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angkor writes "Paramount claims merchandise sales have exceeded $4 billion over Trek's lifetime; 470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus." And that my friends, is why Nemesis didn't even have to be a really good movie.
mmmmmmm princess madeleine...
PHIRST POAZT
But it was!
And you thought live long and prosper only applied to Vulcans!
A life sized Beverly Crusher... Maybe.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
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At least they found a new way to skill the red-shirt guy on the bridge.
I have, I suppose, like all men, wondered what it would be like to have a larger cock. I have, once again, like a lot of people seen the 'freaks' in porno movies who have horse like dicks and thought to myself - 'That can't be normal, most people aren't like that surely.'
But in the back of your mind, you always wonder. Now let me say from the outset that I have nothing in my pants to brag about and although through the years I seem to have been able to satisfy most of the women I have been with, there has never been more than one or two who have, afterwards, made favourable comments either about my length, girth, performance or stamina although they have commented favourably about the over all performance. Perhaps they were just being kind not saying much at all.
Yes, I could say it is because they were so fucking exhausted, they couldn't say anything, but of course that would be lying. I suppose though, if I think back amongst all the women I have had sex with, similarly, there have only been a few that I have thought to be outstanding for one particular reason or another and with them, I have made that very obvious.
I don't think any of them have had particularly small cunts - all the more reason for doubting myself. There has, however, been a couple that have had particularly well-developed cunt muscles and that has made all the difference for both of us. Once again, I now wonder why that was necessary.
There was another whose cunt inner walls were very ribbed and that was sensational. The only trouble with that was that those ribs were made to make you come and come I did. Luckily she was in the days when I was young enough to recover quickly and start all over again and again.
There was another who much preferred me up her arse mind you she had a huge cunt. Her husband once told me "It was like chucking a bit of string in a Cathedral."
There was another who had bushes of body hair everywhere she could cover up. That I found to be magnificent; I couldn't get enough of her.
I suppose that brings me inevitably on to the issue of size and my size in particular. Well here goes. As I have, for as many years as I can remember, been aware of my size and the issue of whether or not I was big enough, I can tell you that I always seem to have been around 7.5 - 8inches long with 4.5 - 5 inches in girth (that girth measurement is not around the head of my dick because I know that is bigger by about another half inch or so and therefore does not give the true measurement over all).
I therefore thought it was about time to go in search of facts and figures of prick sizes and on methods of improving what I have. With the web now so available to us all and virtually anything you want to research on there, I found no trouble in coming up with many different solutions to my 'problem'.
However, a new problem then developed. Did I want to spend a lot of money on contraptions for the outside of my body and tablets and potions for the inside of my body that might not work anyway? Many years ago, I had had one of those suction pumps that were great fun and made your dick look VERY impressive for as long as you had it on, but as soon as it came off, you were back to square one.
I really did give that one a go for a long time simply because I could see the result I wanted to achieve when it was in operation, but try as I might, it just didn't work for me. One of my friends who I confided in (after a particularly fine foursome where it was difficult for everyone not to be exposed to everyone else) suggested pills.
After some thought, I really couldn't understand how any pill would be able to aim just for your prick and enlarge that, surely there were other similar muscles in your body. And in any case all the pills were 'natural' or 'herbal' and easily available without prescription and that made me sceptical as well.
But then I came across a couple of exercise programmes on the web that were not going to cost me anything and could easily be done in a few minutes of privacy. I won't tell you the names of the sites I got these off otherwise you are going to think this is some kind of advert and not fact at all. However, if anyone wants to contact me, they can and I will give the name of the site to you then.
I started about three months ago and it seems to be having an effect. You can't just do the exercises on their own, you also need to strengthen up the muscle between your balls and your arse for the greatest effect - I will go in to that later.
Each day, I do a warm up whereby I take a shower and whilst still in there, I lather up the old tool and put my thumb and forefinger in an 'O' around the base and pull away from me. I found it best to have my hand the way round that kept the rest of my fingers furthest away from my body when I pulled.
