On the Rodent

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

Somehow I feel charitable toward Star Trek.

It couldve easily been so much worse. Abrams is not my first choice. But when my thoughts turn to Michael Bay McG Steven Sommers etc, I think Trek fans should feel lucky.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

The nongeek crappiteers should really enjoy it.

What were the odds of that happening with a Star Trek movie?

[full blown possession]

Happy Mothers DAY to all the mothers, surprisingly mothers day wasnt invented by hallmark but by anne marie jarvis in 1858

http://www.wvgenweb.org/taylor/mothersday/mother.htm

there is a lot of mother fuckers on here but am i the only mutha?

going to eat seafood and sushi

boi
kim

[matthew]

<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/p2KA82EsU_Y" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/p2KA82EsU_Y</a>

I had a flash in my head of John Savage cutting into his wrist as the narrator spoke the words "John Savage of The Deer Hunter"

[matthew]

i just booked this memphis band called modern convenience for may 30.   kinda garage/psyche/punk.  anybody know these guys? looks like they played with the new mary jane recently. they'll be sharing the stage with the pipe bomb and this nutty duo from texas called attic ted.  should be fun.   c'mon down if you got a hankerin for some florida sun.

I have an Attic Ted album (and they be friends on the myspaces), so I can assure you they are great fun.

[matthew]

those Fantastic Four movies suck balls.

never watch those.. even for free,.

I watched them with Rifftrax commentary. I am not sure I would even recommend watching them that way.

[Tripp]

pat, I'm familiar with the Bottletree in B'ham.. Grifters played there a couple o times.. I tried to book a show there before the first Crappitystock but they said it was musicfest weekend and they wouldn't want to compete with that..
but yeah.. I'll give them another try..

[Tripp]

my throat is raw this morning.. possibly swine flu..

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

My throat always feels raw when I oink too much.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new "Star Trek" movie beamed up an estimated $72.5 million in North American ticket sales for its first weekend in theaters, leading the box office race and re-energizing the venerable science-fiction franchise.

Combined with another $4 million grossed from Thursday evening's preview screenings, "Star Trek" tallied $76.5 million in U.S. and Canadian receipts, its distributor, Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures studio, reported on Sunday.

But that number still leaves last weekend's $85 million Friday-through-Sunday tally for "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" as the year's biggest movie debut so far. "Wolverine," released by News Corp's 20th Century Fox, dropped off sharply this weekend to an estimated $27 million, slipping to No. 2 at the box office.

Very big, but not quite huge.  Let's see if good word of mouth gives it legs.

[Poop Fresh-Herbed Pickles]

[ebaumsworld]http://www.ebaumsworld.com/video/watch/204513/[/ebaumsworld].

[bebopbalogna]

happy mother's day, gramma!

[Tripp]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The new "Star Trek" movie beamed up an estimated $72.5 million in North American ticket sales for its first weekend in theaters, leading the box office race and re-energizing the venerable science-fiction franchise.

Combined with another $4 million grossed from Thursday evening's preview screenings, "Star Trek" tallied $76.5 million in U.S. and Canadian receipts, its distributor, Viacom Inc's Paramount Pictures studio, reported on Sunday.

But that number still leaves last weekend's $85 million Friday-through-Sunday tally for "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" as the year's biggest movie debut so far. "Wolverine," released by News Corp's 20th Century Fox, dropped off sharply this weekend to an estimated $27 million, slipping to No. 2 at the box office.

Very big, but not quite huge.  Let's see if good word of mouth gives it legs.

I don't think I'm gonna be giving it good word of mouth..

but that'll just be me showing a new kind of old and cranky...

[Tripp]

there were definitely things i liked.. but they basically just 'erased' everything..

[Tripp]

AND  it was kinda LAME at points..



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Why didn't Spock just throw Kirk in the brig..  and then he HAPPENS to run into ______  down on the planet..?!?

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!?

And they BEAM  from the planet to the ship that's been at warp for at least an hour...?? I thought Orsi and Kurtzman understood a LITTLE about Trek science..

And you don't just go to warp from a stand-still..

 And you're not suppose to go to warp within a star system (pushes up glasses) ..

and  WHY would you come out of warp blindly?!

And what the fuck was up with Engineering..  TURBINES?

 and oh yeah, Scotty also just happens to be there on Delta whatever...
THATS LAZY STORYTELLING!

and the Romulan Empire's only hope for salvation was for S______ to implode a super-nova?  How is creating a black hole where a planet's sun used to be suppose to save the planet..?

WAY TO GO SPOCK!!  I thought you were supposed to be a genius..

I'm fine with re-casting and re-imagining everything  but they didn't need this time-travel element.. 

I've got a bout a dozen other complaints... I guess I didn't like it.. 

I liked the cast.  I liked the look of it.. I liked the opening with the kelvin..