And Star Trek V is one of the best Star Trek movies, (really.)
I’m so with you, for like 90% of the series. Some sucked, it’s true, but I liked the direction the writing was in. Everything in the future ain’t great, and the Federation ain’t all-powerful.
In the same vein, I actually liked much of Enterprise, especially the Xindi storyline. The other temporal time war stuff was meh.
And, FWIW, I think Scott Bakula is a decent actor. Have you not seen Neceessary Roughness?
the series Lost sucks. It’s enormous popularity here and abroad dismays me.
Richard Pryor and Bill Hciks are hysterically funny. They are ground breaking and ahead of their time, did and said things others didn’t, I agree. But not drop dead side splitting funny. Same with Lenny Bruce.
Non-sequitur responses like “bring pie” aren’t funny or clever at all, and only show the writer to be devoid of any original thought.
I meant like a vietnam movie in terms of one half-squad sneaking through territory where the enemy can pop up at any time. The whole feel of a few guys being on a special mission, alone, detached from normal units, sneaking through the countryside feels like it’d be more thematically appropriate in what we expect of Vietnam movies.
I understand that individually, soldiers are just trying to do their job, etc. I didn’t have a problem with that. You could portray that, but portray them being used in a manner that isn’t so isolated.
Thirded.
I also like Johnny Mnemonic.
What I was going to say: Lost is anywhere near good enough to warrant a several page thread every week, never mind its popularity in general.
I think The Da Vinci Code was rather entertaining. I recognize it’s a bad book, but I didn’t mind reading it.
Hear hear. Neither is* Battlestar Galactica* the best show on television.
Also, The Princess Bride is an amusing little bauble. Nothing wrong with it at all. But it’s not the Greatest Movie Ever Made, which is the impression you’d get if you hang around here too much.
And capital-L Literature does not begin with cheesy SF and radiate outward from there. And Stephen King is terrible, terrible, *terrible *writer.
I think the OP was seeking Cafe Society-consensuses; not a general pitting of SDMB annoyances.
Well, I am willing to accept the astroid field explosion sequence, not for the really piss-poor science, but because it is a great scene to test Dolby Digital with. 
I think they’re mostly good.
What the hell, they were GREAT!
That sounds like a SDMB consensus you agree with. I’ve heard very very few people disagree with you on this point.
Is there a “not” missing in the first sentence? (Seems to be the case when paired with the third.) If so, I agree, at least as far as Richard Pryor goes. Maybe it was funny at the time, but it suuuure hasn’t aged well.
Oops, you are correct.
Seriously? I like it well enough and rank it near the middle of all Trek movies but one of the best?
We’ve clearly not read the same threads, then.
The consensus in the ones I’ve seen is that LotR is Literary Perfection.
Yeah, it’s not in the same league as II or VI, but I’d give it the 3rd spot. It’s a pretty decent actioner and the scene where Spock kills God, (I remain convinced that the entity on the planet was indeed God), is superb.