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    Just leaving this here if it hasn't been posted before.....
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    It's difficult to say what has "gone wrong" with the Wachowskis. There are so many factors that could have had an impact on the quality of their filmmaking ranging from the huge amount of praise lavished on the original Matrix films having a negative impact on their ego's, through to Lana/Larry going through the gender change distracting them from their filmmaking and all the way to the possiblity that they might have only had one really good film in them. Cloud Atlas showed promise but ultimately did not go where it should have and I hope that Jupiter Ascending is OK, but it's hard to hold out much hope.
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    The Black Hole was essentially a failure for what Disney was trying to achieve with it (ie, a Star Wars type SF film) but there were certainly some *elements* of the film that were excellent. A lot of the design work (the Cygnus and Maximillian in particular) was outstanding and the plot itself was exceptionally dark. (Definitely some "Heart of Darkness" elements in it.) The overall direction and tone, however, is very mixed and drags down the whole production. The soundtrack is nice too.
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    Yeah. I guess that pretty much puts any more TRON films or the proposed remake of The Black Hole in the bin. Too bad.
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    Listen to all the console boys. Could easily be a C64 or Amiga.....
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    What is it with you and butts??
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    This thread is DOOMED!!!!
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    That is a truly bad cross-promotion. (Not that there has ever been a good one)
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    FULL TRAILERS UP! Great work, Lobizon, we both got them up at *exactly* the same time.....
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    That Cherno looks freaking awesome......
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    Don't forget Alec Guiness with his "I'm so old I can barely swing this thing" style.
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    ABSOLUTELY AGREE!!! Respect animals and respect the environment is a terrible, dirty, filthy political message that should never be forced down anyone's throat!!
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    I think it's a fairly modern thing. These days when you have SF Franchise Creator Vs. Studio Vs. Fans Vs. Internet feedback its always going to get messy. Look at George Lucas with the prequel trilogy. The three films were a huge financial success that brought a massive number of new fans into the francise (in spite of Jar-Jar) but you have the flipside where the films were a massive critical failure amongst the fans from the '77 days (myself included) and a lot of others over the age of 15. BUT, at the end of the day the films brought in shitloads of money, and that's the bottom line. Same goes with the new Trek films. The 2009 film made 385 million and Into Darkness made 467 million. At the end of the day, Paramount isn't going to care about critical reception if they bring enough money in. They think they have a formula, they will try to stick with it as best they can. That is the cold hard reality of these things.
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    Maybe the mystique of the appearance of the aliens and some stuff about their origins, but that's it. They were still fearsome opponents.....
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    Just saw this one online.....LOL
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    The thing is though, that if you are clever with things like this, it doesn't have to go bad and the bad guys don't have to become completely impotent. The best example are the first two "Alien" movies. The first one had the threat being from *one* alien that was nearly impossible to kill (at least with the weapons that Ripley and her crew had available to them) "Aliens" of course had *hundreds* of the creatures in the film and in many ways they were easier to kill due to the addition of Space Marines and some high power weapons but I still felt that they were not devalued as a threat in any major way and ultimately the Aliens were still a terrifying force to be reckoned with.
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    First Contact was weird. I read a detailed synopsis for it before I saw it and thought "That looks pretty cool". Then I actually saw the film and thought it sucked. Weird. The Borg were ruined by the fact that they brought them back after "Best of Both Worlds". That was a great story and the one where they were introduced by Q was a great teaser. They ultimately suffered in the same way that most SF villains suffer. Introduce them as being "all powerful and dangerous"? Fair enough. Keep bringing them back again and again, guess what. They have to progressively become weaker and weaker as they are constantly beaten by the good guys. The same thing has happened time and again with the Daleks in Dr Who. And with "The Agents" in the Matrix films. And with the Vajra in Macross Frontier, and so on and so on.....
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    It's only thanks to Star Wars that Trek originally went to the big screen anyway. SW came out, Paramount execs promptly said "Hang on. Don't WE have some sort of SF franchise???", the Star Trek: Phase 2 TV series was already in development was effectively cancelled and the work that had already been put into it was upscaled into Star Trek: The Motion Picture. But you are right, I don't think that Paramount has ever really liked the Trek franchise.
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    So is "2204" officially gonna happen??
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    Said no one ever, who has seen the steaming pile of shite that is the prequel trilogy. C'mon man, the only way *I* enjoy SW is by ignoring the prequel trilogy and pretty much anything else that has been made other than the original trilogy.
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    Nah. I think that Sony is doing an important job here that must be respected. Showing other studio's how NOT to treat their intellectual property......
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    Um, yeah Duke. You....clearly....showed....me....up. Whatever. The thing that got to me about Avatar was its blatant theft of concepts from Lawrence of Arabia. But, if you gotta steal, steal from the best I guess. The subtle political subtexts in Interstellar must have had you guys running from the cinema screaming........
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    Hmmmm. So it's ok for colonial powers to trample/subjugate/destroy indigenous cultures then?
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    FARKING AWESOME!!!!!
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