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Didn't we just have a whole Star Trek movie about some dude trying to wreak havoc in the name of vengeance? WHY NOT MAKE THEM STEAL A WHALE, JJ ABRAMS?
They tried to recapture the spirit of Star Trek IV in Insurrection. That didn't work out so well...
I still haven't listened to the Scott Pilgrim commentary. I just can't bring myself to listen to the hate. I love that movie so much.
I don't get Scott Pilgrim. Now that's an unpopular opinion in some circles 
The movie has its moments, but overall... meh.
I listened to the official commentary and the DIF commentary and I still don't get it.
Now THAT would have been an ending that fans hated.
I know I would. I don't mind spaceships/aliens, but in the case of Lost it would have been an ass pull of the worst kind.
In the same vein, any god or devil that shows up in Star Trek proves to be an alien of some kind. Why? Because the show has always been atheistic. Imagine that one of its writers suddenly pulled Yahweh out of his ass... It would be like cats and dogs living together. Mass hysteria.
The trope describing a long arc that's going nowhere is called "The Chris Carter Effect". For a good reason
I always was a bigger fan of Mulder & Scully than the show itself
Because the actors had some nice chemistry (and both were intelligent & good-looking people).
For me, the shark-jumping moment was probably the move from Vancouver to LA after season 5 (the Vancouver weather created a much spookier atmosphere than the sunny LA). Around that time they ran out of classic monsters & urban legends and switched to a lighter tone.
Do not see them unless you get the Rifftrax. Seriously.
Do not see the first one without the DIF commentary. Seriously. It's one of the best DIF episodes.
One day I felt masochistic and watched New Moon and Eclipse back-to-back. Oh crap... New Moon makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane. Ed Wood loved movies and it shows (his inept works are extremely charming). I feel no love from the makers of Twilight movies. They're just cynical cash grabs pandering to a crowd of squealing 12-year-old girls.
I can't believe that there have been FIVE Twilight movies.
I can't believe the series will end with five. It's a cash cow franchise. For the right amount of money, Stephenie will write further sequels - the saga can't get any worse and there'll always be squealing 12-year-old girls.
The Lost ending wasn't bad at all, the show had much bigger issues. I rewatched it recently from beginning to end - it sometimes feels like the writers simply didn't know where they were going. When multi-season arcs are considered, I think nothing beats Babylon 5 (it feels very consistent, maybe except Season 5... but that's only because the show was canceled and then un-canceled).
And it's not like Polanski is the only creep who ever made a movie.
Nevertheless, I still feel a little ashamed for him (many people think he's French, but he actually comes from Poland). Sure, he's really talented (as a director and an actor), but I feel the Polish film industry has forgiven him a bit too easily.
I do like Chinatown, though and I won't defend myself as I don't feel I need to.
I can't condone what he did (how can anybody condone raping a 13-year-old girl?), but I have to admit some of his movies work really well for me (like Chinatown and Rosemary's Baby).
I just re-watched The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button. Did the Academy really think it deserved 13 nominations? It's a relatively decent melodrama, but... 13 nominations? Really? Fight Club (a far superior movie IMO) got one lousy nomination for Sound Editing. The Academy once again fell for the old trick (Spielberg-like sentimentality) 14 years after it was spoofed in The Naked Gun 33 1/3. It's gotten extremely repetititve, we need to find new ways of baiting an Oscar 
When I saw Benjamin Button for the first time, it immediately felt like a rehash of Forrest Gump. And, sure enough, I soon learned that the same guy wrote both movies. Benjamin Button is the more forgettable of the two. Will anyone remember it five years from now?
Am I the only one who finds the premise of The Cable Guy compelling? That poor kid raised by a TV set... he's not that different from us. Nowadays, he would feel at home here or at TV Tropes.
The movie could have been executed better, but I think it deserves much more credit than people give it.
Let me dust off this old topic...
One day I was playing with an application called Subtitle Edit. One of its functions is automated translation powered by Google Translate (Ctrl-Shift-G). I remembered the glorious Backstroke of the West translation, so I loaded English subtitles from a randomly picked DVD (it was the 2009 Star Trek movie) and Google-translated them a few times (choosing languages at random - I remember that Vietnamese was one of them). After Google-translating the result back into English, I couldn't believe my own eyes. It was almost to good to be true.
This file was laying on my hard drive for a few months. I figured this would be a good place to post it. The original text is white, the Google translation is yellow.
Never seen anything like it.
spiders never seen anything like it'd
Lieutenant!
China!
Hello.
Please turn on
the right to attack a Federation vessel.
right to attack the residence Dorn Kingdom.
- Seventeen more out!
- I'm initiating General Order 13!
