I tried watching Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, and it was like watching cut scenes from a lame video game.
It's a caricature of a TV show. Everything is overhyped: the overacting; the story is over dramatic and makes no sense; the dialogues are as if every actor is in a movie of their own; the setting of every scene is overemphasized—like Holly Hunter goes to meet some convict in what I guess is a bar, and it's all full of shadows (because he's shadowy) while the camera is going up and down his ripped badass body, while in the previous scene she ate two ice creams in a sunny park with playful kids.
And then Holly Hunter. She's way, way too old for the part. She's playing a sexy woman although she's 67 and can barely open her eyes or her mouth, so she mumbles. It's like she'll fall apart at any moment, but they Scotch-taped her together so that she doesn't.
It's a caricature of a TV show. Everything is overhyped: the overacting; the story is over dramatic and makes no sense; the dialogues are as if every actor is in a movie of their own; the setting of every scene is overemphasized—like Holly Hunter goes to meet some convict in what I guess is a bar, and it's all full of shadows (because he's shadowy) while the camera is going up and down his ripped badass body, while in the previous scene she ate two ice creams in a sunny park with playful kids.
And then Holly Hunter. She's way, way too old for the part. She's playing a sexy woman although she's 67 and can barely open her eyes or her mouth, so she mumbles. It's like she'll fall apart at any moment, but they Scotch-taped her together so that she doesn't.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
