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I just watched Hellraiser for the first time this month and you can imagine my surprise to find that Garak himself is one of the main characters. I knew he was the crazy dude in dirty harry but never knew about Hellraiser.
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Oct 22, 2013 23:15
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Conquistador posted:What is that picture from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnHuNUNV0BE
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Thom12255 posted:I would rather watch 2009 and STID over movies such as Nemesis or Insurrection everytime. Unlike the latter, the former films are entertaining and well produced. I would say STID was a huge downgrade compared to 2009 though and I mostly blame the writers rather than JJ but seeing as though JJ insists on using those writers for everything right now I guess he shares some of the fault and his departure is a good thing for the franchise, hopefully Orci will follow. Abrams is still a producer on Star Trek 3 or whatever they call it, and Orci and Kurtzman are already confirmed to be writing (Lindelof is out).
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Apple Jax posted:Keep the gifs coming.      Somebody posted a link of their phone calendar a few threads ago and it amused me: 
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Timby posted:Abrams is still a producer on Star Trek 3 or whatever they call it, and Orci and Kurtzman are already confirmed to be writing (Lindelof is out). My expectations for a good plot are low.
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Hey kids! Lets dance! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P1GYH7CIbA
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Thom12255 posted:My expectations for a good plot are low. I expect more references to old trek for the sake of references, rather than making them relevent or even integral to the new universe.
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Oct 22, 2013 23:25
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I always think after I watch a good episode of Star Trek, "Wow, that sure was an awesome plot that they came up with."
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I have to admit the more I think on it the less bothered I am by how different Cumberbatch's Khan was, except for that line from Spock about how Khan had apparently committed genocide on non-augments, that seemed pretty new to me. The personality shift though makes sense because of the lack of Space Seed, there we see Khan fresh out of the tube a charismatic leader in exile who is greeted with respect and courtesy by another leader of men in Kirk. During the attempted hijacking of the Enterprise Kirk faced and bested him displaying a degree of courage that Khan admired, in short Kirk gave Khan hope that the men of that time were in a way equals to the augments. In JJTrek however he was defrosted by Marcus, who then held his people hostage to force Khan to serve him, an unforgivable insult to Khan's pride among other things, but it also showed fear of the augments that he kept the others on ice. So to Khan Marcus was a coward far below him and his people and that contempt clearly coloured his interactions with Kirk and works with Cumberbatch's performance.
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Oct 22, 2013 23:27
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CPFortest posted:I always think after I watch a good episode of Star Trek, "Wow, that sure was an awesome plot that they came up with." Me too, but without the irony or smugness.
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Oct 22, 2013 23:28
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docevil never forget https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQVc79FE5Bo
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Here's the Federation Anthem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXB84fpWzg8 And StarFleet's favourite furniture store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cip0TY91sjI edogawa rando fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Oct 22, 2013 |
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Humour. I love it! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I0SJ9HuB5k But what now? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6n1zmyMbdg gently caress it, lets all party like its 2399 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F30KZFVcQSo
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CPFortest posted:I always think after I watch a good episode of Star Trek, "Wow, that sure was an awesome plot that they came up with." Someone had a film blog named "Good Plot" and I wish I had a film blog and stolen that name first.
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Does anyone else really enjoy Vic Fontaine's singing on DS9? His screentime gets a lot of criticism but his voice is so smooth.
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Thom12255 posted:Does anyone else really enjoy Vic Fontaine's singing on DS9? His screentime gets a lot of criticism but his voice is so smooth. I thought most Vic episodes were pretty drat good. I still don't understand people who don't like "Badda Bing, Badda Bang." It's as if they hate fun.
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Hyperriker posted:VOYAGER This is the OP I've been waiting for.
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Kurtzman and Orci are hacks and have made what I'm sure is an obscene amount of money from their writing and that makes me mad. Thank goodness Lindelof is gone, at least.
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Blazing Ownager posted:By using the other Riker they were able to get a Frakes appearance and dispense with all of that, and could focus entirely on the plot. It was entirely non-disruptive or ham fisted, which I can't say for, say, Bashir's appearance on DS9. I know! What a looong cameo for that awkward bit character from some TNG episode! 
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All the episodes of Voyager about The Doctor are really enjoyable, and so is the Equinox two parter. Hi, new Star Trek thread! Take us boldly where no goon has gone before! 
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DrSunshine posted:and so is the Equinox two parter. The Equinox two parter is great as a glimpse of what Voyager
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Voyager has such wasted potential that its actually more painful to talk about the good episodes than the bad episodes
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The new movies are pretty flawed but I can't be upset about it because lets be honest, TV trek also has some huge flaws and Trek movies don't have the best track record.
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Thom12255 posted:Does anyone else really enjoy Vic Fontaine's singing on DS9? His screentime gets a lot of criticism but his voice is so smooth. I do. James Darren, the actor, released an album of Sinatra songs (is Sinatra a genre?) called This One's from the Heart with the full versions of pretty much all the songs he did on DS9. It's really quite good. It's regrettable it doesn't feature Avery Brooks though.
