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Guy robs stores with Bat'leth

Get this, a guy robs not one, but TWO 7-Eleven stores with a Klingon Bat’leth! What in the world? We got Trekkies getting desperate here, thanks to the economic crisis. All those new movie toys aren’t going to be cheap! I am predicting more robberies with movie weapons. Lightsabers, phasers, ray guns, blasters, Krull Glaives, and Tron Discs will be everywhere! Frightful times.

Pic Shows Man Robbing Stores With Klingon Sword
Clerks Recognize Sword As ‘Bat’leth’

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A surveillance picture released by police Wednesday afternoon shows a man armed with what appears to be a small Klingon sword, holding up a 7-Eleven convenience store.

That same man robbed another 7-Eleven store store a half-hour later, and remains at large, Colorado Springs police Lt. David Whitlock said.

The first robbery was reported at 1:50 a.m., at 145 N Spruce St. The clerk told police a white man in his 20s, wearing a black mask, black jacket, and blue jeans, entered the store with a weapon the clerk recognized from the Star Trek TV series.

The robber demanded money and left with an undisclosed amount.

A half hour later, police received a call from a 7-Eleven at 2407 N. Union Blvd., where a man matching the previous description entered the store with a similar weapon. He also demanded money from the store clerk. The clerk refused and the robber “transported” himself out of the store on foot.

Both clerks described the weapon as a Star Trek Klingon-type sword, called a “bat’leth.”

Neither clerk was injured in the robberies.

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A big batch of terrible Super Bowl movie commercials

GI Joe – this looks horrible. Will only be interested in Gerald Okamura:

Hey, let’s destroy the Eiffel Tower (already done by a Puppet movie!) and have terrible slow-mo CGI flipping


Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen

Way more Transformers, maybe it won’t be as bad. Who am I kidding, the same writers, directors, and stars are in it. And the new Transformers look just and indistinguishable and messy as the old ones.

Land of the Lost

Will Ferrel is annoying. But there are Sleestak!

Fast and the Furious 4

This will be the best F&F sequel yet. Because they can only go up.


Star Trek

I am still not impressed.

I am now aware how I am becoming bitter at the state of big budget entertainment in the media. Mostly because they are horrible. Now, surprisingly, Paul Blart: Mall Cop wasn’t bad, and Taken was awesome, so it is not like I hate everything. Just 80% of the commercials above. Vin Diesel comes out on top for once!

Star Trek XI movie photos shotgunned across the web

Entertainment Weekly is getting an exclusive look at the new Star Trek reboot, complete with exclusive photos. To celebrate, photos have been given to six websites, one apiece, to drive up the hype/noise. These pictures are problematic IMHO for several reasons, most notably that they killed most of my enthusiasm. And the road to box office success runs through TarsTarkas.NET!

Most of the photo descriptions I will leave to the respective websites, but some are self-explanatory. And I saved the nerd rage until the end, so you can skip it if you don’t care.

Prepare yourself for a torrent of photos that you have probably seen reprinted all over the web:

EW cover:
EW Cover
UPDATE: FULL ARTICLE LINK

MTV photo:
Star Trek Bridge

AICN photo:
Star Trek Sylar

UGO photo:
Star Trek Cast
Chekov (Anton Yelchin), Kirk (Chris Pine), Scotty (Simon Pegg), McCoy (Karl Urban), Sulu (John Cho), and Uhura (Zoe Saldana)

IGN photo:
Star Trek Ice Kirk

Trekmovie.com photo:
Star Trek USS Kelvin

JoBlo photo:
Star Trek Nero

Other photos:

The Enterprise:
Enterprise

New USS Kelvin picture:
Star Trek Kelvin HiRes

debuts in theaters May 8, 2009
New Trailer will be with Quantum of Solace November 14th

Nerd crap: Black uniform is stupid, the new bridge looks like an iPod store, Chris Pine has a gigantic forehead, the photo of Spock attacking looks like Sylar is about to feed on Kirk’s brain, Chekov’s hair is dumb, Chekov shouldn’t even be there, the cloth pattern on the uniforms is annoying (and is supposedly the Star Trek symbol, but who cares?)

This looks just different enough to tick off loyal fans while being annoying enough to turn off new people. Hooray. JJ Abrams may have made a worse film than Nemesis!

I’ll wait until the full trailer until I dismiss it completely. There is still hope.

Turist Omer Star Trek Turkish

Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda (Review)

Turist Omer Uzay Yolunda

aka Turist Omer in Star Trek aka Turkish Star Trek

1973
Starring
Sadri Alisik as Turist Omer
Erol Amac as Mister Spak (yes, Spak)
Cemil Sahbaz as Kaptan Kirk
Ferdi Merter as Duktur McCoy
Fusun (aka Fusun Olgac) as Uhura
Yilmaz Sahin as Scoty

More Turkish Shenanigans. Actually early Turkish film, from when ripping off American films had not been perfected. Yet this wholesale rip off of Star Trek not only has the honor of being the first Star Trek movie ever made, but features ripped off opening credits, ripped off music, ripped off sound effects. The Director went to the trouble of creating sets that look good enough you know what they are supposed to be despite the fact they probably cost eight cents on a six cents budget. If you’ve ever wondered what would happen if an obnoxious dirty greasy Turkish guy was transported into the middle of the Star Trek episode The Man Trap then this is the movie for you. Too bad you are probably trapped in an asylum somewhere instead of free to track down Turkish films. Turist Omer is from a series of films involving said greasy cowboy hatted oaf encountering various wacky scenarios and hijinks ensue. The first Turist Omer dates to 1964, and he’s also been in Turist Omer dumenciler krali (1965 – no clue on the translation), and Turist Omer Almanya’da (1966 – Turist Omer in Germany). This was the last of the series that I am aware of, though I wouldn’t be surprised if there were thirty more entries that will never be seen again due to the state of Turkish film preservation (Which may be doing us a favor, as some of these films could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Imagine Osama bin Laden taking over the airwaves and sending us non-stop Turkish dramas? The horror is too great to imagine. Sadri Alisik is sadly no longer with us, taken before Turist Omer could invade the Star Wars universe.