Star Trek

Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ July 19 2009, 6:18 pm)

LoL this stupid discussion is still going on? It was dumb enough comparing ST warp effects to SW jump effect, but now someone dragged poor BSG into this?

I agree that the BSG effect has no place in this debate what so ever. But didn't you say they (SW and ST effect) looked the same a few pages back but you just don't care that they do...

Quote (Tin_Man @ July 20 2009, 5:49 pm)

Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ July 19 2009, 6:18 pm) LoL this stupid discussion is still going on? It was dumb enough comparing ST warp effects to SW jump effect, but now someone dragged poor BSG into this? I agree that the BSG effect has no place in this debate what so ever. But didn't you say they (SW and ST effect) looked the same a few pages back but you just don't care that they do...

Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ June 21 2009, 2:15 pm)

This thread begs the question: SO FRAKIN WHAT? Trek has used recycled footage in movies yet i dont see people getting their panties in a bunch over that. Why do people freak out when someone tries to incorporate something that was actually cool in star wars into star trek?

Yup. pretty much.

Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ July 21 2009, 6:32 am)

Quote (Tin_Man @ July 20 2009, 5:49 pm) Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ July 19 2009, 6:18 pm) LoL this stupid discussion is still going on? It was dumb enough comparing ST warp effects to SW jump effect, but now someone dragged poor BSG into this? I agree that the BSG effect has no place in this debate what so ever. But didn't you say they (SW and ST effect) looked the same a few pages back but you just don't care that they do... Quote (PhantomCrunk007 @ June 21 2009, 2:15 pm) This thread begs the question: SO FRAKIN WHAT? Trek has used recycled footage in movies yet i dont see people getting their panties in a bunch over that. Why do people freak out when someone tries to incorporate something that was actually cool in star wars into star trek? Yup. pretty much.

So you are agreeing with me and yourself Well maybe that is a little progress...Your second point was also addressed way back.

As another poster said using your own recycled footage is one thing but ripping off another franchises is completely different.

I'd disagree that it's a ripping-off of anything, as it's such a generic special effect. Going from nothing to faster than light suddenly would I imagine look very much like it did, with a ship suddenly blipping into the distance; there's only a finite number of ways you can portray this without very strange additional effects, and the fact that it resembles a different sci-fi franchise shouldn't be anymore surprising than the fact that phaser shots look similar to those of generic sci-fi ray guns from old 50s B-movies - no-one was ripping off anyone, there's only so many ways a ray gun effect can be portrayed before they start bearing similarities, just as there's only so many ways to depict sudden faster than light acceleration.

To be honest, I doubt that the SFX people ever gave the matter much consideration.