Lol, nicely done guys!

You got some decent glide times off that thing.

me = jealous

I second that. When I go back and listen to the Geekza commentaries, I'm suddenly jealous, one because I wasn't able to sit in on that chatroom and second because I want to be able to chime in if I have something to add Which happens alot, so maybe you guys won't want to do it

Oh god. I had a lovely rant a while back about Death at a Funeral, I have no clue what happened to it, but it was a thing of beauty.

I still just can't believe it, it just seems to be at such a level of ridiculousness that it can't be possible, but then well there it is.

It's not even so much the fact they are simply remaking (Although that still pisses me off) it's that they are turning it into this horrid "Lets use every single black stereotype possible to make it funny for an American audience" thing. Ugh.

I'm not sure I'll ever forgive Zoe Saldana.

No probs, I mean Bill Murray, Chris Rock, Laurence Fishburne, David Hyde Pierce, William Shatner and bodily functions, what more can a man ask for?

Not sure if it really counts as a "guilty" pleasure, but I always enjoy some good ol' Osmosis Jones every once and a while.

Although one that probably does count is Quest for Camelot (If you can't tell I definitely have a thing for 90's animated films). It just sorta hit me at the right time I suppose and I am able to step back and say, you know, it's not a great movie, but I still love it too death anyways.

Man this is really weird, I would have totally bet that I was in the majority of the listening population. You know the one that watches (Or at least tries as hard as possible) to watch the movie WITH the commentary. But I guess it's totally  the other way around.

Anyways, great ep. guys.

On the subject of stuff we have learned over this year: I have come to realize how little I critically think about what I was watching. At least on a level even approaching what you guys are at.

And as far as the big surprise commentary this week, I'm gonna place my bet on Titanic

I think one of things that happened with the whole Star Trek franchise (This coming from a guy who grew up watching Voyager and DS9 (In reruns obviously)and has some basic peripheral knowledge about TOS, TNG (And I havn't even seen Enterprise) is that each series was trying to emulate the style, at least somewhat of the previous series. While not really adding much in the way of anything new, DS9 got pretty close, and that's probably why it's my favorite of the series'. But the whole Star Trek thing just got stale and old. People didn't want to sit around and watch people discuss the anti matter containment field.
And I'm perfectly willing to nail that down to the whole MTV generation thing, or whatever you want to call it. The audience was different, but Star Trek tried to stay the same.

So, at least in my opinion, the new Star Trek movie is exactly what each of the new series SHOULD have been doing in the first place. Updating the style, tone and technology to match the current audience.

So while I can easily say that the new one is my favorite Star Trek anything, it's also the only film that has been made with me in mind. (Me being a child of the 21st century effectively)

Well in response to Jefferys rant of epic proportions, I bow sir. That was a thing of beauty.

I can honestly say that I hadn't really ever sat down and thought about the plot in those terms. But I definitely agree on most of your points, there's a few I'm a little iffy on. But that can just be pinned down to how far I'm willing to let a movie stretch the bounds of logic.

But in the end it still remains on of my favorite movies of late, for all the reasons you listed and more (Namely Abrams dedication to using as much real stuff during production as possible).

9 was weird. The short was this amazing piece of post apocalyptic sci-fiedness, and then the movie just tries to reach up to that and fails miserably.

The plot was weak, the acting was so-so (Which is odd considering who they got to voice them), and the tone was all over the place.

What i mean by tone, is that in the buildup to the release, it was hailed as this amazing piece of CG that was finally meant for adults, and that it would be this really dark CG movie that would FINALLY be for adults. And then it comes out and there are moments where that sorta feels true (A few of the battle sequences come to mind), but then there are these massive dips where it suddenly dives into these weird Dreamworksy "this ones for you, kids" moments. And just the entire thing felt like it was trying to be really dark and adult while still being kid friendly, and that just doesn't work. Not to mentio all the Oh-so-obvious "teaching" moments they try to slip in. At times it just felt like a really really bad after school special.

So it just failed miserably on almost all accounts in my books (Exception being art design, frickin amazing Visuals. It's very much like Avatar in that respect...except that Avatar is still an enjoyably watchable movie.)

As I said on the TFN boards, definitely not one of my favorite (Although like you guys said, if it was left to the first 20, it would have been magical, but alas). As soon as Dug enters it just turns into this weird Dreamworksy "romp" through the jungle. Although I had never really thought about the second bit of magic element, it does totally make sense to me now. It started to lose me right after Dug was introduced. And then even more so after the other Dogs.
(And as much as I do find Alpha's squeaky voice hilarious, at the same time it really feels like the cheap shot.) And then as soon as we get Dogs serving dinner and flying planes and all of a sudden Pixar is exceedingly politically correct. Just nothing about it felt Pixar, you know?

And I gotta ask am I seriously the only person on the planet that doesn't HATE CARS??!?!!? Every where I turn I see people totally hating on Cars and I just don't get it. I would BEG you guys to do that one next, just so I can understand what the hell everyone's problem with it is. I mean it's not like I'm a huge fan of cars in general (in fact quite the opposite. I know absolutely jack about anything about cars.)

Maybe it's just one of those Teague and Phantom Menace things....

(Oh and Bob Peterson (writer/story guy) was the voice of Roz, Mr. Ray and Dug. And Brad Bird was Edna. Plus there are like 50 million other in house voices scattered everywhere (The Chicken Fish in Nemo for one (Oh my gossh, Nemos schwimming out to shea!!) yah that one.

I'll totally second anything Muppet related, but Christmas Carol is an especially good one, still my favorite Muppet film. Just sneaking past "The Muppets' Wizard of Oz"...(can't you just feel the sarcasm. It's all warm and snuggly like.)

And I would also second Back to the Future. It's seems like such a staple, it's hard to believe you guys haven't done it already.

I'd also like to put out there, Moon and Sunshine. Bot amazing Space movies. Although I would definitely put Sunshine way further up the list. Just something about Moon felt off to me, I can't really pin it down to anything overly specific, but I have a few notions, I'd love to hear what you guys thought of it. And then Sunshine is just a beautiful piece of space awesomeness.