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[Protistology]

He also makes the retarded suggestion that Alan Rickman's character should have had a scene where he demonstrates his acting skill to complete his character arc.

He literally does that in a clip THEY PLAY. The method acting to defeat the rock monster scene. It's in the middle of the movie. I agree. Mike doesn't understand a movie for teenagers.

 

[urr13 account]

I thought we had all come to terms with the fact Mike is essentially media illiterate at this point in his life due to alcoholism or possibly just being more confident in his bad opinions and all of his ideas for scenes in movies or things a movie "should" have done are almost always 100 times worse than anything in the movie he's talking about.

This is why he works best as the heel on programs like best of the worst.

 

[I'm a Silly]

I will never hate any guest on RLM as much as I loathe Macaulay Culkin. He makes my skin crawl. Never not awkward.
I'll take a solid year of Canadians, Beardfats, Mobys, whatever [okay, not Max Landis] if I can stave off Culkin. This is why I don't care whether young Jack is wet behind the ears or a permanent bimbo. As has been discussed, Mike was actively "giving notes/meddling" in an episode allegedly complaining about studio notes/meddling. It's too rich.

 

[#lurker]

Holy shit, Mike pontificating about expanding the characters’ backstories to a five season show demonstrates how poisoned his brain is by streaming services, and how little he learned from the modern media landscape and Star Wars specifically.

As soon as he said we need a long backstory on Gwen and her failed marriage, I came here to rant. His brain is fried completely.
Fuck streaming and their insistence on bloat to pad out minutes; stop wasting peoples time.

Edit: Jacks commentary is equally embarrassing. His comments can be summarized as "I liked this one part, then I liked this other part, oh and I also liked this." Fucking airheads.

 

[Akerman]

Yeah that was pretty boring, the only good part was Rich chiming in at the end.
Also, this Mike edit stuck out to me:



The himbo isn't really "on the Star Trek" though, especially judging by Mike's own view of these nuTrek shows over the years. He had one minor cameo on an episode of a shitty spin-off show and the character he plays is from a Rick & Morty knock off 'comedy' with "Star Trek" branding. It's not really a shocker that he doesn't know anything about actual Star Trek considering this, these shows could give less of a shit about TNG or Trek in general as is painfully obvious by just watching the re:Views of them alone.

If this guy wasn't their buddy then you'd see Mike shit all over that garbo cartoon, just like he has with all the other anti-Trek "Star Trek" shows. Although he did make a positive reference to Big Mouth on a BOTW back in the day so maybe he just has shit taste in animation in general.

 

[keke]

If this guy wasn't their buddy then you'd see Mike shit all over that garbo cartoon

Their celebrity worship is beyond reprehensible.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

The himbo isn't really "on the Star Trek" though, especially judging by Mike's own view of these nuTrek shows over the years. He had one minor cameo on an episode of a shitty spin-off show and the character he plays is from a Rick & Morty knock off 'comedy' with "Star Trek" branding. It's not really a shocker that he doesn't know anything about actual Star Trek considering this, these shows could give less of a shit about TNG or Trek in general as is painfully obvious by just watching the re:Views of them alone.

When the Simpsons was at its peak, people used to describe it as a perfect blend of all different kinds of comedy (wordplay, satire, slapstick, etc.). Galaxy Quest is a movie that basically does the same thing.

Star Trek: Lower Decks only has one type of comedy, the "point at tropes while doing tropes" thing Dan Harmon popularized on Community and Rick & Morty. Lower Decks is one of the least funny comedies I have ever watched. It somehow manages to feel both tryhard and lazy at the same time, leaving me uncomfortable and resentful towards the cast and crew. Mike acting like Hughie's a big part of Star Trek because he's on the show equivalent of Tuvix is simply infuriating.

 

[#lurker]

If this guy wasn't their buddy then you'd see Mike shit all over that garbo cartoon

I'm pretty sure Mike has called it shit before during one of their many Trek reviews. I could be wrong though.

