[Nicodimas]

Star Trek 3 should really introduce Tolian Soran into the mix and get some Time Travel running in this Universe. That would be sweet. It could be fit into the timeline too...

Edit: And Borgs!! more space battles

This post has been edited by Nicodimas: 23 December 2014 - 09:22 PM

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Yeah and maybe a MechaGuinan!

[Nicodimas]

i was more thinking placing it in the middle of the Federation Vs Klingon War..we could have Tolian Soran assisting the federation with some ultimate weapons which invites the Borg into the mix.

Fed Vs Klingon Vs Borg Battles would be sick!! Then they would have to wake up Khan to help Soran with building some ultimate-federation ships. The biggest thing that bugs me about Star Trek is the federations ship's are so weak, need more weapons...like neutron star torpedos!

Imagine those space battles.

[Macros]

how will he manage without the universes longest runway?

[Brujah]

Spoilsport Stonny, on 23 December 2014 - 09:09 PM, said:

polishgenius, on 23 December 2014 - 08:39 PM, said:

Let's be fair - the last two Fast and Furious films were both much less full of plot holes and much more respectful to the mythos of their own franchise than the last two Star Trek films (and in fact were tbqh better films in every way).

That's my point!!! The ST reboots have been flashy eye candy whose stories don't really hold up under scrutiny. At least the F&F movies know their core audience. Again, I don't REALLY care that the ST movies are being redesigned as an action franchise (the sad attempts to do this with the TNG movies are so fucking hilarious). Its fine to me. But sometimes I think the producers would rather throw in a shitty easter egg than write great drama.

QT, airtight is certainly tough to come by, but can we at least surpass "laughably illogical"?

EDIT: THE LAST STARFIGHTER is a perfect space opera.

Scene: Alex Rogen is the.main character and needs to hurry up and leave Earth. They leave behind 'Beta' an Artificial Intelligence thing that looks like Alex and is suppose to live his life so no one notices he's gone.


Alex Rogan: What did you do to Maggie?
Beta: Do to her? We were looking up at the stars and she sticks her tongue in my ear. I screamed. I'll apologize to her tomorrow, okay?
Alex Rogan: You're not gonna be here. You're going back to Centauri right now!
Louis Rogan: [younger son having been woke up and is angry] What's up, Alex?
Alex Rogan: Back to sleep, Louis, or I'm telling Mom about your Playboys!
Beta: [as Alex is walking out] You're blowing it, Alex.
Louis Rogan: [looks down from the bed, shocked] What the shit?
Beta: [imitating Alex] I said back to sleep, Louis, or I'm telling Mom about your Playboys!


Great B movie space flick from the.80s when there wasn't a whole lot around.

[QuickTidal]

Saw INTO THE WOODS on Boxing Day and mostly enjoyed it.

The songs are great and more than just catchy, the wife and I have noticed they are INSIDIOUS in their ear-wormery, we have both been singing the songs for days on end. Probably the best Sondheim musical I've seen, and that was my first time hearing the score.

As for the film version, I have a few minor issues. The first half (in which everything happens as it would in any fairytale) flows with solid ups and downs like a gentle wave that sucks you right in...but in the middle (where I expect the intermission of the stage production exists) and everything goes off the rails, the film grinds to almost a complete halt. It's jarring, and annoying and would probably WORK better as a stage production...it takes a bit for the gears to all start grinding again and the pace gets back up that things right themselves and the finale is wonderful. Johnny Depp's Wolf song is the worst in the whole thing, but luckily it means he's not in it for much (he's basically playing Sweeney Todd the Wolf). Other issues were filmic and scene choices which I won't go into for spoilers.

The acting is solid across the board with everyone pulling their weight....but for me the standouts are easily Anna Kendrick (Cinderella), and Daniel Huddlestone (Jack...who also played Gavroche in the recent film version of LES MISERABLES) Huddlestone especially shines, and his "Giants in the Sky" number is easily my favourite and most catchy.

Fave moment: Chris Pine (Cinderella's Prince), and Billy Magnussen (Rapunzel's Prince) absolutely hamming it up singing and dancing on a Waterfall for "Agony". I was chuckling throughout that sequence. Oh, and Chris Pine appeared to be channeling Captain Kirk and THEN singing his lines a lot of the time which actually served the role of his rather smarmy womanizing prince.

All in all a solid film musical, which if it didn't suffer from pacing issues in the latter half would be much better...but the music and performances are enough to keep you into it.

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 29 December 2014 - 02:25 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

Mezla PigDog, on 21 December 2014 - 08:28 AM, said:

Hang on, Traveller. Did you just give away the ending of Harry Potter? I was waiting for the film to come on tv and I haven't read the book!

Hmm, I'm watching the last Harry Potter movie after keeping a careful eye on tv listings to make sure I don't miss it this Christmas (basically I like it but not enough to spend money on it). It seems I've seen it before but don't remember when or all of it...... I don't usually have quite such a bad memory, especially for movies. I'm a bit freaked out!

[Traveller]

I was going to ask if you were watching. The adverts are bugging me, I might have to stick the disc in instead.

