I'm listening to Carly Simon as I sit in my humid little room, in anticipation of tomorrow's fun adventures. 'Anticipation' is really a rather good song, it's too bad it's forever associated with the ultimate tease - a Heinz ketchup bottle. 'You're So Vain' is still my favorite, though, just for the 'you had one eye in the mirror' line.
Tomorrow, we're going to the zoo! I'm very much looking forward to that because I haven't been to the zoo in years, since I went to the zoo at Schoenbrunn in Austria in 2003. I am going to take my nice camera, make sure I have plenty of film, and snap lots of animals. Definitely bringing the telephoto to this place - I am really hoping for a Bengal tiger picture. If it comes even close to my brother's awesome picture when they went to the zoo a while back, I'll be quite satisfied.
Cinemax is currently running the old Star Trek movies, tonight was Star Trek IV: the Voyage Home. The storyline is really quite terrible, as with most Trek movies, but the one-liners are fantastic! As is having a Russian (Chekov) ask about where the nuclear 'wessels' are in 1980's US, and watching the great tard William Shatner for an entire movie. I'd never watched the whole movie through before, having only seen parts of it on TV (sorry, but I'm not going to bend over backwards to see Star Trek IV), and I kinda felt sorry for Leonard Nimoy, who reprised the role of Spock - something he had said he never wanted to do again - and that he will also be reprising his role in the new movie. Does anyone know Leonard Nimoy for ANYthing else, other than Star Trek? Maybe the Bilbo Baggins song.... :)
By the way, in case you were ever in any doubt as to the technical quality of the Star Trek series, The Voyage Home was nominated for four Academy Awards, for cinematography, sound editing, music, and sound (just nominated, though). It, of course, was nominated for piles of awards by the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, but only won for best costumes. Best costumes?? Well, whatever.
Quotes!
McCoy: My God, man. Drilling holes in his head isn't the answer!
[on 20th Century America]
Kirk: This is an extremely primitive and paranoid culture.
Wednesday, August 01, 2007
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Voyage Home was always my favorite Star Trek movie. C'mon. Hilarious one-liners, whales, AND a trip back in time to 1980s San Francisco?! They could never top that in my humble opinion.
And the movie tagline?
"They travelled back where 23rd century man had never gone before. To a mad, crazy, outrageous time. 1986."
*Joy* :)
Okay, it's definitely better than some of the other ones I could have watched - and how anyone decided that Star Trek: The Motion Picture should have a sequel is beyond me. But I was thinking last night that it's not the storyline itself that's so much fun, it's the characters - they all seem to be having a great time in this movie. That sense of fun is what's missing from the new Star Wars flicks, imho.
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