Just To Hammer My Previous Point…

This is the original teaser poster for the Angry Video Game Nerd movie, as featured on the Cinemassacre website. I’ll save you the trouble of clicking on the link to the older posting and just repost my thoughts here, since they’re pretty much the same now as they were back then…

“It’s a nice looking poster. Mostly monochrome, mostly dark, but I rather like it.

“Unfortunately, the poster also does a good job of misleading me into believing that this is going to be something of a dark horror comedy sort of film rather than the schlock that the teaser trailer has been showcasing. In fact, a dark horror comedy film starring the Nerd character has the potential to be the much more interesting film that could potentially give that franchise a worthwhile production. I know Rolfe could pull it off if he wanted to… but he won’t.

“And it’s a shame, because in my mind, that’s probably what he’s best at.”

And after watching some of Rolfe’s older stuff, I still find a Nerd movie done in the same fashion as those older films to be the more potentially interesting film than whatever the fuck that thing is he’s trying to pass off as a movie.

Okay, I’ll shut up about this now. Enjoy the teaser poster, folks.

Not All Of Roddenberry's Ideas Were Good… Star Trek & JFK

A link to an blog posting about Gene Roddenberry’s proposal for a Star Trek movie where Klingons prevent the assassination of JFK and that somehow messes up the timeline. A movie proposal so reviled by Paramount that it was rejected every time Roddenberry tried to submit it for a Star Trek sequel. In fact, I can recall what William Shatner once noted in his book Star Trek Movie Memories, that when Roddenberry got wind that Star Trek IV was going to involve time-travel, Gene applauded the idea, but suggested that his JFK story would be better than what they had.

And after reading the premise for said treatment, I guess I should happy we got the movies that we did because this would have been terrible, especially the bit where one of the Enterprise crew would be involved in enacting a real life assassination of a beloved leader (supposedly) in order to restore the timeline. If The Motion Picture nearly curtailed Star Trek’s return to form as some would believe, no doubt this idea of Kirk meeting JFK would’ve been the death knell for Trek and it’d have no chance of continuing onwards to fifty years worth spin-off series, sequels, and whatnots that the closed-minded Trekkies would believed was TEH RUINZED FOREVAH! by the reboot Trek series.

That having been said, it somewhat surprises me that Roddenberry didn’t try and turn this into a TNG episode or something. Replace Klingons with Ferengi or something… nah, it still would’ve sucked.

Because People Bug Me Over This…

I’m rooting for the Germans to win the World Cup, if only because I want to see if he of the celery will ended up producing a song for his Argentinian team… but honestly, Germany has been pretty strong throughout, especially with the pasting that they gave Brazil a couple days ago. So if they end up winning, it’ll be no surprise.

There. I’ve said my piece. Let me know when all of you are ready to jump off the bandwagon and let the core fans enjoy their sport.