David Decker

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MAY 7, 2009 1:34AM

The Onion: Why the New Star Trek Movie Fails

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As you may have heard the latest Star Trek movie hits theaters this Friday. But you haven’t seen this new ‘reboot’ version covered until you’ve seen it covered by The Onion:

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

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Ya gotta’ love The Onion. (Or not).
I love The Onion. Great
Absolutely love The Onion! Hilarious!
I do loves me some Onion man.
This new Star Trek movie looks, like, soooooo boooring.
But hey, lotsa action!
oh, this is excellent!!! i adore the onion. thank you so much for sharing this. i read one good review. thank god i'm not a trekkie. i might actually like it. love love lvoe and huge gratitude.

but if you get an EP for this, well... sometihng will happen.
I love the Onion. I still have a copy of the Onion that came out shortly after 911...their first issue since 911. They're so good they did that well.
Hilarious, but The Onion really needs to stick with print. Bad acting is always funny though.
This is funny and a good watch. My only problem is that it is an EP. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to slam anyone here. It just seems to me that priority needs to go to original contenet and not the endless stream of you tube and various over bit of kyped video being posted. I would venture that a good nomber of contributors here already have an Onion bookmark and can catch this anytime they wish. No offense intended Mr D.
Man.. I love me my Onion!
Oh! Oh! Now that The Onion has told me not to watch this watchable and action packed film, I am decidedly not going to not see it as soon as it is in my local theatre!
They've got a point though. What is this going to do to the conventions? What it's not enough that cool people what Battlestar Gallacica? Those studios have no heart.
Haha! I'm already in line for the premiere.
The Onion -- what a cool place to work.
I can't wait to see Zoi Saldana ...I mean the Movie.
So true. So funny.
What fun! Back from a morning of deadly meetings to some Onion fun.

Backwards:

Saturn – You’re right. It’s pretty funny that you really can’t say this video has a lot of untruths.

Jane – Um, no! I’m on my way.

Harp – Uhura rocks! (I hope Ms. Saldana does, too).

OE – Can you believe it? People actually work there.

Karin – You’re cracking me up! Seriously. (But you know, Kent Pittman crossed my mind, too).

Monsieur – Well there you go. We could’ve caught you on the live-stream from OnTheRedCarpet.com! It wouldn’t have been too hard to single out your top-hat in that crowd (unless some freaky-deaky costumes were in the way).

Juliet – I leave it to you to leave no stone unturned. The conventions! Damn! (Those studios!) Um, wait. I work at one...

Zuma – Avatar for my favorite in-town beach – You’re right! Damnit! Now I can’t go to my local theater to see this potentially enjoyable movie either!

Mr. Mustard – The more the merrier in an Onion party.

bobbot – Thanks for the visit, no offense taken. Hope you had a laugh.

gwhizz – I do love their print stuff, but I have to say, this video killed me. Killed me. The Shatner/Gorn slo-mo fight? The Andorian crap and the stuff about scenes set around a huge conference room table? I think they’ve got it goin’ on w/their video stuff, too.

mary – you’re right. Comedy on some subjects is a pretty scary tight-rope walk. Hadn’t thought about The Onion that way, but yeah, they take on pretty much anything...

Theodora – Here’s some of the love, right back at ‘ya. I’d like to hear your review of the movie after you see it.

Dakini – Yep. I agree. The Onion’s a pretty nifty vegetable/bizzaro-world news source.

Larry – Are you saying William Shatner’s an overactor!?!?

Jimmy – My reaction, too!

Tea Lover – It can certainly make a fine break in the day. (And tea ain’t so bad either).

Roger – Thanks for stopping in.

Uh oh, what happened to the embed? I’ll have to check on that...
That was so funny! I Read the Onion, have never seen this forum.

(And loved the end, about the elderly black woman....)

The Onion Rocks!
The Onion is god. Even their throwaways (bottom of screen) are better than most other humor out there....
Hi, Connie and Silkstone. Welcome to the Onion party!

BTW – The Onion website updated their embedded player’s user interface component library today. The old version worked this morning, but the updated one seems to be on the fritz temporarily; they say they’re on it, and it should be fixed soon. Meanwhile, the link (below the video embed picture) works just fine.
David, I didn't comment earlier but I have been quoting you and the Onion everywhere when asked about the new Star Trek movie. I thought I should let you know that I take you (and The Onion) seriously and consider you to be reliable informants. Ha HA!

(P.S. As an old Trekkie, love the new Trek!)
David, I didn't comment earlier but I have been quoting you and the Onion everywhere when asked about the new Star Trek movie. I thought I should let you know that I take you (and The Onion) seriously and consider you to be reliable informants. Ha HA!

(P.S. As an old Trekkie, love the new Trek!)