Religious hate at the theater!

[Dinner]

OMG. We seem to be turning into a Star Trek fan website. Poly is hitting a new low.

[self biased]

Whatever. That movie was utter **** that barely aspired to mediocrity (and insulted the franchise it tried to reboot about eight different ways), but I'm not going to try to persuade you. Just remember that you all have terrible taste. Which, I suppose, means you can always find something at the movies to entertain you, so it's not all bad.

normally, i find you to be pretty reasonable but god damn do you have a ****ty opinion here.

[Zevico]

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hans...adid=328147611

How terrible!

Almost as bad as that murder at the discotech.

[DinoDoc]

What do you have against JJ Abrams? The new star trek was great.

OMG! Leaked JJ Abrams Episode VII opening crawl image:

[Elok]

Perhaps the villain will be a really second-rate imitation of Darth Vader as well, the way Nero was just a crappy remix of Khan. So, instead of being a hero lured to darkness and forced to redeem himself to save his son at the cost of his life, he'll be some sort of space bureaucrat who turned to municipal graft and has to sacrifice his career to keep his kids from taking the blame. Or something. I don't know where Abrams's genius will lead him here, being a lesser mortal.

[DinoDoc]

Perhaps the villain will be a really second-rate imitation of Darth Vader as well, the way Nero was just a crappy remix of Khan. So, instead of being a hero lured to darkness and forced to redeem himself to save his son at the cost of his life, he'll be some sort of space bureaucrat who turned to municipal graft and has to sacrifice his career to keep his kids from taking the blame. Or something. I don't know where Abrams's genius will lead him here, being a lesser mortal.

Let's be honest here Elok. Anything Abrams could do to the series at this point would be better than what Lucas did with the Prequels.

[Hauldren Collider]

Right. You really can't ruin star wars any more than it has already been ruined.

[ColdWizard]

Would it be good or bad if he makes Jar Jar eat all the ewoks?

[Uncle Sparky]

Would it be good or bad if he makes Jar Jar mate with all the ewoks?

fixed

[Main_Brain]

So was Die Hard, but McClane didn't jump out the damn window to shoot Gruber as he was falling. Because that would be stupid.
(takes deep breath)

Yes, but would it look cool? Thats the main Question here.

http://youtu.be/1qJaADSMkzY?t=3m32s

Can it be very long before there's a Hollywood version of 'Downfall', 'The Lives Of Others', 'The Baader Meinhof Complex'.... ?

Scary thoughts.

[molly bloom]

I don't read his posts anymore anyway so it's no loss.

A pity. You could improve your prose style, enlarge your positively denuded lexicon, and correct a few of your more egregious errors. But you're much better value 'just the way you are', to quote that outstanding modern philosopher, Billy Joel.

I really don't like horror films unless they're unbelievably bad.

That was indeed the reason for mentioning 'Zoltan', along with the appearances by Jose Ferrer and Reggie (Salem's Lot) Nalder :

[Imran Siddiqui]

The thing with Abrams' movies is that you can't get hung up on the plot. If you do, you will not enjoy the movie. Fringe was great and I will miss it, but it had tons of plot holes. Still I'd accept ten times the amount for more episodes with those characters. Lost was the same.

Now, with all that said, I'm not happy with Abrams taking the reigns of the new Star Wars movies. He will do an acceptable job, but I'd rather see someone different do something interesting with them. As much good work as he has done, I still don't want a Abrams dominated entertainment world.

Well, it's only for this one movie (so far). They may ask another director to do Ep 8, etc (like how the Original Trilogy was done). Abrams can get the ball rolling, basically (he definitely kick started the Star Trek series).

[Dinner]

Molly, why are there so many horrible films from the 1970's? That clip looked like something you'd see on Mystery Science Theater.

[molly bloom]

Molly, why are there so many horrible films from the 1970's? That clip looked like something you'd see on Mystery Science Theater.

You mean like Godfather I & II ?

The Conversation ?

Alien ?

The Parallax View ?

Macbeth (by Polanski ) ?

The Long Goodbye ?

Night Moves ?

Chinatown ?

Picnic At Hanging Rock ?

Lacombe Lucien ?

Welcome To L.A. ?

Get Carter ?

The Man Who Fell To Earth ?

Don't Look Now ?

Nashville ?

McCabe & Mrs Miller ?


Just a few faves... and remember the two Kolchak made for t.v. films ? 'The Night Stalker' and 'The Night Strangler' were really rather good but did lead to the awful low budget t.v. series....


Admittedly, it's quite easy to see films with cheesy special effects and think there's nothing redeemable about them, and in some cases it's quite true. On the other hand, it does seem to be the last decade when major Hollywood studios didn't routinely dumb everything down to the level of a bored horny male teenager with the attention span of a gnat somewhere in a Midwest suburb.

Female actors seemed to have been chosen for their acting ability and not their silicon levels or the height of their bikini waxes, and films sometimes had unresolved or unhappy endings... OMG!!!!

Seriously, though- as Ted Sturgeon once quipped- '90% of everything is crap', although now more money is thrown at it ('Pearl Harbour' ? 'John Carter' ? 'Gigli' ? ).....

Kolchak in underground Seattle: