite: it had such a disappointing performance at the box office that we didn't get new Trek movies over the last, what, 8 years (!).
STID: Star Trek Into Darkness. Popular enough to get a sequel. Beyond was the (good) movie that tanked Star Trek.
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37 minutes ago, Edmilson said:
Me seeing Paramount still trying everything to make the Kelvin films happen:
I think most franchises (including Star Trek) would love to "not happen" as much as 09 and Into Darkness. STID may not be my cup of tea but it did well at the box office.But what do I know? I liked Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
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49 minutes ago, Giftheck said:
The Star Trek Prequel film is going ahead, aiming to release for next year. Filming starts later this year.
Toby "Andor" Haynes is directing. I have no idea what they mean by "origin" story. Captain Archer? Zephram Cochrane and WWIII? Surak?!?
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On 16/11/2023 at 5:18 PM, Oozer said:
The Cleveland Orchestra will be doing this next summer at Blossom Music Center on June 29th and 30th. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2425/blossom/raiders-of-the-lost-ark/
I'm on the fence if I want to get lawn tickets. Should be a nice night if nothing else.
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Bravo @Yavar Moradi!
47 minutes ago, Yavar Moradi said:These uniforms look far more "naval" to me:
That's what I've been saying for over FORTY YEARS!
21 minutes ago, Chen G. said:I leave you people alone for a little bit, and y'all go off and talk about Star Trek!
Hey, he brought it back to Star Wars at the end.
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That first season of Heroes was about as perfect as a show has ever been. And then... Whoof.
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20 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said:
Hey! Isn't this 'Let's Get Small'?
Good, though
Let's Get Small was the original LP title. State of the Art / The Charge is the tile on the LLL set (and presumably Jerry's title).
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24 minutes ago, Edmilson said:
Emmerich? Well, there goes any interest I had in the project.
It's crap. Just a generic Die Hard wannabe, this time in the White House.
Hmmm. That seems the most likely.
OTOH, are there any Emmerich movies you like? I don't like many but the ones I like I like a lot. So unless something looks as dumb as Moonfall or The Day After Tomorrow I'll at least give him a chance.
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