Today on the Audio Edition we welcome the newly engaged Darren Conley back into our fold for the Monday Round Table. Some of the topics we cover are stupid emails some people send John, the latest news on The Fantastic Four 2, Sarah Michelle Gellar signing up for The Grudge 2, the old Ben Stiller, Jack Black failed TV show “Heat Vision and Jack” getting some whispers about a big screen appearance, the new Kelsey Grammer pictures as The Beast in X-Men 3, more Bubba-Nosferatu confirmations, the death of Independence Day 2, Brian Singer saying he’s interested in doing a Star Trek film, a review of Rent and Aeon Flux and a couple of things more on a very packed edition!
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Just to echo a couple other comments:
“IV: Voyage Home” was great even without space fights.
Nemesis was a total rip-off of “Khan.” Data uploaded his thoughts and memories. They’ll just re-build him and download his thoughts, and voila, its Data! Just like in “III: Search for Spock.”
okay just listened to that part of the show…
have you actually SEEN the pilot. its a BLATANT parody of the Knight Rider/TJ Hooker type shows. that you think they’d take it seriously or worry it would be perceived as a ripoff is ridiculous.
heat vision and jack is awesome. sure its cheap but it really actually wasnt made with the idea that it could get picked up, regardless of what Stiller says… they were all busy doing other things and wouldnt have wanted to be responsible for a TV show.
this isnt the first time Jack Black has done such a project for fun…he did this other cheap-o series called “computerman” which you can watch on channel101.com
to do it as a movie, i think it would work. they’d put more effort into it, and theres way more stuff to parody there. if they could make Starsky and Hutch watchable, they can do a lot more with Heat Vision and Jack.
Fantastic Four was an okay movie even though there was only a single fight between Doom and the Fantastic Four. The sequel could be cool if they could have multiple foes just like in X-men and the upcoming Spider-man 3. I’ve read all sorts of comics for yearsand the one foe that they better not use is Mole-Man, he was the cheesiest bad guy ever.
I’m sorta glad they kept Juggernaut a non-cgi character. You can tell that Jean is already gonna kick some serious ass. Magneto and The Brotherhood, ooh I can just imagine those fight scenes. Beast and Angel look pretty cool and I am a big fan of Grammer and he’ll definetly be a damn good beast.
Bubba Nosferatu!! Oh yeah!! Bruce Campbell is back!!! Any movie he’s in is awesome.
and Congrats Darren
it’s always cool when there’s Star Trek talk. You guys should just talk about Star Trek in every Audio edition. Space fights are overrated! Look at the star Wars series.
And, about revisioning the Star Trek series, Star Trek Enterprise was created for that reason. They wanted to show the start of Star Trek.
Good call on American Werewolf in London, which is my favourite Horror. The nightmare bit with the Nazi werewolves is some scary stuff, especially when I saw it at the age of 11! Gotta love home video in the eighties! The fact the the film was set in (then) modern day England, really made the horror elements connect more with me. The carnage in Piccadilly Circus was amazing at the time.
Oops. You’re sort of right Lou. The series created by Brannon Braga and David Goyer has been pulled from the CBS lineup. It is on ‘hiatus’ and probaly will have the remainder of the eps air sometime in the future before it goes bye bye.
That’s what happens when you have TV hits with ‘Lost’ and ‘4400’- three sci-fi themed alien invasion type shows came marching out. It looks like ‘Surface’ survived the three.
Speaking of alien invasions, I did like ID4 as a popcorn film, but the better movie at the time was David Twohy’s The Arrival. Lots more suspense, intellegent, stronger villian, a decent performance from Charlie Sheen. The effects were noot bad and there’s a surprise regarding the bad guys at the end. Followed up by a crap sequel starring Starship Troopers’ Patrick Muldoon.
In any case, we don’t need ID4ever.
And I sure as hell don’t want Devlin or Emmerich touching Godzilla again should Jackson’s Kong go boffo.
Nemesis was a rehash of the The Wrath of Khan – and a poor one at that. BTW to the other poster – Darren – Spiner’s show is cancelled.
Leave Trek until CGI can seamlessly recreate the TOS cast. Then we can get some kickass movies again. TNG is too politically correct and has no sense of fun like TOS did.
