Comments on: Stiller Puts Some Star Trek Into Tropic Thunder

By: movie junkie

movie junkie — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:06:03 +0000

Robert Downey Jr. cracks me up… he’s got a knack for not taking himself too seriously

By: EnsignJulka

EnsignJulka — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:17:35 +0000

Ben Stiller’s so sweet, I liked his 30th anniversary tribute to Star Trek!

By: Trek Nerd Central

Trek Nerd Central — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:23:10 +0000

#32. Seriously? He’s more of a nerd than I am. Or maybe just a nerd with more money.

By: chasco

chasco — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 06:08:32 +0000

Am I the only one who gets an ‘AOL video is not available’ message when I try to watch the video with James Doohan?
It’s not been available for two days now.

By: DOM

DOM — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:24:12 +0000

I blow hot and cold with Stiller’s stuff. But he’s clearly an intelligent guy, which means that he’ll make the film he wants to make. And as with all such eclectic filmmakers, he’ll rarely please all of his audience.

I loved his appearance at the 30th anniversary celebration. I bought the VHS boxset of movies 1-8 and got lumped with the TV show of the event as a ‘bonus extra.’

It was such a horribly self-important event that it could only have taken place at the height of Berman Trek’s smug pomposity. Then the celebs came in and it all fell hilariously to bits. Clearly the organisers can’t have realised what the guests were going to say!

Marina Sirtis turned up and had obviously been told to talk in her Counselor Troi accent rather than her English one (annoying this Englishman!) They showed Jadzia Dax snogging another woman as if women snogging had never happened on TV before (it had plenty if Berman and co had ever looked out of the 1980s TV bubble they kept their version of Trek within!)

I nearly had a coronary laughing as Joan Collins talked about the episode where she was an evil Nazi supporter who wanted to help Hitler to win the war. And Stiller’s remarks made me realise that I wasn’t alone in still liking TOS. At that point in Trek history, the official line for fans was that TOS was a bit of a joke and that the superior TNG and its companions had superceded their ‘embarrassing’ predecessor. That’s why I disconnected from the Star Trek fan world for the better part of a decade.

The fact that that TOS was so frequently referenced in popular culture (notably by people of my age-group and a few years older) in movies and virtually remade in one or two South Park episodes made me hope that one day Kirk, Spock and McCoy would return, played by new actors.

Then, of course, Kenny G came on to the stage and the naffness of the whole thing meant I had to throw up!!!

By: JEFF

JEFF — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:19:31 +0000

There was a special Intro during a Comic-Con screening in which Stiller shows off some of his Trek Collection including the Gorn Head and the Ears used by Leonard Nimoy during Season 3.

By: Decius is Stonn, Stonn is Decius

Decius is Stonn, Stonn is Decius — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:14:31 +0000

stiller owns the original gorn head

By: THX-1138 The Fandom Menace

THX-1138 The Fandom Menace — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:44:00 +0000

BTW, if your going to dislike anyone, dislike George Lucas. He’s not even a fan of Star Wars. I mean, apparently. Clone Wars is dogsh*t.

By: THX-1138 The Fandom Menace

THX-1138 The Fandom Menace — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:42:29 +0000

You know, I’m always surprised to hear the amount of hate that Stiller can generate in folks. Some of his stuff doesn’t do anything for me, but some of it is truly funny. I don’t get the vehemence for him particularly in light that he is one of us; a fan.

Tropic Thunder looks to be one of the funniest movies to come out in a long while and I am so looking forward to seeing it.

By: Trek Nerd Central

Trek Nerd Central — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:20:39 +0000

You know, I saw that scene in Tropic Thunder and I thought, “Yo, this is going to wind up as a thread on Anthony’s website.”

Thanks for proving me right!

I got a big laugh from the scene. Best use of a Gorn reference EVER.