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May. 05 2012, 5:55 pm
I prefer the Trek. I like them both, but to me Star Wars is a good action/drama movie series with some good special effects. Trek relies more on character and story and to me just seemed more intellectual. |
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May. 05 2012, 6:47 pm
Quote: jbondrocks @ May. 05 2012, 5:55 pm | >
>I prefer the Trek. I like them both, but to me Star Wars is a good action/drama movie series with some good special effects. Trek relies more on character and story and to me just seemed more intellectual.
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Of course it's more intellectual! Star Wars is, beneath all the space ships and flashing lights, at its core it is a Western.
Now don't get me wrong. I don't mean that as an insult. Hell, I love Westerns. I just got the Man With No Name trilogy on blu-ray and I've been enjoying it immensely. I understand now better than ever before why Tarantino has famously, on several occasions, called the Good, the Bad and the Ugly the best-directed movie ever made.
So, Westerns are enjoyable but intellectual is not a quality generally associated with them.
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May. 05 2012, 8:23 pm
NOT A MATTER OF BETTER THAN..IN STAR TREK, WE ARE ON A HUMAN TIME CONTINUUM. IN THE WORLD OF STAR WARS, IT IS LONG LONG AGO AND FAR FAR AWAY. ICANNOT SPEAK ON MUCH S WARS HISTORY,NOT HAVING DELVED. I PREFER ALL THINGS TREK. THAT'S MY STORY, & IAM STICKING TO IT. earthling*
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May. 05 2012, 10:06 pm
Of course it's more intellectual! Star Wars is, beneath all the space ships and flashing lights, at its core it is a Western.
I always thought of it as adventure / Fantasy -- another of my favourite genres. Not so fond of Westerns but I can see where you are coming from there. Of course Star Trek with its basically colonialist motto/s, gungho heroes, and "Wagon train to the Stars" theme is readily comparable to the Western genre too.
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May. 06 2012, 9:55 am
Quote: OtakuJo @ May. 05 2012, 10:06 pm | >
> Of course it's more intellectual! Star Wars is, beneath all the space ships and flashing lights, at its core it is a Western.
>I always thought of it as adventure / Fantasy -- another of my favourite genres. Not so fond of Westerns but I can see where you are coming from there. Of course Star Trek with its basically colonialist motto/s, gungho heroes, and "Wagon train to the Stars" theme is readily comparable to the Western genre too.
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In making the first Star Wars movie - which was really the fourth Star Wars movie... oh whatever!!!! In any event, in making Star Wars, Episode IV: A New Hope, Lucas copied Kurosawa's movie, Kakushi Toride no san-Akunin, scene for scene. And Kurosawa was, of course, the King of the Samurai Westerns.
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