William Shatner's Greatest Role.

So what is the Shat's greatest performance. I am including Captain Kirk because well that's what his known for. As for his best role I think it's when "He played the big giant head on the third rock from the son."

Dick "Stone your my Father? I don't know who I am anymore."

Harry "Well your first name is Dick, and your last name is Head."

or hands down...:) I agree, Kirk, by far...where's the option for his role as General Mortors on Loaded Weapon...:)

That's how I judge good performance when I cannot think of anyone else who could play a character so well...and lasts through time.

horse rider ... ;)

he owns excellent stock and his fine harness competition is awesome. Therefore I voted for other...his best role has been in the show ring.

And if you've ever seen the movie 'Generations' (of Star Trek The next generation), there's a scene where he rides together with Picard (Patrick Stewart). Where he, Shatner, just directs the horse with some body moves while Stewart kicks the crap out of his.

Lexington, KY back in '92 when we had a show in Louisville. Wow! Just amazing what you can do with a 200+ year old farm and a few million dollars. :kick:

I agree - best role is as a horseman.

singer.

He managed to ruin Pulp's Common People.

now that he and Alan are sleeping together.....;-)

It's even funnier when Candace Bergin says it in his ear. He makes the funniest noise like he is so in love with hearing his name.

:D

It is definitely a different role than his role as Kirk. I think that it fits him though at this stage of his life.

...That pure man is none other than Mr. Tambourine Man himself, William Shatner, known in this film as Marc (though his Esperanto name is Marco?) traveling to his quant cottage with his sister Arndis.

Since there is not clear visual or audio description of when this film takes place it’s hard to guess. Marc wears a standard issue suit and button down shirt while the women all look like Little House on the Prairie rejects. Also, the cottage seems to have only oil lamps for light and a fireplace for heat. It also looks suspiciously like a log cabin, a crappy one. So this might be meant to take place somewhere in the distant past. I dunno… How many pioneers walked around in tight-cut Chinos, cowboy boots, and tweed sportsjackets? This is one of the weird inconsistencies within the film. I don’t know if Stevens was trying to confuse the audience or to give the film a visual language that defied categorizing it as taking place in any recognizable time. At any rate he succeeds in the first endeavor as me, Mrs. McLargehuge, and Gristle McThornbody, were completely baffled.

The way Marco and Arndis talk you’d never think they were, in fact, brother and sister. They speak like a couple in love, almost like newlyweds, which when we finally learn they are siblings, is very creepy. However, taking some of the sting off of this is hearing them talk to one another:

Marco: pooffy kibble abby gloop?
Arndis: clanko friggin spado plat!
Marco: spoka wonka gimble wabe…
Arndis: Damok at tanagra?
Marco: Tribbles in the quadrotriticalie?

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And it was great!

that was a funny, funny movie.

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I haven't watched it. But I own this. Maybe I should watch it sometime.

(I learned some Esperanto a few years ago.)

unless you have alot of witty friends around. I'd never make it through alone, it's a somnambulant.

Yup - pretty much the most incoherent movie ever made

If you research Esperanto today you can find some rather funny comparisons between this language and both Tolkein’s Elvish language, and er… Klingon. However, while fluent speakers of Esperanto tend towards academics, fluid speakers of Klingon tends towards Star Trek conventions and dressing like The Borg while masturbating to pictures of Denise Crosby, and fluent speakers of Tolkein’s Elvish tend towards sitting home rolling their 20 sided die (with orange Cheeto stained fingers) trying desperately to ramp up their Charisma score so they can ask out the hairlipped, crossed eyed girl working at the local Dunkin Donuts who always carries around a copy of The Mists of Avalon in her macramé shoulder bag.

"Incubus" is great! To hear Esperanto spoken in that unique cadence is a treat.

best role has to be in the production, "The Andersonville Trial." Pluperfect role--completely restrained as well.

The production won an Emmy for best drama. Directed by George C. Scott, the production also featured performers such as Albert Salmi, Richard Basehart, Jack Cassidy, John Anderson, Cameron Mitchell, and Michael Burns.

It centered on the only Civil War trial of a prisoner of war camp commandant--Henry Wirz. Wirz was the commandant of Andersonville, where the absolute worst possible conditions prevailed. Wirz insisted that he did the best he could, but evidence showed that too many prisoners died and were harmed during their time there.

Shatner was extremely good, as were the other actors. If you haven't seen it, it's out now on both DVD and VHS, though the VHS copy is scarce. I recommend it highly.

He actually reined in his hammy acting instinct in one of the scariest, best liked of the Twilight Zone episodes. He turned in a very good performance in this one.

I didn't remember that.

That WAS very good.

getting more and more comfortable with self-parody. I vote for Denny. I find his Priceline bits hilarious.

Sorry, couldn't resist.

.....marmalade skiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeees.....

This was a great movie that went nowhere.
Am I the only person who loved this movie?

Played Spencer Tracy's military aide...small role but he did a good job there!

THIS WAS HIS GREATEST ROLE!!!!

...which he always played, no matter the role.

or else it was in the "Wrath of Khan"

In my opinion, "The Hungry Glass" is the scariest thing I have ever seen on television, and this episode first aired about 45 years ago. This was one of Shatner's first major roles on television.

:evilgrin:



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Denny Crain! At his very best....

regardless of the role or venue. He's just so "I'm Shatner, pop culture icon, love me."

That being said, his 2 Twilight Zones were good, his role in Brothers Karamazov was excellent, Andersonville Trial and Nuremberg were also good.
If you haven't seen him at a Star Trek convention you don't know what hysterically funny is.
I have never watched Boston Legal.

Gads, I loved it when Saturday Night Live did the parody of the last episode of Star Trek, and that was Belushi/Kirk's last line.