ha-ha! You definitely need to get a job as a writer on a comedy show. Is "Saturday Night Live" hiring?
-------------- Original message -------------- From: Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keith, please...morning is *not* a good time to be screaming in horror at words on one's computer screen... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wha'?! No toupee-wearing-building jumping T.J. Hooker? Not a fan of the classic flick "Kingdom of the Spiders"? Don't you love Denny Crane on "Boston Legal"? How about the Priceline commerials? -------------- Original message -------------- From: Astromancer Honestly (going to stand behind a heavy door) I really don't like watching anything done by or starring William Sh*tner...Beyond Kirk, the man has no appeal to me... [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like someone said--Rave or Daryle, I believe--it wasn't awful. It would have been a decent two-part TV show. But it never rose to the level of quality and action that one would expect from a film. I mean, jokes about Worf developing a pimple? Troi asking Beverly if her boobs were getting firmer?? What kind of epic film dialogue is that? I groaned when I heard that. Bad enough when some actors in ensemble casts don't get much to do, but that?? Almost as bad as the embarrassing scene in the Shatner-directed train wreck "The Final Frontier" with Sulu and Chekov. Toward the end of the film, there's this muscular, well-endowed Klingon lady who struts across the screen. Chekov and Sulua are following her like a couple of teenagers, and Chekov says "Nice muscles". It was like something out of vaudeville--bad vaudeville. Demeaning those characters with that silliness was the icing on a very foul-tasting cake. -------------- Original message -------------- From: Astromancer Now wait a minute...I liked Insurrection... Tracey de Morsella wrote: As I said before, never mind...... YUK! -----Original Message----- From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lockhart, Daryle Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:58 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' world Frakes directed Insurrection. On Thu, 15 May 2008 19:39:49 -0400, Tracey de Morsella wrote: > For me, First Contact was the best of the recent Trek movies. They were > never able to recapture the magic of that movie. I wonder why they did > not > bring Frakes back to do the two follow up movies > > -----Original Message----- > From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of ravenadal > Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2008 12:12 PM > To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [scifinoir2] Re: `Star Wars' kid Abrams aims to reinvent `Trek' > world > > Which reminds me...I finally saw "Nemesis" on satellite this > weekend. It was a pleasant enough way to spend a Saturday morning at > home with an open laptop, a tankard of coffee and my morning > newspapers handy, but I would have been mad as heck if I had paid > first run movie house prices to see it. > > ~(no)rave! > > --- In scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> i hear Nimoy was pleased, so I'll keep an open mind. >> By the way, Mr. Abrams, it's "Trekkie", not "Trekker". >> >> -------------- Original message -------------- >> From: "ravenadal" >> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080501/ap_en_mo/film_star_trek >> >> By DAVID GERMAIN, AP Movie WriterThu May 1, 7:28 AM ET >> >> J.J. Abrams grew up more a fan of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo than > of >> James Kirk and his Vulcan buddy Spock. So why is a self-professed >> "Star Wars" kid directing "Star Trek"? >> >> "It was an opportunity to take what I think has been a maligned > world >> - to sound crass, a franchise - and treat it in a way that made it >> something that I wanted to see," said Abrams, who recently finished >> shooting on "Star Trek," due in theaters May 8, 2009. "To take the >> characters, the thoughtfulness, the personalities, the sense of >> adventure, the idea of humanity working together, the sense of > social >> commentary and innovation, all that stuff. To take it and apply it > in >> a way that felt genuinely thrilling." >> >> Abrams, creator of TV's "Lost" and "Alias" whose big-screen credits >> include "Mission: Impossible III," shared some "Trek" thoughts with >> The Associated Press in an interview to promote the DVD release of > his >> monster movie "Cloverfield." >> >> While he enjoyed the TV show about Capt. Kirk, First Officer Spock > and >> their Enterprise crew mates, Abrams said he was not a rabid fan. >> >> In this age of make-or-break opening weekends, the revival of the >> franchise seven years after the last movie ("Star Trek: Nemesis") >> flopped may depend on introducing a new generation to the exploits > of >> the 23rd century explorers rather than just hooking old fans. >> >> "The whole point was to try to make this movie for fans of movies, > not >> fans of `Star Trek,' necessarily,'" Abrams said. "If you're a fan, >> we've got one of the writers who's a devout Trekker, so we were able >> to make sure we were serving the people who are completely enamored >> with `Star Trek.' But we are not making the movie for that > contingent >> alone. >> >> "You can't really make a movie for them. As soon as you start to > guess >> what you think they are going to want to see, you're in trouble. You >> have to make the movie in many ways for what you want to see > yourself, >> make a movie you believe in. Then you're not second-guessing an >> audience you don't really have an understanding of." >> >> After the 1960s TV show went off the air, it remained alive in >> syndication, and the original cast led by William Shatner as Kirk > and >> Leonard Nimoy as Spock was reunited for six big-screen movies. >> >> Four more movies followed starring Patrick Stewart and the cast of > the >> 1980s and '90s update "Star Trek: The Next Generation," while the >> "Trek" universe expanded to include three other TV series. >> >> Abrams' "Star Trek" takes the franchise back to its beginning, with > a >> young cast re-creating the Enterprise crew: Chris Pine as Kirk, >> Zachary Quinto as Spock, Karl Urban as Dr. McCoy, Simon Pegg as >> engineer Scott, John Cho as helmsman Sulu, Zoe Saldana as >> communications officer Uhura and Anton Yelchin as navigator Chekov. >> >> "It's a chance to see what Kirk and Spock would look like done now," >> Abrams said. "What's thrilling about it is how great the cast is, > how >> remarkably talented and funny and just spot-on they all are." >> >> Nimoy also reprises his role as the older Spock, though Shatner - >> whose Kirk was killed at the end of the seventh movie, "Star Trek: >> Generations" - does not appear. >> >> Abrams would not share plot details, saying only that the movie > would >> remain faithful to the original while breaking new ground in action, >> drama and visual effects, which are being crafted by "Star Wars" >> creator George Lucas' Industrial Light and Magic outfit. >> >> "I feel like this is so unlike what you expect, so unlike the `Star >> Trek' you've seen. At the same time, it's being true to what's come >> before, honoring it," Abrams said. "I can say the effects for `Star >> Trek' have never, ever been done like this. ... I can only tell you >> the idea of the universe of `Star Trek' has never been given this > kind >> of treatment." >> >> Copyright C 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The >> information contained in the AP News report may not be published, >> broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written >> authority of The Associated Press. >> >> >> >> >> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >> > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > -- "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking as we used when we created them." -- Albert Einstein ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links I am me, said the stranger, and I work for the ones who pay my fee...and that's not you." - The Side Street Chonicles by C.W. Badie [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! 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