[OT] Dark Star (1974) - the platinum age of movies

[Nick Sabalausky]

"so" <so at so.do> wrote in message news:op.vidmzstl7dtt59 at so-pc...
> On Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:05:53 +0300, Walter Bright 
> <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>> Russel Winder wrote:
>>> Extremely serious low budget though -- everyone needs to remember that
>>> when watching (1974, so pre Star Wars, and a very, very low budget).
>>
>> Dark Star and the Star Wars prequels prove that big budgets aren't what 
>> make a movie, a plot and good writing is.
>
> If you ignore the Harrison Ford factor, SW is nothing but a soap opera to 
> me...

I don't really see that. To me, the original trilogy at least, seemed like 
action flicks in sci-fi clothing (Nothing wrong with that!) Now the 
Battlestar Galactica remake, the V remake, and Stargate Universe, *those* 
are soap operas pretending to be sci-fi. And that goes triple for Craprica.

I really miss the sci-fi from around 1990-2005 (approx). I know a lot of 
people would probably consider this heresy, but to me, that's the golden age 
of science fiction. All of the Berman-era Star Treks (none of this JJ Abrams 
nonsense), the Stargate movie, Stargate SG-1 (even Atlantis was at least 
ok), Babylon 5 (no spoilers! I still haven't gotten around to the last 
season and a half), The Fifth Element, Farscape, Firefly (although that was 
really more space western than sci-fi). Lots of great stuff.

But now sci-fi is mostly just soap operas with shitty camera work, and a few 
well-intended-but-ultimately-mediocre attempts like Warehouse 13, the 
revived Doctor Who, and Sanctuary (really more of an off-brand X-Men than 
sci-fi though - and I'm not much one for western comics). Eureka's about the 
only really good one on (although it still has just a touch more soap-drama 
than I would like, and sometimes it feels like Carter is the only one really 
carrying the show). So aside from that one, I usually just watch anime 
instead.

> Then you watch Bladerunner, Alien... now they are truly awesome!

Still haven't gotten around to seeing Alien (yea, I know - unthinkable ;) ), 
but I tried watching Bladerunner once and got bored quick and turned it off. 
I've been meaning to give it another try though, it certainly has a lot of 
recommendations behind it. Maybe it was just because I was watching the 
"director's edition"? Bladerunner fans: Which edition would be best to go 
with: original, "director's", or "final"?