I must confess to kidding on there with my earlier question (something I thought would be seen as obvious coming as it did after The Boost comment about Airplane 2).

A 300 spoof is obviously going to be three jokes worthy (the sort of thing you can get away with in GIF form more efficiently).

The guys look a bit gay and they shout a lot and the violence is over the top.

You could probably do the whole thing in as a single photoshopped image.

I remember liking the Shat bits in Airplane 2 but I was a nipper at the time the more memorable thing for me was the repeated sampling from the soundtrack of Battlestar Galactica.

As for the Sllooooooooooooooooowwwwww motion picture.

I've never had a problem with those long sequences as they play off each other (for me obviously not for everyone).

We see the relationship in scale between a human being and the Enterprise in one (as well as getting a basically a love making scene between Kirk and his one serious female relationship), then you get the voyage through the clouds which I've compared before to Harker's trip to Castle Dracula and finally you get the once giant scale of the Enterprise dwarfed by the voyage around V'ger.

These are purely cinematic sequences.

There is no way that could ever be pulled off on a television show, just as many of David Lean's slow voyages through various vistas in his films couldn't and it clearly wasn't a popular move as I can't imagine anything like it being done again, especially in a 'franchise' movie.

The nearest thing to that sort of risk taking with a well known brand was probably Fire Walk With Me and at the time even the people primed for Lynch didn't respond to what he did there.