I don't get it. What's so great about these 3 franchises?

I don't know about LOR, but Trek and Star Wars are awesome!

franchises? ... I only know the films.

LOTR is worth watching, if only for Legolas ... I like the way he handles his arrows.

snicker... Dildo Bobbins snicker...

If its your thing read LOTR books before you see the movies

Much love Pochacco

BattierBeMyDaddy said:

Did you catch the new Enterprise tonight? Did you like it? I thought it was great. I like the occasional "oddball" episode.

Try watching the Lord of the Rings cartoon movies too. Those are amazing. I really enjoyed the new movie as well. I think as far as Star Wars, you have to be a kid to get into it, and then either it sticks or you grow out of it. Star Trek I think the key is just being really stoned late at night by yourself watching a marathon.

lovemachine said:

I've not even seen an episode of Enterprise yet. I'm living in the past, with TNG. When's it on? The channel?

AaronForever said:

You would have to be the only person I know who hasn't seen any of these movies.

Star Wars

Star Trek

althom said:

i didn't say i haven't seen them. i said i didn't get what was so great about them.

and believe me, i'm a total geek. but none of these things interest me in the slightest.

well, ill chime in on my views...


Star Wars is great escapism...

Star Trek (well, the first two series and most of the even numbered sequels) are great studies in how the human race will interact in the future...


Lord of the Rings is a great adaption of a great book..hopefully I will be able to say the same about the remaining two sequels...


I really dont think its fair to clump the three franchises into one category...They really dont have much in common other then their (for the most part) great special effects...

id say Dangerous Liasions, House of Mirth and Age of Innocence have far more in common then these three films...but, i can see why many people will compare them...sadly, they are part of the few sci-fi films that are made well...sorta like zombie movies...they both have killer premises but for the most part are hacked by the film industry...

did u all know they are re-making Dawn of the Dead? what the @%R!?

DCM here,

Is it just me or does the new Star Trek Vulcan chick have the nicest boobs or what!!! Its funny, because when they do a "Vulcan T-Shirt" episode she goes out of her way to cover the headlights if ya know what I mean!!

Watch and see if I am wrong!!

DCM

AaronForever said:

Star Wars: It's a modern mythology; it does for my generation what the greeks did for theirs.

Star Trek: It's optimisitic about our future.

LOR: Beats the shit outta me.

Escapism is a great term for this topic!

Read a Star Wars novel or 2 and you'll find yourself battling evil in a faraway galaxy instead of worrying about your bills.

PurpleJedi said:

like I said, I'm a huge geek (X-Men, Buffy, He-man, etc.). so I know what it's like. I'm just wondering about the specific appeal of SW, ST, and LOTR... I don't get it. What's made these the be-all, end-all for the sci-fi/fantasy genre?

dcm said

It's probably just you. The prize for best boobs belongs in fact to Erika Marozsán (star of "Ein Lied von Liebe und Tod - Gloomy Sunday"). Sheer perfection!!

AaronForever said:


Good point. Especially when there are much better examples like Aliens and X-Files. Those are much edgier and frightening than the fairy tale stuff though. Probably not for all tastes. I think the whole SW/ST/LOTR thing has an all ages family night appeal that a lot of other scifi doesn't. Could you see taking your kids to Contact?

narcotizedmind said:

Kirsten Dunst in Spiderman had it all happening too.

bkw said

Yes, but you never actually got to feast your eyes on them in all their naked glory. At least not in the version I saw. With Erika on the other hand...

All I know is that one of my first memories (I was 3 or 4) is when I was sitting on my father's lap in the "daddy's chair", and watched Star Wars when it came out on television.

Three years later after a few Christmas gifts of action figures and other toys, he took me to see the premire of The Empire Strikes Back. I was a pig in sh*t.

Three years later he picks me up at ball practice and says: "don't you know what today is? No: I said. Today is is the premire of Return of the Jedi, now get in the truck!" and off we went.

That's why Star Wars is the shee-ot for me.

Best bonding my father and I ever had.

I took my unborn son (my wife thought I took her) to see Attack of the Clones. And when he's 3 he'll be ready for the next movie, thus making my feakin' decade.


I know it might sound silly, but when your father sees that this is what interests you other than what he would have rather seen you interested in, such as sports or fishing, and feeds you what you love, then that is what makes me say I had a great father.


The original Star Wars movies aren't that great when I re-watch them but the "other" memories are what makes me cherish them most.


Ask Billy Sparks about some Nastalgic video game, candy, or cereal, it wasn't always the content of the product but the time you spent enjoying it.



Anyway, too much personal info.

I'll stop now.

SkletonKee said:

SkletonKee said:

They're WHAT? sweetness! the Monroeville Mall where it was filmed is like 40 min away from me

AaronForever said:

BLESS YOU - they all suck anyway!

Tom said:

oh wow, really? does it still look the same? damn, i love Dawn Of the Dead...but, Harry Knowles seems to really like the new script..It supposedly has nothing to do with the Dead Series...he recommends that they rename it and start its own franchise...

the premise is, zombies attack a small town and survivors are stuck at a stripmall (versus the huge Monroeville Mall near ya)...so youve got people on top of roofs, trying to communicate with the other people trapped in the other stores... i think its a neat set up ...hopefully they wont pick a hack director to ruin it...