Star Trek VI: Death

So when my brother was in town this weekend (for my cousin's wedding), much of our time was spent discussing/watching movies. Part of the discussion/watching centered around Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. My brother thinks this is a decent movie. I ... disagree. Bad acting, shitty dialogue, and at the end, the entire cast actually poses for one of the final shots. Lame lame lame. And to top off the lameness, the subtitle makes no sense. One of the characters makes a toast at one point to "the undiscovered country". After a brief pause where people kind of don't know what he's talking about, he clarifies: "the future."

Okay, now, I may be an English geek, but surely I'm not the only one who realizes this is completely wrong. "The undiscovered country" is a line in Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech. Here are the lines that immediately preceed it:

who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?

See what's going on here? "The undiscovered country" is death, not the future. My brother suggested this might be intended as irony, but the toast is made by this dude who is trying to spearhead negotioations between the Federation and the Klingons so that they'll all live in peace and be happy. So making a toast to death doesn't really make sense, ironic or not. Especially since Hamlet is talking about committing suicide. In his defense, though, the dude making the toast was himself a Klingon, so maybe he didn't quite catch what was going on. They're kind of dumb, you know.

And speaking of stupid movies, don't ever see "Ichi the Killer". It's fucking ridiculous. To give you an idea, the highlights include a dude who had his mouth widened (i.e., by cutting slits in his cheeks) but keeps his face together with piercings, and a torture scene involving shrimp tempura. Oh, and our hero killing people with uber-sharp razor blades in his shoes. As in, sharp enough to cut people in half. It is based off a manga, however, which I bet makes slightly more sense.