The original films have rightly gone down in history as the greatest truimph of space sci fi ever.

The three more recent films were shit though, I hated all of them.

Thing is a lot of it is nostalgia. When the original Star Wars came out those of us in our 30's were all kids and we fucking loved it. The special effects were lightyears ahead of anything else at the time as well.

Now the new ones come out, we are all a lot older so the childishness of the series and over simplistic good vs evil themes bore us and nobody cares about special effects in films any more as computers have advanced so much any movie with a half decent budget can have stunning effects.

The names like Dooku and Darth Sidius etc just annoy me and I think they all suck.


Having said that the new Star Trek might turn out to be pretty good. Trailers look fun and in my case I have no nostalgia for Star Trek having always found it a bit pants although I'm sure Trekies will hate the new show, maybe rightly.


Just to end this let me say the greatest sci fi ever made was Aliens The Extended Edition. Ok so they ballsed it up by bring out Alien 3 and 4 and the travesties that were Alien vs Predator 1 & 2 but Aliens was the shit.