So the show that had no chance to succeed by appealing to no one (and having that somehow be the point) has failed. Normally this would make me happy, as sanity reigns, but this sucker was so misguided from the ground-up that you can't even cede that.

So it's like the worst episode of SNL ever?

Lofty comment.

Why isn't this on streaming? No human could possibly agree that this is some precious resource that needs to be carefully guarded. This is Nemesis; they should be thrilled they aren't having to pay people to watch it.

In the context of just the movie, she was a fine villain. In terms of a larger Trek universe, she was the display a good idea turned cliche, with the Borg becoming just "hostile alien race #478, with the standard all-descriptive shtick that'll be ignored, retconned, sidelined and/or hand-waved away at a second's…

This is why it might sound fun to not pay your snark tax, it'll eventually get you when you least expect it.

I only eat infamous potatoes. If I I have to wait until they're fried until they get covered in human blood, it ruins the entire experience.

Exactly, and in the commentary they not only mimicked the animation for that scene, but actually had someone who normally didn't do the animation do it as a kind of gift.

Yeah, it's like cheering for the underdog to succeed, even if that means cheering for someone far above the ken of the average person. Like cheering for Tebow, or the Littlest Hedge Fund Manager to outperform the usual alphas, knowing if they fail at the task at hand they're still far more successful than you will…

Considering how much I dislike David Cross, and find Jason Lee kind of annoying even though I always feel like I'm not supposed to, watching them suffer for 80 minutes doesn't sound too terrible. But hopefully it can just be compressed into a "Howditgetburned!!!" youtube highlight reel.

The only ads I saw for ti were on football games, and they made the snow seem like it would be unbearable. Blame the hat (it certainly deserves some), but it felt like it was a show made by the kind of people that actually do need focus groups to tell them that they're wrong, because they have zero idea why people…

Movies like this remind me of that episode of Red Dwarf: "This man is not guilty of manslaughter, he is only guilty of being Arnold J. Rimmer. That is his crime; it is also his punishment. The defence rests."

Too many load-bearing posters?

At least they aren't hamdingers - nobody likes those.

As a kid I couldn't ever get past when Charlie picks out the idiotic tree. Until then, he was just a sad sack who always muddled into disaster, but when he did that, he became an active agent in his own failure. Having a put upon schmuck who suffers the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune so we don't have to is…

I agree. Every photo just seemed "off", like they were trying to make them different just because they could, with no clue as to why they were appealing to anyone in the first place.

If Palin had actually been a part of the movie and it was, you know, actually the semi-official campaign ad masquerading as a hagiography, at least it would be an actual thing. As it it's like a fan-made glorified youtube celebrity-worship piece. It's like one of those 80s car commercials that didn't show the car -…

I agree about the lack of smart. They make what I find to be the cardinal rule of failed science fiction - thinking up a BIG IDEA, then refusing to use it as anything but a McGuffin. Even in a future Star trek world, a planet that offered eternal life and full, side-effect-free healing would change the entire universe…

"Must regain precious indie cred….!"

America was built by middlemen. And now that corporations have fired…err… "laid off" so many of them and realized it makes no difference whatsoever, the days of sniffing 9 figures doing nothing that has or even come close to need doing is over. They're like divorcees freaking out that the "manner they've become…