I didn't pull my dick straight out from my body, it always felt most effective when I pulled it almost straight down. I would take each pull slowly so it took me about five seconds to pull down from the base to the head.
I, of course, have always found this to be quite stimulating and would become semi erect by the twentieth to thirtieth pull. Unfortunately, I have never been able to determine if this will slow down the effect I am having on my size or not, perhaps someone could let me know.
After I have done it with one hand about fifty times (always lathering him up frequently as I go) I change hands and pull it down the other way. I am not suggesting that you should pull it slowly down to one side and then the other, I always try to pull it straight down as I have never had any kind of bend on mine.
I suppose that if yours has got a bend in it and you don't like that, (heaven knows why, I have always thought that looked great on blokes, but there again, I don't know if it effects the way you can fuck) you could always slowly pull your dick in the opposite direction to the bend and see if that helps.
Once you have done about fifty pulls with both hands, you need to then gently play with your dick, (not a bad thing) whilst still in the shower to kind of let it get over what you have just done to it.
Just a couple of words of warning, if you are going to give it a try but have had in the past or can get hold of any professional advice now that suggests that, for what ever reason you shouldn't try it, then don't, it just might not be for you. But if you feel confident that it is safe for you and you would like to give it a try, build up to the exercise, don't go mad and do too much straight away.
I must admit, I did it too hard, for too long to begin with and it damn well hurt. My prick went a bruised colour and I felt sure I had done some kind of permanent damage. Luckily I hadn't, but it taught me a very good lesson. I started the second time with just ten pulls with one hand and then the next day, ten pulls with the other.
Soon, I was up to ten pulls per day with both hands and gradually, I have tightened my grip to pull harder as the weeks have gone by, also increasing the number of pulls.
Obviously, this is what works for me and everyone is different. If your prick is used to a lot of battering then you should be able to start stronger that if it isn't, but take it easy and take it steady.
I have now been able to graduate to being able to do it anywhere at anytime I have privacy, I no longer need some kind of lubricant, but my first pull of the day is always in the shower, with the warmth and with the soap, that kind of warms me up for the day. It doesn't take long to whip the old trousers down, say when you go for a pee, instead of standing at a stall, go into a cubicle and you can do a quick pull as well.
The other main thing to watch out for is where you are pushing the blood that is already in your prick as you begin each pull down from the base. Obviously, as your grip gets tighter and you pull down harder, you are going to trap the blood and try forcing it out the end - ouch!!!
For those of you like me who have a foreskin, you will find that it tends to have a semi permanent redness about it as though it is sore and to a certain extent it is. For those cut guys, I don't know what to say because I don't know any cut guys who are doing the same exercises.
What I have tended to start doing as the girth has improved is to continue with the downward pulls, with an ever increasing grip, but not go to the knob end. I now usually stop half way down, pull my foreskin back and then continue with the pull. I only ever go as far as the head. I have never continued my pull over it.
My pulling sessions now normally finish with an extended pull for the final time. That is to say, when I decide I have had enough and things are starting to get a bit tender (which they can if you don't always use lube), the last gripped pull reached the head and I stay there, still pulling for say another ten or fifteen seconds and then slowly let go.
My relaxation period (when I am not at home) always tends to be taking hold of him and gently squeezing him a dozen or so times until things feel back to normal (don't forget, this can be quite exciting and when you leave the loo, you don't want to be walking around the office with a damn great lob on, do you - or do you?).
What effect has all this had? Well, I think it has changed me in several ways, both physically and mentally. First of all, the one you have all been waiting for, what has it done to my dong?
Well when you consider that all these 'enlargement' sites tell you that although you will see change in a few weeks, for the best effect, you must keep doing it for at least a year. I can report that there is not much change in length - you remember I used to be 7.5 - 8 inches (could I really claim 8, well sometimes, just perhaps, maybe if I was quick enough with the ruler) well now, on many occasions there is definitely eight, perhaps a tad more, or is that just my imagination?
