Strangely effective.
Bonus:
Star Trek 1920
- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
Wow! Thanks for sharing! Truly beautiful and wonderful! How heroes and heroines should be depicted.
Have you seen Star Wars 1923?
https://twitter.com/douggypledger/status/1705180699236413538?t=a455Mgql7HAghF7bYDRSQQ&s=19
No! Love it!
What a kick. Thank you both…Don and JFK.
Poor Wooki.
Star Wars 1923. Worth a second look. 🙂
Steampunk meets Star Trek? Interesting. Dune without the Harkonnens. 😁
One movie that has its own period style is “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004).” Its not everyone’s cup of tea, but the visuals are an interesting treatment of an alternative reality.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D-aYfrthJc
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The film came out of an original B&W teaser done by Kerry Conran on his Macintosh IIci PC.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqRvdm8jHz4
Greg B, I enjoyed watching Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.
Something else you might enjoy on Youtube: one is “Star Wars” as if it had been directed by Stanley Kubrik; the other is “2001: A Space Odyssey” as if it had been directed by George Lucas. They were very clever, I thought.
As a science teacher and boyhood reader of science fiction, I find that good writers could be very clever at projecting current technologies into the future, but rarely forecast new ones well. So “Tom Swift jr” had solar-charged batteries in 1955, but they had to be charged in space (and his early versions often exploded, like Tesla’s). Very few got computer or communications technology right: compare the Star Trek 25th century communicators with a modern cellphone. Of course good science fiction writers are merely using science to tell a story: in Chesterton’s words, putting ordinary people in extraordinary settings, just like good writers of fantasy.
This topic led to me recalling another video that I saw a long time ago called Code Guardian about an alternative history featuring a battle between large robots:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnMZD4NFdrI