SubJeff on 15/4/2017 at 23:23
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Star Wars is Flash Gordon with better visual effects.
Sorry, but this is a crock.
Flash Gordon is uuuuuuber over the top on purpose. It's mental and fantastic because of it. It's nothing like Star Wars!
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I watched a 30 second clip of GotG and they were hurtling in a spaceship towards earth.
A spaceship you say? Earth you say? HUMANS you say? Can't be sci-fi then can it? And Aliens is a noir thriller.
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Talking trees are fine in it. I'm not a treeist! But scifi...
It's an alien you tool.
Jason Moyer on 15/4/2017 at 23:28
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Flash Gordon is uuuuuuber over the top on purpose.
I'm talking about the 1930's serials, not the campy (and awesome) movie.
ZylonBane on 16/4/2017 at 02:58
Star Wars is space opera, which is pretty much on the opposite end of the scale from hard SF.
Kolya on 16/4/2017 at 10:29
It certainly is. "Fantasy sci-fi" is also a correct description for the Lucas films.
I was just making the point that I don't like childish fantasy stuffs in meesa sci-fi. Which is why the new films are better to me. They're more serious.
The force is a pseudo religion and doesn't fall under that in my opinion.
I accept though that my reasons are not as objective as I initially thought and more my personal preferences.
montag on 17/4/2017 at 03:57
Watched Rogue One last night, and have to mirror heywood and SubJeff's takes. I did enjoy it, but at the same time I was a bit disappointed that what seemed like such an interesting concept (Deathstar creation/how to take it down) didn't engage me more. Maybe a bit more detail on how her father worked his weakness into the Deathstar would have helped, he really should have been the focus of the story, IMHO. All in all, I was entertained by it, and I would be just a touch more generous than SubJeff, maybe a 7/10. I haven't seen The Force Awakens yet, but I'll give it a go. As for TLJ, guess I'll have to wait and see, but I'll for sure be holding off till I can watch at home.
Too lazy to go back and reply with quote:From SubJeff, "For the record: I was a MASSIVE Star Wars fan as kid."
Me also, when I was in elementary school we had something called "The Weekly Reader"(iirc) that we read in English class, I remember a little snippet of an story with a picture of a Stormtrooper astride one of those ram-horned creatures,(never appeared in any movie, that I recall) and it totally captured my imagination. Even at the ripe old age of 52, I still can picture that moment of my life.
SubJeff on 17/4/2017 at 07:54
I only grade things out of 5. 3/5 is average. Your 7/10 may mean the same thing to you, as people get awful upset if you say a film is 5/10, which is a fine score. 3/5 is easier to deal with and you don't need the extra nuance of 10 points on the scale. Imho.
montag on 18/4/2017 at 01:53
Ha! I give that scale 3 Gold Stars, 7 Purple Dragons and 2 Big Toes Up!
demagogue on 18/4/2017 at 04:36
I remember a storybook with entire scenes and photos from Star Wars that weren't in the movie, although a few were added to the new edition. (Same with Raiders of the Lost Ark too, although that was a drawn comic iirc.)
Renault on 18/4/2017 at 14:07
Just saw some details on Disney's upcoming "Star Wars Land," sounds really cool. Doesn't open until 2019 though.
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Disney’s upcoming “Star Wars”-themed lands at its Anaheim and Orlando resorts will be set in a “remote frontier outpost” that hasn’t been seen in any of the films in the franchise.
The company showed off artwork of the lands during a panel discussion at its Star Wars Celebration in Orlando on Saturday, and said the new location would be “somewhere on the Outer Rim — lying on the edge of the Unknown Regions.”
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“The remote village was once a busy crossroads along the old sub-lightspeed trade routes, but the prominence of the outpost has been bypassed with the rise of hyperspace travel.”
Speaking at the panel discussion, Disney Imagineer Scott Trowbridge said it’s the kind of location that draws “the smugglers, the bounty hunters, the rogue adventurers looking to crew up, the people who don’t to be found ― basically all the interesting people.”
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/star-wars-land-interactive_us_58f436e0e4b0da2ff8618dfd)
