Beastie Boys scene killed it for me
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ScrystaLz — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 09:30 AM)
Well I gotta agree with you thereas much as I love STB overall, but that part was 1 of the very few moments in the movie when I went "WTF?!"
I thought that part was silly, I hate that awful Beasties songif they insisted on playing a song during that scene, I would've preferred a different song -
tjlamb0518 — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 09:56 AM)
Considering I'd seen (or heard) the song used in the trailer and reacted to by characters, I was kind of dreading where it would turn up. While it was contrived and unnecessary, at least it wasn't as bad as I was dreading. Besides, some of the reactions (Chekov toe tapping, Sulu head-bopping and McCoy/Spock asking about classical music) were fun. Seriously? In the pantheon of things I've had to grit my teeth and bare it through in Trek moviesthis won't even make the top 5.
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coiloftears — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 10:11 AM)
Sorry but this was one of the most cringe worthy things I've seen in a movie theater, been going to the movies since the 70's. It was horrible and just literally capped off the crappy part of the movie. Horrible cringe and face palms all around
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AdmiralTugBenson — 9 years ago(August 15, 2016 11:02 PM)
Yeah, it kind of made me cringe, didn't kill the movie for me or anything. If they'd just stuck to the context of it being played through the speakers I don't think it would have been all that bad, but actually making it the soundtrack of the scene was kind of jarring. But to me it also seemed like a kind of classic Trek solution, besides the choice of music it seemed like a pretty typical pulled-out-of-their-butts Star Trek plan that saves the day. Only instead of Beastie Boys it would probably be some resonating frequency or some such technobabble. So it was very Trek-like and also not very Trek-like at the same time.
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P-K-One — 9 years ago(August 17, 2016 11:06 AM)
I was sitting in the cinema. I saw this coming about a minute before it actually played out and started laughing.
It was, without a doubt, the most stupid "kill the Aliens with a trick" scene in the history of cinema. From this moment forward nobody may ever complain about the computer virus in "independence day" again.
Generally I was very underwhelmed by this movie. The plot felt thin and was riddled with holes. It seemed they were more interested in getting from one action sequence to the next. And that Beastie Boys scene was the last straw. They could literally have stopped the movie at that point and cut in a scene of the director and writing team appearing on screen and stating that they did not take anything about this movie seriously and it would not have been any clearer. -
psdhart — 9 years ago(August 22, 2016 01:31 AM)
It was, without a doubt, the most stupid "kill the Aliens with a trick" scene in the history of cinema. From this moment forward nobody may ever complain about the computer virus in "independence day" again.
Generally I was very underwhelmed by this movie. The plot felt thin and was riddled with holes. It seemed they were more interested in getting from one action sequence to the next. And that Beastie Boys scene was the last straw.
They could literally have stopped the movie at that point and cut in a scene of the director and writing team appearing on screen and stating that they did not take anything about this movie seriously and it would not have been any clearer.
I agree, I am curious what they will say about that scene in the director's commentary -
beat — 9 years ago(November 13, 2016 12:53 PM)
It was, without a doubt, the most stupid "kill the Aliens with a trick" scene in the history of cinema. From this moment forward nobody may ever complain about the computer virus in "independence day" again.
the problem was not what it was, but how it was done. just look at "mars attacks!", where the same thing was used in a hilarious and fitting fashion. -
brch2 — 9 years ago(August 18, 2016 10:57 AM)
Would you be able to concentrate with that blasting through your speakers while having to fly in a very tight formation in an attack? And broadcasting on the frequency they were using for their computers to maintain all of that is just scrambling the signal, something that has been done for years to interrupt military radios and their abilities to coordinate attacks. So what's the problem? They came up with one of the least contrived methods ever to solve a crisis. And if you consider the fact it's far from the first time Trek has made jokes showing their views of our present are distorted by then (like ours are of our past), and that their tastes are not what our mainstream tastes would be, it's actually a reasonable scene. Frankly, I'm just glad they haven't started to resort to making some new modification to the deflector dish (or weapons systems, or any other over contrived use of their basic systems) to solve everything already.
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Foot_of_Davros — 9 years ago(August 19, 2016 01:45 AM)
Would you be able to concentrate with that blasting through your speakers while having to fly in a very tight formation in an attack? And broadcasting on the frequency they were using for their computers to maintain all of that is just scrambling the signal, something that has been done for years to interrupt military radios and their abilities to coordinate attacks. So what's the problem?
You've just given the problem in your two preceding sentences here- It is pretty much impossible that there could have been any music "blasting" anywhere other than the bridge of the Franklin.
- As you pointed out, they broadcast on the same frequency to "scramble" communication within the swarm - that would be by wave interference. So even in the hugely unlikely event that they were receiving verbal directional instructions on an analogue transmission (!),
both
transmissions would be subject to interference
In other words, they came up with nonsense simply because it played out as a "cool" scene, with Sabotage blaring out as ships exploded everywhere!
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