Just too fucking busy. I'd been putting it off until I read the comic, then didn't get around to it, then my parents wanted to see it. The CG is passable in the in-home sections but egregious in the premodern ones, most especially in the very, very brief scenes with Indigenous people. Unfortunately it can't cover up Tom Hanks' very not-young voice.
It probably could've been shot as a play, Secret Honor style, with the cast moving in and out on camera. But it wasn't.
The kind of picture you can only make twenty years and multiple movies into a series. In a good way. The ways that it's coloured by late-80s liberalism are also really funny; rabid opposition to nuclear power, for one. Nimoy steals the show, but it really wouldn't work without Shatner.
The best scene is McCoy waltzing through the hospital doing cowboy future medicine.
Had to play this for a grade 12 class today. In this, a bunch of 14 year olds get syphilis by having the most convoluted sexual network that has ever been seen. At first I thought it was gonna be oral herpes and I said, hey, okay, that seems realistic. No. Syphilis. In the twenty first century.
The school calls a state health worker to construct elaborate models of the school's sexual contacts. They ask the kids to rat on…
A midpoint between the sword and sandal epics of the studio system and the later approach of New Hollywood. Most interesting in the first half, with some spectacular shots of an actual eclipse and really interesting scenes with Lazarus and Pilate, but gets paint-by-numbers in the second. Gets back on a better track at the end.
Jeff Loveness's "Judas" makes a good companion piece.
