Every time I read that title my brain reads it as The House on Haunted Hill.
I just realized that I hadn't really made a distinction between the two movies from 1999 even though the one is seemingly unrelated.
The hauting of the house on the hill of the hill's
Read the Shirley Jackson book if you ever get the chance, I love it. The show is pretty good in its own right, but it's based on the book as much as Texas Chain Saw Massacre is based on Ed Gein.
i guess someone at bad robot watches RLM
https://twitter.com/OverlordMovie/status/1064245878628638720
I'm sure who ever did this doesn't know about the plinket reviews.
Marketing will take any praise it can get at any time regardless of context.
You'd have to have footage of Bill Cosby rambling about Overlord for them no to use it and if someone hit him in the face with a pudding cup during they would use it on the sequel poster.
I love how the Motion Picture has aged into this weird space where it's good again in its own esoteric way. And also yes anything written on by Roddenberry has all sorts of subtle or not so subtle allusions to the human reproductive process.
Honestly though the attention to detail and background world building in TMP something to behold.
Unpopular opinion: Even as a huge Star Trek fan, The Motion Picture is BOOOOOOOOOOORING!
I finished TOS about 1.5 ago, then watched The Motion Picture (really enjoyed it), and looked up whether or not they did a Plinkett review about it (Mike liked Titanic and still made a Plinkett video).
Was really glad to see a re:view for it.
I don't think I've ever disagreed as much as with this one. TMP is the dictionary definition of a snoozefest, it's obsessed with style over substance.
House Hill Hunting was good up until the last few episodes where everything was pretty much already obvious and they still had to spend like 2 episodes.
The stuff with the mold for example, and it never really cleared up from what point on the father realized what the fuck was going on
Hardly unpopular.
I thought it was boring, but also enjoyed it. Does that make sense?
I had a similar opinion about Stalker. It's never very dynamic or stimulating, but it's the kind of movie I like to just kind of melt into.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture is good, it's just not a classic like a lot of other Star Trek is.
It's has enough about it that's enjoyable or memorable. I haven seen it in 15 years, but i definitely remember the opening scene with the Klingon and loving it.
Star Trek The Motion Picture is incredibly slow, but the atmosphere is good enough for me to enjoy it.
Far from my favorite, though.
So I was checking out a band called Fastway recently, featuring Fast Eddie Clarke from Motorhead, and in choosing random videos I picked one called Trick or Great, and the video looked like it was from a movie, I did some digging and sent it to a friend saying it looked like it was the exact kind of thing that RLM would watch,and it turns out that it is, the film is called Trick or Treat and if features on a Best of the Worst and is praised for almost being a good B movie. We got a copy of the film but unfortunately haven't been able to watch it, but they make it sound awesome. Video for those interested (Fastway apparently did the entire soundtrack)
https://youtu.be/taV_qfVYnrg
Re: The Motion Picture
So, Gene Roddenberry was never very good at writing his characters. The TMP script is a mess, it's recycled from the originally planned 70 to 80 minute double-length TV pilot for Phase II, and was continually rewritten during filming.
In theory the story is interesting, but it paints Kirk much more like Captain Pike from "The Cage," where the captain is dark and brooding. When you take Robert Wise's antiseptic direction and mix it with Roddenberry's antiseptic writing, it does result in something that doesn't have emotional strength.
Where TMP, in my mind, succeeds more than almost any of the other Star Trek films is in its depth of world-building. There are so many little details in the uniforms, the set design, essentially every element of the world just oozes the thought that was put in to it.
In conventional film terms it isn't a strong film, but I've found it more rewatchable recently than any of the other films. I can read a story, or watch a movie over and over again, and eventually I'll start to fatigue because I'm familiar with the beats, and TMP isn't like that. With TMP I can study every other little aspect about the film, because it's showing you a world, and there's a lot in there to explore.
Season 2 seems to have been thrown together due to the popularity of the main cast. It was originally going to be an anthology series. I personally though the second season was fine except for...
that episode
I didn't even hate that episode... much.
I wasn't furious or anything about it but if I ever watch Season 2 again I'll be skipping that episode for sure
the one where the story screeches to a halt so Eleven can get a haircut and hangout with a bunch of stereotypes
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