DuracellEnergizer said:
Yes, and I felt like gouging my eyes out at the end. I don't know what possessed me to watch it in the first place.
Could be worse. You could have watched the sequel/remake that only got made because MST3K plucked this turkey from total obscurity.
The song that plays in the Club Scum sequence is kind of catchy though. ;)
I dare someone to buy this and make a video opening and drinking it. ;)
Speaking of Pulp Fiction...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7Ad1AuHriI
I also stumbled across some things I never thought to hear Christopher Lee say!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=es0sOE_d1Ik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BImV1ZNiYOw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WNuWNKKSAE
You watched Hobgoblins uncut? Whoa.
Thanks! I didn't even know Roberto actually says "battle droid" until I looked him up on the infosphere.
I know you're talking about Spock, but I was trying not to spoil it. Wish I knew of a shot where he fires a phaser rifle. He does hold one in the second pilot episode...
Are you going to use the deleted scene where Grievous kills the Jedi we have no real emotional investment in, while Ani and Obi Wan exchange silly hand signals?
Will Grievous' bodyguards have lines?
Yes, the late Mr. Ebert could be a dick sometimes. Nobody's perfect. I had a love/hate thing going with him and Gene Siskel for decades. Both championed the Laserdisc format back when VHS ruled the land, so it was hard for me to outright loathe them. ;)
Roger had enough clout to badger Disney into presenting it's animated classics in their proper aspect ratio when reissued to theaters. Ebert cried foul when Snow White was cropped to 1:85:1.
I have long wondered why he never voiced an opinion on the Special Editions, or Lucas' constant revisionism while burying the originals. If anybody could have brought public attention to the issue, it was Ebert.
Intriguing, but would they have a motive?
Yes, a clean kill is probably best in this case I guess. But will we ever learn who did the deed?
Funny, but a tad gruesome. Wouldn't a blaster shot make more sense? And there's got to be an appropriate death rattle sound you can use. ;)
Yeah, Balok creeped me out when I was a kid. (The distortion on the viewscreen just made it more scary.) The "real" Balok turned up at Shatner's roast a few years back.
I can't help but think Balok's ship inspired a certain iconic battle station...
It has begun! :)
I never got around to buying a copy, but I want to eventually. (There seems to be less custom skins and maps for it though.) The EF1 mod I refer to adds more Captain Proton missions, but I'm not sure it was ever finished beyond the demo.
I recall the author of it showed some tantalizing photos of other maps in progress, including Moonbase Alpha from Space 1999.
And banned.
Thrawn said:
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Yeah, that's the thing... I knew before the 2009 Star Trek that I didn't like J.J. Abrams, simply because I don't like his style of directing. IMO, J.J. Abrams and Michael Bay are cut from the same cloth... they both make the same kinds of movies, and they both have the same basic style pattern:
- Super-fast-paced action
- Lots of running/screaming/jumping/explosions
- Lots of lens flare
- One-dimensional characters that lack true depth
- Characters so ridiculously hyper, you think they have caffeine for blood
- Lack of respect for the established visual look of the universe
So IMO, it's all the same... 2009 Star Trek is basically the same movie as Michael Bay's Transformers... especially in this case... Transformers: Dark of the Moon basically followed the exact same formula that Star Trek: Into Darkness is following... taking select bits and pieces from actual G1/TOS episodes and films, and working them into a mishmash of a story that is supposedly meant to be unique, when it's not... it's just a mishmash.
Except Trek 2009 doesn't cause me to lose consciousness when it's on tv. I've had to watch the real Transformers movie from the 80's to undo the harm Mr. Bay has caused me. ;)
doubleofive said:
That's hilarious. I love how they used it for those episodes, fitting this unseen abandoned episode into continuity. I also like how thrifty it was. For the cost of sitting on one "courtroom" set for a day, they got two episodes out.SilverWook said:
When I was a kid, and only knew of The Menagerie two parter, I really thought they had gone to the trouble of changing the sets and costumes to create the "past" scenes.
I think the Captain Pike chair and makeup probably cost a little bit too. They were incredibly lucky that they had a actor who looked a lot like Jefferey Hunter to play the radiation scarred Pike.