- Seventeen
- I usually start 13!
- We're evacuating!
- Yes, sir!
- We emptied
- Speaking to cry!
Get to the hangar deck! Let's move it!
Get the camera in the pendant necklace! Let the march!
My name is James Tiberius Kirk.
James Tiberius Kirk my name from left to right.
That human whore.
Prostitute from left to right these people.
You suggest
that I should be completely Vulcan,
You
proposal would be torn Vulcan horn,
Spock, come here, let me see you.
Spock, come here, let me see your spider.
you will have a proud mother.
you have a breast self-HRO.
(HRO = Harassment Restraining Order)
Then as I am half human,
your record remains untarnished.
Then, as I half-man, CNN
your profile is not excited.
This townie isn't bothering you, right?
Down Republic LRM nry bother you, right?
Outside, all of you.
incubation groups, each of you.
- Why are you talking to me, man?
- 'Cause I looked up your file
- Why are you speaking to me, people
NRT - Since my spider on your file
You understand what the Federation is,
don't you? It's important.
you understand the relationship had Dorn,
not it? It is important, from left to right.
The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce.
hrnh ex-wife separated damn fine.
We wait for the one
who allowed our home to be destroyed,
NHR
welcome to our destruction,
I'm a doctor, Jim. I'm busy.
I am a doctor from left to right, Jim. I'm busy.
Look, just get under the bed.
see spiders, just under the bed.
Because I promised her
The body I promise
The mouth-breather
hiding under your bed.
your mouth to hide under the bed.
We are receiving a distress signal
from the U.S.S. Kobayashi Maru.
We have an emergency signal from the home
USS Kobayashi mating
Is he not taking the simulation seriously?
This is not a serious simulation
Three more Klingon warbirds decloaking
and targeting our ship.
Three Klingon Warbirds over appearance
And the purpose of getting rid of us.
Jim, their shields are still up.
Jim, the shield is CNN.
- Your point being?
- In academic vernacular, you cheated.
- from left to right your perspective
- to learn the local language, you fool?
Furthermore, you have failed to divine
the purpose of the test.
Besides, you do not need God
purpose of the experiment.
- Who was that pointy-eared bastard?
- I don't know, but I like him.
- mr illegal pointed ears, which
from left to right - I do not know, but I want it.
Look, Jim, I gotta go.
see spiders, Jim, I have to go
It was an attempt to avoid
the appearance of favouritism.
RL
attempt to prevent a paradise to avoid.
I couldn't just leave you there,
looking all pathetic.
I can not leave it all the seals
miserably.
You're gonna start to lose vision
in your left eye.
you start to lose range
spiders in your left eye.
Medical code states the treatment
national health care
without one of its senior
medical officers?
Mr senior medical staff to do this?
Hell, it's that pointy-eared bastard.
hell, the ears are shown left to right illegal.
Her christening will just have to be
our reward for a safe return. Carry on.
his baptism would be worthy to return to the tower. Go on.
All decks, this is Captain Pike.
Dear Friends, It's Captain Pike
Maximum warp. Punch it.
maximum vertical. Punch him.
Lieutenant, where is Helmsman McKenna?
China, where McKenna mate?
Russian whiz kid, what's your name?
children ringing Russia, from left to right, his name had?
Good God, man.
the gospel of God, who had NRT
(NRT = Nicotine Replacement Therapy)
We need to keep your heart rate down!
We need your heart to take!
Seven Federation ships are on their way.
Seven resident Dorn on the road.
He's completely delusional,
virtual df Mr. torn Horn
- Olson, open your chute!
- Olson, pull your chute!
- Olson, open the tray
- Olson, pull your ass!
Olson is gone, sir!
Olson gone, I cry!
You're blaming the Federation
for something that hasn't happened.
you blame the United
for Dorn trucks that did not happen.
It has happened! I watched it happen!
happened! I am a spider, it happens!
Centaurian slugs.
Centaurian shower.
Christopher Pike,
Captain, U.S.S. Enterprise...
Christopher Pike, captain
SBS Business...
- must be the truth.
- How poetic.
from left to right
true - LRM NRO poetry in the world.
Then what would an angry
future Romulan want with Captain Pike?
Then, in the future truck
evil Romulan Captain Pike, who?
disable it, take it over and get Pike back.
down at the back and click on the Pike.
we cannot contact Starfleet.
We collected with CNN Star
Running back to the rest of the fleet
for a confab is a massive waste of time.
CNN ran back confab moved
lr is a big waste of time.
Every second we waste, Nero's
getting closer to his next target.
Every Monday we waste Nero
approach the next target clause.
You wanted to see me?
Want to see my spider
I will gladly defer
to your medical expertise.
