My take is that dark side Star Wars had the better pvpers. Sure, a Federation starship can easily take down any Star Wars ship smaller than a Death Star due to the ridiculous tech advantage, but get a Sith on board - they always find a way, and you Fed punks will be crying for mama.
Personally, I liked the original three Star Wars movies (ep 4, 5, 6) okay. I found it more fantasy than Sci Fi. But there wasn't a lot of good sci fi, so I enjoyed it. After episodes 1, 2 and 3 which had very poor continuity with the original three movies, I pretty much gave up. After Disney bought Star Wars, it really crashed and burned. I watched the first movie (don't even remember the name!). The thing that was the end of it for me was the planet sized death star. The fact that people standing on a planet could look up in the sky and see the planet sized death star firing its weapon at another. Okay, jumped the shark. Done.
I hear things about ongoing developments. The mandalorian, etc. I just do not watch and find I seem to have no interest.
Amusingly, in recent years I have rewatched Babylon 5 a few times. A friend and I are in the middle of season 3 right now.
Just an opinion.
I sure could use some good new sci fi. Occasionally a good movie comes along. For example Interstellar, Arrival, Passengers.
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For me, I endured through movie 8 before I gave up due to Disneyfication. I find I just don't have the interest either to finish the series. It's just not on my bucket list, though I might at some point.
The fact that people standing on a planet could look up in the sky and see the planet sized death star firing its weapon at another.
Without their faces melting off. Yes, that was terrible. They're firing a massive weapon capable of blowing up a planet through atmosphere while the guys are just standing there a few km away gawking at the thing.
I think it was more terrible that the plot basically got reset to the start of 4. The new Republic was now just the Rebellion all over again. Luke Skywalker became the new failed Obi Wan Kenobi. And that dude with the mask became the new Darth Vader. Really. What were they thinking when they did that? And the big bad is named Supreme Leader Snoke? Seriously? And of course, the stormtroopers are back.
This got worse in movie 8. We had the worst combat scenes yet in a Star Wars movie: including "bombers" that were so slow, you could get out of the ship and walk those bombs faster, the longest and most boring (space) car chase ever (it spanned like half the movie), and a pointless repeat of the Hoth stand.
But despite that crap, my point remains. I've played in the online versions of Star Wars and Star Trek. By far the best pvpers in the lot were the Sith side in Star Wars Online.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2022, @05:34AM
by Anonymous Coward
on Friday March 25 2022, @05:34AM (#1231962)
i know what you both mean, but the Madalorian and Book of Bobba Fett have enough conmection to ep IV,V,VI (not the linux one), to be very watchable. only a few chringy bits, that are easily ignored.
The only redeeming Quality of Star Wars Episode VII, was Saturday Night Live's "Undercover Boss" segment. The villain is a better villain in that short sketch, than the angsty EMO teenage villain in the entire movie. I also swore off all Star Wars after that. I really liked Han Solo, the movie, and Rogue One the movie as well. They were good movies in their own right.
The Expanse is an interesting Sci-Fi series, but the last season is odd. They mostly follow the books and don't throw-in too much stupid stuff. It's not got a whole lot of sci- to the fi, though. Still, there's not all that many good Space series out there. It's a fun romp in Space. I'm weird though, I actually liked CS Lewis's Space Trilogy.
-- Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM
by Anonymous Coward
on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM (#1233584)
Passengers was nice, except for a fairly simple bit of physics that was completely wrong. At some point "the power runs out" and the rotating habitat STOPS ROTATING. Which is idiotic, because you don't need power to maintain rotation after you start it --- at least, if the ship was designed by rocket scientists. it was annoying because it's such a fundamental part of the concept, and yet it's broken. Otherwise I agree that the three you mentioned were proper sci-fi movies.
I recently rewatched "the day after tomorrow", for what it's worth, and I was pleasantly surprised. I distinctly remember dismissing it as a "let's make a special effects movie" money-grab when I first saw it in the cinema. In the meantime I saw tsunami videos and pictures from Japan in 2011, and I learned a bit more about weather physics, and the ridiculous effects are no longer that ridiculous.
