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if your interested go see it, better if you don't see the trailer beforehand

It's the full movie and it's free on YouTube. Basically, it's like Zatoichi meets Daredevil. It's pretty good if you're into martial arts.

She's like canonically 25 and only has 7 exs, a canonically hot girl even though she's kinda mid in the irl movie. This is comical low in modern times. Remember this was made eons ago first as an neurodivergent comic. At the time 7 exs basically made you a whore but that's actually stupid low for a modern canadian lib.

Yes it's a movie that's entirely people singing in French. If that's too much for you then maybe stick to Fortnite and zoomer youtube reaction videos.

It's as real as you'll ever get in a movie. Like where the guy is trying to explain to the foid that his leg really hurts bad right now and no I'm not going to tell you details of how this happened.

Non-Francophiles frick you keep yourself safe.

The Measure of a Man is the best episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Yes, Best of Both Worlds and Yesterday's Enterprise are more spectacular but MoaM (as I will now refer to it as) is the best written episode of Star Trek period. Most of it is just people standing around in rooms talking and that is fine.

The episode revolves around a court case which is a pretty common trope in Star Trek as most TV writers have experience writing courtroom drama and also, and perhaps most importantly, courtroom drama is cheap to make. Melinda Snodgrass, who wrote this, actually was a lawyer which is probably why the case-building stuff actually makes sense. Here's a suspiciously attractive lawyer talking about the legal stuff in the episode while wearing the wrong uniform because this episode was from season 2 when Starfleet officers still dressed like a bobsleigh team:

The plot is this: Starfleet Neurodivergent Commander Maddox was to disassemble Data for science...

Here's more of Maddox so you can really get a full feel for the guy...

Data doesn't want that. A court case happens. Data is defended by Picard and the JAG forces Riker to act as prosecution, threatening him with all kinds of shit if he throws the case. This provides extra stakes and saves money on hiring another actor.

Riker decides 'frick it' and gives it 100%...

This sucks and Picard is utterly despondent. He decides to break into the Enterprise bar and get drunk and Guinan finds him there. The two have a heart-to-heart and Picard realises that it is not just his friend who is in danger from this case, but the ethics of the entire Federation...

Hey! Modern TV writers: This is how you tackle social issues in Sci-Fi. See?

Full of the Beans of Social Justice, Picard storms it in court the next day, putting that fricking nerd Maddox in his place...

All this leaves is the awkward question of how Data and Riker move on from this. Fortunately, Data deploys facts and logic (although the writer says she thought that Data could, in fact, understand emotions even if he could not feel them)...

Riker would get the chance to prove himself non-chud in a later season by falling for a totally valid so remember that. Personally, I think Riker would frick a hole in the wall so... meh.

I never watched this because it had horrendous reviews and I've rarely seen people talk positively about it. Then I happened upon Roger Ebert's review of the film where he admits to finding it funny. So I got curious and checked it out. Honestly, wasn't that bad and was a pretty "comfy" movie. Got a few good laughs out of me.

Edit: Films name is Land of the Lost.

For reasons Starfleet reassigns Picard to a super-secret-squirrel mission behind Cardassian lines and gives command of the Enterprise over to Commander Jelico, played by Ronny 'Peepee Jones From Robocop' Cox. There's a whole B-plot about how Jelico and Riker clash and Jelico eventually confines Riker to quarters and (rightfully) gives the Number 1 slot to Data. La Forge also gets along fine with the new order and, when Jelico forces her to wear a proper uniform and act like a fricking officer, Troi is finally given the opportunity to behave like a professional. Riker comes over as completely petty and infantile in this story- Achillies sulking in his tent- until Jelico takes Troi's advice and butters him up to perform a fancy bit of flying that I cannot believe Data couldn't have done better. Jelico is the third best Enterprise captain btw: loads of people think he was great and I bet there are crappy Star Trek novels about him somewhere.

Anyway Picard finds himself captured and, while Jelico is trying to find a way to release him, he gets tortured by Gul Macet- played by veteran Bong actor David Warner. Warner was in two Pekinpah movies- the Balad of Cable Hogue and Cross of Iron- and played three two other roles in Star Trek (some ambassador guy in Star Trek 5: The One Everybody Tries to Forget About and the ruler of the Klingon Empire in Star Trek 6: The Undiscovered Country). The two actors were old friends and worked really well together creating one of the great thespian masterclasses of 90s TV. In the end Picard seems to win but there is a sting in the tail...

