Star Trek Movie Marathon

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship, Enterprise, its…oh…50-or-so-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new opportunities to make movies and TV shows, to boldly go to the couch and movie marathon like no one has before!

Ok. A little hokey I guess. But a Star Trek movie marathon? Beam me up! Of course, I say this since I’m mostly thinking of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Kahn and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. I might be forgetting little details like, oh, say Star Trek V: The Final Frontier or Star Trek: Generations.

Regardless, Star Trek has massive staying power, and its only being revitalized further by the rebooted movie series. You can catch up on almost all of them in a mere 24 hours. Only the latest release, Star Trek: Beyond, doesn’t quite fit in. May you watch long and prosper!

Star Trek Movie Marathon Movies

Star Trek: The Motion Picture

Star Trek: The Motion PictureMy take: Take Star Trek and 2001: A Space Odyssey and put them in a blender, and what do you get? A lot of looking out the window at spacey stuff. Also features a hot bald chick.

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

Star Trek: The Wrath Of KhanMy take: Captain Kirk expresses his disapproval of Kahn. Brain-eating worms also make an appearance.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

Star Trek: The Search For SpockMy take: This movie bucks standard utilitarian ethics theory and claims that “The needs of the one outweigh the needs of the many”. This is why this movie is shown in so many basic college ethics courses.

Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

Star Trek: The Voyage HomeMy take: The crew of Star Trek goes back to the 80s! Look at all the wackiness! Why, there’s an annoying guy with a boom box! That Spock doesn’t take any crap! Har! Kill me.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Star Trek: The Final FrontierMy take: The movie provides the definitive answer to the age-old question: “What does God need with a Starship?”

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Star Trek: The Undiscovered CountryMy take: Klingons recite Shakespeare. Sadly, Star Trek VII, in which the Romulans do ballet, was never made.

Star Trek: Generations

Star Trek: GenerationsMy take: Captain Kirk and Captain Picard meet briefly thanks to some time ribbon or something. It almost had a point.

Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First ContactMy take: The Borg assimilate earth by going back in time and messing with history. Only the crew of the Enterprise can stop it. Unless they tried the Borg did the same thing again a little later. Ah well.

Star Trek: Insurrection

Star Trek: InsurrectionMy take: Mean guys with bad skin complexion cause trouble on a paradise planet. It’s like “Revenge of the Nerds”, but the nerds are evil and it isn’t high school.

Star Trek: Nemesis

Star Trek: NemesisMy take: Captain Picard’s nemesis is revealed, and its himself: NEGA-PICARD. Or maybe I’m thinking of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”.

Star Trek

Star TrekMy take: Kirk and crew punch and karate chop their way to victory! Except for the planet Vulcan being destroyed. That was a bad day.

Star Trek: Into Darkness

Star Trek: Into DarknessMy take: Captain Kirk follows no regulations and nearly gets his crew killed a dozen times. Thankfully Starfleet is attacked and most of the captains are killed. Job security!

Star Trek Movie Marathon Schedule

Start TimeTitle
12:00 PMStar Trek: The Motion Picture
02:30 PMStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
04:30 PMStar Trek III: The Search for Spock
06:15 PMStar Trek IV: The Voyage Home
08:15 PMStar Trek V: The Final Frontier
10:15 PMStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
12:15 AMStar Trek: Generations
02:15 AMStar Trek: First Contact
04:06 AMStar Trek: Insurrection
06:00 AMStar Trek: Nemesis
08:00 AMStar Trek
10:15 AMStar Trek Into Darkness
12:00 PMFinish

 

Best Movies We Missed In 2012

As the parent of two young kids, owner of a house, worker of a full time job, and husband of a worker of a full time job – I don’t see a lot of movies in the theater. I’m thinking about doing something a little different this year and making the theme “The Best Movies We Missed from 2012”.

There are a few opinions on the Internet on which movies these are (shocking, no?). Me, I’m thinking this list:

Any other good ideas?

(Yes – I did see “The Dark Knight Rises” and “The Hobbit” in theaters)

James Bond Movie Marathon: A License for Sleep Deprivation

James Bond has a respectable 24 movies to his name (although that can vary a bit by how you count). All of these movies add up to 50.6 hours of movie time. Sounds like perfect material for a James Bond movie marathon, right? Unfortunately, shaken or stirred, a James Bond movie marathon would be an awkward experience in the 24-hour format.

To start, if you add a standard 15 minute break between the 24 movies, that adds up to about 57 hours, or an awkward 2.3 24-hour movie marathons.

On top of that, there is no good breaking point between on series of actors and another. Sean Connery’s Bond films adds up to 14 hours (837 minutes). Roger Moore’s Bond films add up to 14.7 hours (882 minutes). So a Sean Connery marathon is too short, a Roger Moore marathon is too short, and both together is too long. All the other Bonds clock in at 19.4 hours, not quite enough either!

The Sean Connery series

The Roger Moore Series

The Timothy Dalton Series

The Pierce Brosnan Series

The Daniel Craig Series

On the plus side, you can buy almost all of them from Amazon.