SilverWook

TV's Frink said:

Link or no credit :p

Guess it was a draft I never actually posted. My bad!

Here it is anyway.

"Airplane! music and dialog as Anakin crash lands the ship. Lloyd Bridge's "He's coming right at us!" line as the control tower is demolished.

The pod race announcers return as the host(s) of "Coruscant Tonight" relating handsome boy toy Anakin's daring rescue of Palpatine. (Via subtitles.) They then casually mention in a related story how many people died when the ship crash landed...

Airplane! love theme as Ani and Padme reunite. Record scratch as Padme tells him she's with child. Or "Take My Breath Away" Top Gun soundtrack?"

Could have sworn I suggested the use of Airplane! a few pages back. ;)

How is Starfleet more militaristic than in any of the older films?

Running two blocks with my Mom to the theater, because we couldn't find parking any closer, and lucking out in getting a good spot in line. The theater had a Darth Vader walking around wearing a costume that looked like it was mostly wool, and itchy wool at that.

Out of all the theaters I saw to OT at, it's the only one that's left. An honest to goodness movie palace, it hasn't changed much since '83. It's mostly a concert venue now though.

Sitting in the front row of the balcony was like IMAX. It was somehow the perfect viewing angle. It made the speeder bike scene even more awesome.

To say the crowd went nuts when Vader grabs Palpatine and gives him the shaft is an understatement.

People clapped and cheered all the way to the end. How often do you get an audience experience like that anymore?

In spite of the mixed feelings and dissection of the film since then, nothing will ever spoil the memory of that day for me. Yub Nub!

Ryan McAvoy said:

Ooh! For those in the UK, "Shattered Glass" is on iPlayer.

Wanted to see this for ages, as it's the only other major role Hayden Christensen ever got. Must have been hard for a new young actor to star in two of the last decades' biggest films, then the phone never rings again (Feel bad for him).

Heard he was outstanding in it... let's find out.

*cough* Awake (2008) *cough*

The production team was well aware of Captain Eo.

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Borg_Queen

I think you're going to have to look at other films Hayden and Ewan have made. (I mentioned Hayden's film Awake earlier in the thread.) The voicework in the ROTS videogame is pretty close to the original actors, and they say a lot of lines not spoken in the movie.

http://youtu.be/nlwZ4zjgCiE

BTW, the forthcoming Yoda Chronicles Lego movie looks like it might have some Yoda lines you could use.

Gene left some big shoes to fill, and it's hard to live up to a legend. I'm not fond of the bland musical direction Berman took TNG and the later series into.

Blame Paramount. They allegedly got the willies about Kirk and company meeting God and the Devil.

The look of the Borg is amazingly similar to the robotic minions in Captain Eo, who also have a queen.

Nice thread derail.

Articles like this only get written to get a rise out of people, thus generating hits on a website. It also possibly makes the author feel better about why they don't "get" why people like something so much. And this article got a lot more attention than it deserves.

I'm not going to directly link to it for obvious reasons, but the tumblr blog Cinephilia and Beyond has posted a link to a PDF file of the entire 1970's Making of 2001 book.

This has never been back in print, and is probably the best book about the film ever written. My moldy old copy (found in a used bookstore) was a prized possession back in college.

CP3S said:

Which part did you watch and how much?

It was a lower stakes, smaller scale story, which I appreciate. It had some neat prime directive dilemmas, and some good character moments. In some ways it felt more like a long high budget episode of TNG. If you enjoy TNG, then there is no reason not to watch it. It had a nifty space battle too that was more tactical and not all about explosions.

All in all, I feel it captured what TNG was all about far better than any of the other TNG movies. Or perhaps more accurately, it was the only TNG movie to come close to capturing what the TV show was all about.

I have issues with Worf's uber pimple, and the now infamous Riker grabbing his joystick scene. ;)

Having said that, Jonathan Frakes knows how to make a Trek film, and should be considered for the next one, since Mr. Abrams probably will be busy elsewhere.