There's a reason why Yoda died of old age and not at the hands of a Sith. I forget which of the Episodes 1-3 had the sweet Yoda kicking butt sequence (probably near the end of 2 or 3), but he definitely could fight.
-- Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2, Interesting) by khallow on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:56AM (6 children)
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:30PM (4 children)
Personally, I liked the original three Star Wars movies (ep 4, 5, 6) okay. I found it more fantasy than Sci Fi. But there wasn't a lot of good sci fi, so I enjoyed it. After episodes 1, 2 and 3 which had very poor continuity with the original three movies, I pretty much gave up. After Disney bought Star Wars, it really crashed and burned. I watched the first movie (don't even remember the name!). The thing that was the end of it for me was the planet sized death star. The fact that people standing on a planet could look up in the sky and see the planet sized death star firing its weapon at another. Okay, jumped the shark. Done.
I hear things about ongoing developments. The mandalorian, etc. I just do not watch and find I seem to have no interest.
Amusingly, in recent years I have rewatched Babylon 5 a few times. A friend and I are in the middle of season 3 right now.
Just an opinion.
I sure could use some good new sci fi. Occasionally a good movie comes along. For example Interstellar, Arrival, Passengers.
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(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday March 24 2022, @02:52PM (1 child)
Without their faces melting off. Yes, that was terrible. They're firing a massive weapon capable of blowing up a planet through atmosphere while the guys are just standing there a few km away gawking at the thing.
I think it was more terrible that the plot basically got reset to the start of 4. The new Republic was now just the Rebellion all over again. Luke Skywalker became the new failed Obi Wan Kenobi. And that dude with the mask became the new Darth Vader. Really. What were they thinking when they did that? And the big bad is named Supreme Leader Snoke? Seriously? And of course, the stormtroopers are back.
This got worse in movie 8. We had the worst combat scenes yet in a Star Wars movie: including "bombers" that were so slow, you could get out of the ship and walk those bombs faster, the longest and most boring (space) car chase ever (it spanned like half the movie), and a pointless repeat of the Hoth stand.
But despite that crap, my point remains. I've played in the online versions of Star Wars and Star Trek. By far the best pvpers in the lot were the Sith side in Star Wars Online.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 25 2022, @05:34AM
i know what you both mean, but the Madalorian and Book of Bobba Fett have enough conmection to ep IV,V,VI (not the linux one), to be very watchable. only a few chringy bits, that are easily ignored.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 28 2022, @03:48PM
The only redeeming Quality of Star Wars Episode VII, was Saturday Night Live's "Undercover Boss" segment. The villain is a better villain in that short sketch, than the angsty EMO teenage villain in the entire movie. I also swore off all Star Wars after that. I really liked Han Solo, the movie, and Rogue One the movie as well. They were good movies in their own right.
The Expanse is an interesting Sci-Fi series, but the last season is odd. They mostly follow the books and don't throw-in too much stupid stuff. It's not got a whole lot of sci- to the fi, though. Still, there's not all that many good Space series out there. It's a fun romp in Space. I'm weird though, I actually liked CS Lewis's Space Trilogy.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 30 2022, @08:11PM
Passengers was nice, except for a fairly simple bit of physics that was completely wrong. At some point "the power runs out" and the rotating habitat STOPS ROTATING.
Which is idiotic, because you don't need power to maintain rotation after you start it --- at least, if the ship was designed by rocket scientists. it was annoying because it's such a fundamental part of the concept, and yet it's broken.
Otherwise I agree that the three you mentioned were proper sci-fi movies.
I recently rewatched "the day after tomorrow", for what it's worth, and I was pleasantly surprised.
I distinctly remember dismissing it as a "let's make a special effects movie" money-grab when I first saw it in the cinema. In the meantime I saw tsunami videos and pictures from Japan in 2011, and I learned a bit more about weather physics, and the ridiculous effects are no longer that ridiculous.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Monday March 28 2022, @05:00PM
There's a reason why Yoda died of old age and not at the hands of a Sith. I forget which of the Episodes 1-3 had the sweet Yoda kicking butt sequence (probably near the end of 2 or 3), but he definitely could fight.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"