But it is the girth where there has been significant change - you remember it was 4.5 - 5, well now I can truly claim an increase to 6 inches at least and you can really feel the difference. When it is flaccid, it used to be about 3 - 3.5 inches, now it is 4 - 4.5 inches dependent on the temperature, you men will know what I mean by that.
And it seems to have been noticed as well (and this is where the mental effect comes in), because the girth has changes size, so has the head, although I have not measured the head yet when fully erect, taking into consideration the increased girth measurement, I would say that it is now in the region of 6.5+ inches, and that shows!!!
When I now have sex, there is a lot more squirming takes place by my partner when we are trying to get me up inside her. She can definitely feel that something is very different and when I am fully up inside of her, she shakes gently, holds me perfectly still as far up inside her as she can get me and squeezes him a lot more with her cunt wall muscles.
When she finally lets him go so that we can start moving, she now loves the feeling of the rim of the head of my dick scraping along the inside walls of her fanny. She also seems to be a lot noisier when she cums.
Now the other thing I thought I better mention is that muscle just behind your balls - I can't remember what it is called but I think it was once referred to as the PA muscle, but there again, it doesn't really matter what it is called as long as you exercise the right one.
All the sites I have found say you must exercise this along with the other pulling exercises and the way to do this is by clenching your arse cheeks together time after time after time. The way I checked which one it was, was to wait until I went for a pee and stopped myself from peeing once I was in full flow. Now the one you can feel yourself clenching is the one you have to exercise.
The sites also say that you can do this at anytime and in any position, laying down, standing up or sitting down. When I went for a pee and stopped myself, the muscle I felt was directly between my balls and my arse but when I started exercising, in certain positions it felt as though I was exercising a completely different muscle up inside my arse.
I don't know if this is the same muscle or not, but to be sure, I feel far more confident exercising when I am sitting down, particularly upright say when in the office or driving. And you really can do it anytime, anywhere no one will ever know what you are doing.
I can't recall any of the sites actually explaining why it is necessary to excise this thing but I have gathered from the way the sites are written that it will help us with our self control and the stiffness of our cock when erect - so exercise I do.
They also suggest that you need to build up to where you are clenching it hundreds of times a day in batches of say fifty at a time. This may sound a lot, but it really isn't IF YOU CAN REMEMBER TO DO IT. It is so easy to forget, but I have now got myself into a frame of mind where it just cums to me second nature now and I almost don't have to think about it, I just find myself doing it.
I do it slowly now but I started where I didn't hold the clench for very long because I found that if I did, it didn't take many clenches before it started to hurt as though I had strained it. Now, fifty takes me about ten minutes, that's all, and if I want to, I can start another fifty straightaway.
Obviously, I don't count them, otherwise I would never be able to concentrate on what anyone around me was saying or what other traffic was doing, I just know how long I have been doing it for each time, but I can really feel the difference in the size of the muscle, now all I have to do is learn how to use that better muscle to my advantage. Once again, if anyone could help me out on that one, I would be most grateful.
All these 'enlargement' plans claim -
Permanent penis enlargement - well, we will see, so far, so good
Experience multiple orgasms - can't say that one has worked on me yet
Curvature straightening - never had a curve
Increased sexual stamina - I can certainly last a lot longer now, maybe too long, you have to be careful here.
Cures and prevents impotence - cleaver one this, I suppose they can always turn round and say you might have suffered if you hadn't exercised.
Bigger penis head - definitely and it's great.
Rock hard erections - haven't needed too much here although I would say there is certainly an improvement.
Increased levels of semen - hard for me to judge because I love to cum so frequently, but that's another story, however, the girlfriend did go away recently for a couple of days and I was able to leave myself alone (except for exercising) for that time, when she got back and I whipped her straight off to bed, I nearly drowned her.
