AuggieBenDoggie said:
You have the right to believe anything you want to.
Hey, I'd love to believe you, it's just that as an OOT fan, I've been so burned lately, and this news seems to have come out of nowhere and not yet have been officially reported, that I'm skeptical. I'd would love few things less in this world than to be wrong. I'm not trying to be a dick or anything, you've just come claiming all my dreams may come true in the near future, and I haven't seen it officially reported anywhere as yet. If this is really coming in the near future, I'll be happy as can be. And if you're really telling us the truth, I doth my cap to you, and I hope for all of the best. I don't want to be confrontational, it just sounds way too good to be true.
Imrahil said:
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
Alexrd said:
Bingowings said:
I liked the Vong.
The idea of living beings that are not connected to the Force is ignoring the most basic "rules" of Star Wars. The idea of an enemy coming from another galaxy opens a whole can of worms and is too far-fetched for me to accept. So is living spaceships and the like.
I'd stay away from most of the classics of science fiction and space opera if I were you then.
Can't see the correlation.
Most of the classics of science fiction and space opera have organic ships and intergalactic invasions in them at some point.
If you find these concepts far-fetched you will not enjoy those classics.
You keep saying this. Let's see:
2001 - nope
Foundation Trilogy - nope
Dune - nope
Martian Chroicles - nope
Anything by William Gibson - nope
I mean, this is just off the top of my head.
The only thing I can think of at all that has these living ships you're talking about is stuff like Babylon 5 or Starship Troopers.
FarScape had a living ship. Starship Troopers the novel may have, the film didn't.
skyjedi2005 said:
Is there someone these days as good as Lawrence Kasdan in his prime when he wrote Empire and Raiders?
Good question, no one comes to mind, actually.
AntcuFaalb said:
Even if the new movies are objectively better than the OT, they will still lack that late 70s/early 80s aesthetic that so many of us love. :-(
Yeah, I agree that CG doesn't have the physical weigh of "real" FX, but we're sort of pining for horse and buggies here, I mean everything is done with CG now, that doesn't mean CG can be used well. I mean, lets face it, the era is gone. I miss it too, but so it goes. It hardly means the films can't be good.
bkev said:
^This. You definitely have to think about this when considering the sequel trilogy. It will suffer the same way many thought Prometheus did design-wise, no matter what. Hell, even the prequels did (and I actually rather liked some of the designs for the ships/locations [though not all, of course].)
I always think of Live Free or Die Hard. I like the it, but I think that the CG (and the director) gives everything such a cartoonish quality that it robs the series of the physical punch it had. Effects techniques and film aesthetics are just different now, you can shake the camera and nick your frames, but the world doesn't look like that anymore. As for Prometheus, it's the same. It's a beautifully designed film (albeit one with an incoherent screenplay, but that's for another time), but it doesn't have the grime that Alien had.