News Captain Pike Has Been Cast

[DaddlerTheDalek]

He does look like TOS Pike.

 

[Riverside2233]

If you've never seen him, watch Hell On Wheels. Great show.

 

[DaveyNY]

There are always good, bad, and mediocre movies, future classics and formulaic potboilers, in every generation. And as for your specific examples: LOVE, SIMON, which is garnering favorable comparisons to John Hughes' movies, is in theaters now, along with films like CALL ME BY YOUR NAME and LADYBIRD and BLOCKERS. Coming of age films never go away.

As for THE PRINCESS BRIDE, we just got A WRINKLE IN TIME: another family-friendly fantasy film based on a beloved novel. See also I KILL GIANTS,which just came out a few weeks ago. Or A MONSTER CALLS from a few years ago.

And are we really going to argue that THE PRINCESS BRIDE or THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK are somehow more daring and adventurous than, say, GET OUT or THE SHAPE OF WATER or BLACK PANTHER?

Let's not romanticize the past too much. Everybody remembers JAWS and CASABLANCA and THE PRINCESS BRIDE. Nobody talks about THE DEEP or KRULL or FRANCIS THE TALKING MULE . . . .

I enjoyed "KRULL", and Disney's "The Black Cauldron" also.
I also liked "The DEEP", but that was mainly due to Geneviève Bujold showing off her T&A through out most of the movie.
But I'm unique among movie goers I guess.

 

[Dukhat]

I enjoyed "KRULL", and Disney's "The Black Cauldron" also.
I also liked "The DEEP", but that was mainly due to Geneviève Bujold showing off her T&A through out most of the movie.
But I'm unique among movie goers I guess.

I think you’re thinking of Jacqueline Bisset, not Genevieve Bujold.

 

[Greg Cox]

I enjoyed "KRULL", and Disney's "The Black Cauldron" also.
I also liked "The DEEP", but that was mainly due to Geneviève Bujold showing off her T&A through out most of the movie.
But I'm unique among movie goers I guess.

Except that was Jacqueline Bisset, not Genevieve Bujold.

Meanwhile, I have to take time out to praise the OP for correctly using "cast" in the headline, not "casted."

For the record, folks, people are "cast" in a part, not "casted" in a part. Even though I've been seeing the latter expression way too often lately.

We should be wondering who will "be cast as Spock," not "be casted as Spock."

This has been your Public Service Announcement for the evening.

 

[Dukhat]

No, he was cust as Spock.

 

[Nerys Myk]

"He was cast out!!!!"

 

[cooleddie74]

I prefer sandwiches with the crusts on. It's only logical.

 

[DaveyNY]

I think you’re thinking of Jacqueline Bisset, not Genevieve Bujold.

Oh yeah...
Well, I guess I was so enthralled by all the T&A, I forgot who's they were.

 

[BeatleJWOL]

If you've never seen him, watch Hell On Wheels. Great show.

With bonus Colm Meaney.

 

[fireproof78]

It's Sturgeon's Law:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SturgeonsLaw
90% of everything is crap. Always.

If you look at the movies of the past, you'll only see those still remembered fondly (e.g. Casablanca). You're not going to remember the 3000+ other horribly formulaic romances, war movies and the laaaarge swaths of mediocre Westerns that have been produced at the same time.

In fact, the current output of quality movies is quite honestly astonishing: Just last year, we had Shape of Water, Dunkirk, Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri, Get Out... IMO 12 Years a Slave is still one of the best movies ever made. Not just because of the topic ("The blindside" was a stupid-as-fuck attempt at the same topic) but because it's a genuine great movie, one of the best movies to ever win the Oscar in, like, ever. People like Scorsese is stilll doing quality stuff on a regular basis.

It's just - and I give you that - the current big budget blockbuster is prevalent. But, and tis is a personal prediction, but I think the mid-sized budgeted movie will make a come-back. Something like "Creed", that's part of a franchise, but still artistically relevant with giving the guys behind the scenes enough creative freedom to handle their personal topics, while at the same time still being nudet in the direction of having mass appeal. Just right now, blockbusters (like comicbook movies) are universally sell-able. But the public will crave quality as well. As always. And as soon as there will be made money there, there will be more movies with more artistic freedom again.

The original Star Wars as well.

 

[The Old Mixer]

With bonus Colm Meaney.

And a magnificent bastard he was, too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

There was a picture floating around Facebook and Instagram of Anson Mount getting his hair done Pike-style. Can't find it now, though...

 

[Relayer1]

Quite true. And it still was the best of the Kelvinverse films...

I'd like to be able to agree - I had high hopes when I found out Pegg was writing it.

Sadly, they got steadily worse, not better...

 

[Nerys Myk]

There was a picture floating around Facebook and Instagram of Anson Mount getting his hair done Pike-style. Can't find it now, though...

Wasn't he pretty much there already?
Here you go
Watch Anson Mount Get Coiffed As Capt Pike + More ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Bits For The Week

 

[fireproof78]

Wasn't he pretty much there already?
Here you go
Watch Anson Mount Get Coiffed As Capt Pike + More ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Bits For The Week

Yeah, he's pretty much at maximum Pike.

 

[Tuskin38]

Hair reminds me more of Kelvin Pike

 

[cooleddie74]

It's like Ray Liotta and Jeffrey Hunter had a love child and made people subscribe to see him.