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So, looks like CBS decided to go after the Axanar people after all

I really haven't been following this, but I remember hearing about the Indiegogo campaign.  All seems a bit of a shame as it sounded like it was being done people who actually 'get' what Star Trek is, as seemingly distinct from people in charge of things lately.

(Hasn't helped that I went back and saw ST:ID for the first time since the theater the other week and was really caught off-guard by how much I completely fucking hated every single god damn minute of the thing.)

"We will sell no wine before its time."

I know, another old people's reference, but with my avatar how could I not? [Edit:  Or how 'bout "Miss Tracy, prepare the standard 'rich and famous' contract for Rey and company."]

To be fair though, that's apparently the overwhelming majority of the show's run.  According to IMDB, Mike became head writer starting with the second Comedy Central season (September 1990).  That was more than three years before he actually became the show's host (October 1993). 

I have to confess, host-wise, I lean more Joel than Mike, but partly that's because I'm just not as familiar with his run.  I sort of 'grew up' with the Season 2-4 Turkey Day marathons at a friend's house (the cable company where I lived was too cheap to carry Comedy Central).  Those are still some of my favorites.  I think the one that got me hooked was Wild Rebels, but I could watch Master Ninja 1 forever.

It's certainly good to see Star Wars apparently back on a more even keel.  I'm afraid I'm right in the generation of people who were hit hardest by the prequel trilogy, so I'm naturally very wary.  (The originals came out when I was between 8 and 14, I had the Death Star Action Playset, etc. and I was really, really excited about Phantom Menace.)

Yeah this is one of the things that still kinda bugs me though, going back to the prequel trilogy.  It's not like nobody's made this point before, but if these people's lives are on anything like a human scale, length-wise, why does *anybody* doubt the power of the Jedi, the Force, etc.?  There should be people still alive who remember the Jedi as an epic peace-keeping force who used lightsabers, clouded men's minds (tm), threw boulders from place to place etc.  So it's *our* myth of course, but it doesn't make any sense to me that it should be *their* myth. 

It's like saying "OMG, that mythical, ancient band Nirvana -- THEY REALLY EXISTED!!!!"  Uh, yeah, they did.

Got a 2-for-1 special on this one:

Dennis Hopper - Apocalypse Now
Mickey Rourke - Rumble Fish
Diner - Kevin Bacon / Diner - Steve Guttenberg
Lavalantula - Trey Stokes

Let's see...my last one went so well. How about Jeff Bridges. [Forgot about the obvious Marlon Brando connection with my previous choice.]

So, they've already greenlit a sequel, and are apparently looking to replicate the juggernaut that is the Sharknado franchise.
 
http://deadline.com/2015/07/lavalantula … 201486713/

More opportunity to see Trey's astounding supervision, I hope!

This is the show I was promised, and I'm still waiting for it:

Not to go around stirring up apathy or anything, but a quick look at Wikipedia shows 5 episodes written by Moffat, one co-written by Moffat and two by Peter 'Kill The Moon' Harness.  Sigh.

But, hey -- if a guy dressed like this can make one of my favorite records of all time, anything's possible.

Hey everybody.  Sorry to have missed this little discussion (last month or so of life has been crazy -- which is why I missed the last couple of films), but I actually have another suggestion for how we could pick the films.  It's a little complicated, but here's my thinking:

Like BDA, I would really like to see this keep going.  I know the original idea partly was to find out about cool films that you might not have thought about checking out, but I think the best way to keep things going is (at least intially) picking films that as many of us as possible would like to see.  With the best will in the world, it's easy when real life begins to intervene to say "yeah, I'm not sure I have time to do that", but if it's a film that you actually have been meaning to see, there's an incentive to make time.

So here's what I suggest:  everybody who wants to participate submits a list of five suggested films, with a little blurb or tagline to pimp it if desired.  Everybody then votes for their top five choices -- five points for first choice, four for second, etc.

However, there's an important catch:  you can only vote for films that are on someone else's list.  If there's an overlap between you and someone else, that's fine, but you can't vote for something that appears only on your own list.  We tally the votes, and the top five winners are the five we do next.

That will push us a bit toward the mainstream maybe, but it'll mean hopefully that for each film there will be at least a few people who *really* want to see it, and that'll be enough to keep things going. 

What do y'all think? (Obviously we keep going with Reign of Fire for the moment.)

Cue a glare of bitterness from everybody living outside Region A.

My only legal option is about $15 for a standard def DVD.  Here's what dvdbeaver says about it: 

Fortunately my *ahem* local public library, shall we say, had a copy.

I see where you're coming from, but I think I'm with Teague on this one.  I'm 100% sure that the film is not the way it is because Joss Whedon thought that that was the best way to tell the story he wanted to tell.  It's because his masters need him to shoehorn about 85 gajillion other things into the story he wanted to tell, and he's gotta find some way to do it.  It's a miracle that it's not a trainwreck.

During the opening battle scene though, all I could think of was Trey complaining about having the Phase 1 movies get messed up because of the need to be Avengers commercials, and then having to "wait 30 goddamn minutes for the Avengers to show up in their own goddamn movie", or words to that effect.  I hope he was happy.   

Funnily enough, again I see what you mean but I had kind of a positive reaction.  I was thinking "You know what? These now actually really feel like comic books" in the sense of different things going on in different books which sometimes overlap (especially having the Agents of SHIELD episode directly preceding).  I could almost see the asterisk in the dialogue and the text box at the bottom of the panel "As seen in Defenders #35, on sale now! -- Librarian Len", etc. etc.  Made me feel kind of pleasantly nostalgic. 

And I can't be done with these movies until at least after Ant Man.  I'm really curious about the negative buzz.  It'll be interesting to see what that amounts to.  (And we may find out how much of a good writer Joss Whedon really is.)

Actually, while we're on the subject of Malariathon 'bonus material' for the Special Edition version:

1.  Teague, you don't by any chance have a big, hi-rez version of the scheduling graphic, do you?  The circular one with the films and projected times, etc.?  I always thought that was really beautiful, and would make a nice poster if your original was big enough to be blown up.

2.  I'm probably the only one, but I was faffing around with downloading Chrome and figuring out how Google Hangouts worked for so long that I missed basically all of the "Greatest Hits" montage that was playing before you guys started.  That'd be neat to hear if anybody has it lying around. 

3.  Eddie's recipes?  I know he got tied up with Fighting in Plain Sight stuff right after the Malariathon, but the food he was doing sounded absolutely delicious.

4.  Did anything ever happen with the codes from the chat? 

Totally don't mean to sound all "gimme, gimme, gimme", but I sort of went "hey, it would be neat to see about that, oh and then there was that, and yeah I always meant to ask about that", etc. etc. etc.