Another great Hill/Spencer flick: Odds and Evens! I really enjoy the fight scenes these guys have, they're so comical! 🤣

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 24, 2023, 02:04:26 PMFFS Blackleaf. Ever watched an Italian movie? It's filmed IN ITALIAN. But you saw it dubbed into English.

Actually, for some of the bigger movies, they got actors from all over and they would speak their own language on set and then it was dubbed. Must've been great to shoot that way with three to five languages being spoken in one scene.

Forgive me, not a movie but it could have been. I am no Trekie but I wandered into a Voyager episode on HBO Max where a former Borg called 7 of 9 had to navigate through a radioactive nebula by herself with the crew in stasis and a hologram of a doctor. She was absolutely fantastic (what a voice), so I went back to an episode when she was being extracted from the collective. Fascinating, as Spock would say. I never knew this version of Trek was so good as I guess I didn't see them when they were issued.

Voyager episodes can be kind of hit or miss (do yourself a favor and skip Fairhaven and don't watch Threshold without a beer and a webcam for a live reaction video) but they were generally pretty ballsy and could be seriously good or unintentionally hilarious.

Seven of Nine is one of Trek's most interesting characters, even though she was initially brought onboard for sex appeal.  Just goes to show the wonders good writing can work.

My favorite episodes: Equinox, Living Witness, Course: Oblivion, the Year of Hell two-parter, Scorpion, and basically any other episode with the Borg.

Quote from: Hydra009 on October 25, 2023, 10:20:48 AMVoyager episodes can be kind of hit or miss (do yourself a favor and skip Fairhaven and don't watch Threshold without a beer and a webcam for a live reaction video) but they were generally pretty ballsy and could be seriously good or unintentionally hilarious.

Seven of Nine is one of Trek's most interesting characters, even though she was initially brought onboard for sex appeal.  Just goes to show the wonders good writing can work.

My favorite episodes: Equinox, Living Witness, Course: Oblivion, the Year of Hell two-parter, Scorpion, and basically any other episode with the Borg.

I immediately associated the Borg with religious hive-think. 7of9 is the reluctant atheist, LOL.

Quote from: Cassia on October 25, 2023, 12:18:22 PMI immediately associated the Borg with religious hive-think. 7of9 is the reluctant atheist, LOL.

I'm not entirely sure what the writers intended, but I've always gotten big communist vibes off them, which intially sounds like kind of a stretch but their totalitarian and anti-individualist tendencies arguably make that less of a three-pointer and more of a layup.

Though you're correct that Seven's experience is strongly reminiscent of someone being deprogrammed from a destructive cult.

The basic set of the Star Trek series is an excellent backdrop to explore the edges of human knowledge. There is the stuff we know we don't understand and then all that stuff we don't even know we don't understand yet, and Star Trek can ponder away with babes in catsuits, nonetheless. The movies if have seen were quite good too.

The OG Star Trek only ran from '66 to '69, the same years I was in high school. I read my first scifi book* two years earlier. When I got into some quality scifi (Heinlein, et al.) I stopped watching the TV stuff. Inadequate.




*Bullard of the Space Patrol, written the year I was born, 1951.

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 26, 2023, 08:49:29 AMThe OG Star Trek only ran from '66 to '69, the same years I was in high school. I read my first scifi book* two years earlier. When I got into some quality scifi (Heinlein, et al.) I stopped watching the TV stuff. Inadequate.




*Bullard of the Space Patrol, written the year I was born, 1951.

My father liked the original Star Trek for the mini-skirts and go-go boots, I am sure. However, they put a put a black chick and an Asian dude on the bridge.

Uhuru was a groundbreaker.

Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 26, 2023, 08:49:29 AMThe OG Star Trek only ran from '66 to '69, the same years I was in high school. I read my first scifi book* two years earlier. When I got into some quality scifi (Heinlein, et al.) I stopped watching the TV stuff. Inadequate.




*Bullard of the Space Patrol, written the year I was born, 1951.

I turned 10 in '66, the year my parents got divorced, and neither wanted me, so they packed me off to a boys' camp in East Texas where we didn't have any TVs. That was OK, though, 'cause we had lots of stuff to do. But I didn't even know ST existed until years later, so I only ever saw it in reruns. 🖖

I went to a kind of camp "a few years ago". Only saw "MASH" on summer reruns the first five(?) seasons, one episode a year. Didn't really think triage was that funny.

Summer Camp. Not for us. My parents just gave us BB guns and a house key, LOL.

My camp wasn't a summer camp, I was there for about a year and a half. I skipped the 5th grade completely, we went on many hikes, canoe trips at Caddo lake, and canoed down the Sabine River from Gladewater in northeast Texas to the Gulf of Mexico. Took us 7 weeks and a day.
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"Rear Window" starring James Stewart, directed by Hitchcock. Great flick, it's been years since I have seen it. Another reminder of just how hard most new movies suck.
I used to love people-watching in a crowded place. Nowadays, not so much. Solitude, or near-solitude are my favorite states.