 

[sneedem&feedem]

If this guy wasn't their buddy then you'd see Mike shit all over that garbo cartoon, just like he has with all the other anti-Trek "Star Trek" shows. Although he did make a positive reference to Big Mouth on a BOTW back in the day so maybe he just has shit taste in animation in general.

Star Trek: Lower Decks only has one type of comedy, the "point at tropes while doing tropes" thing Dan Harmon popularized on Community and Rick & Morty. Lower Decks is one of the least funny comedies I have ever watched. It somehow manages to feel both tryhard and lazy at the same time, leaving me uncomfortable and resentful towards the cast and crew. Mike acting like Hughie's a big part of Star Trek because he's on the show equivalent of Tuvix is simply infuriating.

I guess people already forgot Mike giving genuine praise to Lower Decks.

 

[#lurker]

I guess people already forgot Mike giving genuine praise to Lower Decks.

mike loves shitty cartoons.mp4

Damn, I would have sworn he shit on it at some point, must be thinking of someone else. I guess his taste is even worse than I thought.

 

[NomineNemo]

Fact of the matter is that in regards to all the Star Trek content we've had for over a decade, Lower Decks was an island of mediocrity in an ocean of shit.

Saying that Lower Decks is kinda good every now and again is faint praise but is sadly the most praise I've given any Star Trek shit in pretty much a generation.

Star Trek bros are down bad fr fr

 

[draggs]

Yeah that was pretty boring, the only good part was Rich chiming in at the end.

Re:View was the last holdout on the general decline of the writing in RLM stuff, and now it's joined the rest. The structure of pretty much everything is not as good and the guys are producing fewer interesting comments. It feels like only Rich has any decent amount of energy for a while now

 

[Mola Ram]

Fact of the matter is that in regards to all the Star Trek content we've had for over a decade, Lower Decks was an island of mediocrity in an ocean of shit.

Saying that Lower Decks is kinda good every now and again is faint praise but is sadly the most praise I've given any Star Trek shit in pretty much a generation.

Star Trek bros are down bad fr fr

Over the years since Abrams Trek first blighted the landscape, I've come to the conclusion that Star Trek is a 20th century phenomenon and artifact that really doesn't work in the 21st century. It's not really a science fiction program anymore; it's simply its own mythology and most of it is incredibly dated. There might be a way to revive it and make it interesting again, but the people currently in control of it, and who will be in control of it for the foreseeable future, have repeatedly demonstrated they have no idea how to do that and almost certainly don't care.

Trek Bros, Mike most definitely included, would be better off if they accepted that. There will be no good new Star Trek.

 

[Maniacal Foreigner]

Trek Bros, Mike most definitely included, would be better off if they accepted that. There will be no good new Star Trek.

It's dead, Jim.

 

[moocow]

There will be no good new Star Trek.

Get a good crew (with actual chemistry), lose the swearing, get rid of the endless depressing "dark and edgy" shit, whip out a fancy new Enterprise (maybe NCC-1701-G, skip over "F" because that sounds retarded), give it bright lighting like the Enterprise-D had so occupants don't want to blow their brains out setting foot on a depressingly dark bridge, make the ship monstrously powerful (to stand her ground against enemy assholes) yet dedicated to diplomacy and exploration (like she's always been good at), make the plots hopeful and optimistic ... basically do TNG again with up-to-date special effects and a decent ensemble cast.

No DS9 repeat -- between DS9 and Babylon 5 the "space station in the middle of nowhere becomes focal point of a galaxy-changing war" thing has been done as well as it ever will be (not a knock to either show -- they were both fantastic).

No dumb new "better than the Enterprise" starships with retarded gimmicks either. FTL travel via fungal spores? Fuck off with that shit. Go back to the Enterprise and give 'er a fuck-huge warp drive. As McCoy told Data, "take care of her, and she'll always bring you home." That's always been true, except for that one time they let the dumb broad drive for a minute. The Enterprise gets shit done and gives as good as she gets in a fight. And do a cool engineering set like TMP or Voyager's. Glowing, swirling engine cores are cool and ships that have them are cooler.

"Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Her continuing mission to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before."

