A weekend of movies

I feel so spoiled.

Instead of studying like all my other SFU buddies, I spent the whole weekend watching movies. As a matter of fact, I'm watching Battlestar Galactica on Dailymotion right now. And in the language of Galactica, it's facking awesome.

Let's do a run down of the film I watched/rewatched:
1) Spaceballs
Some parts of it is cute, borderline funny, though definitely not out right hilarious. Dark Helmet is probably the star of the film. What bugs me though is how Vespan's dress manages to keep her breasts covered, despite always having one shoulder strap down on her arm :).

2) The Returner
Deliver these line in Engrish: "Our most powerful weapons are having no effect!" and "I am on my return." However, if you ignore dumb lines like these and the apparent illogical plot, it's actually a pretty cool gun flick. The one thing that the Japanese know how to do well is transforming X into Y and make it look cool. From Macross to a harrier/747 to a alien space ship in The Return, no one does transformers better than the Japanese.

3) Star Trek: First Contact
Clearly First Contact is the most balanced Trek film of all the Trek films. It has cool action and a good delivery of Roddenbery's vision for the future of humanity. Seeing the warp ship's nacelles extending, Data saying "Resistance is futile", or Worf saying "Assimilate this" before blowing up the deflector dish, just almost makes me want to cheer "Yeah eat that BORG!" I know people always like to make fun of the scene where Lily confronted Picard about his drive for revenge. Personally I thought that scene was great. I think people are just not used to seeing dark side of Picard, who is usually portrayed as the captain that is furthest to the "light" side of the spectrum. I guess I'm just not a true believer of an utopian future. I loved it when DS9 explored the darker sides of humanity and likewise in BSG.

In closing, here is a excerpt from the awesomeness that is BSG:
"Let me be straight with you here. The human race is about to be wiped out. We have 50,000 people left and that's it. Now, if we are even going to survive as a species, then we need to get the hell outta here and we need to start having babies."