I laughed out loud 4 or 5 times reading this, which is pretty good for something I'm getting for free.
I remembered TFF as being horrendous in the beginning, the improving to so-so, for most of the film, until the cheesy climax drops it down another 4 pegs again.
But this review was reminding me that the nausea-inducing moments went on long after the Shatner/Bennett viewscreen scene. Take this moment a more than half hour in to the film:
"...and a video of Romulan Star Search Chick announcing the kidnappers’ demands. But I dunno why Not-Connery had her do this, because he butts in halfway through to essentially assure everyone that he’s really serious about all this hostage stuff.
Oh, and for some reason, this is being filmed from (I think) atop the Paradise City gates, with Romulan Star Search Chick and the other hostages on the front steps of the cantina all the way across a plaza. And when Not-Connery butts in, he has to walk briskly across the plaza, yapping the whole way, in order to get a weird, from-above close-up."
That's not one of the most hilarious parts of the recap - it's just raising another of many, many bits from the film that anyone with any sense could see needed to be reshot. Was anyone watching the dailies while they were making this film?
I remembered TFF as being horrendous in the beginning, the improving to so-so, for most of the film, until the cheesy climax drops it down another 4 pegs again.
But this review was reminding me that the nausea-inducing moments went on long after the Shatner/Bennett viewscreen scene. Take this moment a more than half hour in to the film:
"...and a video of Romulan Star Search Chick announcing the kidnappers’ demands. But I dunno why Not-Connery had her do this, because he butts in halfway through to essentially assure everyone that he’s really serious about all this hostage stuff.
Oh, and for some reason, this is being filmed from (I think) atop the Paradise City gates, with Romulan Star Search Chick and the other hostages on the front steps of the cantina all the way across a plaza. And when Not-Connery butts in, he has to walk briskly across the plaza, yapping the whole way, in order to get a weird, from-above close-up."
That's not one of the most hilarious parts of the recap - it's just raising another of many, many bits from the film that anyone with any sense could see needed to be reshot. Was anyone watching the dailies while they were making this film?
