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May 12, 2009
All This Talk of Star Trek Has Made Watching The Worst Fight Scene Ever a Five-Times-a-Day Habit
This will cure all that ails you *and* make you feel smarter, although it also makes me kind of wish I could pop over to California for a bit, just until spring becomes a little more steadily summerlike.
Posted by adrienne at May 12, 2009 09:49 PM
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Oh ma God. OH MA GOD. That is the most hilariously awful and awfully hilarious thing I have evah SEEN.
Posted by: EM at May 12, 2009 10:10 PM
Wait, is that a Sleestack? When did Star Trek and Land of the Lost do a crossover episode? That creature sounds like I did the day I came home from having my wisdom teeth removed.
Posted by: david e at May 13, 2009 08:46 AM
talk about deadpan. but seriously. at the beginning it looked more like a ballet dance than a fight. don't even get me started on the rock throwing. :)
Posted by: Olivia at May 13, 2009 09:28 AM
Oooh, I'm rewatching all the old Trek films before I'll allow myself to see the new one, and bwa-hahahha! Maybe I should rewatch all the original series, too. Oooh, so bad it's good. Kinda.
Posted by: tanita at May 13, 2009 09:34 AM
That was painful. Last night's viewing of the new Star Trek film was enjoyable, though. Karl Urban as Bones stole the show. And just think, once upon a time he was both Julius Caesar AND Cupid in Xena: Warrior Princess.
Posted by: Saints and Spinners at May 13, 2009 12:53 PM
I wan to tell the lizzard, USE YOUR LEGS, NOT YOUR BACK! when lifting rocks.
I saw something on the SciFi channel also filmed at Vasquez Rocks park that was almost as aughfully wonderful. It was a horrible CG walking thing that was laser-ing people into smoldering fires and pinching people's heads off. The best part was the chase scene where it was going after a pickup truck full of people and they passed the big slanty rock like 12 times, like it was vast desert landscape full of them rather than a, like, 100-acre park with one dominant feature. They must have driven past it 30 times, back an forth, since you can't drive around it, to get the footage.
Posted by: chuck at May 13, 2009 12:53 PM
I think the tree in this footage is fake, which just makes the whole thing that much more awful.
I'm pretty sure there was a shot somewhere in the new film that was an homage to this scene. I can't remember exactly where, but I definitely remember something with slanted rocks and laughing to myself about it.
Posted by: Jeffrey Lee at May 13, 2009 03:03 PM
I'm glad I'm not the only one who understands the wonder and awe of this video.
Jeffrey, I totally missed that moment, so *clearly* I need to see the movie again.
Posted by: adrienne at May 13, 2009 08:43 PM
I'm in California...but I'm wishing I was somewhere not quite so windy!
Posted by: Sherrie Petersen at May 14, 2009 11:13 PM
I've never been there this time of year.
Posted by: adrienne at May 15, 2009 08:47 PM
i totally thought they were going to make out there for a minute.
Posted by: eisha at May 22, 2009 10:01 PM
That would have made the video more awesome, really.
Posted by: adrienne at May 23, 2009 12:18 PM