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DrNutt posted:This is the OP I've been waiting for. Free of the 'No. Watch it for completeness' ball and chain, we can rejoice! The thing that hit me the most about the JJ movies, moreso Into Darkness because 2009 was just there to set the stage, is how there's just jack gently caress-all in there that's original. Almost every scene, you just look at it and it's lifted and copypasted from something that's already happened. Take that warp chase in the OP, it's just straight from Nemesis. Surgery on a torpedo. Giving your life to get main power back. The scenes that are original are almost entirely pointless. Khan killing a bunch of Klingons just went on and on and on. Nobody at any point in the flying-through-debris scene thought that either of them weren't gonna get to the other side. KRONOS (why the gently caress not just spell it correctly? What's the point of such a minor deviation?). The Evil Guy Explains His Motives scene was loving awful, could barely keep up with Khan's dialogue. Also they teased the Klingon threat almost the entire way through the buildup to the film's release and what we got were basically a bunch of Firefly's Reavers flying in a styleless tin bucket and dying immediately at the hands of one guy. What the gently caress, man. e: as far as Voyager goes, Equinox and also Year of Hell
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Tell me, what does bundying mean? Is it some obscure Australian footie thing? All I can think of is Al Bundy.
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Hyperriker posted:Free of the 'No. Watch it for completeness' ball and chain, we can rejoice! Into Darkness, like most summer blockbusters, just feels like a collection of visually impressive set pieces. At some point someone made an attempt to string them together into a coherent story, and did the best with what they had to work with. Why is the Enterprise underwater? To look badass when it comes out. Why does Khan go to Kronos? To look badass killing Klingons. (and provide a hook for the sequel, the highest priority of any summer movie) Why does a secretive spy agency have a giant fuckoff Negaprise? To look badass in a standoff against the normal Enterprise.
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Vagabundo posted:And StarFleet's favourite furniture store. Like the Star Trek themesong? Like like Slam Jam song? Welp, here ya go: http://r0cketsauce.bandcamp.com/track/slam-trek-the-next-jameration Slam Trek The Next Gameration
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JJTrek also has no clear idea of what it is exactly. It's not really a reboot and not really a re-imagining. There's no meaningful character development or interaction because it's all borrowed, intact, from the original. Themes and plot points are given their weight based on TOS, not from how they unfold in the movies themselves. The musical sting when Khan first appears and the reveal that he's not Harrison make no loving dramatic sense. It's Cliff Notes and LARPing.
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I've been watching TOS again for the first time in years, is it weird that I absolutely love the clicking noise whenever anyone presses a button or flicks a switch? It gives the technology this amazing sense of physicality. I want every button I press to make that noise.
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Hyperriker posted:Free of the 'No. Watch it for completeness' ball and chain, we can rejoice! This is all really good stuff and I agree with it completely but I want to bitch about the fact that most of the film is washed out blue-red/orange like every other drat action flick these days. I mean I know it's not limited to the Trek movies but it's like, man we just got rid of the stupid loving lens flare (I genuinely thought it was intrusive, honest) and they go and flatten the rest of their ugly-looking movie with that awful colour correction except for all of 8 seconds at the very end. I'm betting the next movie is another soulless amalgamation, this time of TUC and First Contact.
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Tighclops posted:This is all really good stuff and I agree with it completely but I want to bitch about the fact that most of the film is washed out blue-red/orange like every other drat action flick these days. I mean I know it's not limited to the Trek movies but it's like, man we just got rid of the stupid loving lens flare (I genuinely thought it was intrusive, honest) and they go and flatten the rest of their ugly-looking movie with that awful colour correction except for all of 8 seconds at the very end. Errbody else in this thread will be all "ugh, another REHASH" but I will be legitimately excited if we get to see Borg in the TOS setting of the JJTrek movies.
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Tighclops posted:I'm betting the next movie is another soulless amalgamation, this time of TUC and First Contact. That movie sounds great to me
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DrNutt posted:Errbody else in this thread will be all "ugh, another REHASH" but I will be legitimately excited if we get to see Borg in the TOS setting of the JJTrek movies. If it's basically a space zombie movie and doesn't have the Queen, I'd be down for it.
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egon_beeblebrox posted:If it's basically a space zombie movie and doesn't have the Queen, I'd be down for it. Knowing our luck, the JJBorg would be lead by Locutus.
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Conquistador posted:Voyager has such wasted potential that its actually more painful to talk about the good episodes than the bad episodes What are the good episodes? I've only seen it intermittently, and they all seem to be Janeway Is Stupid, Aliens of the Week, and Oh No Borg 
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Shadeoses posted:What are the good episodes? I've only seen it intermittently, and they all seem to be Janeway Is Stupid, Aliens of the Week, and Oh No Borg Sometimes you get lucky and get a The Doctor Is Awesome episode. Because he's awesome.
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