@frimmel:
Heroes (or Hero) get chased by monster, while running from said monster it is eaten by a bigger monster. Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon leaving the Gungan city/Kirk stranded on the ice planet.
I thought that might have been the one. I did not see anything particularly awful about it. I mean it was a very pedestrian and cliche attempt at suspense in both instances, but certainly there are worse offenses in both films.
@frimmel:
One of the reasons I loved “Rise of The Planet of The Apes” is the fan sevice they threw in felt organic. There wasn’t belabored set-up so they could do the fan service.
I agree with that. If the fan service falls naturally into the storyline or script it comes off as respectful and true to the original, rather than as pandering. In that respect, it really is no longer fan service (which is pandering).
I really cannot think of any other examples like Planet of the Apes, where the service was natural and unobtrusive. Another very obvious and poor example is Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Granted, I only watched it once, a while back, because it was so bad. One piece of fan service that I do remember was when Jones was being chased through the warehouse at the beginning, one of the boxes that gets knocked over is shown to contain the Ark of the Covenant. The camera painfully focuses in on it too. It seemed like such a shill when I watched it. Just really kitschy and in-your-face. I am sure there was some sort of Ooh, Ahh or giggling of glee in the theater, but I watched it at home and it was more of an, “Awww Dammit!”. Then it only got worse from there.
@General:
I’m still bummed Return of the Jedi was so compromised. Luke should be spending episodes VII-IX looking for and helping train his sister, not having a very convenient solution to the love triangle established in Empire.
While I am well versed in the films themselves, not so much in the background of the writing/development… What exactly do you mean “compromised”?
@General:
But after reading about Lindelof and his resume, things don’t look promising. I hated Prometheus and Into Darkness was such an insult.
Into Darkness was insulting and really not very interesting.
After watching Prometheus I remember saying, “Well, I never want to watch that movie again.” It had so much promise, but something just was off about it. I really don’t know what though. Full disclosure: I had never watched anything from the Alien franchise when I saw Prometheus (I have since watched Alien). However, even after watching Alien, Prometheus still did not make a lot of sense. Maybe the actions of the people in Prometheus made less sense. There were some Alien-esque interesting (revolting) things in Prometheus, but it was not a good movie because of them. There were good elements, but clearly did not reach its potential.
