Oh yeah, when Supernatural wants to be funny, it can be DAMNED funny, especially when it gets meta (i.e. the brothers go to a Supernatural convention, hilarity ensues). It helps that Ben Edlund, the guy who created The Tick, is a writer and producer on the show. :)
OMG, Johnny Bravo and The Boondocks!! ME SO HAPPY!
I just watched Star Trek: Nemesis for the first time. WTF was that??? I’ve always found TNG a little…off…a little kiddie show…but that had to be the offest off I’ve ever seen. Who thought that was a good idea?
JoshV
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Yup, definitely awful. Next Gen’s movies always felt like they tried to take concepts from the popular original series movies, and use them over again. Time Travel! Ship vs ship combat! But then they always managed to cock up the execution. By like, time traveling backward to a fiction future that no one cares about. Or having a terrible nemesis pulled out of the ass of the writers, with other stupid bits stuck in, like the whole intro on the desert planet the weird rapey scene with Deanna Troi, and a really terrible looking enemy starship.
Editer
2966
Oh, God, Nemesis is such a classic example of Hollywood having given up on caring if scripts make any sense at all. Just a terrible, terrible film.
It’s nowhere near the worst movie ever made, but it’s the movie that disappointed me more than any other film I’d ever looked forward to. I never imagined it would be that bad, and after Generations and Insurrection I didn’t exactly go in with lofty expectations.
Nemesis is where I gave up on Star Trek.
A lame attempt at a Next Generation version “Wrath of Khan”. Man just thinking of the dune buggy chase makes me cringe.
Razgon
2969
There is one golden rule regarding the older Star Trek movies - Every other one sucks majorly!
Well, let’s hope the reboot breaks the cycle, then.
I watched “The Stoning of Soraya M” the other night. I’m actually kind of surprised someone allowed a movie showing so many cynical actions being taken using Islam for a respectable veneer was ever allowed to be made. Normal rules these days either show Islam as some misunderstood beneovolent thing or as a bunch of cutout terrorist types.
Damn sad movie, but my wife and myself liked it.
Heh, I’ve still not seen Nemesis, I kind of refuse to. I still have positive memories of TNG and I don’t want them sullied. Insurrection was bad enough.
Razgon
2973
Isn’t that the Borg one? I loved that one, actually. But, there’s no doubt in my mind, that today the best Star Trek movies are the reboot movie(s) - While the first few are great movies, I feel they don’t hold up very well anymore.
No, the borg one was First Contact, the only one that could even come close to being “good.” Insurrection was the one with the healing planet or some crap (OMG GEORDI HAS EYES) and F. Murray Abraham in HORRIBLE makeup. Also, the Enterprise can be controlled with a CH joystick, apparently.
Ugh.
The Borg Queen was the sole reason for watching First Contact, but it was reason enough! Insurrection was terrible, though.
The borg queen was awesome, but I loved that it was a slightly lighter story as well. Also, James Cromwell. LOVE him.
JoshV
2978
I always hated the Borg queen for basically rewriting the Borg from being a hive mind to being an insect colony. The hive mind made them a much more interesting, and terrifying concept.
Yeah, that was weird, but I did like the actress who played here, which mattered more to me at the time. This is Star Trek, they’re alllllways fucking around with their own mythology. :/
Editer
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Suggest not watching, oh, 75% of the actual series episodes then. There were way more episodes like Genesis, The Child, Skin of Evil, and Sub Rosa than there were Best of Both Worlds or Inner Light.
I thought about introducing my son to TNG by getting the remastered Blu-rays and watching the series as a whole, but decided it would be a lot more efficient and less painful to watch the 36 or so really good episodes on Netflix than all 178 of them.
