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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:34 AM
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Poll question: Star Trek IV: GREAT film or the GREATEST film?
:shrug:
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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:37 AM
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1. I voted for the third option
oh, my dear 1980's.... you brought us so many good things. And a star trek movie involving time travel and whales.... way to go, fuckwads. Maybe the new star trek movie will involve the crew going back in time so they can help a down and out race horse regain his past glory.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:41 AM
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2. It's all about the humpbacks, baby!
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:04 AM
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15. They are not the hell your whales
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:18 AM
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22. Is this really a good time for a colorful metaphor?
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:30 PM
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29. "About those colorful metaphors we discussed..."
:o
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 12:44 AM
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3. Two humpback whales wouldn't be able to fit into a Klingon BoP.
Much less the water.
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GoddessOfGuinness Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:27 AM
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4. A whale of a tale.
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Radical Activist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:28 AM
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5. Oh so bad.
The worst Trek movie. ugh.
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JTG of the PRB Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:43 PM
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35. Worse than "The Final Frontier"?!
Spock's crazy half-brother commandeering the Enterprise and steering it toward the center of the galaxy in order to find God? Once there, not only do they find a planet that looks oddly like Utah, but they actually find a God-like creature who, after merging with Spock's crazy half-brother, comes after Captain Kirk, only to be blown apart by the blasters of a just-in-time Klingon Bird of Prey? "The Voyage Home" was worse than THAT?

Maybe if Shatner hadn't directed Star Trek V it wouldn't have been so... Eww.
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Kutjara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:29 AM
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6. The only conclusion I can draw from this poll...
...is that, by "film" you mean the thing that forms on the surface of stagnant ponds. Even so, STIV wouldn't qualify for greatness.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:58 AM
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7. I love that movie so much.
Like, if I had to give up sex or the line about the nuclear vessels in Alameda, I'd have to think about it for a bit. That's how much I love that movie.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:59 AM
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8. You mean the nuclear wessels?
:-)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:01 AM
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10. I have a coworker who talks just like that. And he sings 80's american pop music all day.
It's priceless.
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:06 AM
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11. I'll send you some earplugs
If he shakes his booty as well, perhaps some blinders would be in order?

:-)
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:11 AM
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12. I have a real live office with a door, and it's not near his work area.
But it's tears-to-the-eyes funny in short doses.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:05 AM
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16. Perhaps he's attempting the hell to communicate
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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:00 AM
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9. Give me Star Trek II anyday n/t
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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:31 AM
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13. the best of the star trek movies... and then star trek v went all loopidy doo. nt
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Stuart G Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:37 AM
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23. Forget Star Trek IV..please explain.."loopidy doo."

Yes, I have heard about Star Trek. But I have never heard of ..."loopidy doo"....

Could someone explain this..Is it a Klingon metaphore for .."glop.."
..or a Vulcan mind meld?
......."loopidy doo"...gets my vote..:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:14 PM
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30. somewhere between off-the-deep-end and willy-nilly ye shall find
loopidy doo.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:03 AM
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14. I cannot vote in this poll
I forgot where we parked. :cry:




Btw — to this day, I refer to the Monterey Bay Aquarium as the Cetacean Institute. :)
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:52 AM
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17. I want a Cetacean Institute sticker
:D
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:27 AM
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19. One that says
"There be whales here!"

:D
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:54 AM
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20. Fo' shizzle
:D
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Alexander Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 05:02 AM
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18. I think you did a little too much LDS.
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 08:54 AM
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24. and a double dumb-ass on you!
I was in tears I was laughing so hard at some of the lines in that movie.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 07:17 AM
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21. If you live in a time loop that never escapes 1986, sure...
:hide:

Great at the time, but is dated and a bit silly today.

Not that it doesn't have its moments...

Give me Trek II (and even III) every time. The only thing that's dated are the effects; and if the effects are supposed to prop up a movie, it's not worth the $10 entry cost in the first place. Maybe that's why I avoid most modern stuff; too much reliance on f/x and no character or intriguing plotlines. Apart from Futurama and Firefly... and one of them is a comedy!
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 10:02 AM
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40. I think it stands on its own as an enjoyable 80s time travel film
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 11:01 AM
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25. KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!
II and IV are the best.
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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:50 PM
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32. did you ever notice that kirk's enemies like to quote classic literature at him while...
trying to kill him? Truly a space odd-yssey.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 04:02 PM
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33. "It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. It was time for Kirk to die! Yarrr!!"
I hope in the new Star Trek rebooted movie, the villain quotes some Hemingway.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 09:59 AM
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37. What can you expect? Shatner's bad acting turns literate intellectuals into psychopaths
Just joking, I love Shatner really.
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hunter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 01:49 PM
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26. She was a biologist and he was just another lonely starship captain.
When she decided not to wear a bra that morning she saved the whales and the world.
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:00 PM
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27. She was a HOT biologist!!
Yowzah!

Bake
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tandem5 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 03:37 PM
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31. I like the intergalactic kiss off she gave kirk at the end...
"see ya around the galaxy!"
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Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 09:55 AM
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36. The preternaturally cute Catherine Hicks pretty much redeemed that movie.
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ReformedChris Donating Member (252 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 02:05 PM
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28. IV was Great, V and VI were terrible
I thought the first four movies were great and the other's were pretty poor. I think the fourth film was funny and had a great message. I especially loved the scene where McCoy has it out with the current time doctor over treatment on Chekov, hillarious stuff.
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DarkTirade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-30-08 09:37 PM
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34. I enjoyed VI myself.
But then again after V, I think watching paint dry would be more enjoyable... :P
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 10:00 AM
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38. VI was one of the best films
Agree about V though.
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-31-08 10:01 AM
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39. The Voyage Home was quite enjoyable
but ST2TWOK ruled.
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