Like "Watership Down", they left a lot out from the book (or it would have been a three hour movie!). Unlike Watership though, critical scenes from "Plague Dogs" were left out of the film that really annoyed me (having read the book first). The film was given a very mean and misanthropic ending as if trying to be…

I read Richard Adams' "The Plague Dogs" in the late '70's as a teenager and loved it (Watership Down as well). When I found it a few years later as a (VHS) release by the same folk that so-nicely realized "Watership Down", I rented that too. It looked so gorgeous (a beautiful rotoscoping job that would give Ralph…

Oh, I spotted the K-7 easily enough, but I'm referring to the other station /above/ the Klingon ship (the K-7 is below the Klingon ship). (Update: my memory since jogged enough to recognize the other station as a drawing in the 1978 book "Starfleet Technical Manual" (which was probably intended to be in an earlier…

FYI: "Rock" a/k/a Robo-Lurch (Ted Cassidy) was also the voice for the "puppet" Baalock ;)

Lazarus, (but he was never seen actually flying his ship).

For bonus points, how many characters/actors are show in the picture more than once?

A TNG version might take up the whole screen!

I was curious about that too. My guess was the freighter that brought Charlie (X) to the Enterprise that he later destroyed.

I found my Pathetic Trekkie Level incredibly high in the number of characters/items I could identify in this rather awesome poster. Only the bulky cargo-style ship on the upper left (Charlie X's?), the round space-station(?) over the Klingon D-7, and the ship on the far right under Apollo's finger lightning (isn't…

Even so, large chunks of the book were left out of the first "Jurassic Park" because of the (budgetary) limits of expensive (at the time) CGI techniques, not to mention the story was dumbed-down to be more appealing to its target market audience. What's worse is that the elements that weren't doable for JP were…

One could go on to say that scientific facts will ruin 100% of science fiction movies for you—because they are science /fiction/ and by definition /fictional/. Just how many science fiction movies ARE scientifically factual? Whether or not it will ruin it for me is subject to my own willingness to accept the…

Well, I was going by the title of the article, "7 Scientific Facts That Will Ruin Movies for You". "Will" implies if I had the least bit of scientific education, I should have been stomping out of the theater as soon as the La Brea Tarpits erupted in "Volcano" (e.g.) or asked for my money back two minutes into…

I'm no Nobel Laureate. but I'm well aware of the scientific realities that make these films (and many others) impossible in reality. But does that make them failures in their purpose: to entertain? Absolutely not (well, there is "Signs" and "The Core"...).

Movies like "Volcano" (and its sister film "Dante's Peak") rely heavily on suspension of disbelief, but that means the story has to be good enough to distract the audience from the impractical science and/or explain it in such a way that it could just be believable enough to make the story an enjoyable diversion. …

I agree. It's a little something called "suspension of disbelief". When you go to the theater, you go to watch a fancy version of a fairy tale, a play, a legend, or an amusement park ride for the senses and the mind. You don't go to nitpick the veracity of the physics, science of the film (unless you're a critic),…

Keep watchin', boy, are you in for a supreeze! ;)

I got the same idea too in my own comment before I saw yours. GMTA ;). I didn't have much issue in suspension of disbelief in that film other than the alien's strategy of using our satellites to coordinate their attacks. Why waste power and resources to fight against an enemy whose military was left largely intact…

Yeah, pretty much felt the same way in the (seemingly) 200 minute New Zion "orgy scene" of "Matrix Reloaded". Almost had me rooting for the seeker-bots to crash the party and hose them all down with digital water and GET ON WITH THE DAMN MOVIE!

It wasn't the questionable science that pissed me off about "Armageddon" (and its sister film "Deep Impact"), it was the incredibly sappy romantic and "family values" subplots trying to cash-in on the success of "Titanic" (you can even hear the Celtic fiddles crying as Billy Bob drives a toy car suggestively into…

When I went to see ID4 with some friends (only one of which had just installed W95 on his home PC), we roundtabled this idea over a bucket of KFC and came to the conclusion that the invading alien race operated through a kind of telepathic hive mind and therefore had no need for hacking safeguards in their operating…