TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

I remember after Star Trek VI, there was an idea floated of a ST series starring George Takei captaining the Excelsior.  That would have been pretty cool.

That would be pretty cool!

A bit old for it now, sadly.

They could do a Captain Wesley Crusher series instead. 

[Josquius]

The Canadian Netflix is almost too good.

Better than American?

It turns up more often than the American one when I search on flixsearch.io, so subjectively better.

I've been looking for something like that site. Thanks

[celedhring]

Revenant. Loved it. A bit too long, and a bit too many dream scenes, but visually is just stunning. Such an intense film, too; the people I was with had a hard time watching it.

Di Caprio is going to win an Oscar for basically crawling and grunting for two hours though

[Malthus]

Revenant. Loved it. A bit too long, and a bit too many dream scenes, but visually is just stunning. Such an intense film, too; the people I was with had a hard time watching it.

Di Caprio is going to win an Oscar for basically crawling and grunting for two hours though

Well, that and taking the bear-rape.  He could really "grin and bear it". 

One blunder I spotted:

[spoiler]in the scene just before he rides off a cliff, he shoots his pistol - twice. Killing two different natives.

There is no way he could have reloaded it, in fact he's not shown doing so; and of course, it was a one-shot pistol.[/spoiler]

[Ideologue]

Is Barry Lyndon supposed to be a good movie?  Was watching some and found it pretty dull.

It is, and it is, mainly for the reasons Syt states.  I enjoy the picaresque aspect of it, and I like the duel an awful lot.

Baffled by Berkut somehow avoiding mentioning that the best Star Trek show only had the Enterprise in it for one episode.

[Neil]

Is Barry Lyndon supposed to be a good movie?  Was watching some and found it pretty dull.

It is, and it is, mainly for the reasons Syt states.  I enjoy the picaresque aspect of it, and I like the duel an awful lot.

Baffled by Berkut somehow avoiding mentioning that the best Star Trek show only had the Enterprise in it for one episode.

Or certainly the most complete.  TOS had a certain charm to it, and the middle seasons of TNG were also quite good.  While I certainly prefer DS9, I don't take issue with people who like some of the other works better.  But what you can't deny is that DS9 did more than any other series to create a universe for Star Trek to live in.

[Berkut]

Baffled by Berkut somehow avoiding mentioning that the best Star Trek show only had the Enterprise in it for one episode.

How would that be relevant to my point though?

[Ideologue]

Beeb said, paraphrasing, "They should make a show without the Enterprise.  It's not essential."

Berkut said, not paraphrasing, "WTF is wrong with you?"  And then you said an Excelsior show would be great.  Frankly, you seem to be at war with yourself over the issue.

Or certainly the most complete.  TOS had a certain charm to it, and the middle seasons of TNG were also quite good.  While I certainly prefer DS9, I don't take issue with people who like some of the other works better.  But what you can't deny is that DS9 did more than any other series to create a universe for Star Trek to live in.

Oh, I don't take issue with 'em.  TOS is a colorful, wonderful pop experience, and remains iconic for a reason, even if (taken as a whole) it's barely coherent.  The TOS movies are obviously great overall, too (I've said before I'd trade all 80 episodes to save the films, if that was the choice I had to make).  TNG likewise is fantastic.  Voyager... well, it sucks, and so does Enterprise, but there's no accounting for taste.

DS9's completeness, as you put it, is definitely its signal virtue.  Season 7 is a mess, the first two seasons fluctuate between basically okay and boring, but its treatment of the Dominion, the Cardassians, the Klingons, the Romulans, and even the Federation itself--that is, of the Star Trek universe--is by far the most coherent and fascinating world-building in the whole franchise, which otherwise has always taken its cues from TOS' Silver Age Comics, "and then they met a space god" style of storytelling, even when (as in TNG) there was some vague commitment to continuity.

For my part, I'd rather see a Trek show with no Enterprise simply because the Enterprise is kind of played out, and the Trek cosmos is so much bigger than just one starship.

[jimmy olsen]

Ide, go watch the film I'm talking about in the Korean thread. I think you'll like it.

[11B4V]

Fuck the Fed's. Go with a series on the Klingons.

[Eddie Teach]

Why aren't there more non-humans in the "United Federation of Planets"? Considering the series' chronology, the human population outside of Earth has to be negligible. If the Federation is just Earth, Vulcan, and whatever colonies we made in a few centuries or less, that's not much of one.

[Ed Anger]

Fuck the Fed's. Go with a series on the Klingons.

Old Klingons at that.

[CountDeMoney]

1) Star Trek without the USS Enterprise isn't Star Trek.  So knock it off, people.


2) Thanks to Hulu and DramaFever, I am balls ass deep into K-dramas. It's as if Beverly Hills 90210 got gangbanged by the Carebears in a porno shoot for Tiger Beat.  I'm so ready to find love with the right chaebol. 

[11B4V]

1) Star Trek without the USS Enterprise isn't Star Trek.  So knock it off, people.

DS-9 best Star Trek.......

[jimmy olsen]

Why aren't there more non-humans in the "United Federation of Planets"? Considering the series' chronology, the human population outside of Earth has to be negligible. If the Federation is just Earth, Vulcan, and whatever colonies we made in a few centuries or less, that's not much of one.

The four species that would found the Federation were the Humans, Vulcans, Andorians, and Tellarites.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Federation_history#Foundation_and_early_development

List of members

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Federation_members