I am a complete children's medical officer srng
Your International
Green-blooded hobgoblin.
Green-elf blood
Well, that's brilliant.
Do they still have sandwiches there?
Well, that's great from left to right
CNN they still have sandwiches?
if you'll pardon the engineering parlance.
if you forgive the technical oral.
Six-one-nine states
that any command officer
June 1 to 9 provides that any employee
team
Under penalty of court martial,
under penalty of TNA Project Henhui woman
Doctor, I am no longer fit for duty.
doctor, CNN is not compatible with the task.
Wait a minute, kid. How old are you?
Wait a minute, baby. What is your age?
If Mr Sulu is able
to manoeuvre us into position,
Mr. Sulu could stimulate
VRO situation
Shouldn't be a soul in sight.
not a soul in the range of spiders
Too close to the singularity to survive without assistance,
near Mr. allergic to survive without help,
- Okay, if we eject the core and detonate,
- Well, if we press the key and bang
There are so few Vulcans left.
little Vulcan CNN weather
Should you desire, I can provide character references.
If you want I can give nature a reference therapy.
These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise.
They go from left to right Starship Enterprise.
Wow, those are some classic "melon farmer" moments 
One broadcast version called the bitches "ladies". But the pendulum can swing both ways... The Polish translator turned bitches into "whores".
I just remembered... The magic words spoken during the transformation ("By the power of Grayskull... I have the power!") became "By the might of gloomy bowl... I have the government!". What were they smoking?
'Robocop' benefited from being edited for television.
In what way?
I'm also anxious to know I always felt that over-the-top violence works great with RoboCop's dry satirical themes.
Jerry Goldsmith is the best film composer of the last fifty years.
He was certainly my favourite......
I fully agree. His Star Trek: The Motion Picture score feels much more dignified and subtle than John Williams' Star Wars music that inspired it.
JMS also wrote episodes of He-Man
That cheesy show is still remembered with a great deal of nostalgia in my country - it was one of the few non-Disney Western cartoons aired on our TV during the communist era. The translation into Polish was extremely inept. If one would translate it back into English, we'd have another Backstroke of the West. For example "Man-At-Arms" would become "armed husband"
Or you're more forgiving of the older shows.
Not necessarily. I actually find The Outer Limits 1990s revival to be better than the original show.
JMS of Babylon 5 fame worked on one of the new versions, although that might have been the syndicated episodes after the network canceled it.
I didn't see all of the 1980s episodes... Maybe I simply missed the ones he wrote. I'll have to check them out.
I love his work on Babylon 5, it's one of the few shows that actually pulled off a great multi-season arc (many tried to follow in its footsteps, especially after Lost, but most of them failed). On the other hand, his Thor movie wasn't that good (well, JMS was not the only writer on that one... too many cooks in the kitchen?).
A groundbreaking show that invented (or popularized) countless sci-fi/fantasy tropes. It's very uneven, but definitely worth watching. The 1980s revival isn't as good (for some reason it feels much cheesier than the original - maybe it's the bad visual effects).
Has anyone seen the 2002-2003 revival? Is it worth checking out?
Many episodes had a twist ending that revealed the "actual" reality the characters inhabited
Remember the famous twist ending of Planet Of The Apes? That was also Rod Serling.
On the other hand, the characters are often rather two-dimensional.
A pretty common flaw of sci-fi of that era.
OK, here's another - 2010: The Year We Make Contact is very underrated. 2001 fans criticize it for being too different from its predecessor, too literal. I think it's a decent movie on its own. Peter Hyams knew that he couldn't out-Kubrick Kubrick, so he decided simply not to try.
I hate Woodie Allen.
I thought this opinion was pretty popular in the US. Most Woody Allen fans are European film snobs.
Annie Hall, The 40-year Old Virgin and Clerks II are the only romantic comedies I really like (yeah, I honestly think that Clerks II qualifies as a rom-com).
You're probably one of the aforementioned "nice people" 
I hate MLP, and I hate when people shove it down my throat.
I could say the same about the whole anime genre 
Most anime fans are nice people, but there's a vocal minority that tries to "convert" anyone they meet (and they do it much more aggressively than door-to-door preachers 
).
So... Will there be an Intermission about sexualization of women in sci-fi? The issue still seems relevant (and it's been 13 years since Sigourney spoofed it in Galaxy Quest)
That movie is so frigg'n slow.
That's why European film snobs love it Yeah, it has serious pacing issues... but it's one of the few decent sci-fi movies made in the Eastern Bloc (most communist sci-fi flicks were worse than Plan 9 From Outer Space).
I'm starting a petition for some foreign language films!
If so, how about the Soviet Solaris movie? Someone brought it up 2 years ago...
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