Subj : Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link) To : All From : Your Name Date : Sun Jun 15 2014 10:01:08 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos From Address: YourName@YourISP.com Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link) 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. George Lucas said he wanted to make movies (both Star Wars and Indiana Jones) that were like the ones he saw in cineams *when he was a kid*. --- Synchronet 3.15a-Linux NewsLink 1.92-mlp * Origin: Aioe.org NNTP Server (1:2320/105.97) --- SBBSecho 2.12-Linux * Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938 (1:2320/105.1) .