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That refreshed my memory... I remember the Bundys (Married With Children) making fun of the Last Action Hero flop, so... yeah, I guess I'm old.
The whole plot was spoiled for me by the Bravo teen magazine (sold in Germany and some neighboring countries). They did "reviews" (that actually were detailed plot summaries) of all then-current movies. Apparently the concept of "spoiler alert" didn't exist back then, because they never bothered to warn their readers. 1993 was a weird time...
Lamer wrote:Can we have Titanic in space?
I believe that's James Cameron's next project
Doctor Who did that 6 years ago 
They're very much alive now, but nobody resurrected the thread for 3 years. It's a real testament to this movie's quality 
I've listened to the commentary more than once. Do I have anything interesting to say about Attack Of The Clones? Let me think... No, I've got nothing
Check out the Richard Donner Cut of Superman II, guys, it's a better version. The humor is more subtle, much of the silliness is gone.
I actually like the late DS9 uniforms, they had the right balance of colors (more black than grey, department colors on the undershirt) and weren't too militaristic. The STID dress uniforms are all ugly grey and look like Soviet uniforms (especially the big hats and epaulettes), there's nothing particularly futuristic about them.
The movie works pretty well on an emotional level, but the logical and scientific inconsistencies are still rather annoying.
There's another thing that bothers me about the Abramsverse - the design aesthetics. The simple elegance that we've known from previous shows is gone. Everything is either flashy and toy-like (the Enterprise exterior and bridge) or grey and ugly (engineering/brewery, dress uniforms, buildings on Earth).
I always loved this one:
Closeup of the moth:
Finally, I saw this movie. To quote an often repeated phrase, it's a ride. A flawed, but enjoyable ride. As a matter of fact, it should be called Star Ride, 'cause it doesn't really feel like Star Trek. Quite frankly, I'd prefer not to think of it as Star Trek.
The previous ST movie I saw in a theater was Generations (it was in April 1995). The audience consisted of a few male, bespectacled nerds. One of them, a fat guy with greasy hair, kept grinning at me creepily. I still wonder if he was a child molester (I was 13 at the time).
18 years later I walked into the screening of STID and saw... three giggling girls in an otherwise empty room. Exactly the kind of girls that I would expect to see at a Twilight screening. After a few minutes some guy and a (heterosexual) couple joined us.
Good job, Mr. Abrams... Thanks to you, Star Trek became just another teen flick. Somehow I liked it a little better when it was a science-y, nerdy and "uncool" TV show
Have I just fallen victim to this trope? Is there something wrong with me? Am I some kind of hipster? 
When I saw that menu on The Hobbit, I really thought that I bought the wrong disc, because the day before I saw the exact same thing on TDKR
But it looks like Warner is just going back to its roots. Their earliest DVDs had this:
Herzlich willkommen!
(It's one of the few German phrases I can still remember from watching Star Trek on SAT.1 in the 90s )
Nice to see more and more Europeans around here.
You could also lay part of the blame at the door of Polish TV - our channels love to air Spy Hard Only the Ace Ventura movies get aired more frequently here. Not that I'm complaining... Spy Hard is a masterpiece compared to their other works (Scary Movie 3 is almost watchable too, but Friedberg & Seltzer weren't directly involved with it).
Ok, own up, who keeps giving Friedberg and Seltzer cash to make these fucking things?
Moviegoers. These fucking things always turn a profit.
I have to shamefully admit that I rented Date Movie (and paid an equivalent of $2 for it).
Orci & Kurtzman actually consider bringing back Q and the Borg (see here).
If the Q Continuum exists outside of all the physical universes (that was always the implication), Q would be the same character that we know from TNG/DS9/VOY (John de Lancie). But if they're going to recast him, I'm rooting for Robert Downey, Jr.
Marty J wrote:Jimmy B wrote:Just as I notice I typed 'one' twice
Yeah, I don't get that, sorry. I feel ashamed
Double THE (not to be mistaken for a double D).
(That's a real screenshot from a real movie.)
Christopher Walken and Willem Dafoe sitting at a table and eating cereal. Staring at each other. In silence. The best thriller ever.
A somewhat unsympathetic protagonist can work in a different kind of story (written by a better writer). Think The Social Network. But Stephenie Meyer simply didn't realize that Bella was unlikable.
That reminds me of when we used to joke about doing a short film that was literally nothing happening, like just someone sitting at a table for 5 minutes eating cereal, then credits.
People do that.
Doesn't make great cinema.
That's why the whole concept of reality TV never worked and always required cheating (creative editing, scripted scenes etc.)
I think, in the next Trek film, the villain should be The Borg.
Come to think of it, First Contact already feels a little like a J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie (it's action-oriented and the plot holes remind me of Damion Lindelof's writing).
I just imagined Tilda Swinton as the new Borg Queen... Smoking hot.
I still maintain that Robert Carlyle would've been interesting.
The character is poorly constructed
But not totally unrealistic. People like that exist. It's just that such a character makes a very annoying protagonist (maybe she would work slightly better as a villain).
Just as I notice I typed 'one' twice
Mellow greetings.
Bob Ringwood (the costume designer) is another connection to Star Trek: Nemesis. His list of genre credits is rather impressive (he designed the 1989 Batsuit, among other things).
Demolition Man would make a great double feature with RoboCop (both movies satirize their respective eras).
Have a peachy day (and learn how to use the three seashells).
A moustache-twirling villain being terrified by the immorality of ordinary people isn't really a new concept. I vaguely remember an old Russian novel called The Master And Margarita (I probably read it in high school). Part of it describes Satan's visit to the Soviet Union. Satan is astonished by the evil of the communist regime created by so-called "normal people". Banality of evil...
Glass Trap With A Vengeance, Live Free Or Glass Trap, A Good Day To Glass Trap... aren't those awesome?
Most of those custom-made posters come from the communist era (and it really was a "special" time ). Now we usually get the generic posters.
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