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We have just lost two greats of stage and screen. They will never be forgotten.

It's official: The Amazing Spider-Man 3 is dead.

Too bad they wasted that Sinister Six stuff as well......

There are other things that are annoying about this as well. Bruce Boxleitner is now 65 which probably means that this was his last chance to play Tron and if they leave it too long I guess they will be looking for a total "reboot" of the franchise if they do another film, which will suck.

But yeah, at the end of the day, Disney has all of these other franchises going gangbusters for them now so why bother with anything that could be perceived as a financial risk.

I wonder how far along planning was for Tron 3 though. I suppose we'll find out someday.

Yeah, but Disney is shiiting itself because Tomorrowland has "underperformed". You know what it's like, all films are expected to be billion dollar making blockbusters today, there is little room for films considered to be more moderate successes and certainly no room for SF films that fit that bill. I can imagine that Tron 3 probably had a very high budget estimate that got the studio nervous. And since this is true "Disney" property I don't think we will see it get taken to another studio, of course.

A great pity.

Word is starting to circulate that Disney has pulled the plug on this film! Damn!

Cool trivia.

When is the Yamato film coming out on Blu-ray.

Unfortunately,, apparently in the email sent out to the members about the hack, Steve Yun CC'd everyone, and didn't hide any of the addresses. So now every current member has every other current member's email.

Way to go...

You mean that all 10 members who have not been permabanned can see each others email addresses. LOL. Serves them right for maintaining such an antique website......

I can't believe they actually made it work physically in the real world. That's just awesome.

Pretty cool. I guess we can say that there is not really a move away from CG in Hollywood recently, they have just come to appreciate that there is still value in real props and modelwork.

Also, the Gunstar still looks awesome, and we need some merch so I can park one on my shelf.

The Gunstar is an awesome ship. The death blossom "petals" opening looked cool as well. The Ko-Dan ships also had a nice unique design. I had the comic before I saw the film and I couldn't believe that it was an actual movie, it was that cool.....

As for The Last Starfighter. The computer graphics are unwatchably horrible now - and since it has a paper thin plot there is no need to watch it for that either. This *IS* one movie that screams out for a remake though.

Disagree. I was watching it on TV here the other night and apart from the close up rendering of the asteroids surfaces, the mountain that the Rylos base is mounted on an pretty much any other landscape, the animation still holds up pretty well.

In fact, my biggest problem with the movie was THIS extra and his facial expressions who should have been much further back in shot.......

Got it today. I guess I am one of the few nerds who believes that love has a place in SF.

"The music track sounds like Hans Zimmerman fell asleep on his organ", lol!

Yeah, yeah, haters gonna hate and non-musician reviewers need to get a clue.....

Beat you by a minute haha

I wonder what this will mean for new toy rights. I'm sure if they make films they will make toys.

Seems like Harmony gold is out of the picture????

Only 'cause I was stumbling around trying to find this stoopid thread, LOL!!!

Looks like SONY has picked up the LAM rights for RT.....

Any word of a follow up to the 2199 series yet? (Apart from the movie, when is that coming out for home release, BTW?)

I've recently gone through seasons 1-6 on blu-ray. It's been great to revisit the show, which was ground breaking for it's time. The acting holds up very well and many of the stories are just as engaging now as they were back then. In fact, some of the stories are sadly very prescient and folks would de well to learn from them. But I must say, I am very glad that TV has come a long way since this show. Some of the material really shows it's age.

Funnily enough I have enjoyed the series more in my 30's and 40's than what I did in my teen's and 20's. Guess I fall more into the target audience age now and know that it's not all about the "pew pew".

The character interactions and development on the show was really good and stands up well. The first few seasons were clunky of course but only in that era could a show plod along for a few seasons without getting quickly axed. (How many potentially good shows have been axed in recent times because they haven't been given the chance to "develop"?)

It had pretty high production values which I think is what saves it from being forgotten and second-rate.

BUT... the writing was flat and full of missed opportunities.

This to me was a big issue with the film. That's not to say I didn't like it but they went on with a lot of metaphysical stuff that probably doesn't really belong in the action film it was trying to be.

All film reviewers are internet reviewers. It's 2015, not 1995 (or even 2005).

And that's the problem. They are all a bunch of absolute hacks with no concept of how to review or even how to write.

Is it me or is Mr Ford an idiot (all these injuries lately)? Seriously, is he trying to be the first SW alumni to die?

Uh, Sir Alec Guiness??

A great actor and a true SF icon. He will be missed......

Fark me, I hate just about every internet movie reviewer though. Bunch of wankers.

Frikkin NICE!!!

WOW, THE FIRST TRAILER WAS JUST RELEASED!!! THAT WAS FAST!!!