Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

The Voyage Home is the goofiest Trek film I've seen so far. It's also the most overtly political. However, by embracing the camp elements that lurk in the margins of Trek (and without succumbing to self-parody), The Voyage Home manages to be warmly entertaining -- funny even -- but with enough good humor to keep the message from being overbearing. Science fiction has long been a bastion for political observation and satire, and Star Trek was always a platform for commentary. Even if the white guy (and the Vulcan) did the bulk of the heavy dramatic lifting, the fact that...

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Earth Day inspired last week's poll topic, which was environmental-themed movies. Looking at the results, it's cool to see that the votes were spread out across many different genres, although the winner was certainly no surprise: Pixar's Wall-e! The "save the whales" theme from Star Trek IV was blatant enough to secure the #2 spot on the poll, while Korean monster movie The Host held down #3. Whale Rider and Happy Feet finished in a deadlock for last place, despite the fact that they both were critically-acclaimed and received Academy Award recognition. I guess not everyone can have the Pixar Touch.! 1. Wall-e -- 29% 2. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home -- 15.7% 3. The Host -- 11.9% 4. An Inconvenient Truth -- 10.4% 4. Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind -- 10.4% 6. The Toxic Avenger -- 9.7% 7. Soylent Green -- 6% 8. Erin Brockovich -- 3.7% 9. Happy Feet -- 1.5% 9. Whale Rider -- 1.5%
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Why haven't we gotten a decent nature movie about whales? It's one thing to film penguins, after all they just sort of sit there and waddle around and at the end of the day, you could probably go to the zoo and get pretty much the same experience, provided Morgan Freeman was there with you to narrate a mostly inaccurate story ascribing human attributes to their instinct-driven, animal behavior. But whales! That's the thing. They're elusive and except for the occasional Orca, they're mostly too big to be seen at your local Sea World. For most people, their vision of our gigantic undersea brethren is still probably the humpbacks they saw in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and most of those shots were animatronics. Where's the whales goddammit? These asshole nature documentarians are apparently too damn lazy to put on a snorkel and hang out in the water near

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