More confidence and better sex - definitely, when you can't sit down with your legs together or you are always having to make yourself comfortable down there, you know you are doing SOMETHING right and that transfers over to when you get her into bed. And it's great when you can sense that she feels the difference, you almost want to smile. With the increased flaccid state, you feel far more confident getting caught around the house. But the best bit is when you are on top of her and in a press-up position so that she can look down you and she sees what is about to hammer her and she makes that quiet little noise in the back of her throat and can't wait to get her hands around it and guide it into her slowly so that you don't hurt her -That's fucking brilliant.
Anyway, that's how if has worked and is still working for me. If you feel it can benefit you, why not give it a go. If you have tried something else and it has worked, why not share it with the rest of us so that we can all benefit.
Until someone cums up with a better solution on how to get your hands on your own member and make big improvements to its size - all free of charge, I am just going to keep pulling away and clenching with my exercises and see what I can achieve. I hope for some improvement to the length, more than I have achieved so far, and a continued improvement to the girth and head - I will measure it sometime for you if anyone is interested.
Please let me know what free improvements you have been able to make to your own meat and how you have been able to make them. Please don't exaggerate, hopefully you can see that I have tried to be as factual as possible with no exaggerations as at the end of the day, we are only trying to make ourselves act and feel better in life and that can't be a bad thing.
I really hope this helps some of you guys out there who have felt like I have in the past.
Good exercising and good luck.
...and what was that industry claim, again, about how pirate DVD's are hurting the industry...and why anyone should care?
Or does the USD$4bil include estimates of perceived gain as well (as opposed to projected loses)?
470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus.
I do not want to start a flame war here, but this is exactly the kind of nonsense that these Free/Open Source hypocrites don't like to talk about.
"Oh dear, no way would I use Microsoft products. Everything should be free! Free software, free tech support, free ISPs, etc."
Then they go out and spend several thousand dollars on Star Trek, Star Wars, and Lord of the Rings memoribilia each year. And these are probably families who are barely scraping by on, say, $30,000 or so each year, which doesn't go a long way with two kids, a house, a dog, utility bill, mortgage, car payments, insurance, schooling, etc.
I just wish folks would budget their money more wisely. Use that computer you claim to know so much about and buy Quicken or something. It will really save you dearly in the end, and perhaps save your family.
The US has been in an ecomonic pit for the past two years. Now's not the time to be spending money on whatever you damn well please. I realize it's Christmas, but ask yourself if you'd rather have three meals a day, or some new LOTR costume that you can prance around the woods in.
Don't mean to sound vicious or judgemental or anything, I just worry about our nation's families and whether people are budgeting money properly. (I'm an accountant!)
There are so many serious problems with that article that it is hard to take it seriously.
First of all, it refers to Rick Berman as the "new" honcho of Star Trek. Huh? He has been the honcho for more than a decade.
Second, it "buries the lede." That is a journalism phrase to indictate that the most important element of the story has been pushed to the bottom. At the end of the article you will find that "Enterprise" is the lowest rated Star Trek show in history, achieving one third of the ratings of Voyager. And Voyager's ratings were always quite low.
Sometimes an editor gets an idea for an article and it remains despite the article no longer representing the headline. The headline wants you to believe Star Trek is continuing to be lucrative for Paramount, but when you read the article you begin to scratch your head. The box office chart is not adjusted for inflation and if it was, you'd see each movie seems to do basically less worldwide box office with each iteration.
Etc etc
Why would someone pay that kind of money for a big giant borg doll when Realdoll sells one that actually looks pleasent. If you need companionship due to your nerd induced ugliness and low social status, don't compound your unnattractiveness by screwing a giant borg man. Go buy a sexy lingerie doll and pretend its a real girl, its good practice for pretending you actually have a life.
--Nuintari
slashdot : where an opinion can be wrong.
Wow, a life sized LoB model? And here I was happy with my Borg Cube Christmas ornament! "We are the Borg, Enjoy your hollidays, Resistance is Futile!"
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather
because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs
They ain't too smart!
is pre- or pro- Roddenbury?
You geeks waste SO MUCH MONEY ON CRAP! You would pay 1,000,000 for a piece of shit!
And how much does ass cream Taco make a year? For publishing the same story yet again???
