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Papa_Complex
03-11-2012, 08:09 PM
Saw the movie, yesterday. If you're a fan of old Sci Fi, or can at least recognize that everyone from Cameron to Spielberg ripped off Edgar Rice Burroughs, you'll likely enjoy it.

If not, don't bother.
Trip
03-11-2012, 11:06 PM
It was ok, I liked it but it wasnt anything special.
Homeslice
03-12-2012, 12:21 AM
Flash Gordon shits all over it.

"Flash Gordon. Quarterback. NY Jets."
Dave
03-12-2012, 02:32 AM
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4SA2peIqZmQ/Sj0NvAhsapI/AAAAAAAACo4/i_uC9QTpvsw/s400/Flash%20Gordon%20Prince%20Vultan%20of%20the%20hawk men%20flash12.gif
GORDONS ALIVE?!!
Papa_Complex
03-12-2012, 06:52 AM
It was ok, I liked it but it wasnt anything special.

And that's what I was commenting on, when I mentioned recognizing that his work had been ripped off by everyone else. When every movie before it has ripped off your riffs, it can't be spectacular.

Maybe if Dejah Thoris had been naked, like she was in the books......
Trip
03-12-2012, 08:02 AM
And that's what I was commenting on, when I mentioned recognizing that his work had been ripped off by everyone else. When every movie before it has ripped off your riffs, it can't be spectacular.

Maybe if Dejah Thoris had been naked, like she was in the books......

Well the movie itself ripped off the special effects of every movie before it. So it got back all it's book rip offs, by ripping off the rip offs.

Even thought the story was first, the presentation was last.
Papa_Complex
03-12-2012, 08:17 AM
Well the movie itself ripped off the special effects of every movie before it. So it got back all it's book rip offs, by ripping off the rip offs.

Even thought the story was first, the presentation was last.

Think that looked like a rip-off? Wait until J. Michael Straczynski finally manages to release his movies based on E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series of books. It'll make it look like Star Wars was completely ripped off, despite having been written in 1934.
Turbo Ghost
03-12-2012, 09:11 AM
I liked it but, had trouble immersing myself into it since they changed so much from the books. I did like the beginning sequence with the union officers. It wasn't in the books but, did help establish his fighting spirit.
Adeptus_Minor
03-12-2012, 10:01 AM
Think that looked like a rip-off? Wait until J. Michael Straczynski finally manages to release his movies based on E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series of books. It'll make it look like Star Wars was completely ripped off, despite having been written in 1934.

Oooo... didn't know he was working on that.
I've never read the 'Lensmen' stuff, but I've heard a good bit about it, and I've been a JMS fan since Babylon 5.
Trip
03-12-2012, 10:17 AM
Think that looked like a rip-off? Wait until J. Michael Straczynski finally manages to release his movies based on E. E. "Doc" Smith's "Lensmen" series of books. It'll make it look like Star Wars was completely ripped off, despite having been written in 1934.

The Star Wars story wasn't anything that special or original for the most part, hell you can try some of it to the bible if you wanted to, the thing that makes the movie classic is the innovation of cinematics in it really drove that movie. So busting Star Wars balls for the story is useless. That movie is classic. The Princess of Mars is classic for the book and the series that followed, the movie wasn't that special.
Papa_Complex
03-12-2012, 10:27 AM
Oooo... didn't know he was working on that.
I've never read the 'Lensmen' stuff, but I've heard a good bit about it, and I've been a JMS fan since Babylon 5.

The style of animation that he brought to the table, in Babylon 5, would work very well for a Lensmen series of movies. He's been shopping it around for a few years. Last thing that I heard was that the first was supposed to be released in spring of 2012, but I haven't heard anything recently. It was originally planned as a trilogy.

Don't go looking for the Manga version of Lensmen, if you want to enjoy this movie. They'll be nothing alike. The Japanese have a way of taking a classic storyline and twisting it beyond all recognition. When they do their own stuff, it's fine.

The Star Wars story wasn't anything that special or original for the most part, hell you can try some of it to the bible if you wanted to, the thing that makes the movie classic is the innovation of cinematics in it really drove that movie. So busting Star Wars balls for the story is useless. That movie is classic. The Princess of Mars is classic for the book and the series that followed, the movie wasn't that special.

Star Wars was a western. Lensmen carries many of the same messianic elements as Star Wars. I'm still hoping that someone buys the rights to "Soldier, Ask Not" or "Tactics of Mistake", by Gordon R. Dickson.