Star Wars vs. Star Trek Star Wars and Star Trek, two movie titles often confused by non-fans because the first word of both titles is ‘Star’. But do not be confused because the two are extremely different in all sorts of ways. One of them is fantasy, the other sci-fi. One is full of creatures and heroes and villains and spaceships and power and darkness, the other filled with humans and aliens who fly ships together in primary colored uniforms. In other words, one is clearly better than the
Katelyn Howard-Gomez Professor Martin Speculative Genres 2 May 2016 Are There Actual Female Characters in Sci-Fi? “It’s taken the fantasy genre decades to grow out of its image as a juvenile boys’ club obsessed with cleavage and crossbows” (Griner). Though science fiction has attempted to break the gender stereotypes against female characters, the genre still has a long way to go. Currently, the majority of female characters are still portrayed as over-sexualized, and dependent on male characters
Science fiction and graphic novels both possess special niches in literature. Writers like H.G. Wells, Ray Bradbury, Douglas Adams, and Phillip K. Dick progressed the genre to reach a broader audience through increasing exposure in society. Today, writers like Orson Scott Card continue to popularize science fiction through both published works and online stories. The new medium presented by the increased accessibility of the internet allows for the genre to grow, allowing recognized authors and aspiring
Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or a Motion Picture Made for Television (IMDB np). The movie itself won the Bronze Wrangler Award in the Western Heritage Awards for Television Feature Film. King of Texas also was presented the Spur Award by Western Writers of America for the best drama script (IMDB np). King of Texas is a movie based on the same story line as King Leer. The movie is a western version of King Leer and catered to a younger audience. King of Texas is based in Texas when
The Breakfast Club, Jaws, Star Wars. Major films that have reached the utmost level of recognition. They have become iconic in the film industry, and culturally consecrated by society. The films society deems worthy of such a recognition have shifted over the years, due to how society has shifted. Due to their popularity, it raises the question if movies which involve superheros could ever rise to such a title. If they can, which ones would be able to hold this honor? All of them? Only a select few
choose to incorporate many aspects of their fandom into everyday life, there are many instances when they can productive instead of idle. This includes a dentist from the movie Trekkies that created a dentist office that completely revolves around the television show Star Trek. The dentist/fanatic gets to be immersed in Star Trek all day long at his job, but is actually being productive in society. With that, any direction a fan base goes, it is a form of escapism from real life but is not necessarily
in this article four more times. Alone in the Dark has an astonishingly bad Rotten Tomatoes score of 1% and it currently has an IMDB user rating of 2.3, making it the 43rd lowest rated movie on the site. Pretty much everything about the film is embarrassingly bad, starting with the acting from B-list stars like Christian Slater, Tara Reid, and Stephen Dorff. There 's also some very fake-looking CGI used to portray the monsters. Peter Hartlaub gave a
realistic special effects used to portray the werewolves in the movie. This film is about a platoon of British soldiers sent on a mission to train with a group of British Special Air Service (SAS) soldiers in the Scottish Highlands. Soon, the viewers discover that the SAS forces have been slaughtered by an unseen enemy; werewolves. The British soldiers are later chased into an abandoned house, where they hold out for the rest of the movie. The werewolves repeatedly assault the house, while the soldiers
series ‘Buck Rogers’, followed by the 1960’s series of ‘Star Trek’, the only term to describe the devices that were seen was ‘Science Fiction’. Over the next 50 years, from the first Star Trek episodes, the curiosity and interest has lead on to many other series, spin offs and action packed movies. Each new genre of Star Trek came with a new set of technological advances that could only be used by the super intelligent or the highly trained. Movie and TV audiences have been lead to believe that with
“Have you recently had a close encounter?” quote from David Laughlin from Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Well everyone who has ever seen the movie Close Encounters of the Third Kind has had their own close encounter of some kind. Written and directed by Steven Spielberg and Produced by Colombia Pictures in association with EMI Films. Colombia Pictures the same year is credited with the production of four other films which include Bobby Deerfield staring Al Pacino, The Deadly Triangle staring