I wonder why they didnt use the RIAA method of calculating sales. I bet the 'actual' number would be around 300 trillion.
Lets see, you have to count lost sales as 'stolen revenue', so every time someone looks at an episode of star trek without watching commercials, lost revenue. Every utterance of a copywrighted line from any star trek, lost royalties...you get the idea...
Shut up...its funny to me, but Ive been up since the day before yesterday doing networking layouts...
Intel has made lots of money off of computer processors, but to say that they can release a substandard chip and not care about it is wrong.
It's the same way with Nemesis. I've sworn off seeing these Treks in the theaters anymore. After Insurection and now this turkey of a movie, I've decided it just isn't worth it. I'll wait until someone else buys the DVD, or I'll download it from Kazaa. If you take into account that I saw the STII:TWOK in the theater three times and STIV:TVH twice, I think it's safe to say that Paramount stands to lose money from bad movies.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
I'm a pretty big trek fan, as trek fans go, and I REALLY liked the film. I'm terrible at writing reviews without giving away plot hints, but I'm here to say that it was probably my #3 favorite trek film.
One thing, though. I can see people interested in Locutus, Borg Queen, Khan, or a few other star trek-related bad guys. But this film's bad guy? He's just picard with a narrower, younger head. He was still a good bad guy, I thought, but I don't think he has the sinister style that sticks with people like the other bad guys I mentioned.
But anyway, go see the movie... it was excellent.
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
...replicas pay you!
All jokes aside, what makes you think all that stuff was bought by Slashdot readers? Why do you link nonuse of Microsoft products to a belief in entitlement to free software, etc., when attacks on M$ here are usually over its business practices and/or the quality of its products? And what makes you think all sci-fi fans/collectors are in families scraping by on $30k a year? Do you have any facts to support any of this at all?
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its no the movie or the tv shows that make its money its the star trek universe itself. although it was the shows/movies that get people into that universe... that said nothing good will come of this.
Imagine, if you will, Han Solo suddenly found himself beseiged by the Enterprise. Would the Millenium Falcon be able to defeat Captain Kirk?
I'm pretty sure the Millenium Falcon would easily be able to defeat the Enterprise. Really, the Enterprise is a sluggish science vessel whose captain was more interested in chasing alien pussy than anything else. All it did was chug along on a straight course, and could do none of the fancy aerobatics that the Millenium Falcon was capable of.
This doesn't even bring up the fact that photon torpedos and phasers don't exist; they're literary constructs without any basis in science.
Not to mention that Han Solo was much more cunning and skillful than Captain Kirk. Plus who would you want as your sidekick: Chewbacca, or Doctor Spock - a man who basically sounds like a HP-48 calculator come to life? Also, the Enterprise was burdened with Scottie, a man who was always first to freak out whenever the Enterprise was asked to do anything more than idle. But that's the English for ya! In any event, do you really think the skill of someone who spent half his time trapped in the holodeck could outwit a man of Han Solo's skill?
I think not.
Really the only thing that the Enterprise had going for it were the transporters. I'm sure the Millenium Falcon's shields would repel these like rain off oiled canvas.
All in all, it seems like the Enterprise would have a hard time fending off the Millenium Falcon.
Personally, the only reason I watch Voyager is to get an eye-full of Jeri Ryan wearing that skin-tight catsuit, and to laugh at that snivelling idiot Berman because the only reason Jeri Ryan is shagging him is to make sure she gets a part on the forthcoming fifth installment of the Berman/Braga celebration of shit.
I've sworn off seeing these Treks in the theaters anymore
Star Trek is TV, not movie fare. Despite having been a great fan of the franchise (books, tech manuals, models, etc. when I was much younger - I'm 40 now), I've never seen a ST film in a theatre. It's not worth the money - Star Trek is the Malk version of milk when it comes to science fiction. No amount of teeth-shattnering, ear-blasting, logofied THX sound effects or gonzo CGI will change this.
Who the hell bought that Trek chess set from the Franklin Mint? (Does anyone really fall for that $30/month .. for the next five years. [Do the sales people get a Five Year Commission?])
