[Nuke]

i probibly wont be able to see it till it comes out on dvd. so im kinda trying to stay away from any spoilers about the movie. ht's post was vauge enough where it doesnt give away anything, but id appreciate spoiler tags if anyone wants to discuss the movie in detail.

im not gonna raise a stink if the movie comes off as a tad racist. in fact id be disappointed if it didnt (it has fricken nazis in it). the us has this really bad habbit about turning race into a huge issue in an attempt to suppress racism. its a really counter intuitive way to handle the problem.

[Gortef]

Saw it myself too on last monday. And it was in fact a really enjoyable movie. Granted if one does not know some certain Internet Jokes then quite a lot of the jokes in the movie will go unnoticed. But I had some good laughs so I'm satisfied.

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

Visuals were mostly excellent, as expected. The only thing that I would have preferred would have been more realistic depiction of the stars on the background sky on space shots, but that's just my preference on the side of realism in these things. Although I have to say I would have preferred to see recognizeable constellations instead of randomly generated starfield backgrounds.

The starfield was actually created in a very similar way you do skyboxes in FreeSpace; it's a single high resolution starfield mapped cubically onto a sphere object. We didn't anticipate that someone would actually look for proper constellations, but I should have know you would

In our defence we did try to keep things somewhat real where we could. Rule of cool obviously was the name of the game, but there's at least some effort put into making things seem plausible.

Spoiler:

I hope you noticed the Orion nuclear drive on the GWB. Early on there even was a scene showing it firing, but it was dropped since explaining it to the audience would have been too difficult.

[Herra Tohtori]

The starfield was actually created in a very similar way you do skyboxes in FreeSpace; it's a single high resolution starfield mapped cubically onto a sphere object. We didn't anticipate that someone would actually look for proper constellations, but I should have know you would

Well, it's not so much me looking for them, rather than noticing they're not there.

In our defence we did try to keep things somewhat real where we could. Rule of cool obviously was the name of the game, but there's at least some effort put into making things seem plausible.

It all looked very good and the blazing bright milky way sort of set the mood for the background visuals to be a bit more extravagant rather than realistic, so it all fit together good.

Spoiler:

I hope you noticed the Orion nuclear drive on the GWB. Early on there even was a scene showing it firing, but it was dropped since explaining it to the audience would have been too difficult.

Spoiler:

Well, I was looking more at the cannons, CIWS, missiles and nuclear bombs going off than details like that. I might go and see it again, to look for details like that, or wait for it to be released on Blu-Ray.

If it had actually used the Orion drive, I probably would have recognized it. And I'll probably recognize it if look at the ships design with a more critical eye.


I loved how the Finnish were the only ones that didn't arm their space ships...

[Lt.Cannonfodder]

I'll see if I can post some images of the ship models when we get an go ahead to do so. There's actually quite a bit of thought put into them.