Considering he handled Dredd perfectly, and without taking the mask off once, I'm willing to believe he could handle other roles like that as well.

/Dredd was farking awesome
//MaMa is not the law
///I AM THE LAW

Karl Urban is awesome.  This can only enhance the prospects of JJ's new show.

scottydoesntknow: /Dredd was farking awesome

Dredd was a lot better than it should have been.  Would have been even better with 30 minutes less of the slow mo.

scottydoesntknow: Considering he handled Dredd perfectly, and without taking the mask off once, I'm willing to believe he could handle other roles like that as well.

/Dredd was farking awesome
//MaMa is not the law
///I AM THE LAW

One of the stipulations of 2000AD giving the rights to make Dredd was that the mask stays on.


It wasn't just Urban that nailed it. The whole movie was just the right amount of grimdark and bleak humor. Oh and Olivia Thirlby was HAWT.

"She got the whole damn planet in the divorce."

Best line ever.

Karl Urban is going to be in the movie?

Shut up and take my money.

Finally, Mann & Machine gets a second chance.

fusillade762: Ambivalence: "She got the whole damn planet in the divorce."

Best line ever.

Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

His gold-pressed latinum?

fusillade762: Ambivalence: "She got the whole damn planet in the divorce."

Best line ever.

Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

They still have possessions. They're just post-scarcity as we could envision it.

fusillade762: Ambivalence: "She got the whole damn planet in the divorce."

Best line ever.

Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

it's not literal. Plenty of people have had bad divorces but how many can't stand to be on the same planet as their ex? That is remarkable.

A guy with no emotion.

Hell, Hayden Christiansen was BORN for that part!

fusillade762: Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

They never had it figured out whether or not they used money or not in the Trek universe. Sometimes they did, sometimes they got all high and mighty about about not using money. Maybe the one good thing to come out of this reboot thing is that they say, "of course we use money, morons? how else are we supposed to get anything?".

thisiszombocom: does the guy need a wife?
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She seems to act polite and stoic about smelling a fart. He always has a look like, "Who the fark farted?"

Mugato: fusillade762: Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

They never had it figured out whether or not they used money or not in the Trek universe. Sometimes they did, sometimes they got all high and mighty about about not using money. Maybe the one good thing to come out of this reboot thing is that they say, "of course we use money, morons? how else are we supposed to get anything?".

They don't use money, they just use credits like every good sci-fi universe is supposed to.

or Spacebucks.

Karl Urban was the only good thing about Doom.

thisiszombocom: srsly, it was a huge disappointment. both leads were great, and i wanted the film to be good, i really did. but it was a generic sci-fi gun battle.

You were expecting too much.  I went into it expecting it to be awful, and found it to be a fun non-stop sci-fi gun battle.

Nem Wan: Fano: Mugato: fusillade762: Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

They never had it figured out whether or not they used money or not in the Trek universe. Sometimes they did, sometimes they got all high and mighty about about not using money. Maybe the one good thing to come out of this reboot thing is that they say, "of course we use money, morons? how else are we supposed to get anything?".

They don't use money, they just use credits like every good sci-fi universe is supposed to.

or Spacebucks.

The "no money" thing seems to have started in Star Trek IV, when Kirk observes in the 20th century, "they're still using money," though in the context of their situation, and the fact that it was written by Nicholas Meyer (who interprets the Star Trek future less optimistically, and had Carol Marcus asking for funding in the Genesis project proposal tape in Star Trek II), Kirk probably only meant physical currency, such as would be needed to pay bus fare or buy a newspaper. The Next Generation premiered the next year and ran with a notion that there was no need for the concept of money in the Federation.

Somebody made a YT video showing all the contradictions in ST, with TNG scenes that said "We don't have money" followed by lots of scenes of Picard talking about buying stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLxFLOW9ew

Flint Ironstag: Nem Wan: Fano: Mugato: fusillade762: Except that in the Trek universe it doesn't make any sense. If no one uses money what's the wife supposed to have taken?

They never had it figured out whether or not they used money or not in the Trek universe. Sometimes they did, sometimes they got all high and mighty about about not using money. Maybe the one good thing to come out of this reboot thing is that they say, "of course we use money, morons? how else are we supposed to get anything?".

They don't use money, they just use credits like every good sci-fi universe is supposed to.

or Spacebucks.

The "no money" thing seems to have started in Star Trek IV, when Kirk observes in the 20th century, "they're still using money," though in the context of their situation, and the fact that it was written by Nicholas Meyer (who interprets the Star Trek future less optimistically, and had Carol Marcus asking for funding in the Genesis project proposal tape in Star Trek II), Kirk probably only meant physical currency, such as would be needed to pay bus fare or buy a newspaper. The Next Generation premiered the next year and ran with a notion that there was no need for the concept of money in the Federation.

Somebody made a YT video showing all the contradictions in ST, with TNG scenes that said "We don't have money" followed by lots of scenes of Picard talking about buying stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkLxFLOW9ew

First: I will give credit to Picard for the moments he says "all human MATERIAL NEEDS no longer exist." In a post-scarcity economy, that is true. No one will have to starve, or lack a roof over their heads.

However.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez7AFPX9RYE CEO MORGAN: "Human behavior is economic behavior." Though he speaks of a time before the post-scarcity phenomenon, he is still right. IIRC the early Soviet tried doing away with money. The problem is you have no way to measure things between people if you do that.

Even if you have replicators, as was shown in the video, Picard still wants historical artifacts. He could have the replicator make him an exact copy... but it would never be, for instance, the actual piano Mozart played. Human NEEDS may be taken care of, but human WANTS take infinite form. Another easy one, real estate. Sure, there are a bunch of planets to live on. But how many vineyards in France are there? Just like people willing to pay a premium to live in NYC, surely there will be people wanting to live in particular places. There will be demand for objects based on desire. And no matter what way you want to do things, there will be an official way to keep score.

It's an idealistic, but dumb concept that burdens Star Trek with weapons grade bolonium.

*BTW, I stand by my statement even with holodecks, which on Earth would be the last invention of mankind. I only know of them from ST:TNG but I guess they must only be mounted in spaceships or something. Otherwise, combining all material needs met with all fantasy needs, it would take about 50 years for humanity to degenerate into Eloi.

Fano: *BTW, I stand by my statement even with holodecks, which on Earth would be the last invention of mankind. I only know of them from ST:TNG but I guess they must only be mounted in spaceships or something. Otherwise, combining all material needs met with all fantasy needs, it would take about 50 years for humanity to degenerate into Eloi.

The thing that gets me is that you can have machines on the holodeck that work. So could a holodeck have a holographic generator and make holographic gas to power the holographic generator to provide the power to run the holodeck?

Because having to go out to earn money to buy electricity for your holodeck would be the only time you'd ever need or want to leave.

I haven't seen the Star Trek sequel any more than the rest of you, but I absolutely am convinced there will be a McCoy death scene. I'm not even kidding.

"Dammit Jim I'm a doctor, not a........"

I'm willing to entertain odds on this.

Confabulat: I haven't seen the Star Trek sequel any more than the rest of you, but I absolutely am convinced there will be a McCoy death scene. I'm not even kidding.

"Dammit Jim I'm a doctor, not a........"

I'm willing to entertain odds on this.

crap, on second thought, don't. You don't want to get all quantum physics on this stuff while JJ is still editing