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
You have no idea what you are talking about. Free software is about freedom to reuse, redistribute, and change software that you use. That has nothing to do with whether you pay for the software or not. I have paid a lot of money for free software over the years, as have many other people. In fact, tech support and services are some of the main ways in which free software advocates recommend making money with free software.
Don't mean to sound vicious or judgemental or anything,
No, you just sound stupid.
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...CHILDREN save YOU!
i'm sorry but nemesis was a good movie.
You can't make fun of religion
If Trent Lott used the word "niggling" in a sentence, do you think the dumb fuck democrats would call for censure for him being a racist? I think so. The entire African Black Caucus or whatever in the Congress would call for his resignation. ROFL.
Precisely. Churning out these heavily advertised schlock movies is no longer about quality, and hasn't been for quite some time. Back when Star Wars prequel 1 was in the works I was working in the special effects industry, and a full year in advance of its release date I remember hearing from the higher-ups at Lucas that the movie was already guaranteed profitability, because of all the merchandising follow-ons and themed advertising partnerships that were already in place. It made me feel ill, and I have refused to go see prequel 1 or 2, and in fact will not see another star wars movie. I'd rather have the time for other experiences.
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- First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then ???, then profit.
So they learned from George Lucas's book "How to turn 4bil without even trying that hard casue your fans will follow you off a cliff". Dont blame the studio, blame the fans for blinding following. If the fans stood up and said "hey we arent going to take this" then maybe the studios would listen and stop making movies that suck. But until then we are all going to have to put with bad movies.
Seriously. If people are spending money on Locutus of Borg dummies (how much would a lifesize, vibrating 7 of 9 go for?), you know that they would buy a PCS phone that looks like a classic trek communicator. Paramount can't be so much above being greedy that they cannot have figured this one out.
Then again, maybe that would push the creation of the Church of Star Trek, and if you watch Futurama, you know what that means...
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Even adjusting for inflation doesn't do it. You have to adjust for changes in ticket prices, which have accelerated well beyond inflation. Throw that in, or look at the actual number of tickets sold, and the picture gets even grimmer.
Everyone knows the Borg are an evil, closed-source monopoly.
"For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled." -Feynman
...OKay, I occasionally get MOD points which I really enjoy using. I usually focus on modding up/rather than down. It is completely solipsistic to use mod points to mod someone down just because you don't like what they have to say, just for expressing an opinion. Y0w! Isn't that what we're all here for?
The original post0r was doing just that. Exprssing an opinion, not intentionally fanning the flames of ignorance. Apparently that was the moderator's job in t1hs instance. Offopic? That shit was about as on-topic as you could want, tho brief, and not terribly expressive. That too is/should not be cause for an Offtopic mod. And if your MOD turns up on my meta-mod list, trust me my f1rend you will feel The Stark Fist of Removal.
Oh well. Moderating/Meta-Modding was phUn while it lasted but I felt it had to be said.
Quod scripsi, scripsi.
Now it's considered a troll to put forth your own opinion?
What's the difference between star trek and star wars?
Can someone explain it?
Thanks so much!
Jenny
two reasons even their built-in audience might give this a miss:
one and two
the people who own/write/act/produce trek are bored with their cash cow
'Be the change you want to see in the world' - Al Gore
- It incorporated the theme from the TOS movies. While the original TV theme is a requirement, the TOS movie theme is the domain of the TOS cast, in my opinion, and shouldn't have been used in a TNG movie.
- The Star Trek logo was changed in a way just for this movie. While it might have been appropriate to change the Star Trek logo for a genre of movies, such as all TNG movies, or a trilogy of TNG movies at the smallest subset, changing it for just one movie is just too haughty.
