On walkouts

[prog]

Walking out of a movie being shown at your friend's house lacks the satisfying feeling you get (or anyway I get) from walking out of a theater showing, and may even look rude to people prone to taking it the wrong way. But sometimes you just have to hit the gong. (And I don't think anyone took it the wrong way. I was polite about it.)

Wow, what a stinker. It was just one of those no-brain "comedies" where every single character is the exact same completely selfish Type-A jerk, and I had no desire to spend the next 90 minutes in their company. Filling the story with obscure nods to ST:TOS storylines does not fix it for me. Eating shit served to you by Bill Shatner himself is still eating shit. Sorry.

Here is a much better Shatner movie that derspatchel linked a while ago. Enjoy! (Regretfully it was my watching this in the office that began the sequence of events leading to the other film's showing. But, la.)

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[cthulhia]

you left too soon.

no, they didn't stop being jerks, but the references got better.

[cortezopossum.livejournal.com]

I never heard of 'Free Enterprise' so I can't judge whether it would have been worth staying.

I've heard the album where Shatner sings -- my favorite is the "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds" disaster. Still -- I didn't know they made an equally bad music video of one of his songs.

[ahkond.livejournal.com]

In other Trek news, George Takei was on the Howard Stern show all week, classing up the joint. He had a few hilarious anecdotes about what a prick Shatner is.