Episode 131: Sunday, May 10, 2009

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 131 - our Star Trek review

Our big Star Trek (2009) review! (includes spoilers)

In this episode:

  • big upcoming summer movies,
  • Land of the Lost (2009) starring Will Ferrell,
  • Year One (2009) starring Jack Black and Michael Cera,
  • our movie review of Role Models (2008) starring Paul Rudd,
  • G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) starring Dennis Quaid,
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009) starring Shia LaBeouf,
  • our movie review of Star Trek (2009) starring Chris Pine,
  • Greg’s veteran fan perspective and Rob’s newbie perspective,
  • Frank from The Overnightscape and his Twitter posts about Star Trek,
  • canon vs. reboot,
  • Zachary Quinto as Spock,
  • the rest of the cast (Chris Pine, Simon Pegg, Leonard Nimoy, Eric Bana, etc.),
  • the annoying shaky camera technique,
  • ways J.J. Abrams could’ve included William Shatner in the movie,
  • Captain Pike’s wheelchair,
  • Star Trek vs. the Star Wars prequels,
  • rescuing Romulans,
  • Nicolas Cage’s car crash,
  • and forgetting the movie Cloverfield (2008).

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Episode 76: Monday, July 9, 2007

The Paunch Stevenson Show episode 076

The Paunch Stevenson Show super mega movie review of Transformers!

In this episode:

  • our Transformers (2007) movie review with Adam in SC,
  • the Transformers’ lack of dialogue and personality,
  • shaky camera work during battles,
  • lengthy transformations,
  • Hugo Weaving’s lame Megatron voice,
  • Peter Cullen as the voice of Optimus Prime,
  • Darius McCrary as the voice of Jazz,
  • the Allspark cube,
  • eBay,
  • the World Wide Web and Al Gore,
  • Jon Voight’s pronunciation of “robot,”
  • a list of movies that Transformers (2007) ripped off (They Live, Small Soldiers, Superman, AVP: Alien vs. Predator, Independence Day, Gremlins 2: The New Batch, etc.),
  • the lack of machines in the 1930s,
  • Kremzeek,
  • the lack of the Transformers’ backstory,
  • the trailer for the upcoming untitled J.J. Abrams movie (2008),
  • season two of Who Wants to Be a Superhero? starring Stan Lee,
  • our movie review of Live Free or Die Hard (2007) starring Bruce Willis and Justin Long,
  • Herbie the Love Bug,
  • the Transformers peeing and playing hide and seek,
  • impressive fan CGI,
  • and a line from The Transformers: The Movie (1986).

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