Brent Spiner obviously put his heart and soul into this movie. But he wasn't humble about it, for the above reasons, and because he went through the whole movie with that p***ed off look. I can't believe I haven't read the comment on Slashdot yet, "Why was Data constipated the whole movie?"Every appearance of this movie was not that it wasn't intended to be just another movie in the franchise (as suggested by this article, being published at the time of the movie release), as Insurrection was (it was just a TNG episode, not an epic). This was intended to be a good movie, and I might have even thought it better than ST8 if it hadn't been for the haughtiness.
470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus.
Wow, 470 people .. times 5000 dollars apiece .. carry the 2...
That's almost 2 billion right there! Damn!
This looks like a job for... WHEATON-MAN!
Like a bolt of lightning from the skies, WHEATON-MAN shall materialize within this article, and make a comment about the MILLIONS he's (not) made from Wesley Crusher dolls.
Then, like a bolt of lightning that goes back from the ground to the sky (or something like that, humor me here), WHEATON-MAN shall leave us, never to return (unless he comes back).
Yup.
The domain fetish-is-futile.com IS available, for what it's worth.
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.
I thought that over all, it was a good scifi movie. It had the visuals, cools toys, and special effects that looked good. The acting was actually far better then I thought it was going to be, especially the bad guy Shinwa (or however they were saying the name) and Picard. The way that the film makers made you think about origins and the way one turns out in life was cool. However, I had a hard time believing that a human that grew up with a bunch of aliens would have an English accent, but whatever. He was still a dark and ominous character. I do remember some of the series plotlines and character relationships, so it was nice to see the way that some of them have evolved. This aspect seemed well done, especially when you consider that this is the last film. I also liked the way that Data went out, that was pretty suprising.
In response to your first point, I think the old theme was used to signal a change in the TNG films. "Generations" and "Insurrection" were basically about saving some no-name planet or no-name people from something no one cares about in the first place; "First Contact" was more or less a continuation of the series. "Nemesis" was an entirely new story line and focused on saving Earth.
:-) )
On your second point, if you change the title for a subset of movies, there always going to be a first movie in the series; in other words, how do you know there will not be more movies that continue the story line. ("The Search for Data"
I thought the acting was great in the movie. The antagonist role was almost too reserved (usually a part that is over-acted in Trek films).
And they still havent made any money
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I'd say no stones have been cast.
-B
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I saw it, and loved it.
I was appalled by the review that R. Ebert gave it. I can't trust him to dis bad movies anymore because he "shit the bed" on his remarks about Nemesis. He might plug some pretty good ones, but how can we trust a critic who spoils one of the best scenes late in the movie? Don't trailers do enough of that!
As for this article, people have already pointed out how flawed the research is.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Indeed, Nemesis sucked. One of the most brain-dead "sci-fi" movies I've paid money to see in a long time. Almost as stupid as "Enterprise" which ought to be renamed "60 Minutes of Sexual Tension, Nonsensical Technobabble, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer Advertisements".
Before Nemesis, I had never seen an actual Star Trek movie.
And you dare to call yourself a nerd?!? Hang your head in shame, young man!
GMD
watch this
I do not think that word means what you think it means...
I hope they ship the dvd with the entire movie not the sliced and diced movie they released.. THey cut i think 45mins of stuff
in actually buying one of these, in the Las Vegas Hilton in their Star Trek wing (seriously) they have a store where you can see the life-sized locutus for real (and other such rich-folks collectibles), and buy them if you like.
Maybe it's just me, but I'd never buy anything like that unless I've seen it up close in real life.
... Also for $12,000 you can have them (the paramount wardrobe department) custom make you a Klingon Warrior Uniform.
...Also, I didn't know Buggalo could fly.
Remember he also LOVED Fast and the Furious. Also, let's not forget he gave a wonderful review to Tomb Raider. The list of crappy movies he likes goes on and on...I just don't trust him anymore.
-Mark
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain.
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The movie kicked ass and was great. People who think it was a bad movie should stick to their damn Powerpuff girl movies.
Subject says it all, bitches.
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but, the article says that Enterprise is the sixth show in the franchise,
1: Original Series
2: The Next Generation
3: DS9
4: Voyager
5: Enterprise
That's only 5. Or, is the author referring to the animated show, too?