Singer doing ST would be great but it will never happen.
Very funny rant Doug!
Yeah John, sympathies. I’ve been called a racist, as well as other comments meant in a demeaning manner, just because I voiced my opinion. That whole Chris Rock Oscars thing was crazy. Over Political Correctness gone mad.
Okay where to lay down the motherf’ing gauntlet.
Let’s work our way back…
1) Aeon Fux.
The character origins were on MTV in a ‘Heavy Metal’esque cartoon. While I have zero intrest in the film, and zero intrest in Charlize, (though she was in a better film last fall-North County) MTV films also backed “Election” and “Save The Last Dance”. They aren’t all bad.
2)Rent.
Two Darrens think alike. I hated Moulin Rouge. I thought it was cheese.
I loved Chicago. But no one has topped the fun of “Grease”. For me, the one that came close is the DTV “Joeseph And The Amazing Techincolor Dreamcoat’ with Donny Osmond!
I kid you not…
as for ‘Rent’. Rosario Dawson is hot, yesserie, and …well, I still have no intrest in the movie.
3) Star Trek.
I am not a Trekkie/Trekker, but Nicholas Meyer directed Undiscovered country NOT Lenord Nimoy. Didn’t this get mentioned before. By the way, Voyage Home was great- and there were no space battles. While I agree slightly about Nemesis, you forgot B4 will regain Data’s memories. I also liked Shinzon (Tom Hardy) but what bothered me…is that the twist in question had been done to death in the Trek universe.
I’d much rather have a Q appearance, or a footnote regarding Picard’s “adopted” son (yes, he did have one-sort of) While I think Singer would be cool to jump aboard after ‘Logan’s Run’, the true Trek mantle, should it continue,should be given to Manny Coto, who nearly saved the franchise, only to leave the final ep of Enterprise in the hands of the real sabateours, Ron Moore and Brannon Braga.
And First Contact was good. Don’t hand me that junk. It also had a good space battle.
And another thing….Brent Spiner has had a career outside of Star Trek. Play fair.
He was in the Aviator! He’s on a TV series right now (Threshold)..come on.
On a related note, I’d just rather have a new trek, new crew. NEW MOVIE. Sort of like the “New Frontier” Star Trek novels. Y’know?
4) X-Men 3 looks better. I wished they showed more of Vinnie Jones as Juggernaut. Maybe in the next one.
5) Fantasic Four.
There’s a character called The Puppet Master which might be looked at.
6) Blue Streak was funny. So was Nothing To Lose. Bad Boys 1 and 2 were piles of doggie doo. As was Black Knight.
7) It’s funny. I recall once I said that I ‘didn’t care much’ for “A.I” and suddely everyone thougt I hated all of Steven Spielberg’s films. In truth I only truly hated one-and I still hate it to this very day. Still, I’m not sure where this recent mentality comes from.
It seems if you don’t lke an actor in a role or director on a film, the internet dogs think you hate everything that actor or director has done and/or the somehow think there is racism or malice on your part when there isn’t any (this happened to Roger Ebert ealier this year, when he reviewed ‘Diary Of A Mad Black Woman’) so don’t sweat it, John.
Oh, the film I hated was “E.T.”
Yes, I’m serious.
No, I’m not cold hearted.
Sealer outta here.
john,
fyi, just saying a movie “it’s just bad” or “it’s a horrible film” doesn’t mean shit. that’s why your reviews don’t mean crap to me. And i’m glad Darren ruined your start of the review when you said the MTV logo should’ve warned you it would be bad.
I’m pretty sure the proposed Bubba-Nosferatu flick is going to be a prequel rather than a sequel. From what I’ve read, Campbell really digs playing a younger/middle-aged Elvis which he did briefly in the last film (the scenes with the Memphis Mafia).
Okay, I just watched the trailer for X3… and I must say I’m not disappointed like I thought I would be.
Beast looks good.
Angel’s shot where his wings expand looked good.
Juggernaut looks good. (though CGI would have been okay with me)
No complaints here. However, all I want is to see Apocalypse standing in the shadows at the end with a sweet voice.