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By: Spock

Spock — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:19:35 +0000

Michael Bay couldn’t make a good movie if his life depended on it.

Luckily for him he’ll never have to test that theory.

By: MC1 Doug

MC1 Doug — Tue, 26 May 2009 08:41:15 +0000

Didn’t Michael Bay direct “Pearl Harbor?”

The movie was okay, but just merely okay.

As a former history teacher and enthusiast, I was not overly impressed. Movies like this and “Titanic,” for example, cheapen the event with the storytelling style utilized.

With all the horror of both events, an honest-to-goodness movie, retelling the courage and valor of each events could have been told with pathos and true emotion without embedding a fictitious love story.

But oh wait, real history doesn’t sell popcorn, does it?

By: P Technobabble

P Technobabble — Mon, 25 May 2009 23:41:29 +0000

The thing I remember most about INS and NEM is how little I remember about those films. They offered little above or beyond what any tv episode did, and I think whoever approved those projects should have known better, or deliberately sank the ship, as crazy as that sounds.
If nothing else, the new film showed how to make Star Trek work on the big screen better than any of the other films. When the dvd comes out, we can watch ST09 and TWOK back to back. I still say, as good as TWOK was, it was not a “movie” in the same way ST09 is… but I suppose that is splitting hairs…

By: The TOS Purist aka The Purolator

The TOS Purist aka The Purolator — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:21:43 +0000

Words cannot properly express how much I hate Michael Bay.

By: Woulfe

Woulfe — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:12:55 +0000

Sid & Marty are behind the feature film of Land Of The Lost ?

I didn’t know that.

- W -
* Ponders *

By: MC1 Doug

MC1 Doug — Mon, 25 May 2009 18:52:06 +0000

#39; “Who is this Baird we don’t seem to think much of?”

I would assume it is Stuart Baird, director of Star Trek – Nemesis” who ill-directed the send-off for the Next Gen crew.

You know, it isn’t that acting is bad in Nemesis. It clearly is not. It is not that that it is a bad story, it just has elements that just do NOT belong (the dune buggy scenes, for example)…

Shinzon, not for one minute, convinced me he was capable of destroying the Romulan senate. I did not buy his rage, his naked hatred nor his ability to lead such a rebellion. This, to me, was the biggest flaw to the movie. Tom Hardy was woefully miscast. He didn’t look like, sound like, Jean Luc Picard.

It’s funny. As I recall this movie was TNG’s attempt at retelling TWOK. Why is it that TREK producers seem to feel a need to retell Khan?

Lastly, I think the character moments that Baird excised from the final cut gutted the film’s heart.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:20:01 +0000

#32

I guarantee you A&D will not equal DVC’s box office take, not by a long shot. It’s sitting at about $81 million domestic right now, and DVC had made nearly 2 x that by the 2 week mark. The bad word-of-mouth is putting the hurt on A&D in a serious way. As it likely will for TS, which really puts a nail in the Terminator franchise. They should have stopped at #2, but someone got greedy.

I’d say A&D will end up around $400-450 million. A far cry from the nearly $800 million the DVC did. Not too shabby, really.

By: sean

sean — Mon, 25 May 2009 16:11:52 +0000

I enjoyed Transformers because I think it was exactly what it promised to be. Come on, fuzzy childhood feelings aside, it was a cartoon about robots from outer space that turn into cars. How ’smart’ did anyone expect it to be?

By: Capt. of the USS Anduril

Capt. of the USS Anduril — Mon, 25 May 2009 15:42:42 +0000

#39 Stuart Baird was the director who pretty much ruined Star Trek Nemesis.