Just fucking go back to that simple premise and even the dumbest screenwriters of Hollywood could crank out a decent modern Trek. Wagon Train to the stars. Go back to what worked. Viewers would flock to a Star Trek show that gave them genuine hope that maybe in 200 years we won't still be complete cunts. Compared to current Star Trek shows that predict things will be even shittier 200 years from now, that'd be a breath of fresh air.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Get a good crew (with actual chemistry), lose the swearing, get rid of the endless depressing "dark and edgy" shit, whip out a fancy new Enterprise (maybe NCC-1701-G, skip over "F" because that sounds retarded), give it bright lighting like the Enterprise-D had so occupants don't want to blow their brains out setting foot on a depressingly dark bridge, make the ship monstrously powerful (to stand her ground against enemy assholes) yet dedicated to diplomacy and exploration (like she's always been good at), make the plots hopeful and optimistic ... basically do TNG again with up-to-date special effects and a decent ensemble cast.

I just want the Orville back. Once it got past the "Wacky Seth Mcfarlane" phase, it was solid Trek with lots of good chemistry with the actors.

 

[Drag-on Knight 91873]

As soon as he said we need a long backstory on Gwen and her failed marriage, I came here to rant. His brain is fried completely.
Fuck streaming and their insistence on bloat to pad out minutes; stop wasting peoples time.

Edit: Jacks commentary is equaling embarrassing. His comments can be summarized as "I liked this one part, then I liked this other part, oh and I also liked this." Fucking airheads.

And there isn't much to learn from what is implied in the movie; she married a producer and then divorced. That's a normal Hollywood thing. I found more to say about Jason Nesmith's and Alexander Dane's homes than that. Look at Jason's house. For a guy that lives off of convention money and residuals, he lives in a house in the Hollywood Hills. I guess he has a good jew accountant while everyone else doesn't.

Over the years since Abrams Trek first blighted the landscape, I've come to the conclusion that Star Trek is a 20th century phenomenon and artifact that really doesn't work in the 21st century. It's not really a science fiction program anymore; it's simply its own mythology and most of it is incredibly dated. There might be a way to revive it and make it interesting again, but the people currently in control of it, and who will be in control of it for the foreseeable future, have repeatedly demonstrated they have no idea how to do that and almost certainly don't care.

Trek Bros, Mike most definitely included, would be better off if they accepted that. There will be no good new Star Trek.

That he doesn't want to watch The Orville despite effectively being new episodes of Voyager is indicative of brainrot. I don't watch it now because I don't want to pay for a Hulu subscription, but if the DVDs are on sale, I'll buy them.

 

[mandatorylurk]

Jack Quaid has the problem of wanting to be liked so he hedges his bets in everything he talks about in order to go along with Mike. It was an ok re:view for a movie I don't really care for, I don't dislike it but I was never a Star Trek person growing up so a lot of the in-jokes about it being from TNG and OG Trek lore went over my head.

What I do want to watch again is Three Amigos, that's a great movie back when things could be enjoyable and humorous without hitting you over the head nonstop the whole time with jokes.

 

[The Paleblood Vessel]

I just want the Orville back. Once it got past the "Wacky Seth Mcfarlane" phase, it was solid Trek with lots of good chemistry with the actors.

I find it amusing that Mike watched a handful of Orville episodes and not only refused to watch anymore since he essentially considered it Dollar Store TNG, but then he proceeded to watch Discovery Season 2, all of Picard, and Lower Decks, only one of those (or one and a third I guess?) he actually liked and knowing that this would likely be the case going in.

 

[Mola Ram]

I find it amusing that Mike watched a handful of Orville episodes and not only refused to watch anymore since he essentially considered it Dollar Store TNG, but then he proceeded to watch Discovery Season 2, all of Picard, and Lower Decks, only one of those (or one and a third I guess?) he actually liked and knowing that this would likely be the case going in.

Are you saying that Mike consoomed product, did not ask questions, got excited for next product, and just consoomed more product?

Current Year Trekkies are about as respectable as furries.