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Revenge of the Sith was the most pointless amount of pap - but not as bad as the first two.
What royally pissed me off with that movie was that it was going along great guns and then Lucas went "oh shit I have to wrap this up and fit everything in to tie it in with episode 4!"
ep 1 and ep 2 should have been one movie and ep 3 should have been fleshed out into two movies.
BTW does anyone know where you can see that Phantom Edit fan edit of The Phantom Menace - I remember they basically cut all the cutesy Annakin stuff out and most of the Jar Jar Binks stuff and where he was left in they scrambled the voice to make it sound alien and put subtitles in to make him sound rather wise.
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Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about, but I really can't see this movie as anything that will "alienate the fans" any more than VGR, ENT, and NEM. While I have no concrete evidence to back this up at the moment, I rather think that a new story about Kirk and Spock would be welcomed by most Trekkies.
I certainly don't care what some novel from the 70s said, and neither will the vast majority of any Trek audience. I mean, it's been very clearly established that the print franchise is a separate enitity. We all know the ground rules. It's not as if that stuff hasn't been contradicted already by contemporary Trek.
On a not-too-closely-related note, I've notcied that there's been kind of a trend towards stylistically "retro" movies within the sci-fi/fantasy genre over the past several years--Sky Captain and the World Of Tomorrow, the Star Wars prequels, Van Helsing, Hellboy, Sin City, V For Vendetta, etc. For the most part, I've enjoyed it, and I can envision this new-old Star Trek film as part of it.
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Will they keep the feel of the old series - colours, designs etc. or revamp it for a modern movie - if they do - that will truely suck. The Defiant in the Enterprise Mirror universe when lit in a modern way and filmed with modern film styles looked very cool.
quote:Originally posted by Sol System: How is hiring a production team with huge buzz behind them "cutting corners?"
Also, fans are worth nothing. Zero. Possibly they're even a detriment to a movie's success. (Serenity. What happened? The world is run by the Devil, is what.)
If only! I'd have won Lotto by now! contrary to popular beief, Satan's not that bad a boss, once you get to know him, anyway...
quote:BTW does anyone know where you can see that Phantom Edit fan edit of The Phantom Menace - I remember they basically cut all the cutesy Annakin stuff out and most of the Jar Jar Binks stuff and where he was left in they scrambled the voice to make it sound alien and put subtitles in to make him sound rather wise.
EpII on the Imax cut most of the "riding a bull and rolling in the grass" stuff. Made things flow much better.
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So... he might end up with TNG again? He might as well finish up two more movies for the Next Generation crew... the search and reovery of Data.
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*huh...* My two notions for what might make a good movie would be Captain April taking the Enterprise out for the first time, even if it doesn't follow Diane Carey's notion of what happened (lot of errors there anyway). Could get Rod to play the role, since he looks so much like his dad it's scary.
Or else something contemporary with Ambassador Spock on a peacemaking mission to Cardassia or the Dominion, when things go awry. Especially cool if it includes the little bit from the recent Relaunch novel that he married Saavik sometime after 2327. Especially since Kirstie Alley is looking so much better...
Each one has a recognisable icon to anchor the casual fan's focus. Then we'd be freed up to get an otherwise unpredictable story. Which would be nice to have from Hollywood for a change... But I personally feel that the Original Series cast IN THAT ERA is off limits. They shouldn't be recast, and The Undiscovered Country was a good farewell. Something right before or right after would be cool, though.
--Jonah
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Fuck The Excelsior idea- it's waaaaay too late for that.
I'd like to see something sweeping with a (gasp!) peaceful exploration theme. How much idiotic "inspired by today's headlines" do we really need to see.
Mabye a post-Dominion War story with an Alpha Quadrant at peacetime and an exploration mission with the major powers sending representives on a ship...mabye even into the Gamma Quadrant(allowing for some guest cameos).
Anything but re-hashing the past: Enterpise did a good job of it and still failed miserably.
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