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[Syt]

Zombieland. Hillarious.

[Capetan Mihali]

Lolita did have at least one prominent English accent... :humbert:      

An Education.

Sort of Lolita with English accents. An older man seduces a young, intelligent school girl. Pretty good.

[Josquius]

Star Trek

Surprisingly fun movie. I thought most of the characters were done well (esp. Bones, and Kirk as skirt chasing, happy go lucky, "regulations be damned" kind of guy). Most jarring was Chekov, even though his "Wiktor" scene gave me chuckles. Nice touch having Chris Pike in the wheelchair at the end.

Inevitably, a redshirt dies during their first away mission. The humor of the movie was very in line with the originals, and the pseudo science was very pseudo (esp. on black holes) as it should be.

Still, Spock and Uhura? That's just wrong.

Nevertheless I'd like to see more of this - we haven't seen Kirk's double axehandle yet.

Pseudo-science, pseudo-politics, pseudo-everything.
It was a good film but very silly, it didn't feel like it was set in a real world.
And 'The Federation is a peace keeping armada'?
I really wonder how things are set up in this universe, Vulcan has always had a odd relationship with the Federation but here it seems even moreso.

[Sophie Scholl]

This isn't TNG, The Federation is in a Cold War with at least the Klingons in the new movie if not more races.  It isn't the happy go lucky UN wanna-be Federation.

[ulmont]

This isn't TNG, The Federation is in a Cold War with at least the Klingons in the new movie if not more races.  It isn't the happy go lucky UN wanna-be Federation.

I bet they ignore most of the implications of Vulcan's destruction.  I would expect that the new Federation would be much more heavily militarized than the original one.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Star Trek

Surprisingly fun movie. I thought most of the characters were done well (esp. Bones, and Kirk as skirt chasing, happy go lucky, "regulations be damned" kind of guy). Most jarring was Chekov, even though his "Wiktor" scene gave me chuckles. Nice touch having Chris Pike in the wheelchair at the end.

Inevitably, a redshirt dies during their first away mission. The humor of the movie was very in line with the originals, and the pseudo science was very pseudo (esp. on black holes) as it should be.

Still, Spock and Uhura? That's just wrong.

Nevertheless I'd like to see more of this - we haven't seen Kirk's double axehandle yet.

That should be the title "Star Trek II: Wrath Of Kirk's Double Axehandle". Should redo the great TOS Ponn-Farr -  Kirk Spock wrasslin match.

[Syt]

That should be the title "Star Trek II: Wrath Of Kirk's Double Axehandle". Should redo the great TOS Ponn-Farr -  Kirk Spock wrasslin match.

Speaking of Kirk vs. Spock fighting. I liked Kirk making Spock angry in the TOS episode where plant spores turns everyone into peace loving hippies better.

"All right you mutinous, disloyal, computerized half-breed, we'll see about you deserting my ship."

"The term 'half-breed' is somewhat applicable, but 'computerized' is inaccurate. A machine can be computerized, not a man."

"What makes you think you're a man? You're an overgrown jack rabbit, an elf with a hyperactive thyroid."

"Jim, I don't understand."

"Of course you don't understand. You don't have the brains to understand. All you have are printed circuits."

"Captain, if you'll excuse me."

"What can you expect from a simpering, devil-eared freak, whose father was a computer and whose mother was an encyclopedia?"

"My mother was a teacher, my father an ambassador."

"Your father was a computer, like his son. An ambassador from a planet of traitors. The Vulcan never lived who had an ounce of integrity."

"Captain, please don't."

"You're a traitor from a race of traitors, disloyal to the core, rotten like the rest of your sub-Human race – and you've got the gall to make love to that girl."

"That's enough."

"Does she know what she's getting, Spock? A carcass full of memory banks who should be squatting on a mushroom instead of passing himself off as a man. You belong in a circus, Spock, not a starship – right next to the dog-faced boy."

[Syt]

Watching Judgment at Nuremburg again. In hindsight, Christoph Waltz' performance as Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds reminds me a fair bit of Maximilian Schell as the ambitious, manipulative German lawyer.

[Siege]

I just watched The Time Traveller's Wife.

I cried like a baby. I shouldn't watch time travelling movies.

[Grey Fox]

@Syt, next movie is schedule for release on Independance Day 2012.

[Tonitrus]

@Syt, next movie is schedule for release on Independance Day 2012.

They're making a sequel to "Judgement at Nuremburg"?   

[Grey Fox]

I also saw Zombieland, I had no idea Emma Stone became so hot.

[Eddie Teach]

I just watched The Time Traveller's Wife.

I cried like a baby. I shouldn't watch time travelling movies.

The conclusion you should be drawing is that you shouldn't watch sappy tear-jerkers.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Moon = Great little SF movie with another awesome turn from Sam Rockwell. It's no fun being a replicant, except when it is. Nice choices by the film makers, writer in this great addition to the "Outer Space is Driving me crazy" Genre.

9.0 convenient solar flares outta 10

Hurt Locker. Very solid Iraq movie about bomb disposal guys. Who obviously need to be a little nuts and at the same time very competent. Not an easy balancing act. Sort of a Generation Kill 2.

9.01 homo erotic fistfights outta 10

The Drowning Pool. Sequel to "Harper" with Paul Newman reprising Ross MacDonald's hard ass zen P.I.
Not quite as edgy as Harper, but still a lot of fun!

Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (of Cool Hand Luke fame etc) it's a grittier much less sexy Big Easy before the Big Easy in many ways. Good soundtrack, Big Sleep like non plot has Newman's Harper  Bogarting his way around Joanne Woodward's character's queer(meant in at least two meanings of that word) family.

8.023 doomed to depressing failure blackmail schemes outta 10

[Barrister]

Over the weekend I saw Terminator: Salvation and Star Trek.

Everyone and their dog has commented on Star Trek, so I'll keep it brief.  The movie was fun and enjoyable, I quite liked the unexpected Spock / Uhura love interest.  Simon Pegg as Scotty was fun, but I didn't really sense him as Scotty.  Chekohov as some child prodigy was somewhat interesting.  Sulu probably got shortchanged, and Bones was eerily spot on.  But I have to say: Spock just so happens to eject Kirk onto the exact planet at the exact place where Spock Prime was?   

Terminator: Salvation.  I was able to watch it at least, but thoroughly meh.