40Cent @ the movies

[mirth]

The Final Frontier is unbelievably cheesy, campy, dumb, etc....but it still has at least a couple scenes that partially redeem it (and make it worth watching for some). 

In contrast, The Motion Picture and Nemesis lack any redeeming qualities whatsoever.  It's utterly tragic that the first and last Star Trek films were also the worst ones. 

Which scenes redeemed Final Frontier? Kirk free climbing El Capitan? "Row, Row, Row Your Boat" sung round a campfire? Uhura's fan dance in the desert? Kirk arguing with God?  :P

Nemesis, I'll grant you, is garbage. The Motion Picture at least gave us the new look Klingons and the remodeled Enterprise.

[Martok]

I loved TNG, but there was something off about all of their movies. They didn't feel epic as they should have; instead they were basically two-hour TV episodes.

I did somewhat like First Contact, but that's the only TNG movie I've re-watched.

First Contact is and always will be my favorite Trek movie overall (The Wrath of Khan and The Undiscovered Country rounding out my top three); however, I agree it's the only TNG film that's actually good.  Insurrection was only okay, Generations was "meh", and of course the less said about Nemesis, the better. 

III was on in the UK last night - Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon  :o

Yep, that's right.  I don't remember where I saw/heard this, but to date, he's apparently considered the actor who best mastered the language's pronunciation.  As such, he has the most authentic Klingon "accent" that's been heard on-screen. 

[undercovergeek]

no way - i couldnt get past The Doc in a Klingon suit!

[mirth]

III was on in the UK last night - Christopher Lloyd as a Klingon  :o

And John Larroquette, pre Night Court, as Maltz!

[undercovergeek]

was this the guy that Kirk said 'i lied' to about killing him?

delivered with the best 'get the fk out of here' thumb wave ive ever seen

[mirth]

was this the guy that Kirk said 'i lied' to about killing him?

delivered with the best 'get the fk out of here' thumb wave ive ever seen

yep. That was a great scene.

[BanzaiCat]

Christopher Lloyd was burned up about the end of that movie.

[mirth]

Christopher Lloyd was burned up about the end of that movie.

He definitely lost his cool. He's lucky they didn't give him the boot.

[Centurion40]

The Final Frontier is unbelievably cheesy, campy, dumb, etc....but it still has at least a couple scenes that partially redeem it (and make it worth watching for some). 

In contrast, The Motion Picture and Nemesis lack any redeeming qualities whatsoever.  It's utterly tragic that the first and last Star Trek films were also the worst ones.

I think that this was discussed on a recent Big Bang Theory.  At the least whole Motion Picture vs. V debate.

[endfire79]

The Mrs dragged me to Delivery Man yesterday.  I was a bit Vince Vaughn-ed out too, after she rented The Internship (the boring Vince Vaughn-Owen Wilson buddy flick where washed-up salesman scam internships at Google) on the weekend.  So I was braced for an apathetic meh-fest, possibly with a couple of grins (maybe one chuckle, if I'm lucky) with Delivery Man.

I have to admit that the first hour of the movie was as painful as expected.  Vaughn plays the 30-something cliched lovable loser of a family.  The family business keeps him employed, even though he is incompetent and unreliable.  He also has a hot girlfriend (Agent Hill) who is tiring of his antics.  How many times has this kind of character been in film?  And Vaughn, as always, basically plays it the same way as he does in every movie... the smarmy, fast-talking smart-ass.  I couldn't give a shit about his character, let alone care how the story played out. But somewhere around the last 40 minutes of the film, I did start to give a shit and the film became somewhat poignant... even touching.

The Mrs loved it.  I thought that it was still "meh", just a bit less "meh" than I was braced for.  There were no laughs, none.  But at the end it was, somewhat touching.

21 out of 40

Interesting fact, Delivery Man is an adaptation of a film from here in Quebec (Starbuck, withe Bad Cop from Bon Cop Bad Cop)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1756750/

[Centurion40]

Yeah, somewhere in the credits it said "based on the novel Starbuck".  In the movie, Vaughn's masturbatory cover name at the clinic is "Starbuck".

[Centurion40]

After a long hiatus, the Mrs. and I made it to the cinemas last night to see Anchorman 2.  I enjoyed it, and had around three really good laughs (one of them was a long, hard-to-breathe guffaw).  Basically, this move is more of the same; the same formula that worked last time out- although a bit more batshit crazy.  If you enjoyed the last one, you'll probably enjoy this one too.  There is even another news team rumble, this time in Central Park.  I did not expect the number of celebrity cameos!  Again Brick was the stand-out in the battle.



30 out of 40

[BanzaiCat]

I wanted to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, thinking, "aww, cool, Hollywood can occasionally come up with an original idea! I...well, let me check online, let's see...dammit, it was a movie back in the 40s. Nice try, Hollywood."  >:(

[Staggerwing]

I wanted to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, thinking, "aww, cool, Hollywood can occasionally come up with an original idea! I...well, let me check online, let's see...dammit, it was a movie back in the 40s. Nice try, Hollywood."  >:(

Before that it was a written work. By one James Thurber no less...

[BanzaiCat]

I wanted to see The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, thinking, "aww, cool, Hollywood can occasionally come up with an original idea! I...well, let me check online, let's see...dammit, it was a movie back in the 40s. Nice try, Hollywood."  >:(

Before that it was a written work. By one James Thurber no less...

Yep, saw that too...first as a magazine serial then a book. I still want to see this newer version, dammit....but the reviews are pretty meh.