Personally I thought that new Bond was the best one they've had in years. He took 007 back to his roots as an assassin and gave a realistic performance of what someone in that profession might be like. Anyone remember that 00 status was meant to be a license to kill? And can anyone really picture Pierce Brosnan (who I did like in Remington Steele) strangling a crazed African guerilla and still making it back to the poker table?
Are you kidding? Of course I can see Brosnan doing that, and if the gorilla were female, trying to mate with it. When he came back to the table, he'd smooth his hair, adjust his tie and say,"Sorry about the delay gentleman, I've just pulled out of a hairy situation."
Brosnan does that sort of thing extremely well and makes it smooth.
This is definitely true. The effects are even more amazing when you consider that Star Trek was made and 3 years before we made it to the moon.
And that's the thing that makes the show so interesting to me. The foresight that they had when we were still just orbiting people around the planet and had not yet really hit escape velocity with humans yet. You get the occasional hint of it in the show (like when they refer to a black hole as a "black sun" in
Tomorrow is Yesterday) and that makes it all the more amazing to me. The science was thought of well enough that it inspired a generation of engineers, astronauts, and other geeks to get out there and help bring us that much closer to the future we see in the show. Right now, I'm typing on a computer that's about the size of a small dishrack, with a flip-style communicator-style phone on my hip and a communicator-style Bluetooth handsfree kit on my ear. If people really want to see the influence and foresight that TOS had on human society, just think about it the next time that you get coffee from a vending machine, use your cellphone, or walk into your shopping mall and have the doors open in front of you. *That's* all thanks to TOS..
These are fighting words. Please wait for me at September 12th, 1776 in Pennsylvania. I'm coming to kick ass and reverse the polarity of the neutron flow....and I'm all out of neutrons.
'Fraid that I had my Time Hopper taken away, I was using it too much and spending far too much time in the "free love" society of Ancient Greece. Say what you want to about how decedant they were, but the ladies there knew how to live. This guy wearing opera clothes showed up, ripped a strip off me talking about chancing damaging the time/space continum through my negligence and repeated visits, pushed me into this big blue box, and exiled me to Canada.
And if I did go to Pennsylvania around that time, I'd run too much of a chance running into an ancestor. How about... hmmm, May 17, 1987 in Nassau in the Bahammas? The American dollar was strong then, and we could spend a fantastic time at one of the beach bars getting bleary eyed on Jamacian rum. First one to pass out after making an ass of himself loses. You'll have to drive though..
Total rubbish. Shatner was brilliant and his energy in the role was one of the big factors in making the show believable. For further proof of his talent just check out his Twilight Zone appearances. The Shat managed to make an unconvincing monster costume perched outside an equally unconvincing airliner set one of the most terrifying pieces of television I saw as a kid.
He had his moments, "The Doomsday Machine" and "The Conscience of the King" comes to mind. But everytime I see "The Paradise Syndrome", my inner child cries a little. And he was brilliant in the "Twilight Zone".
It's just a shame they had to remake The Changeling and suck all of the story and tension out of it. Oh, and they screwed up the Klingons badly. When I watched the movie as a kid I couldn't figure out who the guys with the foreheads were and I wanted them to get back to the Klingons that seemed to be promised by the 3 D7 cruisers. I'm still waiting for them to get back to the Klingons.
Agreed.. I think that anyone wanting to do Klingons well needs to watch three things: "Shogun", "Hunt for Red October", and "Gorsky Park". If you've never watched those, you'll never fully understand Klingons. And I still miss the original look of the Klingons as well, the foreheads still make it look too much like a novelty condom instead of something believable. That kind of head ridging should extend onto the face, down the back, and onto places like the hands and knees in a real organism.
This is pretty much the strategy I follow with every movie. Oh, and Batman Begins rocked. Wasn't there an old Batman comic miniseries where he got involved with R'as A Gul and it was revealed that Batman had done some of his early training with R'as?
There was.. and that's how he initially met Talia. Think Neil Adams drew those stories..
I've always been leery of this prequel stuff (especially after George Lucas burned us by revealing that Darth Vader was really just a troubled kid who got suckered by a psychological ploy and a series of lies that wouldn't fool a third grader). I have to agree with some of the posters that it might have been better if they'd just done a movie either with the Enterprise crew or set it after Nemesis. The idea of seeing some Hollywood pretty boy trying to fill Captain Kirk's boots makes my stomach hurt.
I look at it as they've finally run out of ideas, and elements of Harve Bennett's "Starfleet Academy" script finally made it to the screen after almost twenty years. I'm *hoping* for a good movie, I'm *praying* for a good movie, but I'll do the waiting game and wait and see.
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