From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
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Subject: Re: Kirk and Spock in the news, again (link)

In article <539bf9f5$0$2866$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
Valentijn  wrote:
> Your Name schreef op 14-6-2014 00:05:
> > In article <539af9f9$0$2964$e4fe514c@news2.news.xs4all.nl>, Wouter
> > Valentijn  wrote:
> >> Your Name schreef op 13-6-2014 08:12:
> >>> In article , ToolPackinMama
> >>>  wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> http://www.cnet.com/news/americans-think-star-trek-is-the
future-not-star-
> >>>> wars-study-says/
> >>>
> >>> Well, DUH!
> >>> Star Wars is set "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away".
> >>> Star Trek is set in Earth's near-ish future.
> >>
> >> ROFL
> >>
> >> I'd take Star Trek over Star Wars any day.
> >>
> >> Not that I'm totally anti Star Wars. I liked Star Wars (IV) and TESB
> >> very much. ROTJ was a lesser movie and the prequels... Never mind them.
> >
> > The only real issue with Star Wars is that there was such a long time
> > between the trilogies, meaning they look quite different due to
> > technology improvements, differeing style, over-the-top fight scenes,
> > etc. Many of the later additions to the Original Trilogy look out of
> > place with the older film quality / style. If all six (and soon a
> > ridiculously tacked-on third Trilogy) had been made continuously like
> > "Harry Potter", for example, then those differences would have been
> > much less noticeable.
> 
> "Improvements"... Not a word I'd use. :-)

Improvements to the film-making technology ... not necessarily the
movies themselves.



> Nah, I think the stories themselves took a nose dive. They became more 
> 'kiddiefied'.
> I'd keep 'Star Wars' and "The Empire Stikes Back', but the rest....

They were always aimed at kids - roughly 13 year old boys. George Lucas
said he wanted to make movies (both Star Wars and Indiana Jones) that
were like the ones he saw in cineams *when he was a kid*.
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