I'm nowheres near being an 'official' trekky or whatever, but i always loved Star trek, and couldn't care less about pro reviewers opinions of it. Someone mentioned that it was exactly like a 'bigger' version of the TV show, and THAT is exactly why it's so cool to see TNG films. I have a theory that, like watching others have sex, or the average workady job, syndicated, or long-running shows, are fundamentally ridiculous. Fair enough. Not everything has to be 'important', or 'new' ... Remember the TV episode 'A Fistful of Datas'? That was amazing. Clever, witty, good scripting, and film making. A lot of us 'want' the films of TNG to remain loyal to cast and such, it was awkward to see the original cast in a higher-tech 'world'. One missed the funky recycling of late 50s early 60s Franco-Spanish gladiator outfits and Christmas tree lights and BS that that shows production people had to work with. I look forward to nenesis, even more, now.
I liked the movie alot.
What the heck was that up on two wheels four wheel drive dune buggy thing!?!?
Picard crashing into the other ship was awesome.
Simmons...
Estimate according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.
Paramount could have made Trek much, much bigger had they marketed aggressively rather than passively.
You mean you actually read his reviews? He's always been famous for liking every movie he sees. Didn't he give Congo a half-decent review? OTOH, he writes pretty well about the movies that, by coincidence, are geniunely good.
Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.
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I had always thought many years ago (probably after watching the Deep Space Nine premiere) that the only future Star Trek had left was self-parody. They franchise has run out of gas, the writers, producer and fans take themselves far too seriously and, frankly, sci-fi in general is getting boring and redundant. Galaxy Quest stole thier thunder. Imagine, an entire series based on self-parody. Sure the pure Trekkies/Trekkers/whatever would die, but they are the ultimate target of the joke, anyhow. As Shatner said, "Get a life". I had always imagined Billy Crystal as captain, not because I find him very funny, but he is is the anitithesis of the typical Star Trek captain (kinda like Micheal Keaton as Batman). When was the last time you laughed during an Enterprise eposide? At least TOS had a sense of character and humour. It's not too late. If Paramount doesn't have the cajones, perhaps the folks behind Galaxy Quest will see the light (and the cross-over audience potential). Can you say, Cha-Ching?
I've come to the conclusion that slashdot movie commentary is worse than useless. It's annoying.
Please, stick to tech. I can only pay attention to your movie reviews for the sake of doing the opposite of what you recommend.
I almost didn't see Nemesis because of the stupid comments here about it. That would've been a mistake. There are numerous other examples.
And what's with this fascination with Anime? Does it really have Anything to do with techies? I'm sure there are some techies who like Anime, but I'd guess it's far from the majority. In fact, if it weren't for slashdot, I doubt most of us would know what it is (I would, but I'm weird
470 people have actually paid $5,000 apiece for a life-size replica of the villain Locutus
While I'm sure there are some trek weirdos and collectors that have these sort of things... how many were collected by theatres, conventions, and other businesses/events that wanted to promote some $tar Trek cash inflow?
"And that my friends, is why Nemesis didn't even have to be a really good movie." I probably won't see Nemesis until January, but it's not because of all the naysaying. My father and I need to break apart from our separate lives and we WILL see this movie in the theatre. And no, neither of us is a true Trekkie. My question here is this: what do you all expect from a Trek movie? It is just like Star Wars, in that, every movie that comes out is never immediately embraced like the previous or the original. But I say, just like music albums, you cannot always go into a movie or TV series expecting it to be as good as your past favorite. Hope to be as good? Sure. Expect to be as good? No, because that is what ruins it for you before you have even seen the flick. That's why I ignore movie reviews. I read one every now and then, but I force myself to go in only expecting to be entertained. Sure, my fav Trek is "First Contact" and my least fav is "Generations." My father's fav is "Search For Spock" and his least fav is also "Generations." But I'm not expecting Nemesis to meet or beat those cult favs. I simply know that I will am going to see some of my fav characters on the big screen again, one last time.
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