Sluggo said:
Monroville said:
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Of course, you'd have to wonder who made the poor design of putting an antenna for things to get caught on right below a disposal hatch... You would think that when Luke falls onto the antenna, there would already be some clothes and junk hanging off that thing from previous door openings...It's an exhaust vent, not a garbage disposal hatch. It wouldn't be designed for bits to fall out, so the placement of the vane isn't a big deal.
Well, the problem here is that if it was an exhaust vent, there would be a grate, as opposed to a physical door that opens and closes. The only thing that would serve would be to eject hard objects, as any sort of gaseous waste could go out... well, a vent.
Even in the case of a vent for waste gases, it would still seem odd that you would have an antenna so close to something that could spew toxic chemicals out and damage your antenna...
corellian77 said:
I cannot stress how much I HATE those things. It seems like every science fiction movie that's come out in the last decade just falls back on that concept, with no attempt at originality. I'll take a computer like Mother from Alien over any TF3DPCI (like my new acronym?) any day of the week... at least it felt like a real computer.
Corelian77: I agree to a degree...
It DOES seem to be the "go to" idea for modern sci-fi, but you could say every decade had it's generic sci-fi appearance too:
From the 20's to the 50's, sci-fi had that "mad scientist, FLASH GORDON look to everything"
From the 50's to the early 80's, sci-fi had the realistic, practical look, which shifted from the clean but functional NASA look (with DESTINATION: MOON and 2001) to the lived-in with grease look (STAR WARS and ALIEN). And let's not forget about the switches... and I mean LOTS of switches.
From the 80's to the, um, 80's, everything had the neon red laser light thingie (LAST STARFIGHTER, AIRPLANE 2, BUCK ROGERS) and a nice polish to it, with the exception of those things still carrying on the 70's grime tradition (TERMINATOR, BLADE RUNNER, ALIENS).
Now that we have computer graphics, one can only think of what else can be done to show people interacting with computers that is beyond what we have today... thus, MINORITY REPORT, the new STAR TREK, etc.
Keep in mind that (of all movies) THE BLACK HOLE in a way started that trend with the 3-D holographic space vessel projector, so even back then (in the far, far time of 1980) FX artists were thinking about it, but just couldn't pull it off as convincingly (or generically)
BTW, you're probably going to hate my ALIEN edit ... >:)