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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] [QUOTE]whereas, by contrast, I doubt I'll bother wasting my time on a second JJTrek movie.[/QUOTE]Come now, Jason. It's sci-fi, it's Trek, it's got ships! You have a duty to your peers. Give it a chance. I retried Clone Wars and my face didn't melt. You'll do fine. Just do what I did with CW: ignore prickly prejudice against the writers' entrenched tropes and conventions (40% of CW-episodes are about someone getting kidnapped Scooby Doo-style) and any eventual predictability (Hm, all the people involved in this duel are in Episode 3, so what could happen?), and just allow yourself to experience the show/movie/book on its own terms. When I studied cinema arts in uni, we got to watch many silent movies. Us second-year students sometimes sat in awe at some of the spectacular stunts and ingenious special effects of the era, while the first-year student teenagers sat and snickered derisively at the "silly men jumping around in high-speed" and the corny wording of the dialogue cards. Keep an open mind. (Oh, and if you haven't yet, catch Scorsese's "Hugo Cabret", it's an affectionate love letter to early cinema. And Ben Kingsley rules) Also, the "all or nothing" approach to movie reviewing doesn't do anyone any favors. That's sithpublican thinking. For instance, while I didn't like "Chronicles of Riddick" even a third as much as "Pitch Black", I still appreciated the new locations, armor and weapons, even if the rest was a bit stale. But Colm Feore always delivers. Yay Canada. In Star Trek (2009), the best moment in the entire movie, for me, is those few seconds when an ensign gets sucked out through the bulkhead of the USS Kelvin, bouncing off of one of the phaser mounts to her death. Tragic, beautiful and a novel approach, all at once. Despite not being shown in 3D, that shot had more visual depth and atmosphere than any action shot in any Trek movie or episode I've ever seen. Most beautiful, and most horrible way to die, bizarre combo. They actually are trying to do stuff that hasn't been done before in Trek, visually and stylistically. And that sequence made the movie for me. Besides, avoiding a work means barring oneself from any future discussion of it. Criticizing a work one hasn't seen or read is to forfeit by default. That's boring. Anyway, that's not at all what I wanted to talk about, but give me the benefit of the doubt. I do like Star Wars minutiae and ship class genealogy, ever since 1993 and Lawrence Holland's "TIE Fighter". For instance, I've never heard anyone else comment on the slightly suspicious layout of General Grievous' personal flagship, the [URL=http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080429232138/starwars/images/2/27/InvisibleHandROTS.jpg]Providence class "Invisible Hand"[/URL], as compared to the imperial [URL=http://media.moddb.com/cache/images/mods/1/11/10662/thumb_620x2000/Strike1.png]Loronar Strike Cruiser[/URL]. I think it's kind of a "Akira Class/NX-01" relationship. Actually, even closer than that, since this isn't even flipped, just tricked out with different jewelry. Watched Clone Wars 3-10 "Heroes on Both Sides" yesterday. Yet another new pretty ship, no idea as to name: [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/205/romney.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://flareupload.pleh.net/uploads/205/bachmann.jpg[/IMG] Any ideas? Seems Corellian but could just as well be Kuat. Also of note, the transport shuttle used by the separatist politician, Padme, and Ahsoka was another H-2 Exec Shuttle, red this time. Bonus shot, [URL=http://i.imgur.com/wWMTy.jpg]the lean bridge of an Arquitens class cruiser[/URL] (from brainworm episode). Sadly, it was a medical frigate in that episode, no guns. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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