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05-03-2005, 10:28 AM | #22 |
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Is sci-fi a real genre at all, or just a theme/setting?
Star Wars = peasant becomes knight, fights evil king yada yada, i.e. a fairytale Firefly = character-based action series The new Battlestar Galactica = character drama mostly? Gattaca = essentially a parable about genetics H2G2 = a comedy So basically all these "sci-fi" things are all super different, each using the "sciencey" contrivances for other purposes. Sci-fi is what we say is sci-fi, really. So in the end, who cares. |
01-07-2011, 08:11 AM | #23 |
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Bumping this old thread.
Did not want to create another STAR WARS thread. And the thread title matches the intention of this post: To add fuel to the fire I want to post redlettermedias Prequel Reviews, since he released the final one on new years eve: For those who haven´t seen it yet, there´s foul language and the reviewer has a twisted sometimes even graphic sense of humour + you have get used to his alter ego´s (Mr. Plinkett) voice. But the observations he has about these movies & Mr. Lucas himself can be pretty insightful. This is for all people who like or even love the original classic STAR WARS trilogy but alway sensed that there´s somethin´ fishy about those Prequel disasters (as I like to call them). THE PHANTOM MENACE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxKtZmQgxrI ATTACK OF THE CLONES http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfBhi6qqFLA&feature=related REVENGE OF THE SITH http://www.redlettermedia.com/plinkett.html not posted on youtube yet My ranking of the movies (cause I like rankings) 1.) The Empire Strikes Back 2.) Star Wars . 3.) Return of the Jedi . . . . . . 4.) Revenge of the Sith . . 5.) Phantom Menace 6.) Attack of the Clones
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You can also now preorder the movies on Bluray. (Sept release)
$45 for each trilogy or $80 for all 6 movies.
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Waiting for the live-action TV series. Never coming.
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01-07-2011, 12:27 PM | #26 |
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My best friend linked me to RedLetterMedia's videos. I've only seen the first, but I absolutely loved it.
The only problem is finding a free hour and a half in which I can feel happy sitting in front of the laptop. If I could only download them...
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I´m not interested in owning another Special Edition copy (even if it´s HD quality). For specials I´ll check youtube or borrow iot from a friend. IF I should get one box than only Episodes IV-VI (I don´t like calling them this way BTW) Want to watch some magnificent version of the first STAR WARS (1977) ? Check out Adywan´s restored cut of it. It´s what the Special Edition should have been in the first place. No crappy additions like Jabba scene & cartoon overkill but good changes all around (most of them technical). http://fanedit.org/517/ click on VIEW next to CUTLIST or just burn it on DVD, watch it & be surprised There´s also a purist edition without three major editions he did Spoiler: EDIT: Oh, and Empire Strikes Back Adywan version is on it´s way
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Maybe it´s for the better ...
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I know what you mean, but ... damn it why not? It could be really great.
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then it could be indeed ! PS Please no LOST spoilers. Still have to watch seasons 5 & 6
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01-08-2011, 04:31 PM | #31 |
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Wow, there's some hardcore thread necro.
I think Sci-Fi and Spec Fic fans in general are more adaptable than some authors like. Sure, space opera is kind of the bastard son of the various threads of science fiction that proud sci-fi authors like to bang on about, but let's face it, every generation of future sci-fi author starts with whatever pulp magazine, comic book, movie or TV show introduced them to sci-fi, regardless of its pedigree. Remember, most sci-fi fans of 50s sci-fi only had Lost In Space and Plan 9 From Outer Space, and fans of 60s sci-fi had Star Trek and Doctor Who. The 70s was actually lagging behind pretty badly by the time Star Wars came along, and though it did very little to advance 'real' science fiction in popular culture, it sure brought the genre up to date as far as how it looked and how engaging it could be for non-science geeks. I think George is quite over-rated, but he still performed a very important service to science fiction (and science in general) with his work. that his work is muddled and irrelevant hardly matters. It got young geeks like us thinking about living somewhere other than here and now, and brought in a whole raft of science fiction stories that got us all wondering again. And as far as I'm concerned, the greatest space opera was Farscape. At least that show did what science fiction traditionally did, which was introduce strange science fiction ideas and told character-driven stories to illustrate them, unlike ST:NG and B5 (really just ST:NG with a Blade Runner sensibility), which mostly just dressed up traditional soap opera plots with some overused sci-fi concepts ripped off from the original series or from Doctor Who. Okay, I'll go fetch the shovel to rebury this thread. |