They should film that story and show it every Christmas.

Xander ,'Same Time, Same Place'


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Theresa - May 11, 2009 4:04:53 pm PDT #1309 of 30000
"What would it take to get your daughter to stop tweeting about this?"

I thought back on Star Trek today and I am more in love with it now that I have had a day to percolate. This may be the first movie that I will have seen more than once in a first run theatre in a decade. Maybe two.


Calli - May 11, 2009 4:16:12 pm PDT #1310 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Every time someone doesn't use the spoiler tag or span class God kills a puppy.

Perhaps this should go into the how-to page instead of

"Here are some of the HTML codes you can use: . . . <font color="white">SPOILER HERE</font>


§ ita § - May 11, 2009 4:25:46 pm PDT #1311 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Ironically, that example uses the spoiler class and not the HTML shown. We updated the HTML link above the posting box fully, but only halfway on the How To.


Sean K - May 12, 2009 7:06:56 am PDT #1312 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

meara, Trek has never had more than a nodding acquaintance with real world physics. Which is not to nullify your last nitpick, just to point out that that particular nitpick can be said of pretty much any instance of Trek ever.


Jesse - May 12, 2009 7:13:33 am PDT #1313 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

In non-Trek news, Seriously?!?!

Simon Baker, star of the hit series "The Mentalist," is playing an attorney on the trail of a murderer in "The Killer Inside Me," Michael Winterbottom's adaptation of the Jim Thompson noir classic that stars Casey Affleck.

The story centers on a West Texas sheriff (Affleck) and his downward spiral from bored small-town cop to ruthless, sociopathic murderer. The cast includes Jessica Alba as a prostitute and Kate Hudson as the sheriff's schoolteacher girlfriend.

Affleck, maybe, but Jessica Alba and Kate Hudson??


Hayden - May 12, 2009 7:49:12 am PDT #1314 of 30000
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."

If anyone could make that cast work, it's Michael Winterbottom. But if anyone could screw up a movie trying to do something impressive with a cast like that, it's also Michael Winterbottom.


tommyrot - May 12, 2009 9:27:03 am PDT #1315 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

This preview looks like the worst movie ever that I want to see: Mega Shark vs Giant Octopus!


Polter-Cow - May 12, 2009 10:03:01 am PDT #1316 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!

....Wow.


Sean K - May 12, 2009 10:19:05 am PDT #1317 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty

That is the most awesome thing ever. The only possible way it could even be a tiny bit better is if it stars Lorenzo Lamas and Deborah Gibson.

Wait, IT DOES!


tommyrot - May 12, 2009 10:32:05 am PDT #1318 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. HuffPost is also carrying the preview. They say:

Asylum films released the trailer for its new "mockbuster" this week: "Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus." The low-budget brand that has released dozens of straight-to-video movies is best known for making films that are sort of like big studio pictures, but stranger. For example their last film was "Terminators" about humans fighting cyborgs. This should not be confused with "Terminator."

Mega Shark Vs. Giant Octopus (VIDEO)