DSL's Movie/TV Reviews and Discussion

[iam416]

Or a ship to Ogallala. Or Montgomery. I'm not too picky.

[THE_WIZARD_]

prickus substantious

[CGVT]

Heh, you made me think of the very first Star Trek movie. There's a scene where Scotty picks up Kirk in a transport ship to take him to the Enterprise.

I swear the scene lasts close to five minutes where William Shatner just stares out the window looking like he desperately wants to fuck the spaceship and Scotty giving him a knowing look the whole time. They just keep circling around and around the ship and it goes on forever. I GET IT, GUYS! NICE FUCKING MODEL!

A couple of the scenes reminded me of the opening scene of Spaceballs where the ship went on and on and on. Ha!

[THE_WIZARD_]

I wish your ship would go on and on and on and fall off the earth.

[CGVT]

I'm just waiting for it to come in. It may have sunk

[THE_WIZARD_]

shaddup

[Tom W]

A couple of the scenes reminded me of the opening scene of Spaceballs where the ship went on and on and on. Ha!

That first Star Trek movie was brutal.

It was pretty obvious that most of the cast approached it with as much enthusiasm as a high school reunion.
Adding muppets might have made it more watchable.
It's no accident that it's almost never shows up on cable.

[AlabamAlum]

Vger!

[AlabamAlum]

-Vger
-Khan!
-Dead Spock in McCoy
-Save the Whales
-Search for god - yours is the greatest pain
-Klingon Shakespeare

Of these, Khan is, by far and away, the best. Only a few nagging flaws.

[AlabamAlum]

Ranked according to me:

1. Khan
2. Klingon Shakespeare
3. DSiMc

A lot of people liked Save the Whales. I thought it was too Captain Planet or Ferngully to be enjoyable. but it was better than Vger and Search for God (the latter being the worst of the entire lot).

[Dr. Strangelove]

I like the whole concept of Vger. The movie is just fucking boring. But Persis Khambatta is hot. She deserved a better career.

I'm probably in the minority as saying I think Search for Spock is the worst film after Star Trek V though. That movie's effects look cheap as shit, way worse than Star Trek I

I think the conventional wisdom is that the even-numbered films are the good ones. Odd numbered ones are the weaker.

But that Shatner line and the way he delivers it from V: "What does...God...need with a starship?" is possibly the best line of the entire series. Other than just screaming KHAAAAAAAN

[AlabamAlum]

Dead Spock in McCoy had them stealing the jalopy Enterprise and going to Vulcan. And Christopher Lloyd as the Klingon commander was some great outside-the-box casting.

Search for God could have been great. Worked too hard to make Sybok into a Rasputin-Svengali hypnotist. It lost its way. Badly. It also is the lowest rated of all the Star Trek films on Rotten Tomatoes at 22% - and deservedly so, imo.

[Dr. Strangelove]

Ranked according to me:

1. Khan
2. Klingon Shakespeare
3. DSiMc

A lot of people liked Save the Whales. I thought it was too Captain Planet or Ferngully to be enjoyable. but it was better than Vger and Search for God (the latter being the worst of the entire lot).

II
VI
IV
I
III
V

I get where you're coming from on SAVE THE WHALES. It's just a cute film. Not a great Trek or sci-fi one. I think it turned the biggest profit though

My dislike for Christopher Lloyd Goes Klingon is probably my only controversial take

[froot loops]

I don't know which one is the best, but I know IV is by far the most rewatchable of the bunch. That movie was on and endless loop on cable. Khan might have been better, but it was made before cable was everywhere. Me and my friends ways got a kick out of Shatner swimming underwater.

[AlabamAlum]

And speaking of “KHAAAANN!!”, “What does …god need ….with a starship?” There were some other great lines and dialogue:

Khan’s “Allow me to introduce you to Ceti-Alpha 5’s only remaining - indigenous- life form.” The whole cat-and-mouse stuff in the nebulous

Klingon Shakespeare, “You haven’t heard Shakespeare until you’ve heard it in its original Klingon”.

Dead Spock: “That green-blooded son of a bitch! It's his revenge for all the arguments he lost.”