[Mezla PigDog]

I hate not being able to fast forward through the ads but did you see the one for a scale model of the Millennium Falcon??? At first I laughed at the age of the chap they had building it instead of a kid and then I thought "I want one".

Should be watching the last Hobbit movie right now but still not well enough to be out and about. I don't like the Hobbit series much but feel like one last Middle Earth epic battle on the big screen.

[Traveller]

Yes I saw that! I hate those installment only things that they always advertise at new year, but I was thinking the same when I saw that!

I don't think I'm going to make the effort for the Hobbit - it's just not going to be what I want it to be.

This post has been edited by Traveller: 30 December 2014 - 09:34 PM

[Mezla PigDog]

I skimmed a couple of the last comments in The Hobbit thread and agree with Traveller's sentiments for the most part. The Hobbit trilogy is just all Too Much. There is no other way to sum it up. The book is kind of twee and jolly (apart from the horrors of war and all that) and they have taken the movies too far. I'm still going to watch it at the cinema though because I know I'll catch it eventually so may as well give the big screen its chance.

Anyhoo, I have seen Deathly Hallows Part II before and have no memories of it apart from the culmination of the Snape storyline and the fact that Neville Longbottom turns badass. Weird things to remember. I can't figure out when I must have seen the film before. Mr PigDog hasn't seen it with me, I'm pretty sure I didn't see it at the cinema alone or with friends and there's no way I would have watched it while drinking enough booze to forget because I've been meaning to see it for ages. So weeeeeeeird. Worried I'm going senile.

Since this is the movie thread and I've been stuck at home sick for the last 7 days with no energy to hold up a book but too awake to sleep through I have seen the following:

Deathly Hallows parts 1 and 2
Twilight New Moon (Eclipse has been recorded)
Muppets Christmas Carol
The Muppet Movie
Elf
Santa Claus The Movie
Mega Mind
Avengers Assemble
John Carter of Mars
Skyfall
Predator
Half each of 2 different Transformers movies - not sure which ones
Dragonball Evolution
4 episodes of Gotham
3 episodes of Agents of SHIELD
4 episodes of Supernatural
About 10 episodes of The Big Bang Theory
The Downton Abbey Christmas Special
A 2 hour documentary on a series of shark attacks in New Jersey in 1916 that inspired the movie Jaws

Just about to start Top Gun. Pretty sure I'm missing at least 10 hours of viewing from the list but my brain seems to have blocked it out. Don't judge me on the quality or lack thereof. Being sick over Christmas sucks ass, I've been depressed. I did go outside today and decided to climb a ladder and clear the gutters until I started seeing stars and got shouted down by the other half.

[worry]

Finally watched Godzilla. One of the best trailers of the year and the movie was...so-so. Monster stuff was great and even respectful (I don't mean just to the legacy, I mean as characters), human stuff was largely dumb, especially post-crisis. Woulda benefited from way more Ken Watanabe/Sally Hawkins, less ATJ and the kid, and I don't need to see David Strathairn again for the rest of my life.

[Macros]

Dumb and Dumber To.

After hearing so much bad press on this I was reluctant to ruin one of my favourite comedies (I refuse to acknowledge to existence of the travesty that was dumber and dumberer) but I was surprised. Sure its no where near as good at the first, but its still a lot funnier than an awful lot of tripe that's come out in the years since.
Plenty of solid laughs, if somewhat predictable and formuliac, the nods and rips on the first film are laid out blatantly obviously which I didn't mind.

5 jars of peanut butter out of 7.5

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 31 December 2014 - 09:33 AM, said:

and I don't need to see David Strathairn again for the rest of my life.

I had this mentality BEFORE seeing GODZILLA. I was like, "David Strathairn is in a movie? Is it 1987 again?"

[worry]

He look like neighbor Steve Rhoades from Married with Children spent his intervening years in a water-scarce dystopia.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

How many times did they have that shot where someone said something to Strathairn's character, they cut to a shot of him from behind then turning around to say something fatalistic? I counted no less than 5 times.

[Whisperzzzzzzz]

3/4 of the way through Snowpiercer now. Pretty bleak story, but the culture aboard the train is nicely thought out, though it's not without its flaws. One flaw that stuck out to me was early on when one of the kids says "the whole wide train" (mutation of "whole wide world"), mainly because the train is not very wide. Should be "the whole long train." And another flaw that stuck out to me was the point of the tail-end passengers in the first place. It's not very utilitarian for them to be there, to be honest, especially as they've shown multiple times that they pose a risk to the safety of the passengers of the forward cars.

EDIT: Oooh, now I see the point of the tail-enders. Twisted.

This post has been edited by Whisperzzzzzzz: 02 January 2015 - 05:23 AM

[McLovin]

Saw THE INTERVIEW. Amusing, not great.

[A Demon Llama!]

Snowpiercer was pretty good but was there a reason to the ending?

Spoiler

The train gets derailed by the snow so everything that happened during the movie and up to that point is insignificant and doesnt really matter? I thought it was wierd as we get to a point where the main hero has to choose what to do and bam. Seemed off to me.

[Gothos]

Nightcrawler.



Very good film, I recommend anyone and everyone sees it. You do keep hoping the main character will get caught on what he's doing, tho. Such an asshole.