Subj : Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link) To : All From : Wiseguy Date : Mon Jun 16 2014 01:48:46 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: epwise@yahoo.com Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link) Your Name wrote in news:150620141001083494%YourName@YourISP.com: > In article <539bf9f5$0$2866$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter > Valentijn wrote: >> Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05: >> > In article <539af9f9$0$2964$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter >> > Valentijn wrote: >> >> Your Name schreef op 13-6-2014 08:12: >> >>> In article , ToolPackinMama >> >>> wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>> http://www.cnet.com/news/americans-think-star-trek-is-the- future- >> >>>> not-star- wars-study-says/ >> >>> >> >>> Well, DUH! >> >>> Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away". >> >>> Star Trek is set in Earth's near-ish future. >> >> >> >> ROFL >> >> >> >> I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day. >> >> >> >> Not that I'm totally anti Star Wars. I liked Star Wars (IV) and >> >> TESB very much. ROTJ was a lesser movie and the prequels... Never >> >> mind them. >> > >> > The only real issue with Star Wars is that there was such a long >> > time between the trilogies, meaning they look quite different due >> > to technology improvements, differeing style, over-the-top fight >> > scenes, etc. Many of the later additions to the Original Trilogy >> > look out of place with the older film quality / style. If all six >> > (and soon a ridiculously tacked-on third Trilogy) had been made >> > continuously like "Harry Potter", for example, then those >> > differences would have been much less noticeable. >> >> "Improvements"... Not a word I'd use. :-) > > Improvements to the film-making technology ... not necessarily the > movies themselves. > > > >> Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became >> more 'kiddiefied'. >> I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest.... > > They were always aimed at kids - roughly 13 year old boys. You mean like almost every comedy movie made in America? --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: TeraNews.com (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .