Ehh to both Hollywood and weather

[altivo]

So the promise of a dry week to follow Friday's deluge and wind has already been broken. It's been raining on and off this afternoon, and the next few days are once again filled with "chance of thunderstorms." Water in the pastures is again deeper than the top of my rubber boots, and I think deeper than it was at its peak earlier this spring. I can

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[ungulata]

I haven't noticed the sound being too loud here in the Great White North... maybe we have a kindlier, gentler sound system.

The Trek film is getting a 9 out of ten rating here, which should translate into an outstanding movie. I saw it a week ago Saturday... It was worth admission in an uncrowded theater, but only just. The doomsday plot with the mad bald villain was déjà vu all over again. I bought the 'new timeline' aspect but the over-the-top exaggerations of personas of the core cast rankled as did stuff like why carry so much red-matter and why was so little water dumped with Scotty from the emergency hatch? Oh well, with a new time-line, they can remake the whole Star Trek universe pretty much any way they please.

[altivo]

maybe we have a kindlier, gentler sound system.

Or maybe you have theatres that are not managed by kids barely out of their teens, whose evaluation of a film is based on how loud the explosions were and whether it had "great effects" (whatever that means.)

Myself, I'd rather see something resembling a credible plot and some acting that is both believable and appropriate. This film had neither.

Hollywood makes whatever sells, of course. The fault for the general crappy level of today's film output lies with the audiences who continue to flock to see the garbage, no matter how bad it is, as long as it has lots of explosions and chase scenes.

[keeganfox]

"audiences who continue to flock to see the garbage, no matter how bad it is, as long as it has lots of explosions and chase scenes." So that explains Quantum of Solace?
Worst. Bond. Film. Ever.

[altivo]

That one I can't offer an opinion about, since I didn't and won't see it. Bond consisting of nothing but violence, sex, explosions, and chase scenes anyway, I couldn't see the point of any of them.

[keeganfox]

Oh, the old Bond films were alright. Thunderball (my favorite), Goldfinger, and Dr. No weren't any masterpieces, but they at least had a story I could follow, and I didn't feel ripped off afterward.

[atomicat]

And why would you need to drill a hole to the center of the planet, black holes tend to be very VERY efficient from what I gather. Oh, and I never thought of that one, intersecting your own matter with a whole lot of water can't be good for the digestion. In all, more than the usual insanely bad logical gaffes.

I figure that the universe, being the young rebellious sort of universe, will not like being told what to do ergo we can expect to see...

Kirk drunk in a bar after being beat out by Zap Brannigan for captaincy of the Enterprise.. "They shaid I was gonna be a goddamn hero fuck! *hick!*"

McCoy gets turned into a Santaran bibble-worm the first time he works up the nerve to use a teleport.

And since the universe has a 'dark' sense of humor, the only success story is Uhuru who uses her reputation to break into the recording industry, currently CEO of "Black Hoe" records.

Down the tubes

[ungulata]

I figure the transporter disperses matter at the target location, thus air, water, rock, no difference. Since water doesn't compress too well, I hope there was a big air pocket somewhere in that system, or Scotty is going to be treated for some really nasty embolisms.

Re: Down the tubes

[altivo]

Or it incorporates and transforms the matter at the target location. Or something. They kept changing the explanations and theory all the time.

Drilling to the core of the planet in order to explode it is an old Dr Who plot, used more than once I think. At least they sort of excused it by making the villain an ex-miner.

I think the pseudo-science that bothered me most was the Enterprise escaping the black hole that Vulcan became. It was that same old Star Trek methodology: "We just make shit up."