captkirk_4's reviews

I normally watch the local morning news on the UHF channel so had the TV set to this station when I turned it back on after planting my garden until 8pm after work. This crap show was on. Is this for real? It has to be staged, who would go on a show like this for dating? As far as who is bad...all of them. Every single one of these women looked like lowlife strippers and christ what is up with the tattoos? Over half of the women are covered with them like a sailor. What is wrong with people these days, even if the show is fake, the tattoos on the actresses look real. They guys look like young actors as well, it's obviously all staged, any guy desperate enough to lower himself to such a farce if it were real would probably resemble Paul Giamatti in Sideways. I can't believe Americans are so low to consume this, hopefully the ratings are trash. This UHF station used to run some Canadian sitcom that was a knock off of the Wonder Years during this time slot that at least was clever at times. But this crap? Does the entertainment industry actually think the public is this degenerate they want this? What happened to the days when JFK wanted to better the culture? Seems Idiocracy came true.

They are running this old series all day long on the local UHF rerun station. Wow are these guys ever a bunch of jerks, the way they disrespect each other and cus each other out. Is this staged or does this kind of conduct fly in this kind of dangerous work? Then the disregard for safety? There is always some jerk boss demanding some dude run around on top of slippery logs and jump on top of a still moving pile to undo the steel knot. Evidently speed is more important than safety. The worst is the way that old guy who fishes logs out of the river talks to his son. About the only guys who seem to act professional are the old bald guy with the missing hand who owns one of the companies and his son. Wonder if they encourage the cast to ham it up? This seems to be from the last days of cable era when all we got served up was reality TV on every channel, even those that formerly used to run more highbrow programing. Is it no wonder most people have cut the cord?

I remember this movie came out and vanished from the theaters shortly thereafter with little fanfare. It looked bad in the commercials but when it came out on video I thought "Well Connery is in it so might as well give it a try." Even though I hadn't expected much, my worst fears were confirmed the moment Captain Nemo started spinning around doing Karate moves. Oh my gosh, I thought to myself, is this ever bad. It only got worse and eventually I found myself laughing...not because the movie was any good but that someone in the industry actually had the audacity to put out something this bad. Not only that, but were expecting to milk a sequel out of this Turkey as well! Careers end over such train wrecks, and to think, Connery quit his Bond gig to do stuff like this? Who the heck at this studio has the job of filtering out bad scripts? Sirens should have been going off in their heads when they read the lines "And now masked henchmen burst into the library and Captain Nemo starts spinning around doing Judo chops on the villains." Somebody had to have gotten fired for approving MILLIONS OF DOLLARS to waste on such a dreadful concept. About the only positive thing to come out of this is that Hollywood seems to have finally given up on putting out "Steam Punk" genre movies.