Shatner's best movie gets a DVD double dip!

[yendi]

New two-disc special edition of Free Enterprise coming out in a few weeks! If you haven't seen this gem, you've missed seeing Shatner reading porn and turning Julius Caesar into a one-man musical, the dangers of performing cunnilingus while driving (well, okay, that should be obvious), and tons of shots at Full Moon Entertainment. Not to mention more geek (Trek and non-Trek) references than you could possibly keep track of.

I'm so psyched for this.

Comments

[marlowe1.livejournal.com]

Shatner plays himself with affectionate but cutting self-mockery, simultaneously lampooning Star Trek obsessiveness and Hollywood egotism in general. Shatner displays not only a more subtle sense of humor than he's ever shown before, but also a surprising vulnerability. He may have alienated a lot of his fans when he did that Saturday Night Live sketch telling them to get a life ("It was just a TV show!"), but his performance in Free Enterprise may just win them back. --Bret Fetzer

Product Description
FREE ENTERPRISE changed the way science fiction fans saw William Shatner and themselves in a performance since called a comic masterpiece.

Someone was alienated by that SNL sketch?? I thought it was Shatner's finest moment and I know they were selling bootlegs of that at Cons (where the gamers were on hand to make the Trekkies feel cool)

[yendi]

It offended one person, but that person was a fred of Bret Fetzer's. Hence the review.

[onceupon.livejournal.com]

Man, I love that movie.

[yendi]

It's a vastly under-appreciated classic.

[chris-walsh.livejournal.com]

"Friends. Fre-friends. Romans. Countrymen. IcometoburyCaesar, not to praise him..."

Now how, I ask you/plead, has there never been a movie with both Shatner and Christopher Walken? Can the universe simply not contain that much coolness (or strange diction)?

[bobthegoat.livejournal.com]

Renew! Renew! Renew!

Seriously, I love that movie. I still remember explaining to Cas the actual value of the X-Men book the girl writes her number on, and why it was important for him to buy it, not just copy the number. Heh...

[yendi]

That was the scene in which I think I leapt from liking to loving the film.

[kradical.livejournal.com]

How can you consider it Shatner's best movie when you've got Incubus?????

[/straight face]

Seriously, one of the great moments of my life was when the writer/director of Free Enterprise geebled at me at San Diego about how much he loved Articles of the Federation (at the same time that I was geebling at him about FE)....

[yendi]

Incubus is ok, but it's no Kingdom of the Spiders.

(Not that either one is winning the Shatner Poll over at cinemaeater, alas).

And that San Diego moment is a classic Mutually Assured Fandom moment!

[brak55.livejournal.com]

I love that damn movie.

Do they still have the sub-titles that point out every little reference to Star Trek in the movie?

[yendi]

I'm not sure, but I hope so. I'm assuming that we're not losing any special features, although you never know.

Evil Mirror Universe comment

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed Shatner in 'Free Enterprise' as much as the next guy, but I thoroughly disliked the main characters. Not in a guys-you-love-to-hate way, but in a why-am-I-watching-a-movie-about-these-two-jerks way. They're jerky at the beginning and they're jerky at the end -- if they don't really learn anything from their experiences, what's the point?

I like the line "Thulsa Doom addresses the troops!"

Re: Evil Mirror Universe comment

[yendi]

Oh, they were jerks, but part of what I liked about them is that I could see how easily I (or tons of other folks I knew) could have gone down the same path. It's not a movie that can claim character growth, but it was a fun ride.