Podcast #4: Chatting about Movies and Star Trek

This started out as a test of my new equipment to see if the sound quality improved (it did). Unfortunately, you should not get two guys with extensive video store clerking experience chatting about random movies. We talked for about 50 minutes! We learn that Erik pronounces “bio-pic” without the hyphen. I tend to be vocabulary-challenged and say “like”, “um” and “you know” way too much. I prepare for an MST3K version of Star Trek, and my brother ruins “Fellowship of the Ring” forever. Also, who wants us to do a list of “Great movies you may not have seen?” (Erik talks over my sarcastic line, “Have you ever heard of The Princess Bride?” Could have been a gem. Oh well.)

Recorded June 30th. I had to laugh when I heard what I say at 55:05.

 

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RedLetterMedia’s ST: Nemesis review (hilarious!)

I know I didn’t like Star Trek: Nemesis, but this really helps bring to light that I only thought of half the reasons it sucked.

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RedLetterMedia’s Generations Review

I haven’t posted in a while. To make up for it, here are a ton of reviews on YouTube that I found. These are hilarious and insightful, culminating in a wonderful takedown of Phantom Menace.

PLEASE NOTE: A lot of these have language that is NSFW.

Let’s start with his review of Star Trek: Generations:

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Where are the Star Trek crews now?

AOL has a piece on the Star Trek casts then and now.

Levar Burton is podcasting and you can follow him on Twitter? I don’t know if that’s cool or sad.

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New Star Trek: Your Thoughts?

Open thread: What are your thoughts on the new Star Trek movie?

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Sex Explosion Trek opens this weekend

In just a few days, J.J. Abrams launches his new “Kirk and Uhura’s Infinite Playlist” movie, and I am forced to admit that the Onion video I linked a few days ago was pretty much about me.

This new movie is about a car-stealing reprobate who gets challenged to enter Starfleet and he makes it to Captain despite looking like a college sophomore. From there it’s all making out with fellow officers, explosions and sky-diving. I don’t know whether they’re seeking out new life forms and new civilizations so much as doing the Dew.

I just realized that my “young, hip” reference about extreme sports is actually older than my 17 year old niece.

I think this is what we were all afraid of when…ages ago, in the early 1990s… they proposed a “Starfleet Academy” movie with all of the Star Trek cast played by younger actors. It wasn’t that it was sacrilegious to have anyone besides Shatner, Kelley, Nimoy, Doohan and the rest filling those parts… well, I’m sure for many Trekkies that WAS the entire problem… but that if not done well, the new actors would fall short and it would be a meager end to the series.

As it is, this movie looks invulnerable to failure. It’s got enough action and sex to pull in the masses and achieve a good box office take.

Nevertheless, ever since the trailers began for this movie, I can’t escape the thought: Remember when Star Trek was about exploring new planets and dealing with alien situations that were somehow allegorical to our own lives?

It’s nice to see a Star Trek movie being a big hit, but I can’t escape the feeling that it’s going to be a movie without a soul. Heck, even the dreaded Star Trek V had a soul.

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Capsule movie review – Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

It is a sign of a great movie that I love it despite the massive hippie-ness that infests the plot.

Star Trek IV is a great movie. If they needed to go back in time to fight Gorn Marines to save San Fransisco hippies to insure the future… it really wouldn’t change the fact that what makes the movie awesome isn’t the whales/macguffins, but the characterization, the dialogue (and the score). Read the rest of this entry »

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Trekkies bash new Star Trek movie as “watchable”

From the Onion News Network:
“Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’“

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My local Star Trek Museum!

I live over on the east side of Rochester, Minnesota. One fine day I was out walking when I noticed an odd blue sign in the distance. It was fuzzy and I could barely make it out…

The heck?  I’ve never noticed that sign before.  Now, it’s probably been there all along, and I’ve been passing it for years.  But how could I not have noticed that that’s the USS Enterprise on the sign!

I was still several blocks away from the sign.  It was a sunny day and I was squinting in the brightness.  I quickened my pace to get to this sign and find out what it was.  I mean, how could there be something Star Trek-related in my own neighborhood all this time and I haven’t known about it!?

My mind was racing. Could Rochester be the birthplace of Gene Roddenberry, maybe?  Couldn’t be anything to do with Shatner or Doohan, they’re Canadians.  Takei was from California or thereabouts, since he was in an internment camp during WWII.  That leaves a number of major castmembers.

Maybe Enterprise designer Matt Jefferies was born here!  That would explain why they have this schematic-looking overhead view of the Enterprise on the sign.

I was getting closer.  Now it was just across the street.

Perhaps, instead of a Trek birthplace, there was a little Star Trek museum?  This is a residential area, so maybe some Trek collector let his collecting get out of control and take over his house.  He collected action figures, bought authentic props, built dozens of models, changed all his decor to be Trek-related, and he turned his entire basement into a replica of the set, and it finally reached a point where it was either put it all into storage or turn his house into the Star Trek Museum of Rochester.  That would be pretty cool.

I crossed the street.  Now I could definitely see the details of the sign.  That most certainly is the Enterprise against the blue background!

Oh, wait.

It’s Jesus.

Well…Star Trek is practically a religion, so I wasn’t too far off.

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Wrath of Khan. 30 Seconds. By Bunnies

It’s been a while since the bunnies did a truly great movie.

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