Posted on 05/18/2013 3:47:25 PM PDT by Carbonsteel
Even counting the newer "Star Wars" installments, the franchise is still better than the "Star Trek" universe. Fightin' words.
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Just admit it. You love the Space basset. True, we’ll all think less of you... but at least you and Lucas will go down in history together ...alone ;)
i actually believe star trek v beats star wars episode 1, as lucas destroyed star wars in this movie. the force, who vader’s dad was - nobody - jar jar.
best line out of star trek v - what does God need with a starship?
No but I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOW4QiOD-oc
Dialog...
(George Lucas can't write dialog. Case Closed!)
To be fair the Kessel run takes you by the Grand Maw,, which is littered with black holes so anytime you can cut that distance is an achievement. I agree with the pukey unemotional love scenes between Anakin and Padme.
parsecs are units of distance, not time. but many have noted this a lng time ago as a mistake.
It was easily explained a way when the EU noted that Kessel was near the Maw. So a pilot normally had to navigate around the Maw in order to not be destroyed.
The scripts for the Star Wars movies are dreadful, and a trip through the Smithsonian Air & Space “Star Wars” exhibit was enough to reassure me that Lucas really is a pretentious blowhard. The exhibit was worth visiting (for fans) apart from the “quest” narrative that was on plaques throughout.
The first SW movie did, however, open the door for the big special effects movies (not just the sci-fi ones), bankrolled the CGI transformation, and ushered in practically everything that has followed.
In a real sense, the Star Trek franchise would not have been revived (probably) had it not been for Star Wars blowing the doors right off the hinges.
But there’s no comparison, IMO — Star Trek blows away Star Wars. The second group of three SW movies (the prequels) really, really sucked compared to the first three, which did a great job of referring to a backstory without having to show us, and wrapped up everything in a neat bow with “Return of the Jedi”. The opening gambit of ROTJ (the rescue from Jabba and that huge fight over that worm mouth) may be my favorite sequence from the entire series. But I’ve never gotten any of them on disk, or felt inclined to watch them again. I saw the atrocity of the cartoon Jabba in that restored footage in the original movie and realized just how low Lucas’ standards really are.
I’m not fond of the Star Trek reboot, either, haven’t seen the new one yet, may or may not see it, dunno. If I do, it’ll be in iMax.
I bought ST4:TVH on BluRay not long ago, hadn’t seen it in years, really enjoyed it (and it’s probably my favorite, though not their best, just the most fun), and also got ST:TNG “Best of Both Worlds” on BluRay, and enjoyed that, perhaps more than the first time. :’)
It's entertainment, I suppose, and one can't take it too seriously, but when Jar Jar showed up I knew Lucas had lost it. He could get it back, though. I'm thinking an interactive movie wherein the audience gets to push a button that selects how Jar Jar Binks dies. "Oh, meesa sees an acid pit and an industrial shredder!" Yeah, baby...
Well Enjoy this song being stuck in your head for the rest of the night then.
:’) Still part of its charm. :’)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec
[snip] equal to about 30.9 trillion kilometres (19.2 trillion miles) or 3.26 light-years... the distance from the Sun to an astronomical object which has a parallax angle of one arcsecond (1/3,600 of a degree) [/snip]
Sitting in the theater watching the rolling opening scene and the walls vibrating while a gigantic starship rolls out on tip of the screen...
It's easy to forget how much that film changed EVERYTHING in filmmaking...
If it doesn’t have Fluttershy in it...I just don’t care.../brony
I just don’t think the Cinematic universes even compare. Star Wars even with its prequels(the worst of them would rank amongst the best Star Trek movies imo)is just a far more hashed universe, bad dialogue and all. Of course the Universe of Star Trek with TV included is much more expansive and had better stories. Star Wars though when you take books and games into consideration once again leaps to the front. I am a fan of both but my opinion strongly pushes me to Star Wars.
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