Aw, come on, it plays on FX every couple months. Your head won't explode if you watch it. ;)
DuracellEnergizer said:
I watched "The Cage" the other day ...
... it was just okay.
Your agonizer, please...
;)
I suppose it's a possibility? How many royalties would there have been from TOS? Nobody even considered at the time that the show would air in reruns for decades the way it eventually did.
Maybe George will decide he wants to direct again? ;)
Is Hollywood running out of interesting movie titles? Because when people mention Oblivion or After Earth, I think of these films...
Saw Alexander Courage's credit on a 1991 movie last night, (along with two other Trek related people) and it has me wondering why he never worked on any other Trek project again? According to the IMDB he kept pretty busy right up to 1999 as an orchestrator on many feature films.
Grevious doesn't exactly have a whole lot of lines to begin with. (For all the pre-release hype about him, he's not in the movie all that much.) It would add to his character if he babbles incoherently at times. He sounds like he's yelling gibberish in the final fight with Kenobi anyway. ;)
I honestly believe the Ewoks had the potential to be nasty little buggers in a fight. In the novelization, Leia's first impression of Wicket is tempered by the fact he's got a knife. Although the description is probably of Kenny Baker's costume, as he was going to do the scene before falling ill.
I thought this guy was kind of scary close up...
It kind of seems like the more scary looking Ewoks got nudged into the background as the film progresses. (George can be seen micro managing the Ewoks a bit in The Making of a Saga doc.) I was pretty surprised a lot of the action figures have knives when we didn't see them being used in the movie.
There's the possibility things were toned down in the final editing. There's still a shot of an Ewok brandishing a stormtrooper gun that made the final cut, and I think some of the unused Jedi footage in Battle for Endor has some of them shooting. Without knowing what was left on the cutting room floor, I can only speculate.
The Ewoks made the golden man's flying chair though. The medicine man and chief Ewok still had some sway over the others until Threepio flew.
There probably were skirmishes with the Imperials before the events in the movie.
Eeek! There is some quantity of leftover fur lying around, IIRC.
I've never understood the idea of cutting up a screen used item into tiny pieces though. Sets are one thing, but an entire costume?
No TRM or AOTR screenings?
captainsolo said:
TSWLM BD is an all new non-Lowry master. But the color is not fully correct either. No original audio too.
Are you saying the 448kps 2.0 Dolby Digital track on the disc is not the original stereo?
So they're cutting up a perfectly good 35mm print for this?
History is littered with evil clowns both real and fictional.
As for transvestites, so long as they look like Tim Curry, I'm good. ;)
This was shown to me today, and I don't want to suffer the inevitable nightmares alone.
I would suspect you can only build a planet destroying laser so small. The energy requirements and such are that enormous. There's also the psychological aspect of a "terror weapon" big enough to be seen in the sky on a sunny day.
Not to mention the DS II is supposed to be bigger and more powerful than the first one. Purposely making it look unfinished and vulnerable is pure evil genius.
The game that got closest to the spirit of TOS was probably The 25th Anniversary game and it's sequel released by Interplay. Having the original cast provide the voices was the icing on the cake.
Possibly the biggest bummer in Trek history is that The Secret of Vulcan Fury game was never released. Fans have hoped that somehow the original cast voice tracks have been saved, (including DeForest Kelley's last performance as Dr. McCoy) and could be the basis for an animated "lost episode".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBx-kqrm_zg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZT_qg0jH0U
JEDIT:Tobar beat me to it! ;)
I hope that's a joke.
Anyway, Elite Force remains one the best action oriented Trek games I've ever played. The expansion pack adds the ability to simply wander the decks of the U.S.S. Voyager and have some holodeck fun as well.
Some talented fans created amazing mods for the game. My favorite one let you explore a TOS era starbase, and the ships being serviced there. The levels were so large, you could spend a couple weeks exploring it all.
Holy! I don't think even the miniature Hoth set at ILM was this big!
Are we sure this isn't adywan's house? ;)
It's beautiful!
Well "tape mode" seem to have vanished, but there's a new "144p" resolution option that is randomly popping up. Just the thing for people still on dial up, or in case you're somehow trapped in the 1990's. What the heck?
Star Trek is only slightly less complicated than a Star Wars film, and as a sequel has the advantage of sets, props, and costumes already existing from the 2009 outing. This film is pretty much going to be starting from scratch. There's not much from the prequels that can be used.
Studio space either in Hollywood or where the prequels were shot is going to have to be booked pretty soon, if it hasn't been already.
With a 2015 release date, the wheels on this thing have probably been turning far longer than anyone thought. It wouldn't surprise me if there's concept art already being done.
Party pooper.
