Tobar

SilverWook said:

It's a darn shame there hasn't been an animated Trek since. A TNG series was proposed in the 90's, but those in charge were simply not interested in the idea.

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I would liked to have seen Harrison's face when he introduced himself. =P

Saw the trailer in 3D last night. It was a lot more intense.

You just stumbled on a gold mine! Those are amazing!

Looks like one of them has been out there a little as evidenced here.

It was also referenced by Steve Sansweet in this book.

As well as in an issue of Starlog:

Some posters have never even been released, and that makes them worth even more. "The Star Wars pre-production poster we have for sale has generated a lot of interest," remarks Jack Wolffers of Richard Wolffers Auctions. Inc. The rare Star Wars poster is a hot item because it features an early advertising slogan which was discarded in favor of the now famous "In a galaxy far, far away..." One wonders if this proposed slogan, "First, Buck Rogers. Then, Flash Gordon. Now, Luke Skywalker," would have been nearly as effective. 

Enterprise (2001-2005)

A show filled with potential that was greatly misunderstood and sadly mismanaged.

Welp, I've completed my run through Enterprise and that also means I've finally completed my run through Trek. Enterprise had a bit of a rocky start. I could see what they were doing with portraying our first steps out in the greater galaxy but the pacing was a bit too slow. Season 2 just dragged. I think it would have been better spent on the temporal cold war. The Xindi threat in season 3 was a welcome break. The fourth and final season was interesting. It packed a lot of cool stuff in there but after a whole season long arc I was kind of hoping for some one offs, not the barrage of multi-parters. But being their last season they wanted to get as much in as possible.

Ultimately, having now run through it all, I can say that I'll miss the show. I think its greatest weakness aside from the snail's pace was it needed better character development. Sure there was a lot of T'Pol and Trip stuff but the rest of the cast really needed that as well. The majority of the cast seemed to just stagnate and never really develop much.

I also now have a fuller understanding of the Trek universe as a whole. It's a shame that it's now at the mercy of someone who never understood it to begin with. Hopefully someday soon it'll escape and land back on our television screens and we can ignore the last four or five years.

We just reported that Robert Downey Jr is in talks with Marvel to return for "The Avengers 2" and "The Avengers 3." But the actor isn't even discussing "Iron Man 4," and we may now know why.

Downey earned somewhere between $50 million and $80 million on "The Avengers," and has already earned over $35 million for his work on "Iron Man 3," but his "The Avengers" co-stars aren't making anything close to that. In fact, most of the actors are being paid around $200,000, far less than they would earn on any other movie.

Chris Evans and Chris Hemsworth received only a $500,000 pay increase for returning for the "Captain America" and "Thor" sequels. And unlike Downey, the actors will earn only $500,000 more if their movies break the $500 million mark at the box office.

Despite having a contract, Hemsworth considered backing out of "Thor 2," because he earned $5 million working on "Snow White and the Huntsman" and Marvel isn't offering anywhere near that, despite the fact that "Thor" and "The Avengers" are massive franchises. Scarlett Johansson is also fed up and isn't willing to take a pay-cut to return for "The Avengers 2."

Marvel is known for low salaries and replacing any actor who doesn't accept the company's way of doing business. In fact, the studio has already threatened to replace Hemsworth. But Marvel doesn't want to replace Downey at this point and it seems that the actor is using that leverage to fight for his co-stars by threatening not to return for "Iron Man 4" and possibly any other Marvel film unless they all get appropriate pay raises.

Chris Hemsworth and Scarlett Johansson May NOT Return for "The Avengers 2"

I still want to know what that ship was between Cochrane's and the NX-01.

A trailer for Gravity has just been released.

This hands down:

The follow up was disappointing but I'm still waiting for another entry in the series someday....

I'll definitely have to check out that interview.

In other news, this is a thing now. Sounds really cool but the price is a real turn off.

Trailer for Ender's Game has been released.

Haven't read the book so I'm avoiding the Ender thread.

Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

The '80s were magical. Man do I love this movie. It'd been a while since I'd last seen it and when I found it on blu-ray I knew it was meant to be. John Carpenter is amazing. We have him to thank for Big Trouble in Little China, The Thing, They Live... Actually thinking about it...I wonder why he didn't/couldn't get Kurt Russell for They Live. I mean I love that film as is but now I can't help but wonder what it would have been like if he'd starred in it. Anyway, this film really shook the pillars of heaven. Oh and you know what else did? This music video.

Kon-Tiki (2012)

Saw a trailer for this a while ago and have been looking forward to it for a while now. So last night when I randomly decided to see what was playing at my local limited run theater I ran out there when I saw that they were playing this. Fantastic film! Excellently written, directed and performed. I was really quite surprised by the excellent visual effects throughout the film from the recreation of 1940's New York to the various sea life it was all superb. Another thing I was surprised by was I think they shot two different versions of the film as the film I saw was entirely in English and wasn't dubbed. Meanwhile I've seen trailers that have scenes in Norwegian. Anyway, as I said a fantastic film that never bores but kept me on the edge of my seat a number of times. They took a crazy risk doing what they did and now I have to learn more about Thor Heyerdahl.

Ray Harryhausen pioneered stop-motion animation, creating classics such as 'The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms,' and 'The 7th Voyage of Sinbad.' Without his work, 'there never would have been a "Star Wars" or a "Jurassic Park,''' Steven Spielberg said.

Ray Harryhausen, special-effects legend, dies at 92

Just found out about this and am deeply saddened. He's one of my heroes. =(

I know we have a thread for these kinds of things but I really think he deserves his own.

You'll never beat Serina:

Wasn't it because Roddenberry ripped Courage off by writing lyrics to the main theme and using that as excuse to claim half the musical royalties?

It's a lot of films...

The Matrix

Planet of the Apes

Independence Day

Moon <--Highly recommended

imperialscum said:

Tobar said:

imperialscum said:

Erikstormtrooper said:

It was the story line that was questionable.

It wasn't "questionable". It sucked and on top of that it pissed on OT characters.

Care to expand on that?

They write some random nobody character and make him beat both Vader and Emperor. That is beyond stupid.

When a writer lacks talent and originality, the easiest way for him to do something is to parasite on something good that was previously made. "Oh look my character is so cool he was Vader's secret apprentice and he beaten both Vader and Emperor".

That's a rather narrow way to look at it. The story of the Force Unleashed is really about the birth of the Alliance. By the end we learn that the Emperor had actually conspired to create the Alliance to draw out the various Rebel leaders to eliminate them but Galen (the Secret Apprentice) sacrifices himself to let them escape.

He gave them hope for a better future and later the "new hope" Luke Skywalker would come along to ultimately bring it about.

I enjoyed it overall. The ending was a bit weak me for me though. There's also the fact that this film rips a big idea from another rather recent film that judging from your post I don't think you've seen humdinger. But having seen that film and it being done better there left this movie wanting. The film was a mish mash without a voice of its own but still fun.

That does sound amazing.

So has anyone seen Oblivion? Care to share your thoughts?

zombie84 said:

You fool, everyone knows the best ST game is TNG for Gameboy and NES.

TNG for NES? The only TNG game I knew of was on the SNES.

As for best Trek game, even though I haven't finished it, would have to be Star Trek 25th Anniversary. It was a point and click adventure game set in the TOS period (I like to think it's year 4) and was fully voiced by the entire original cast. It's great, you get to actually fly Enterprise and go anywhere you want in the galaxy.

Runner up would be the Star Trek screensaver set by After Dark. Oh the hours I frittered away playing with those. My favorite two were watching the Horta burrow tunnels all over the screen and occasionally kill a red shirt and then having Spock wander around my desktop. The bridge one was awesome too.

Alan Dean Foster visited here recently and I missed him. =(

On an unrelated note, how did they manage to make the Enterprise theme WORSE in season 3? The original version I didn't care for but I could understand it. Season 3's is just......ughhhhhhh. Was it done to spite the people who complained about the original? Feels that way.

I want one of those Jabbas...

Growing up ROTJ was my favorite but nowadays the theatrical SW77 is the place to be.