Really? I love the effects in The Thing. I mean, the spiderhead was...different, but otherwise I'd like to think it still stands pretty tall nowadays. Especially since everything is goddamn CG now.

I loved the first one when I was a kid.

Well yea, some effects good, but some other things like the mutated dog seemed sort of corny to me at least. But otherwise, the effects were good.

I know what you mean, CG takes away the creativity.

The Thing is a barfbag classic. If you think the FX are corny, then the point probably wasn't completely lost on you.

God, the Thing gave me terrible nightmares.

Anyway, I watched Star Trek and Ghost Rider.


Star Trek was nice. I've seen some of the original series before and loved the goofy nature of it, but all the super-seriousness of the other four serieses or so bored me to tears, and the fanbase is the biggest load of basement fatties in the world outside of Alternate-Universe-Auschwitz (run by Jews who lock Germans in the dungeons and feed them cake). But thankfully, the movie violently blows up the continuity. I still can't believe they had the balls to do that. The "new" Star Trek was fun, exciting, and interesting. I liked it.

Ghost Rider was basically a cheesy pile of redneck crap. But it was hilarious. I love watching Nicholas Cage movies, he's the biggest unexpressive dork ever. It's like a dork superhero. Plus he turns into a cackling skeleton that's on-fire. It's great. I've never been much a fan of demons and hell and stuff in stories, but here it was pulled off pretty cheesily well.

So yeah, I had fun.

The onboard promotion to captain kind of beggered belief for me and I grimaced at the few 90s Sci-Fi cliches I saw played straight, but I did thoroughly enjoy that movie when I saw it. (Which was a fortnight or so ago, I should have mentioned that at the time :B)

<3 Leonard Nimoy.

I like how they did something new and didn't kill off Old Spock.

Uguu~ Old Spock <3.

Wonder if XII can improve any :D.

XII?

...Damlasca?

Star Trek 12, shush you.

Uuuuu~

I thought it was a pretty mediocre film. Not once did I actually care about what was happening.

I liked the part where Kirk is being chased by the alien goat thing, then a big red monster is like "Eh bonjour mon ami" and attempts to devour him, so Kirk RUUUNS into a cave and old Spock gesticulates with a SINGLE LIT TORCH, and the thing is like "Oh, merde" and flees.

Yeah, that part was great.

Ultraviolet. I liked it, i'm not sure why all the critics hate it. The fight at the end of the film with Daxus was the best bit.

It came out around Aeon Flux, I think, and the whole plot was kind of incomprehensible. "IT'S THE FUTURE AND THERE ARE DISEASE AND VAMPIRE AND THIS MAN HAS A GAS MASK FOR HIS NOSE."

I liked it more than AF, though.

I didn't hate Aeon Flux. I didn't particularly like it, but I didn't hate it, either.

I just watched "Fred Clause" I wasn't that keen on it at the beginning, but it gets better as it goes on.

I only just noticed the unscrupulous pattern of made-for-tv Christmas films that center around the drama of Santa's son and/or daughter taking over the family business/getting married. Actually, this seems to be the basic plot structure for over 50% of TV Holiday specials.

On that note, they all suck, with the exception of the one with Kelsey Grammar as Santa's son. But hey, it's Kelsey Grammar, and that's about where the pros of the film end.

But does it really?

I have but one response to that...

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/6/9...d3e3d8829e.jpg

It's all so unbelievably true.

I've just realized... That's about thirty miles from where I live.

I'm with OANST; didn't hate it, but it was just too absurdly stupid to actually enjoy. That said, it's such a brilliantly quotable movie that we tried to get everyone we know to see it, just so everyone could recite lines from it. "You got phage blood on me... It is on!"

All the negreps in the world won't spare you the nightmare that is the Ronald TEAT, NATE!

Also, I thought Ultraviolet and pretty much any film with Mila Jovovich post-Fifth Element sucked major arse.

The first Google result for that phrase is this post. Does this really exist? Please send me a link.
I see that as a challenge.

In all fairness I didn't even see your post in FG's birthday thread. Regardless, whether or not I post that picture will not save you, Nate. You're clever to claim you live in Melbourne, but everyone knows Melbourne doesn't exist. The ronald teat will find your true home...
and one night...
when you least expect it....
you will wake up to find your lips pursed tight around the withered fleshy capsule that is the ronald teat. You will look up into that blank, white face, into it's terrifying soulless eyes and it's empty smile...
and you will realize you are never safe.

EDIT: Post #666. You cannot escape the prophecy!

No, I made it up.

Oh my god. Look at your rep description. You disgust me.

I know right?
Isn't it awesome.

Sekto: Mission accomplished; I will be having nightmares tonight.

SW: Awwww.

Nate, never change it.

I received my Christmas present early last night. MORE DARK SHADOWS DVD'S! I now own just under 400 episodes of Dark Shadows.

Best

Show

Ever

Made

Burton

Will

Rape

You

Yeah. I know.

I watched a couple of episodes of Season 3 of Metalocalypse. The Christmas one was....something.

They're already on season 3?

God damn, I need cable.

A couple of the episodes are on Youtube. In parts. Some of them are just advertisements for some stupid website though.

Dave, have you checked out Venture Brothers lately? Let's just say, shit has really really changed.

Brock is fat and has a beard.

I love Venture Bros. And yeah, Brock is a fattie.

Since I missed like ten episodes, I just gave up on trying to keep track of it all together.
I watched it for the first time in a few months, and all the changes they made overwhelmed me.