How about a movie thread?

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Charles

Watched "The Big Lebowski" the other night. Strange, but kind of entertaining.

Hey! Nice marmot!

[Ike Bana]

The Reluctant Fundamentalist. I liked it a lot.

[icenine]

Watching the Hobbit.

I read it in the late 70s

[piece-itpete]

Watched both 'new' Star Trek movies the last couple of days.

Though I use them in avatars occasionally I'm hardly a trekkie. But I do know the shows pretty well. After all these years I still remember falling asleep as a child to the background noises of the original.

So, the first new one was pretty good (I've seen it before but I was fairly sloshed). I wonder how many hours those guys (gals) studied the original cast, it was pretty true. I'd really like a still of the Enterprise silhouetted against Saturn near the end.

I didn't like 'Into the Darkness' as much, though it was watchable. I liked when Spock shouted 'KHAN!' and when the Enterprise fell through the cloud cover.

Pete

[Ike Bana]

It came out back in the summer of '12, but we just watched "Lawless" with Tom Hardy and Jessica Chastain. We thought it was quite entertaining and...you briefly get to see Jessica Chastain with her shirt off, which is always a treat.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by piece-itpete

Watched both 'new' Star Trek movies the last couple of days.

Though I use them in avatars occasionally I'm hardly a trekkie. But I do know the shows pretty well. After all these years I still remember falling asleep as a child to the background noises of the original.

So, the first new one was pretty good (I've seen it before but I was fairly sloshed). I wonder how many hours those guys (gals) studied the original cast, it was pretty true. I'd really like a still of the Enterprise silhouetted against Saturn near the end.

I didn't like 'Into the Darkness' as much, though it was watchable. I liked when Spock shouted 'KHAN!' and when the Enterprise fell through the cloud cover.

Pete

I consider the new Trek to be brilliant myself. The players are great. One almost forgets Shatner ever existed.

I was also not so keen on into the darkness until I viewed it a second time. It was much better on second viewing.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by MrPots

One almost forgets Shatner ever existed.

No fucken way!

The Shat is the Shit.

The Shat is to Star Trek what Sean Connery is to James Bond.

[Bigerik]

The new Star Trek is just a poor copy of the old Star Trek, with the brains removed. It's incredible how they dumbed it down. And really sad. Says something about modern audiences!

[d-ray657]

Originally Posted by Bigerik

The new Star Trek is just a poor copy of the old Star Trek, with the brains removed. It's incredible how they dumbed it down. And really sad. Says something about modern audiences!

So which Star Trek is the old Star Trek? Personally, I thought The Next Generation was higher quality than the original, and offered some fairly intelligent scripts - especially the episodes with "Q." I recently watched a few episodes of "Enterprise" on Netflix and found it wanting.

Regards,

D-Ray

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by d-ray657

So which Star Trek is the old Star Trek? Personally, I thought The Next Generation was higher quality than the original, and offered some fairly intelligent scripts - especially the episodes with "Q." I recently watched a few episodes of "Enterprise" on Netflix and found it wanting.

Regards,

D-Ray

'Enterprise' upped it's game with a huge flaming space opera story arc later in its run, starting with a sort of '9/11' moment when an attack on Earth claws a big swath through Florida, killing millions. They changed Archer from a goody-two-shoes to a goody two-shoes who gets real mean when there's an existential threat to earth to deal with. I'd stopped watching early, totally missed this when the series was on the air.