Thanks to @Battleloser for inspiring this post with his comment on my previous installment of Best of Starshit:

https://rdrama.net/h/kino/post/226890/the-best-of-starshit-garak-talks

Is there a !starshit ping group? There should be- there should be a Starshit hole actually as so many people around here love to sneed at it.

The new trailer for the ‘BOB MARLEY’ biopic has been released.

In theaters on February 14. pic.twitter.com/0k7J9P3Xlm

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 5, 2023

That marvel team up run

King Kong with a infinity gauntlet glove

!fellas !anime

Context: Tain was the Head of Cardassia's Gestapo, the Obsidian Order, and Garak was his best agent. He was also his illegitimate son. Cardassians place incredible store upon their family relationships and Tain decided that Garak was an 'unaffordable weakness' he could no longer tolerate. I suppose he could have had Garak killed but instead he alowed him to be exilled on DS9 when the Cardassian occupation of Bajor ended. Ducat, another multifaceted Cardasdian character, was directly responsible for this but- as was often the case in Dukat's life- he was a pawn of a greater power.

Now Tain and Garak find themselves prisoners of the Dominion, a kind of evil version of the Federation, who tricked Tain into allying the Obsidian Order with the Romulan secret service, the Tal Shiar. Both organisations were crippled (although the Tal Shiar would recover) and Tain was taken prisoner.

Bashir's presence is interesting as his place had been taken for several episodes by a Dominion changeling which got drunk with O'brien every night, took part in high level military briefings and even delivered Kira's baby (Kira actress Nana Visitor was actually pregnant with Bashir actor 'Alexander' Siddig El-Faddil's child).

Stay tuned for more Best of Starshit...

It wasn't bad, it was chud preachy at times, but reminded me of a 2006 comedy.

Watch it on your local content stealing site (death to daily wire subscribers)

The new trailer for Issa Lopez’s ‘TRUE DETECTIVE: NIGHT COUNTRY’, starring Jodie Foster and Kali Reis, has been released.

Releasing January 14 on HBO. pic.twitter.com/cJKuCzAKgZ

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 4, 2023

Were season 2 and 3 good?

First look at Sebastian Stan as young Donald Trump in ‘THE APPRENTICE’.

(Source: https://t.co/XFguESCoQl) pic.twitter.com/KesmkrOF4p

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 4, 2023

He's hired! Sebastian Stan transformed into Donald Trump on set of the upcoming film “The Apprentice.”

The “Pam & Tommy” star, 41, is set to act alongside Jeremy Strong as attorney Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Donald's first wife, Ivana Trump.

Per the outlet, the film is described as an “exploration of power and ambition set in a world of corruption and deceit.”

“It's a mentor-protégé story that charts the origins of an American dynasty,” Deadline added.

“Filled with larger-than-life characters, it reveals the moral and human cost of a culture defined by winners and losers.”

Sadboi.

It's robots destroying each other for our entertainment. That's literally the future that Japanese cartoons promised us.

Just finished watching Lawrence of Arabia for the first time (yes I'm a !zoomers). Absolute kino, modern film, especially modern British film, can't hold a candle to it. I've already seen Ben-Hur, thinking I might watch Zulu next. Any other Epic recommendations?

Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling will star as the parents of Danny & Debbie Ocean in the ‘OCEANS 11’ prequel.

Set during the 1962 Monaco Grand Prix, the film follows the couple as they teach their children how to steal from the rich.

(Source: https://t.co/WvUHogSKid) pic.twitter.com/kiFQmCZr9q

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) December 3, 2023

UPDATED A couple of months ago it was revealed that “Austin Powers” director Jay Roach was going to make an “Ocean's 11” prequel. Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling — Barbie and Ken — would reunite for the heist movie.

Now I can tell you exclusively that the title of the planned film is “Oceans.” That's because Gosling and Robbie will play the parents of Danny Ocean, the character played by George Clooney in Ocean's 11, 12, and 13.

The Oceans (I don't know their first names) will teach son Danny and daughter Debbie (Sandra Bullock) how to steal from the rich in this new caper. The Oceans will have a team to help them, of course.

The new movie will be set in the 60s, which is ironic since the original “Ocean's 11” with Frank Sinatra, the Rat Pack, et al was released in 1960.

My sources say “Oceans” will set up the more modern “Ocean's 11” trilogy, not to mention “Ocean's 8” which starred Bullock and a team of women. (There's still no “Ocean's 9,” but who knows!) No word on who's going to write the new film, but David Levien and Brian Koppelman would be excellent candidates after doing such a good job with “Ocean's 13.”