Talk:Wing Commander (film)

message: Differences from other Wing Commander works: Deleted - this subject only exists because it is argued by fans interested in nitpicking - it is not a serious treatment of how the series works; both creator Chris Roberts' and (now former) Origin president Neil Young have maintained that the movie is part of the same continuity as the games. In that light, debating inaccuracies is an interesting passtime but moves no closer to "removing" an unpopular entry in the series from its canon. 66.112.225.82 03:06, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Although...if you had a scanner capable of making out shapes in space - it might be powerful enough to detect movement or "ripples" on/within those shapes caused by vibrations within.  Doctor Sinister 01:16, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean like a LASER or RADAR?  Because that's exactly the kind of thing these pre-existing technologies are capable of.  You need a "scanner" capable of detecting range and measuring minute changes in it.  Once it's measured, it's a simple matter of running that information through software that turns it into audio for you to hear.  For 27th-century technology that should be child's play.   -Aclawson 02:47, 15 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The response is perfectly fine.  The material is perfectly valid and will stay in the article. Alyeska 07:19, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact remains that Wing Commander the movie is using the name and reputation of what was then an already established franchise albeit in the gaming world.  Many things are similiar like character names, basic plot setting, ship names and so on, it does no harm to show it's differences from the original source material.  Constantly deleting it suggests someone has an axe to grind. Douglasnicol 21:41, 11 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Most other situations the movie comes first.  In this case the movie came from the games and is directly tied to it. Alyeska 09:06, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
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message: You know that film technique where time freezes and the camera moves around the scene, through different angles and zoom levels, all in perfect clarity? That was, as far as I know, pioneered for this film (for when the ship "jumps"). It was part of the film's hype. They made a point of showing it in the trailers and highlighting it during the film itself (the characters setting themselves up for that frozen instant, talking about it afterwards, etc).
I was hoping to find mention of it in the article here. Both because it's arguably the film's best claim to fame and also because I was always curious about how they actually do it. It's well beyond the CGI capabilities of the time. 
My guess was that it was done using a series of still cameras with high-speed film. All cameras are rigged to shoot at the same instant, and each picture then becomes a single frame of the film. Lined up correctly, 50 cameras would give you just over two seconds of frozen time. More if you dropped the framerate. ... But that's only my guess. Anyone know how it is/was actually done?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.248.94.24 (talk) 02:26, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're talking about "bullet time", which was used to impressive effect in The Matrix. As far as I remember the effect appeared earlier in the awful film version of Lost in Space (1998), and Wikipedia's article dates it back to 1995 in the live-action realm. Wing Commander may have been one of the first relatively low-budget films to use it. I understand that, in the late 1990s, the technicians used fewer than one camera per frame of film and interpolated in-between frames with a big computer. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 12:56, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jump Freeze film technique/effect 

message: what was with the tiger claw? was she a super ship?  she took out destroyers in one salvo but could take multiple salvos from a battleship, and broadside a cruiser.  
are kilrathi warships just really weak?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.236.177.174 (talk) 01:47, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ship combat 

message: According to WP:FILMPLOT and WP:PLOTSUM, a plot summary should include an overview of key events, which by extension includes the ending. However, the current plot summary cuts at some arbitrary point before the ending. Please update the summary to reflect the Manual of Style. --Dmitry (talk•contibs) 18:48, 25 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary incomplete 

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