Back in the day when there were revival theaters - sometime in the 80s, I got to see Creature from the Black Lagoon in 3D; that’s how it had been released in 1954 I think. It was thrilling as hell - even in black and white.

“Lagoon” is French for “the goon”.

Young-ish person here (age 31) totally agree. Gill-man has been a lowkey obsession of mine for years.

Creature from the Black Lagoon really doesn’t get the love it deserves, outside of practical effects artist, these days. That shit is astounding. Nobody had made foam latex costumes that elaborate and detailed 70 years ago, let alone full suits that could hold up submerged in water. The linked clip is iconic, and…

RIP. I’m GenX and grew up watching showings of the Creature from the Black Lagoon on TV in the 1970s-1980s on local channels (in 3D! Grocery stores would get into the promotion and distribute the red-and-blue glasses so we could watch it in 3D on TV). Also reruns of Flipper were on TV. I wonder if younger generations…

I dunno, they gave him quite a sendoff (final scene notwithstanding), by showing that Kirk could kick Picard’s ass in a fight (since he beat Soran, who wiped the floor with Jean Luc), lol. Fanboys probably loved that one.

Come on, Mes. They’re saving themselves for the right cheating husband.

We are a very stupid country.

If they’re so wanted by men, why are they single now?

“Fast forward to 1982...”: also keep in mind that Montalban was the star of one of the hottest shows on television (Fantasy Island) and a popular advertising spokesman (most famously for Chrysler and their “rich Corinthian leather” interiors). He was arguably the biggest name attached to Wrath of Khan.

I thought Javier Bardem would have been an intimidating as fuck as Khan. Today, I’d LOVE Ram Charan from RRR as Khan.

Beyond was pretty good, but they misstepped big time by burying Idris Elba under 50 pounds of prosthetics. Dumb Khan reveal or not, Into Darkness made a ton of money because Cumberbatch did a great “villain Sherlock” performance that the trailers could utilize.

There’s so much awful in that film. The two worst that stand out to me is the Enterprise falling out of orbit from the Moon to crash into the Earth because the engines turn off in the space of about four minutes, and taking one of the most iconic and moving scenes in all of Trek (Spock’s death), and doing a role-revers…

Alex Kurtzman is in charge of the TV side and came from the JJ movies, for what it’s worth. I know Discovery and Picard have their detractors, but they were the first shows of the new batch and have gotten better over time, and Strange New Worlds, Lower Decks, and Prodigy have received a ton of praise. He’d be a…

I haven’t watch/played Pokemon in nearly 25 years because Pikachu didn’t have a hat. My concerns have been addressed and now I want back in. What is next after Pokemon Yellow?

I think that if they really want to build a film franchise that isn’t just movies from the TV show, they need to do it MCU style. I don’t necessarily mean the scope or number of properties or even the interconnectedness, but rather, they need someone overseeing the films who is threading that needle from the outset…

I have a serious personal grudge against Generations because of how dirty they did Kirk. But yeah, Insurrection is maybe the worst example of “this should’ve been an episode.” I know people will say TMP, especially given that it’s based on what was originally going to be an episode of Phase II, but for all its flaws…

Q returns as a depressed air traffic controller from Albuquerque! 

The whole trying to keep Khan a surprise twist was ridiculous. Cumberbatch is great, but Khan shouldn’t be a British white guy, Naveen Andrews would have killed that role. It’s an iconic, juicy villain role that actually calls for an Indian actor, and they get the whitest man on the planet to play him, still salty…

Into Darkness tried to leach off the work that The Wrath of Khan did while doing none of it itself (the reveal of Khan depended totally on knowing the first film). JJ’s attempts at lying about Cumberbatch not being Khan were so terrible no one believed him.