The framework story really defined Spock in terms of what he's willing to do out of loyalty and friendship.
The Enterprise fly by with the zoom into the bridge is still an amazing FX shot.
greenpenguino said:
SilverWook said:
I hope that's a joke.
Anyway, Elite Force remains one the best action oriented Trek games I've ever played. The expansion pack adds the ability to simply wander the decks of the U.S.S. Voyager and have some holodeck fun as well.
Some talented fans created amazing mods for the game. My favorite one let you explore a TOS era starbase, and the ships being serviced there. The levels were so large, you could spend a couple weeks exploring it all.
I have been playing Elite Force again and have been playing this very mod for the past couple of days. It's amazing.
Have you tried out the holodeck yet? ;)
I need to reinstall EF one of these days. I want to play the Captain Proton mod in glorious black and white again.
msycamore said:
SilverWook said:
I thought this guy was kind of scary close up...
What about this one?
;)
I would guess this was a "background" Ewok that wasn't meant to be shot in close up. The original Planet of the Apes films had similar problems.
The Ewok costumes apparently all got better eyes for the tv movies.
Puggo - Jar Jar's Yoda said:
Hey, it's me. said:
Yeah it was a little too convenient wasnt it. Hobbling around, gets in to bed, says yeah Vaders your father and by the way you've got a sibling, dead.
This kind of thing happens - people near death can hang on until that final bit of closure they've been waiting for. A similar instance happened between my own father and his mother.
I've had that experience as well.
Willow made me sleepy, and I never fall asleep in a movie theater. Darn you, Opie! ;)
These guys actually give Jar Jar a run for his money...
Bingowings said:
It would have been more dramatic if Luke turned up and found Yoda's corpse and then had a conversation with his ghost about how Yoda can't help him now because he is dead.
A dead body in that climate would be far too gruesome for a SW movie. ;)
I have no problem with Yoda expiring when he did. It's a dramatic device as old as most of the mythology Lucas draws from. He looked more frail than when we last saw him in ESB, and was probably using the last of his force abilities to hang on as long as he did. Dagobah isn't exactly the best climate for a 900+ year old guy to be living on alone for twenty years.
One of the puppet's eyes actually went askew on the set, but they decided not to fix it, as it helped with making Yoda look ill.
I'm still amazed Frank Oz and company pulled off the shot of Yoda climbing into bed. Who needs CGI? ;)
Television pilots have the thankless job of setting up a potential series in less than half the time than a movie usually gets to define it's premise and characters. Had it been a 90 minute feature film, it would have been head and shoulders above most other SF films made before 2001. (One can also see the influence Forbidden Planet must have had.) This was a very expensive pilot for it's day, and what happened after NBC rejected it was unprecedented.
It only suffers in comparison to the 78 Shatner led episodes that followed.
When I was a kid, and only knew of The Menagerie two parter, I really thought they had gone to the trouble of changing the sets and costumes to create the "past" scenes.
I am left wondering why the heck Fett is still hanging around. How long did it take to deliver Han to Jabba anyway? Lucas has claimed to not understand the Boba Fett mystique, yet he brings him back for no real story reason except to kill him off.
Bossk and Dengar were inexplicably brought back too, but ended up on the cutting room floor. Is the bounty hunting business in some sort of recession, reducing these scum to sponging off Jabba's party buffet? ;)
Leia actually does rush off to find Luke when he vanishes on a recon mission early in the Marvel comic run. (That it was a rash and probably foolish decision is at least acknowledged.) George should have hired some of the writers.
Does Jabba know (or care) that Leia is a rebel leader? Good question...
I think he's too stoned out of his mind to think of Leia as anything but a replacement for Oola.
Complaining about recycled costumes in Jedi seems pointless, since ESB recycles costumes from SW, and cantina extras wear spacesuits that were in everything from Ray Harryhausen's First Men in the Moon to Doctor Who.
This also might help?
http://theinfosphere.org/Roberto
http://theinfosphere.org/David_Herman
I've noticed Jake the dog on Adventure Time often sounds like Bender, so perhaps Mr. Herman has done a Roberto sounding voice on some other show?