Apparently a brouhaha has begun over Carol Marcus' underwear scene, and one of the scriptwriters has apologized.

http://trekmovie.com/2013/05/23/sexy-or-sexist-how-star-trek-into-darkness-turned-heroines-into-damsels-in-distress/

This is hilarious given the bigger issues with the movie. It's a darn good thing we didn't have internet in 1983, with all that Slave Leia business. ;)

I like Nemesis more than I used to. Past the not so compelling villain, ("I had a horrible childhood! Therefore, Earth must DIE!") there are some nice character moments. The Romulans get to be good guys, and the door opens a crack to better relations with the Federation. Worf, who once refused to offer medical aid to a Romulan on TNG, gained a new respect for them.

Lore would have made more sense than B9 though. As would a Spock cameo, since he was probably still hanging out on Romulus.

I'm surprised STID didn't swipe the starship ramming scene. ;)

Don't think this has been mentioned here yet.

http://uk.movies.yahoo.com/star-trek-costume-designer-michael-kaplan-board-star-191200676.html

And before anyone starts bitching about another new Trek guy working on the movie, he worked on Blade Runner too. ;)

And I belatedly noticed Greg Weisman, (who created Disney's Gargoyles) is also on board as an executive producer. The chances of this being good just went up!

Ah, I need a bigger monitor then. ;)

Another crazy idea you'll probably need bob to pull off...

When the Yoda/Palpatine fight enters the senate chamber, it's revealed it doubles as a disco when not in session.

Welcome to the disappointed club, Gaffer. ;)

Putting on my screenwriter's 101 cap, I think Carol Marcus is there as a bit of a red herring, because they were banking on every old school fan thinking those mystery torpedoes were proto Genesis devices. Unless she and Kirk hook up next movie, and she gets knocked up, there's no real payoff here.

I really thought several months ago mister mystery villain would turn out to be Captain Garth. After all, who would be crazy enough to have Khan in Starfleet? ;)

http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Garth_of_Izar

Someone Kirk held in high regard as a role model, and now is tasked with capturing or killing would have been a good moral dilemma. Instead, we got a TWOK redo wrapped in a sub par 9/11 allegory.

Starfleet admirals behaving badly was done much better in TUC.

We don't buy or sell bootlegs here. You should report that seller to ebay.

The Brick Guy said:

I'm not very excited for this new series. The same team who did "The Clone Wars" will be working on it, the animation is going to be CG, and most of the designs will be recycled concept art. 

The team that has made a show more interesting and compelling than the trilogy of prequel films it's based on, and actually made Jar Jar tolerable. No mean feat! ;)

Most of the newer animated shows these days are CGI. Even those still hand drawn are digitally inked and painted, (no more physical cels) and use some CG for complicated things like moving vehicles.

If they use the tons of stuff Ralph McQuarrie and others drew up for the OT that didn't get used, I'm all for it.

Too bad Robert Duvall doesn't have a Twitter or something. We could just ask him. Actually, he does apparently have one, but has never tweeted, yet has over 2000 followers. Go figure!

I hope to have that ancient magazine article from 1971 digitized soon. It won't fit on my current scanner, and the larger old one is essentially bricked for lack of Windows 7 drivers. (I was also concerned scanning might fade it.) I have a new camera that works amazingly well at rephotographing magazine pages and fragile old photos with natural light, so this ought to work out just fine.

nightstalkerpoet said:

SW is a sure thing, so theyd be stupid to lose the actors by lowballing them. The only one i see them struggling with is Carrie Fischer becase shes more than likely going to try and renegotiate for likeness rights. Mark has been open to it since the beginning - consider that he came back to do commercials for Vector Prime.

If you've seen Wishful Drinking, Carrie has stated she didn't think George had the rights to her nether regions, as displayed on a Slave Leia statue. ;)

Cool! Did you get any insights as to why she wasn't in TSFS?