Good freaking lord: the movie

[xortex]

It's only 11:00 p.m.. TMP was my favorite because it was about the big Q's and even about Spock who is the key to ST's evolution as he is 'the alien'. Maybe it's all about him.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Some days TMP feels like someone who watched 2001 while high far too many times wrote it. Then put in "The Changeling" and dropped some 'shrooms. The movie is saved by De Kelley. He makes the best of his lines.

 

[Kegek]

While I normally like De Kelley, I think he was pretty stiff in TMP - but it's not like his lines helped.

 

[Therin of Andor]

xortex said:
Nimoy wrote Star Trek VI - Which GR thought was quintessential Star Trek - which showed you how crazy things were getting.

No, Nimoy supplied a story idea. The script was written by the late Denny Martin Flinn. And I'm sure GR never said ST VI was "quintessential Star Trek". He had many reservations but did approve of Nimoy's desire to comment upon glasnost and Gorbachev in the movie and said, of the final cut of the movie (screened in a Paramount theatrette a few days before his death), "I'm sure the Star Trek fans will enjoy it".

 

[trevanian]

He said that? Geez, I thought he was wheeled out screaming they had to cut a ton out of it, cuz the klingons were more likeable than the humans. Then he keeled within 30 hours.

 

[Therin of Andor]

My friend Ernie Over was with Gene at the time, as his full-time carer, and I was assured that there was no screaming, yelling or phoning. He was very weak at the time, and his comments were as brief as I mentioned, and softly spoken.

GR's complaint about Klingons vs humans was in response to reading the script, months earlier, but no one had to listen to him anyway.

 

[xortex]

Oh, yea, I remember he said IV was Star Trek to him. I thought it really sucked. I cringed when Kirk and Spock got on the bus.

 

[Admiral2]

ancient said:
All I know is, Abrams has a horrible track record. None of the Trek movies he's made has ever been good.

Oh wait, that was just my low expectation talking. Ignore him.

Wait, so you're saying I should just completely ignore my opinion of the crap that he's already done because, obviously, the very first Trek he ever laid his hands on will automatically be a masterpiece??

Hey, thanks for clearing that up! :thumbsup:

 

[Brutal Strudel]

Yes. You're only mad coz he works in tv. Well, Roddenberry worked in tv. So did Rod Serling. So did Aaron Spelling. See? Roddenberry=Serling=Abrams=Spelling. It works with books, too. Philip K. Dick=Peter David, Philip Roth=Janet Fielding. Theatre, too: William Shakespeare=Tyler Perry. No, I'm not finished yet: screenwriters! The Transformers Guys=David Mamet.

Now do you see? You do?

Yeah, it's gonna suck.

 

[Kegek]

^
Indeed. It's not important where you work or that you've never worked in a given franchise before, it's the quality of past work that's key.

So no Straw Men, please.

 

[Plissken]

Star Trek has been dead since the series of movies ended. There was a bit of a life-twitch during the first few seasons of TNG, but it ultimately proved to be not happening. The problem is that they didn't remain true to the premise and execution of the original series. That's why everything that came after sucked, and failed. Except for TNG which I guess has some fans, and wasn't too bad the first few seasons.

This movie is really going to suck hard core.

 

[Amaris]

Plissken said:
Star Trek has been dead since the series of movies ended. There was a bit of a life-twitch during the first few seasons of TNG, but it ultimately proved to be not happening. The problem is that they didn't remain true to the premise and execution of the original series. That's why everything that came after sucked, and failed. Except for TNG which I guess has some fans, and wasn't too bad the first few seasons.

This movie is really going to suck hard core.

You must have an Instant Cassette (as seen in Spaceballs: The Movie)!

And for those who have never seen Spaceballs, the scene in question:

DARK HELMET

(mask down) Have you found them yet?

CORPORAL

No, Lord Helmet. They're still not on the scanners.

DARK HELMET

Well, keep looking for them. (drinks coffee through his mask)

COL SANDURZ

Pardon me, sir. I have an idea. Corporal, get me the video cassette of Spaceballs-the Movie.

CORPORAL

Yes, sir.

CORPORAL walks to a wall labeled, "Mr. Rental." The wall opens. He looks through the selections.

DARK HELMET

Colonel Sandurz, may I speak with you, please?

COL SANDURZ

Yes, sir.

DARK HELMET

(lifts up mask) How could there be a cassette of Spaceballs-the Movie. We're still in the middle of making it.

COL SANDURZ

That's true, sir, but there's been a new breakthrough in home-video marketing.

DARK HELMET

There has?

COL SANDURZ

Yes. Instant cassettes. They're out in stores before the movie is finished.

DARK HELMET

Naaaaa.

CORPORAL

Here it is, sir. Spaceballs.

COL SANDURZ

Good work, Corporal. Punch it up.

I mean, it's uncanny! We don't even have a working title yet, but you've not only seen the movie, you're able to give an informative critique!


J.

 

[Plum]

May the swartz be with JJ Abrams.