"Ohhh, we are gonna get so much crap for that...."

February 5, 2011 12:34 PM

How it Should Have Ended: Terminator / Star Trek / Aliens / The Empire Strikes Back and more.... Links contain spoilers
posted by zarq (31 comments total)

Without watching: bus plunges?
posted by brundlefly at 12:41 PM on February 5, 2011 [2 favorites]

Spock's admonition that weight is meaningless in space is fundamentally misplaced. Not only would ejecting the redshirts help by reducing the mass of the ship, and therefore increasing the acceleration of the ship due to the force of the engines, it would also (in a very small sense) help simply by Newton's third law. The mere use of the word "weight" is really neither here nor there. Spock would have, of course, known this.
posted by Flunkie at 12:41 PM on February 5, 2011 [7 favorites]

Oh, man. The Terminator one is awesome.
posted by brundlefly at 12:47 PM on February 5, 2011 [1 favorite]

I am adequately amused.
posted by L'Estrange Fruit at 12:49 PM on February 5, 2011

I love the destroyed clock tower at the end of the Terminator video. That was inspired.
posted by zzazazz at 12:55 PM on February 5, 2011

Burhanistan: "Previously."

Oh man.
posted by zarq at 12:59 PM on February 5, 2011

I just have to say one thing, and that thing is totally not nerdy.

UHURA IS WEARING A READ SHIRT!!!!
posted by zippy at 1:04 PM on February 5, 2011 [1 favorite]

I liked the Predator one. The Aliens one was funny also.
posted by cashman at 1:07 PM on February 5, 2011

(I swear that was my speeelchecker and not me being hooked on phonics)
posted by zippy at 1:08 PM on February 5, 2011

Terminator was great greatness. I'd watch that movie in a minute, or ninety.
posted by elwoodwiles at 1:12 PM on February 5, 2011

Without watching: bus plunges?

In all of cinematic history there's only one film that wouldn't have been improved by ending in a bus plunge.

And one that would have been improved by it more than any other.
posted by George_Spiggott at 1:22 PM on February 5, 2011

I'd watch that Terminator / BTTF mashup. With gusto.
posted by casual observer at 1:25 PM on February 5, 2011 [1 favorite]

Gimli Destroys the Ring.
posted by SPrintF at 1:44 PM on February 5, 2011 [7 favorites]

I loved how the T-1000 (crashing through the drive-in movie screen) was driving the truck full of manure that Biff would (presumably) step in.
posted by Alt F4 at 1:44 PM on February 5, 2011

Not to worry.

Yeah, I'll pretend I never saw that other thread. Carry on.
posted by jessamyn at 3:17 PM on February 5, 2011 [6 favorites]

I saw the Starz thing, and just wondering, are these the same folks who did the movies in 30 seconds, with bunnies?
posted by Ghidorah at 4:47 PM on February 5, 2011 [1 favorite]

"Hey, where'd you think you're going?"
posted by valkyryn at 5:36 PM on February 5, 2011

Yeah, I'll pretend I never saw that other thread. Carry on.

You can do that?!?
posted by Ritchie at 6:22 PM on February 5, 2011 [3 favorites]

Oh, man. The Terminator one is awesome.

QFT.
posted by crossoverman at 8:04 PM on February 5, 2011

jessamyn: "Yeah, I'll pretend I never saw that other thread. Carry on."

That was truly awesome of you. Thank you!!
posted by zarq at 8:14 PM on February 5, 2011

And that is why I never posted these befor...

Awwwwwwwwwwww, fuck.
posted by Samizdata at 8:59 PM on February 5, 2011

Their tron rap is pretty much the greatest thing on the internet.

And they're kind of right about how it should have ended...
posted by jaymzjulian at 2:18 AM on February 6, 2011

The Terminator/BTTF movie needs to get made.
posted by Elmore at 2:24 AM on February 6, 2011

I'll pretend I never saw that other thread.

Will you also pretend you never saw this thread?
posted by Gator at 4:45 AM on February 6, 2011

(All my own threads are indelibly tattooed on my forebrain, after all.)
posted by Gator at 4:46 AM on February 6, 2011

The sponsor messages play waaaay too often and long.

The videos are excellent, though.
posted by ChrisR at 8:32 AM on February 6, 2011

Will you also pretend you never saw this thread?

I don't have to pretend, I never actually saw that thread. Generally speaking after 4-5 years we're a lot less speedy on the deleting-doubles button.
posted by jessamyn at 9:02 AM on February 6, 2011

"I have a son, light speed!"
posted by klausman at 2:28 PM on February 6, 2011

Generally speaking after 4-5 years we're a lot less speedy on the deleting-doubles button.

Goooooooooooooood to know!
posted by Gator at 5:17 PM on February 6, 2011

I don't have to pretend, I never actually saw that thread. Generally speaking after 4-5 years we're a lot less speedy on the deleting-doubles button.

Thanks for that, too. :)
posted by zarq at 8:31 AM on February 7, 2011

I don't think the Aliens alternate ending is right with regard to Ripley's arm getting ripped apart. Theoretically it should just be the force of the air evacuating the ship. You'd lose air fairly rapidly, but it wouldn't be enough force to separate a human elbow.
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 3:43 PM on February 7, 2011