The plot is suspiciously similar to a Twilight Zone episode ("People Are Alike All Over") from 1960 (with the same actress playing a similar role).

Captain Pike's intellectual and introspective nature must've been an inspiration for the Jean-Luc Picard character of ST-TNG. Even their names sound alike (the actual French word for "pike" is "pique"; it also happens to be a surname).

An interesting premise, but... This story would've probably worked better as a 45-minute Twilight Zone episode (although Twilight Zone wouldn't be able to afford Anthony Hopkins and Brad Pitt).

Wikipedia says someone created a much shorter cut of the movie. Somehow I'm not suprised

Not me...

Haven't seen Memento yet. I'll have to check it out someday, it'd be interesting to see the whole evolution of Nolan's style.

Guys, will you ever again record commentaries for episodes of TV shows (like you did with the pilot of Firefly)?

The plot is somewhat messy and not always engaging, but some jokes work well for me.

Anyway... After many years I decided to revisit this:

To someone who actually experienced the fall of communism (as a matter of fact, it started in my country), this movie is an emotional journey to the past. To the Western audience, it's a visit in a different world. An absurd world of rampant propaganda and grossly incompetent governments. A world that vanished and (hopefully) will never return. But above all else, it's a poignant melodrama with some comedic overtones.

It's a German production, but don't worry - Good Bye, Lenin! is perfecly accessible to any moviegoer (it doesn't require much knowledge about the Eastern Bloc). See it.

Hollywood studio executives would probably relegate this story to the studio's "arthouse" division (if they'd greenlight it at all). European directors usually don't have to deal with this kind of shit - they just get a few million euros of taxpayers' money and shoot whatever they want (public funding, the final cut privilege and "auteur theory" are big in Europe). Usually the results are mediocre, but once in a while this system delivers us a gem like Good Bye, Lenin!.

So did Harry S. Plinkett.

When Generations came out, I enjoyed it, because I didn't know any better (even the presence of a creepy smiler in the theater didn't bother me). Now it feels like a rather bad two-part episode to me.

First Contact can be enjoyable if you ignore certain inconsistencies. It reminds me of the Abramsverse movies (Brannon Braga could be called the original continuity's Damon Lindelof).

I read the novelization of Insurrection (it's a hardcover in Poland ) before seeing the movie. It didn't help. The plot is still clunky.

Nemesis tries to rip off one of the previous movies way too hard. In FIYH terminology, it's a "cargo cult movie" - it reuses plot points without a deeper understanding of them.

Another good episode. You earned this.

GENERIC KATIE (moved): Thank you for being so... brave and honest with us.

But you have to see Battlefield Earth, guys. Surviving the whole 118 minutes of this shit should be a rite of passage for every cinephile. "It's like Star Wars, only better."

A truly awful movie (I only managed to watch it whole on my third attempt), but still better than most Friedberg & Seltzer works (these guys aren't even trying to wrap a story around their crude jokes).

I think it's still a little better than Revenge Of The Fallen (it has Leonard Nimoy and no racist robots that "don't do much reading").

The real problem about Transformers is the existence of sequels. One stupid movie about fighting robots would've been more acceptable than three of them (and we're going to get a fourth one). I can still enjoy the first one for what it is, but the sequels are just annoying.

S. Darko (the sequel to the great Donnie Darko) deserves a special mention in the "worst direct-to-DVD disappointment".

Call me crazy, but I think Red Dragon is slightly better than Manhunter. Brett Ratner is no artist, but (on na good day) he can put together a watchable movie. He would make a fairly decent TV director. Manhunter just didn't work very well for me and Red Dragon has Anthony fuckin' Hopkins.