Conchaga
Let's fuck some shit up
Lack of adherence to actual physics.
Star Trek was a huge fan of Asimov and his writings on Androids. I'm sure, though, that he's rolling in his grave because they totally ignored all of the physics books the man wrote.
I mean, first of all, they put sound in outer space. If you had a giant space battle, you might hear the explosions in/on the ship while you're IN the ship. Yet, outside, you'd hear fuck-all. Not a damned thing. So, all those phaser banks firing and quantum torpedoes zipping by wouldn't make one noise. Not one. It's all Hollywood special effects so that the 'sound engineers' can justify their jobs.
"Sound Engineers". Wow, isn't that a title made to make one sound far more important than they actually are? They're more like people-who-make-noises-for-a-living. You know who else makes noises? Children. Little boys LOVE sound effects. Ever been around a ten year-old playing with toy soldiers? They make more realistic-sounding noises sometimes. Christ! Did anyone listen to the engine noises on the pod racers in Phantom Menace? Lucas is so full of shit!
At the end of A New Hope when they blow up the death star, you know what you'd hear? Absolutely nothing. Nothing. And another thing... That explosion? It would've been totally 3-D, a sphere. What Lucas shows you is essentially drawing an explosion and then shooting the paper it's drawn on at an angle. Crap.
First Contact was the first Trek movie where we get to see spacewalking. No, we're not counting that TNG episode where the two Qs have a conversation outside the Enterprise. However, you still hear the clomp clomp of those magnetic boots on the hull and the explosion when Worf shoots the communications array. Crap.
One of the only times these big space franchises got it right was during Revenge of the Sith in the opening battle; and one of the clone's ships blows up and Anakin sees the guy float away, dead. Yet, they went right on ahead making a lot of noise when that giant ship started tearing apart. WTF?
I digress. When will these shows finally make a space battle realistic? It'd be a really interesting concept if you ask me. Imagine watching two juggernaut spaceships duking it out in space and you don't hear a single thing. Yet, when an explosion happens, they cut right to the location on the ship for the big bang and you get to watch body parts fly by and men screaming. As soon as they get sucked out into space, you won't hear a thing. You'd just watch them get the gasses sucked out of them and their eyeballs pop out of their skull. (Yeah, I know. Total Recall already did that... but they still made noise!) Kinda creepy/cool right?
I rarely go to the theaters and I'll probably not go for the new Trek movie. I'm a huge fan of Trek, but the franchise has been lost to me since midway through Voyager. Same crap, different makeup. However.... However, when a space movie comes out that makes a space battle realistic, I'll camp out to watch the opening day and live in the theater all day long.
/rant
Star Trek was a huge fan of Asimov and his writings on Androids. I'm sure, though, that he's rolling in his grave because they totally ignored all of the physics books the man wrote.
I mean, first of all, they put sound in outer space. If you had a giant space battle, you might hear the explosions in/on the ship while you're IN the ship. Yet, outside, you'd hear fuck-all. Not a damned thing. So, all those phaser banks firing and quantum torpedoes zipping by wouldn't make one noise. Not one. It's all Hollywood special effects so that the 'sound engineers' can justify their jobs.
"Sound Engineers". Wow, isn't that a title made to make one sound far more important than they actually are? They're more like people-who-make-noises-for-a-living. You know who else makes noises? Children. Little boys LOVE sound effects. Ever been around a ten year-old playing with toy soldiers? They make more realistic-sounding noises sometimes. Christ! Did anyone listen to the engine noises on the pod racers in Phantom Menace? Lucas is so full of shit!
At the end of A New Hope when they blow up the death star, you know what you'd hear? Absolutely nothing. Nothing. And another thing... That explosion? It would've been totally 3-D, a sphere. What Lucas shows you is essentially drawing an explosion and then shooting the paper it's drawn on at an angle. Crap.
First Contact was the first Trek movie where we get to see spacewalking. No, we're not counting that TNG episode where the two Qs have a conversation outside the Enterprise. However, you still hear the clomp clomp of those magnetic boots on the hull and the explosion when Worf shoots the communications array. Crap.
One of the only times these big space franchises got it right was during Revenge of the Sith in the opening battle; and one of the clone's ships blows up and Anakin sees the guy float away, dead. Yet, they went right on ahead making a lot of noise when that giant ship started tearing apart. WTF?
I digress. When will these shows finally make a space battle realistic? It'd be a really interesting concept if you ask me. Imagine watching two juggernaut spaceships duking it out in space and you don't hear a single thing. Yet, when an explosion happens, they cut right to the location on the ship for the big bang and you get to watch body parts fly by and men screaming. As soon as they get sucked out into space, you won't hear a thing. You'd just watch them get the gasses sucked out of them and their eyeballs pop out of their skull. (Yeah, I know. Total Recall already did that... but they still made noise!) Kinda creepy/cool right?
I rarely go to the theaters and I'll probably not go for the new Trek movie. I'm a huge fan of Trek, but the franchise has been lost to me since midway through Voyager. Same crap, different makeup. However.... However, when a space movie comes out that makes a space battle realistic, I'll camp out to watch the opening day and live in the theater all day long.
/rant
