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[Queequeg]

And with the Garbon and I win the movie fight

Why is it that people have something against my taste in movies?  Besides being pretentious a bit.

In the Company of Men.  Neil LaBute movies make me want to kill myself, but this was fucking amazing.  Aaron Eckhart is one hell of an actor, this is especially amazing as a directorial debut, and IIRC something along the lines of an film debut for Aaron.  More wincing laughs than any movie I've ever seen.

[Sheilbh]

Robert Downey Jr was very good. guess a few decades of heavy drug use really does make one a good actor

Robert Downey Jr was always a good actor.  I think the drug use obscured his early talent - I mean he's by far the best thing in Less than Zero and is excellent in Chaplin.

The Fantastic Mr Fox.

I really want to see this.  I was obsessed with Roald Dahl when I was a kid.

[CountDeMoney]

I got Inglourious Basterds and the new Star Trek film on DVD for Xmas.

If, in my opinion, Star Trek is yet another defamation of my childhood, I'm gonna cockpunch many of you here who went to see it.

[Scipio]

Avatar 3D.  This movie is going to suck in the home editions, IMHO.  the 3D is the best thing about it, and that alone is very good.  It's a technological argument for a style of 3D filmmaking that integrates the 3D properly, and an artistic argument for shooting Jim Cameron in the head over and over and over again.

[Josquius]

I got Inglourious Basterds and the new Star Trek film on DVD for Xmas.

If, in my opinion, Star Trek is yet another defamation of my childhood, I'm gonna cockpunch many of you here who went to see it.

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

[Korea]

Blade Runner

It was pretty good.

[DontSayBanana]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

Although there's a wonderful splice of the audiobook floating around on YouTube that turns it into audio slash fic.  Provided you don't lose your lunch at graphic descriptions of gay sex, it's funny as balls.

So consensus is that Sherlock Holmes is worth watching?  I've been afraid to get my hopes up for it because of the cartoony "Kill Bill"ish action sequences from the previews...

[Scipio]

The Bothersome Man (2006, Norway).  A bleak view of the Scandinavian version of heaven.  Or hell.  Hard to tell, really.  Or maybe it's a biting Norwegian satire on Sweden.

[Grey Fox]

I got Inglourious Basterds and the new Star Trek film on DVD for Xmas.

If, in my opinion, Star Trek is yet another defamation of my childhood, I'm gonna cockpunch many of you here who went to see it.

That's because you still think TOS was any good. Eventually, you'll see the light.

[Slargos]

Bad Lieutenant.

Fantastic performance by Cage, and a deliciously hilarious movie.

"What are those fucking iguanas doing on my coffee table?"

Precious.

[CountDeMoney]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

BUT THEY DIDNT MEET AT STAR TREK ACADEMY GODDAMMIT

[FunkMonk]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

BUT THEY DIDNT MEET AT STAR TREK ACADEMY GODDAMMIT

Now they did. Suck it.

[Slargos]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

BUT THEY DIDNT MEET AT STAR TREK ACADEMY GODDAMMIT

Now they did. Suck it.

Great movie.

[Neil]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

BUT THEY DIDNT MEET AT STAR TREK ACADEMY GODDAMMIT

Well, between Brannon Braga's folies and this terrible new movie, they've essentially ended Star Trek as a viable franchise.  Sure, they might get another mass market movie or maybe two out of the corpse, but the franchise that soldiered on for 45 years, 10 movies, several TV series, hundreds of novels and comic books and assorted gaming products, is dead.

[Barrister]

The key to enjoying the new ST is low expectations.
As you put the DVD into your machine think over the over 'Its the story of how Kirk and Spock met at Star Trek academy!'.
You will be thus prepared for the most awful fanboy piece of Trek rubbish ever and instead receive a pretty good light sci fi film.

BUT THEY DIDNT MEET AT STAR TREK ACADEMY GODDAMMIT

Well, between Brannon Braga's folies and this terrible new movie, they've essentially ended Star Trek as a viable franchise.  Sure, they might get another mass market movie or maybe two out of the corpse, but the franchise that soldiered on for 45 years, 10 movies, several TV series, hundreds of novels and comic books and assorted gaming products, is dead.

Putting aside your usually trollishness, I'm afraid you're right.

Where do they go from here?  Maybe (even probably) they can do another couple of movies based on this new cast.  But then what?  Where do they go from there?