Holden wrote:

I was dragged by my friends to this piece of Hollywood mainstream garbage and right away I knew I was in for two hours of hell. First of all, I never see movies, I only experience films. Movies are rubbish for the uncultured masses but I went to see this anyway at the insistence of my friends. To make matters worse, they were vehement about seeing it in 3D, or as I like to call it "pleb-o-vision".

As soon as the movie started, the entire audience clapped. I'm not kidding. They actually clapped at a movie screen. I thought the internet was only joking about this sort of thing but the audience clapped throughout the whole movie whenever their peabrains understood the atrociously constructed plot. It was truly an eye opening experience. I have never been surrounded by so many philistines at the same time.

The movie itself was an abomination. Man Of Steel exists purely to make money through merchandise sales and the cheap exploitation of a pre-sold franchise. The entire Superman series has always been commercialized trash that appeals to children. The very fact adults flock to see and discuss this series is revolting. Unsurprisingly, there is no artistry whatsoever in this latest installment. Things blow up, the one dimensional antagonist screams a lot and the characters (I use that term loosely) speak with the cadence of robots, including one groan inducing line by a female soldier about Superman's attractiveness. Speaking of which, most of the audience were on dates and I shudder to think what will happen when they inevitably mate; they're probably already having unprotected sex just as Superman and Lois Lane promoted.

After the end credits rolled, my friends excitedly discussed the nonsense that just occurred on screen with dissection and banter back and forth as if it were a Fellini film. I felt nothing but pity for them. They'll never understand and appreciate cinema like I do; they're doomed to be mindless drones for the rest of their lives.

I drove home by myself as they went to the local diner to further discuss the movie, as if it couldn't be explained with 20 seconds of grunting. As I sit here in retrospective, I truly wonder if the anti-intellectual have fully taken over our world.

This has been bothering me for a while and I need to say something.

In this episode, I make a joke about Padme "asking for it" (i.e to get raped) with the way she dresses in the fireside scene. There's certainly a joke of some kind to be made about the mixed signals going on in that scene -- mainly in Lucas' handling of it -- but in the years since this recording I've grown to realize that so wasn't it.

I've never been called out on this, publicly or privately, so I'm calling myself out. I can't change the recording but I want to go on record here and say -- to anyone who has listened to this or may do so in the future, and is hurt or upset by a misguided attempt at humor of which I've come to be ashamed -- I'm sorry. I hope to do better.

Lucas says that he thinks Abrams "understands" Star Wars. God help us all.
http://www.theforce.net/story/front/Geo … 152597.asp

The movie works pretty well on an emotional level, but the logical and scientific inconsistencies are still rather annoying.

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And the worst thing is that they repeated some mistakes from the previous movie (Red Matter/"cold fusion device", the miraculous "transwarp beaming" technology, promoting a very young officer to captain/chief engineer, Enterprise on the ground/under water, etc.)... Doctor Who runs on such clunky science and logic, but Star Trek shouldn't.

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).

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The Vengeance is undoubtedly the most hideous Federation starship ever. The Klingon D4 ships aren't particularly attractive either - the remind me of Transformers movies.

Am I simply to old to appreciate the new "realistic" aesthetics?

Eh, too obvious. Lex Luthor is going to be played by someone completely unexpected and, on paper, inappropriate; the internet will froth and rage; then the movie will come out and he'll be amazing and the froth-rage will turn to fellatio and everyone will pretend they had vision all along.

fireproof78 wrote:

Withkittens wrote:

Isn't this show Canadian?

This whole forum is actually Canadian

Oi'm not Canajen, gov'nah! Oi'm a Cockney chimley sweep!