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  1. Penguin
    Was bugged when they cancelled the model after the first movie, so looking forward to this joining my stable. Saucer diameter of 27.5 cm... will be pretty small next to most of the fleet, but oh well.
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    Roddenberry became a detriment because he couldn't let his ideas evolve with the audience. From what I read, he was dead set against showing anything negative about humanity or the Federation. All the evils in the universe had to be somewhere else (cue the planet of drug addicts, because humans just don't do that anymore, etc.). Yes, the Federation can still be a positive place, but you couldn't just have it be all good all the time and have audience accept that at face value anymore. The cracks in it, the cost of it, were what people needed to see, and by seeing that struggle and sacrifice come to value the result even more. We didn't want a "happily ever after" Federation anymore. So, yeah, Star Trek needs to keep evolving, and yeah, there's definitely an argument that it had devolved into a certain amount of navel-gazing, especially within its fan circles. A shake-up was needed. Without a doubt, the new movies are that. All that being said, I can understand why some fans have rejected it, and even agree to a certain degree. From a certain perspective, it's just an action film wrapped in some of the trappings of the original series. For a person who defines Star Trek by the way the various TV series explored the "human condition" (hackneyed as that expression is), the first Abrams movie really wasn't worthy of the Star Trek name. It doesn't "evolve" those Star Trek ideas for a new audience, it abandons them in favour of wide commercial appeal. Not that the franchise didn't need a little commercial appeal by that point. I enjoyed the first Abrams movie for the most part, and I'm looking forward to the next. But, I kinda agree that it doesn't "feel" to me like "real" Star Trek. The beer brewery engineering sums up my beef. My notion of Star Trek has someone decide "a warp core looks like this", and then a set is built. The Abrams approach was "isn't this a neat room... maybe warp core looks like a brewing vat?" The vision of the future feels thrown together by random details. ("What if the motorcycle cop has robotic facegear? Wouldn't that be cool?") I don't want my Star Trek to look so much like my present. That was a BSG thing.
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    My soul cries, but my wallet whimpers in relief.
  4. Penguin
    They did the dead wookie, but I don't think there was ever a divorce.
  5. Penguin
    I think I liked part 1 better than part 2, but that's more about the structure of Miller's story. Altogether a really good adaptation. I thought the choice of Joker voice actor could have been better, but wasn't bad, and the whole Cold War themed background bits feel a little dated. Still, didn't detract from the whole.
  6. Penguin
    Yup.
  7. Penguin
    This'll go well with my two Sideshow Snake Eyes.
  8. Penguin
    Yeah, they really don't. I've got a few of them that I've used for Hasegawa battroids and HGUC Gundam kits, which they're great for, but they aren't table enough for the heft of a Yamato toy. Base is too small and light, and not enough tension in the ball joints to support the weight.
  9. Penguin
    First my jaw hit the floor, then I e-mailed all my movie geek friends, then... eh, whatever. Either we get good movies out of this, or we don't. Same old, same old...
  10. Penguin
    I don't disagree that sequels are often rushed to their detriment, but that's not quite an accurate comparison. People waited 65 years for LOTR to go from book to movie, not sequel to sequel. To compare fairly, people waited 45 years for Iron Man to go from comic to film (not that anyone was really waiting, per se...), and sequel-wise LOTR got, like, 12 hours of film across 3 years. It's amusing and occasioanlly disillusioning when you think about films that did take a long time between good original and good sequel... Alien to Aliens, for example... only to learn that, if the filmmakers had their way, the sequels would have been much closer, and only collisions of fate and circumstance led to the longer period. All in all, none of this is new. I just watched the restored 1931 Dracula a couple weekends back (great cure for insomnia, that), and even that film ends with a setup for a sequel.
  11. Penguin
    Huh. I just got one from HLJ too, and it's pretty solid. Or maybe I have lower standards.
  12. Penguin
    Good article as an encouragement for people to see Cloud Atlas, but I gotta wonder: why is this a mystery to anyone? Or have I just been around corporations too long, and most people aren't aware that corporations are entirely risk-averse? I mean, with few exceptions, jumping after the safe money is pretty much what being a corporation is all about. Shareholders don't like risk, they like profit.
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    Didn't think this post deserves it's own thread, so a little necromancy is in order. For the love of my own financial solvency, someone convince me that I mustn't order this. I've been collecting and building all Sankei's Ghibli releases, and I desparately want this one too. http://www.hlj.com/product/ske84713
  14. Penguin
    As I understand it, the implication is that's Eath and the "ritual" or whatever is the Engineer's seed a planet with life. One of them is sacrificed to send their DNA out into the planet and alter its development.
  15. Penguin
    The feet are a different colour too. The TV version has dark brown feet, and the movie version the standard dark blue/grey.
  16. Penguin
    You might have missed it. I got it from HLJ at the same time the Cavalier came out, but it's out of stock and discontinued now. Perhaps it wasn't produced in very large numbers. http://www.hlj.com/product/YMT00234
  17. Penguin
    Hmmm... that's tempting.
  18. Penguin
    I know I'll be acquiring it. Yeah, I heard that too. I don't blame him. Would've shattered my suspension of disbelief.
  19. Penguin
    If Marvel's got any sense they'll capitalize on it. Apparently TJ's still interested in the part, and I too thought he was a great Punisher. I didn't mind the humour so much, but I can understand why others might have found it out of place. I always found the Punisher can be unrelentingly grim without a little relief here and there, beyond just black humour. Just don't give him a comic sidekick or something similarly excrutiating (... as shudder-inducing flashbacks of Rob Schneider in Judge Dredd flit through my brain).
  20. Penguin
    ... and Bruce Lee's Kato, so we can re-enact the scene from the Batman/Green Hornet crossover episode where Burt windmills his arms frantically while Bruce desparately tries to make it look like Kato couldn't snap Robin in two with a sharp sneeze.
  21. Penguin
    Hell ya. About time.
  22. Penguin
    The Tumbler intrigued, but never really enticed me. The Keaton Batmobile enticed, but couldn't get over the price and logistics. The classic George Barris Batmobile? I think I'll have to acquire that. Now all we need is 1/6 Adam West.
  23. Penguin
    Rocket Raccoon... man, if they translate the humour well, this could be damn funny, but in a good way. Wonder if Cosmo will be in it too? Be interesting to see how they simplify a lot of these character's origins. Some are pretty convoluted.
  24. Penguin
    Yes, that scene is in the film. The rest is in the eye of the beholder. I found it hilarious and very true to Spidey's sarcastic and taunting wit.
  25. Penguin
    As a fan of the Big G, I've been focussing on the MonsterArts and all the web exclusives. Still waiting for Little Godzilla and his crystal prison, and later on Fire Radon/Rodan and King Ghidorah. Since they're focussing on the 90s films, I'm hoping for Mecha-King Ghidorah and Destoroyah with Super X-3 at some point.
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