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[anevilgiraffe]

the Victorians had Aether to travel through, not vacuum, and that's a hell of a lot respiratory-illnesses-waiting-to-happen being pumped around that ship...

[Michi]

the Victorians had Aether to travel through, not vacuum, and that's a hell of a lot respiratory-illnesses-waiting-to-happen being pumped around that ship...

Cough, cough... 

[hubbabubba]

It's space coal, Snyder's own recipe.

Seriously though, out of all the guff in these films, the coal powered spaceship is a minor consideration.

[Daeothar]

Last night, I was completely nackered and I had the choice of doing some more work on my BSC project or watch a film. I went with the film but could not decide which one.

I then stumbled upon RM2 in the list. I had seen RM1 and was, well, not impressed to say the least. So I watched Critical Drinker's review of the film first

Suffice to say that I progressed my BSC build significantly yesterday evening...

[swiftnick]

Coal powered spaceship


Coal


In space

I quite liked that, reminded me of the Mutant Chronicles.

[jhonpog]

I remember watching battle beyond the stars, desperate for anything star wars-like, and quite enjoying it.

Fast forward....OMG....40+ years and here I am desperate for anything star-wars-like and I could see how younger folk might enjoy the film but yeah I couldn't quite get on board that coal-fired spaceship

[beefcake]

[Westfalia Chris]

I watched it this week and first thought folks were referring to those smoke-spewing dropships (which I found interesting in a "terror-weapon-GE-J79-on-speed" way), but then there was indeed that stoker room... oh boy. Amusing as a nod to the Radium furnaces in Flash Gordon, if we can assume they had that in mind.

But generally, what a huge waste of otherwise very serviceable designs and visuals (I really liked those fumigating power swords), even if it's more of what we've already seen, what with those silly superhero poses. And that script and dialogues... dear, dear.

I wouldn't have minded their "borrowing" from Kurosawa had it been done properly, but these two meandering, disjointed films were such a terrible waste of resources and the audiences time. I mean, I can forgive a lot in the story department for nice visuals, but I really hope they funnel the funds into something better rather than doing four more as Mr. Snyder intimates.

[Infojunky]

Heh, I thought it was worth the price... i.e. free after Netflix subscription...

It was better than Robot Jox, which I actually paid for in the theatre...

[Ninefingers]

But that said, it still manages to be better than any movies released under the Star Wars brand for years.

How has it been nearly five months without someone pointing to Rogue One with a big red arrow

[syrinx0]

Heh, I thought it was worth the price... i.e. free after Netflix subscription...
It was better than Robot Jox, which I actually paid for in the theatre...

It's free as I have Netflix for the family and my wife thought the first movie was entertaining enough so I will probably watch the second.

[CC2IC]

I have to say, this chain is not making me really "want" to watch this movie.

[Sleepy Snoozy Skeletons]

It was better than Robot Jox, which I actually paid for in the theatre...

Now these are fightin' words... just you wait when you get into robot-crotch-chainsaw range!

[dwbullock]

It was better than Robot Jox, which I actually paid for in the theatre...

I remember that movie!  Way back in the day, we rented it from Blockbuster.  Two or three times.  Because, we were idiots.

[FreakyFenton]

Odd links to roman history as well, the King's Death being staged after the assassination of Julius Caesar. I was waiting for the "Et tu, Brute?" scene. Weirdly ancient history comes up a lot either out of sheer will to impose some faux intellectuality or out of sheer lack of creativity.

The monologues are as others have said interesting, in that you want to know more about those scenes, before almost cruelly, they cut off to put you back into the diegetic world of the film.

Suppose it is as if characters from Star Wars such as Dengar and the like had their own show, you're meant to know who they are, but you are forcefed their backstory through *harp music* flashbacks.

 

You can watch it though, if you have nothing else to do.