imperialscum said:
twister111 said:
Cute. :)
Well there is something I like about AOTC after all.
Natalie's AOTC outfit gave me pleasant 1970's flashbacks first time I saw her in it.
When universes collide!
And Erin Gray is still a major space babe in my book. ;)
Well, I guess I was distracted by something else in that photo...
IIRC, the whole run was reprinted in an omnibus edition a few years back.
Pike figures into the final mission story I mentioned too.
darth_ender said:
I've been developing a desire to read some Trek novels. I think they're awesome in that they are not canonical, but you can take them as such if you want. They're not all obligatory parts of the whole story like Star Wars, and I find that liberating. I've been thinking of the aforementioned Star Trek: The Lost Years and its sequels (not to be confused with Trek: The Lost Years ;) ), Probe, and Vendetta for starters. Anyone have any recommendations?
I enjoyed the Star Trek Log novels by Alan Dean Foster. He took the scripts to the animated series episodes and fleshed them out into full blown books. Don't know if they're still in print these days.
Some of the DC comics run of Star Trek in the 80's had some wonderful stories. (The very best of which was a tale of how the original five year mission ended and tied into TMP.) When Marvel had the rights briefly in the 90's, they had a pretty good Captain Pike era book.
In all fairness, they did have some actual sets and shot on location in Tunisia and Italy.
That is a lovely shot of Natalie though!
Thanks for the link. Always great to see pics I've not seen before.
The crew member in the Wampa photo looks like he's going to give that hideous beast a big old hug.
I'm disappointed that there isn't a photo of Carrie making out with a Ugnaught.
No, but since you asked...
georgec said:
Willow
The Land Before Time
Radioland Murders
The Ewok Adventure
Ewoks: The Battle for Endor
Howard the Duck
No love for Twice Upon a Time? ;)
Take a look at the completed listings, this guy is sitting on quite a stash of reels. (Especially look at what's piled up behind the Poltergeist 70mm.)
Definitely worth keeping an eye on...
Yeah, VCD resolution is not so hot. (A lot of them used the original poster art though.) I've been eyeing some of those as a possible source for the Moore title sequences Maurice Binder recomposed for tv. Do you have any others?
One of those silly embarrassing moments in history. I shudder to think what would happen if we ever got into a political kerfuffle with Australia. All the Outback Steakhouses would have to close, and owning any Crocodile Dundee movies would be illegal! ;)
According to this...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_Mystery_Tour_%28film%29
It's footage originally shot for Dr. Strangelove. This is plausible considering the unused aerial shots from The Shining used for the "happy ending" version of Blade Runner. (There was an old story long since debunked that Strangelove footage was used in 2001.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbKSr3vb32U
Someone should really do a fan edit where Deckard and Rachel end up at The Overlook. ;)
Since MMT came out the year before 2001, I think it's unlikely they got any footage from the cutting room floor. MMT was entirely shot on 16mm, and any discarded 2001 footage would have been 65mm.
darth_ender said:
^I think that post is right up there with Bingowings in terms of my inability to divine what on earth you meant. ;)
It's a '70's thing. And a joke from The Simpsons. ;)
Bingowings said:
The statue of liberty is french.
And she's NES compatible. ;)
Imageshack has gone from suck to blow since those were posted. I'm leery of the registration they want from people now. Those links are timing out for me. :/
Point me to a better alternative, and I'll repost if I still have them. Not sure I brought those over from my old laptop at the moment.
Would be interesting to know the percentage of females in the overall fandom. There seem to be a lot of Trek gals out there.
I sympathize, Tobar. When the remastered The Menagerie was screened a few years back, it was played out of the low res projector used for the ads! (Presented in Screendoor-A-Rama) These Fathom events are now thankfully held at the new multiplex in the area. (Where I saw the 48 fps version of The Hobbit.) The Rifftrax show I saw there a few months back was a big improvement too.
My local theater was pretty full. Aside from watching someone fast forward and rewind the Dish Tv DVR at the beginning, (I kid you not) there were no technical hiccups. The crowd was very into it, and the blooper reel brought the house down! My only gripe was the subwoofer booms from that Tom Cruise flick playing next door. It's Sensurround all over again!
The whole evening made me wish I could hang out with some of you guys when Episode 7 comes out. Something to think about...
georgec said:
If directing major sci-fi films is like banging supermodels, JJ Abrams is Leonardo Dicaprio.
http://www.hitfix.com/news/j-j-abrams-says-directing-star-trek-3-is-a-possibility
So, SF movie directing is equal to supermodel sex? Sign me up!
That article is so damn old, it originally appeared in a magazine. (Remember printed media?) Surprised nobody has exhumed the Norman Spinrad review Starlog probably wished they hadn't run. (Back when people actually had to lick a stamp to vent their spleen.) They later ran a cartoon of Mr. Spinrad entombed in carbonite.
Anyway, when is Disney going to do something more compelling than issuing press releases, and pink slipping Lucasfilm employees?
The local revival house is screening 2001: A Space Odyssey tonight. Months of nothing I really wanted to go out and see, and suddenly two choices one night only! >_<
The publicity for this seems to have gotten lost in the shadow of the new movie coming out. I really hope they screen All Good Things down the line.
Anybody going to the theatrical screening of the remastered TNG epsiode The Best of Both Worlds tonight? I almost forgot about it!
Great, now there's no suspense the movie might suck. Use spoiler alerts, damn you! ;)
TheBoost said:
So I've been spending a lot of time working on the David Eddings Wiki, about the fantasy author. A lot of it has been collecting images of international covers of his books.
What is UP with the French? All the covers are weird, random images. Cat people, surreal Dali-esque landscapes, naked duded. Nothing to do with the very standard sword/sorcery novels they put these covers on.
Stupid frenchies.
I think you need to look at old 1960's-70's SF/Fantasy paperback covers. (If I had a buck for every novel I ever bought/read with a cool monster or naked babe on the cover that's not in the story...) However, the infamous graphic magazine Heavy Metal is based on a French one called Metal Hurlant, which is chock full of such imagery.
Also, Jerry Lewis...
