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I've been watching a lot of fan films recently. Mostly Star Trek stuff, but some others thrown in there as well.
First off is Star Trek New Voyages. I had the fortune of watching the fourth episode (or third if you count from zero, as they apparently do) first. "World Enough and Time" guest starred George Takei as an elder Hikaru Sulu (as well as a small cameo by Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand). The basic gist was that there was a transporter issue which caused Sulu and the female scientist he was with to be transported to a barren planet on which they lived for 30 years, a 30 years that seemed like 30 seconds or so to the Enterprise, so when they tried to beam him back... well... I'll not spoil it. This third episode of New Voyages was easily as good as any of the better professionally made Star Trek episodes, in my opinion. The second episode, "To Serve All My Days," was almost as good, with Walter Koenig guest starring as an elder Pavel Chekov (it involved a recurrence of the aging disease some of the crew encountered in the Original Series episode "The Deadly Years" and was done pretty well, I thought). The rest... not so much. They weren't bad, really, but they were nowhere near as good as the last two. The zeroth episode, "Come What May," featured some Q-like female character and what was essentially a Borg ship, though they never called it such. It kinda stunk. The first episode, "In Harm's Way," involved the Doomsday Machine, the Guardian of Forever, Captain Christopher Pike, and Commodore Matt Decker (who was played by William Windom, who played him in the Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine", and it actually made sense for this to be the case, sort of, given that it was a weird time travel episode). It was better than the zeroth ep, but still nowhere near as good as the two that followed. The later, as of yet unreleased episodes look like they might be fairly interesting as well, so I'll be keeping an eye on this series.
Well, I've always been a fan of crossovers. In the past, I've seen Batman: Dead End and World's Finest (a Batman/Aliens/Predator crossover and a Superman/Batman crossover, respectively), The Nightmare Ends on Halloween (basically, Freddy Krueger vs Michael Myers), and Friday the 31st (Jason Voorhees vs Michael Myers). I'm actually kind of surprised that I didn't make an LJ post about those last two back when I watched them a few months ago, but oh well. (At least LJseek didn't find them if I made them, anyway.)
Anyway, so when I heard of one called Freddy vs Ghostbusters, I just had to check it out. While it doesn't feature the original Ghostbusters (it has Egon's supposed nephew, named Ed Spengler), it turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting it would be. See also: Return of the Ghostbusters, another fan film by the same creator with the same characters/actors (minus Freddy Krueger).
And lastly, the ones I just watched tonight: Star Trek vs Batman. Okay... this one... I have mixed feelings about this one. For an old-school 60s Batman episode, it was completely awesome. For an old-school 60s Star Trek episode, it kinda sucked. They pretty much had to make the crew of the Enterprise well beyond criminally retarded for it to work, unfortunately. Well, and for that matter, Batman was pretty dumb as well, given that he apparently either didn't recognize "Lt. Kyle" as Catwoman, even though she was standing five feet away from him on the bridge of the Enterprise at one point, or he just didn't care for some reason. However, if you can ignore all this in the interests of it being funny, which it definitely was, it was pretty good overall. My favorite part definitely had to be the Joker, primarily because he looked less like the Joker and more like Ronald McDonald, assuming Ronald McDonald first dyed his hair green and then killed Grimace, skinned him, and wore his hide as a suit.
That's pretty much it for now, though I have quite a few more lined up to watch later when I have some more free time. Again, mostly a bunch of the other Star Trek fan series like Hidden Frontier and its various spin-offs.
First off is Star Trek New Voyages. I had the fortune of watching the fourth episode (or third if you count from zero, as they apparently do) first. "World Enough and Time" guest starred George Takei as an elder Hikaru Sulu (as well as a small cameo by Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand). The basic gist was that there was a transporter issue which caused Sulu and the female scientist he was with to be transported to a barren planet on which they lived for 30 years, a 30 years that seemed like 30 seconds or so to the Enterprise, so when they tried to beam him back... well... I'll not spoil it. This third episode of New Voyages was easily as good as any of the better professionally made Star Trek episodes, in my opinion. The second episode, "To Serve All My Days," was almost as good, with Walter Koenig guest starring as an elder Pavel Chekov (it involved a recurrence of the aging disease some of the crew encountered in the Original Series episode "The Deadly Years" and was done pretty well, I thought). The rest... not so much. They weren't bad, really, but they were nowhere near as good as the last two. The zeroth episode, "Come What May," featured some Q-like female character and what was essentially a Borg ship, though they never called it such. It kinda stunk. The first episode, "In Harm's Way," involved the Doomsday Machine, the Guardian of Forever, Captain Christopher Pike, and Commodore Matt Decker (who was played by William Windom, who played him in the Original Series episode "The Doomsday Machine", and it actually made sense for this to be the case, sort of, given that it was a weird time travel episode). It was better than the zeroth ep, but still nowhere near as good as the two that followed. The later, as of yet unreleased episodes look like they might be fairly interesting as well, so I'll be keeping an eye on this series.
Well, I've always been a fan of crossovers. In the past, I've seen Batman: Dead End and World's Finest (a Batman/Aliens/Predator crossover and a Superman/Batman crossover, respectively), The Nightmare Ends on Halloween (basically, Freddy Krueger vs Michael Myers), and Friday the 31st (Jason Voorhees vs Michael Myers). I'm actually kind of surprised that I didn't make an LJ post about those last two back when I watched them a few months ago, but oh well. (At least LJseek didn't find them if I made them, anyway.)
Anyway, so when I heard of one called Freddy vs Ghostbusters, I just had to check it out. While it doesn't feature the original Ghostbusters (it has Egon's supposed nephew, named Ed Spengler), it turned out to be a lot better than I was expecting it would be. See also: Return of the Ghostbusters, another fan film by the same creator with the same characters/actors (minus Freddy Krueger).
And lastly, the ones I just watched tonight: Star Trek vs Batman. Okay... this one... I have mixed feelings about this one. For an old-school 60s Batman episode, it was completely awesome. For an old-school 60s Star Trek episode, it kinda sucked. They pretty much had to make the crew of the Enterprise well beyond criminally retarded for it to work, unfortunately. Well, and for that matter, Batman was pretty dumb as well, given that he apparently either didn't recognize "Lt. Kyle" as Catwoman, even though she was standing five feet away from him on the bridge of the Enterprise at one point, or he just didn't care for some reason. However, if you can ignore all this in the interests of it being funny, which it definitely was, it was pretty good overall. My favorite part definitely had to be the Joker, primarily because he looked less like the Joker and more like Ronald McDonald, assuming Ronald McDonald first dyed his hair green and then killed Grimace, skinned him, and wore his hide as a suit.
That's pretty much it for now, though I have quite a few more lined up to watch later when I have some more free time. Again, mostly a bunch of the other Star Trek fan series like Hidden Frontier and its various spin-offs.
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Date: 2007-11-18 08:48 pm (UTC)From: