I can watch this bit of thievery all day!

Star Trek III – Stealing the Enterprise

I’m wondering if I should fire the blog up with another Bash-A-Rama-Thon celebrating (heh) the tenth anniversary of TPM coming in May. Maybe pop the DVD in the player and see how badly the movie has aged. Also, the new Trek reboot is coming next month, though more news I hear about it, the less inclined I am to see it. PT-type red flags still are waving high. To sort of protect myself against PT-Shock™, I’ve been wrapping myself in (old) Trekkie goodness and seeking others who have trepidations about the new movie. There’s already a rift forming between fans, and it’s quite a familiar place for me.

Hmm…maybe a Trek-A-Rama-Thon?

Not only was it a weak effort (at best), but it added a new phrase to the lexicon: nuke the fridge. Kind of like “jump the shark” but dumber. Dang, George.

Who watches the watchmen? Better question: who owns the Watchmen?

I don’t know how I’m going to reconcile J.J. Abrams’ reboot (?) of Star Trek with established canon, but I’ll have no qualms about consigning it to “alternate timeline” territory if comes down to that. Something about this enterprise (pun intended) doesn’t feel right, and the shift to a 2009 release date is also bothersome.

The less said about it, the better.

I’ll take Posthumous Academy Award Nominees for $200, Alex.

Is she beautiful or what?

The past week saw the release of another boxed set of SW movies. Not one big box, but OT and PT boxed. The “bonus material” in the OT box is still in non-anamorphic widescreen. I think I need to find a “beating a dead horse” emoticon for these non-releases. Today, the Clone Wars theatrical movie was released on DVD and Blu-Ray, making it the first SW movie to be released in Blu-Ray format. I would have saved Blu-Ray for the OT, but that’s probably a job GL doesn’t want to take on, especially because people will loudly demand the original OT and not the Stupid Editions.

h/t Leia’s Starboard Hair Bun

Make your own.

No. Just…no. :hitwall:

Harold Ramis of Ghostbusters fame is talking about maybe getting the gang back together for another sequel. Eddie Murphy is going to take Axel Foley for another spin around Beverly Hills. The obvious question is “Why?” The other obvious question is “Why now?” Sequels being made these days are for franchises whose ages can be measured in decades. Great gulfs of time between now and the last movie made. “Why now?” Because Hollywood is deathly afraid of original ideas, plus movie budgets are skyrocketing into the eight digits, so they go for the sure thing. Gotta get that money back somehow. Sequels, prequels, reimaginings, updates, melding franchises. If it was made at least twenty years ago, chances are good somebody somewhere is pitching it to a studio.

Will somebody do something different? Please? Something without a number attached?

Color me unimpressed after watching the new Clone Wars trailer on the Cartoon Network’s website. No doubt that the lackluster reception of the movie last month has hurt this series. I’m not sure who will be watching, other than the diehards who will accept anything with the SW logo on it.

We all know the primary characters will survive, so there’s no real sense of jeopardy and danger. That has been shifted onto tertiary characters who are ultimately cannon fodder. Individual clonetroopers have been given personalities and names, so people seem to gravitate toward them and put Anakin, Obi-Wan et. al. on the back burner. Because, well, we’ll see them again.

I really see no reason to pull out stuff that happened between movies. If the story was important for us to know, it should have been in the movies themselves to start with. It’s just an excuse to put SW back out there without really thinking about what they’re doing. Just a lot of noise and light, which gets boring and tiring after a while. I mean, is the actual thought of taking SW somewhere it hasn’t gone before that frightening to Lucas? How about an animated post-ROTJ series? He can go lay waste to the EU all he likes, I don’t care.

This feels too safe.

From the Digital Bits:

And yes… here’s a surprise: As you can see, we’ve also posted cover art for yet another new re-issue of the Star Wars films on DVD, specifically two new Star Wars Trilogy DVD box sets, due on 11/4 (SRP $49.98 each). Each is apparently a 6-disc set, with two discs per film. We’re waiting on official details. This is NOT the ultimate release we’ve all been waiting for, and no Blu-ray editions are currently planned, but it’s possible that these discs MAY include some new special features. We’ll try to get an update for you on that point as soon as possible.

I was in Wal-Mart yesterday, and near the toy section there was a display for the SW movies. I bet they moved the copies that were moldering in the DVD section over to that section.

Some time after the report above was posted, this came:

…First of all, we’ve confirmed with 20th Century Fox that the new Star Wars Trilogy DVD box sets are just re-packs of the previously released 2-disc sets (in the case of the Prequel set) and presumably the recent Original Trilogy 2-disc DVDs that had both the SE versions and the non-anamorphic original theatrical versions of the films. The key point is: THERE’S NO NEW CONTENT. So be advised and spread the word. By the way, special thanks to our good friend T-Bone for bring these new DVDs to our attention this morning…

You read that right: no new content. Plus, these “new” releases won’t be done in Blu-Ray format, which everybody and their uncle is releasing their films in these days alongside DVD. What’s the point? Everyone who wanted the PT and the OT (SE) has them if they wanted them. And, like I said, it’s not like you can’t find them in the DVD section if you didn’t get them whenever. Until LFL releases all the movies in Blu-Ray format with the anamorphic O-OT, they shouldn’t bother trying to get me to reach for my wallet. I might consider investing in a Blu-Ray player if I could see the O-OT in high-def.