I giggled for about an hour this morning about that restaurant.
I think that restaurant has handcuffs hanging from the industrial lamps with the wire cages and wooden benches with black and white striped cushions, and bars over the windows. They serve the food on plastic trays and use dull knives and count the forks.
I saw an article somewhere that said a restaurant recently opened that had a "toilet" theme -- waterclosets as stools and ceramic tile everywhere. The oddest thing is that I've put that picture and idea out of my mind so thoroughly... I had to eat, ya-know.
Actually, I used Pay Per View to watch INTO DARKNESS and since it was a 48 hour rental, I watched the movie three nights in a row and enjoyed it's total silliness. It's not HAMLET or TAMING OF THE SHREW but it is entertaining. Lots of fancy effects and dumb dialog but still, entertaining.
You are right and I did not even notice it when I read it before posting, what is funny is that I actually know how to spell Restraint and Restaurant its always been easy words like ov that has always thrown me.
We went to the 214 tonight like we wanted but is was closed so we went to another, the food was not as good and more expensive. Go figure.
All in all though it was a wonderful evening spent with talula and gemm, my son and I had a great time with some really good people.
Ok. It took awhile, and a lot of research, but I think I've come up with a way to make JJ Abrams' Star Trek movies palatable.
The redeeming moment is in Star Trek Into Darkness, and occurs at around 1:07:59, just as Scotty is entering the giant space dock around Jupiter. You can clearly hear someone say "I need a welding team on the number one nacelle." Now, I've listened to that one line a number of times, and to me it sounds like Michael Dorn. (I realize it probably isn't, but it sounds like him, so go with me on this...)
So, if that's Michael Dorn's voice, that can only mean one thing. Spock isn't the only survivor of the original timeline. Worf, perhaps aided by a ragtag crew, somehow managed to survive the alterations to history. They're now trapped in this new version of history, and are infiltrating both Starfleet and the Klingon Empire, to try and not only find out what changed and when, but trying to get the technology together to undo these changes and restore things to the way they were. This means that these movies are an aberration, a glitch, a hiccup that will pass once Worf succeeds in his mission.
There. Feel better about these movies now? I know I do.
Paolo wrote: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:58 pm
I keep hoping Q will show up and fix it.
I hope I vomit up something very disgusting first.
I hated Q.
You're not the only one with pet peeves about Star Trek
The "Q" stories were the products of pus-filled fever dreams due to infected (I better stop there... What I was thinking was too disgusting for even me)
I realize that you guys did not like the movie, get over it.
Yes, get over it, its a Star Trek movie, it was good, it had action, could have had a better story line, what else is new.
So lets compare it with Star Trek movies of the past.
Star Trek the Motion Picture, remember that one, it was maybe the worst Star Trek movie ever made and we loved it, why because it was bringing back who we watched in the original series which we loved, go back and watch them now. Yuck.
Then there is The Search for Spock, this was another looser of a movie its only redeeming feature is that it connected the Wrath of Khan and the Voyage Home.
Then there is #4 The Final Frontier, and we thought Star Trek the Motion Picture was bad.
Finally The Undiscovered Country, which was good, could have been better, but for a Trek fan, we loved it.
Now the rewrite
We were delighted to see Kirk and crew back where they belong, on the Enterprise. We cheered, we patted each other on the back, we slept better that night knowing that Star Trek was on the rewrite, then comes movie deuce, boldly going where they have gone before, and we are pissed. OK it was not a remake, the story line was totally different, Khan was not the bad guy, not really, but for us purest we don't want Kirk and crew going where they have been before but to boldly go where no MAN has gone before.
So I must ask, where does this rank with other Star Trek movies.
Was it a watchable movie, Yes
Was it visually stimulating, Yes
Was it a new story, Yes
So the only real question is this, did you like it, well I did and I will watch it again because, because I am a Star Trek fan from the 60s watching all those bad shows every Friday Night and loved every one of them and wanted more.
I can't wait for the next movie with the new cast and crew of the Enterprise and its matters not if you liked this last movie, you know in your heart that you will see the new one when it comes out.
WHY, because you too are a Star Trek fan, Westley Crusher and all.
It was the naked dancing Nichelle Nichols (a decade or two too late IMHO) that made me lose all respect for the show.
It got jeered in the theater.
Actually, that wasn't the first time I heard hisses over what was to be a naked dance.
When I had tickets to the Opera, they showed SALOME and the soprano singing Salome should never have tried to dance. She sings. Usually Salome in the opera has a dance substitute.
Well, when she threw off the seventh veil, she word a nude body suit. The opera audience hissed and made that "oooh" sound that means my eyes are hurting with the site of something less than good.
SO I forgave Nichelle Nichols.
I did say that I watched INTO DARKNESS three times and it entertains.
That's the impossibility of Star Trek -- as bad as they make it, it entertains.
So put your brain on hold, grab an extra large box of popcorn and a giant soda and have fun.
I think Search for Spock is also noteworthy for Christopher Lloyd playing the best Klingon ever (at least pre-Worf). His scenes with Shatner were especially good.
I hate the first movie for the amounted of wasted time. 10-15 minutes of going around the Enterprise was just the beginning. Scenes inside of V'ger that dragged on and on and on...
Wrath of Khan will never be beat as far as best Trek picture in my world.
One thing about the reboot that I don't like is that there is no way they give the flagship to a Cadet just graduating. In the original timeline, Kirk was the youngest captain ever, but still had to work on a few ships first. Spock served under Pike for 10+ years which is why he was so loyal to him when he became disabled.
