Star Trek (XI) - GO SEE IT!

[Deelow]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02LgdXVkXgM

[JohnnyFlame]

Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I'm probably going to wait a week or two before I go. I have a mixed sense of dread, this movie is either going to be an all the way great for me, or all the way bad. There will probably be no inbetween.

Yep I feel the same way. It's either I'm done with this. Give me something new.

Or wow thanks for restoring one of my favs.

I very much doubt it was alright will be part of the conversation.

[photon]

There's enough good press about this movie that I'm confident that I'll enjoy it.

[awildermode]

^^^
photon- i have no idea how long you have had your sig, but this is the fist time i have actually looked at it. funny.

[photon]

I still giggle every time I read it.

[Yeah_Baby]

Going tonight, I'm uber stoked.

[Nehkara]

Still maintaining great reviews!

RT = 95% on 91 reviews (86 positive, 5 negative).
MC = 90/100 on 14 reviews and 8.7/10 on 11 votes

[Traditional_Ale]

I saw the movie last night at the pre-screening.

It is, quite simply, wonderful. The theatre applauded at the end.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

I saw the movie last night at the pre-screening.

It is, quite simply, wonderful. The theatre applauded at the end.

So you're from Vulcan then?

[Yeah_Baby]

I think I may nerd out tonight and wear this shirt.

[Traditional_Ale]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

So you're from Vulcan then?

No, just good connections.

Spock steals the show, however. I have no idea how an actor can convey the whole spectrum of emotions while seldom actually changing his facial expression.

Bones and Scotty were perfectly cast. Chekov is a tad annoying, and Sulu is bad-ass. They even incorporated his fencing!

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Traditional_Ale

No, just good connections.

Spock steals the show, however. I have no idea how an actor can convey the whole spectrum of emotions while seldom actually changing his facial expression.

Bones and Scotty were perfectly cast. Chekov is a tad annoying, and Sulu is bad-ass. They even incorporated his fencing!

Interesting that you said Spock steals the show, because Pine as Kirk has all the buzz.

[Eastern Girl]

So, can someone who isn't a Trekkie enjoy it? I think the trailers look pretty sweet, but I am not a fan of the franchise. I've seen bits of pieces of the original movies, but that is it.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

So, can someone who isn't a Trekkie enjoy it? I think the trailers look pretty sweet, but I am not a fan of the franchise. I've seen bits of pieces of the original movies, but that is it.

From what I've read yes. In fact their has been some online Trekkie backlash about how "this isn't your fathers Star Trek", etc.

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

So, can someone who isn't a Trekkie enjoy it? I think the trailers look pretty sweet, but I am not a fan of the franchise. I've seen bits of pieces of the original movies, but that is it.

I haven't seen it yet (going on Friday night with 8 friends) but this might help a little bit:

A film that should appeal to longtime Trekkies, sci-fi neophytes and pretty much anybody who likes a good action flick.

- Tom Long (Detroit News) and top critic

This non-Trekkie thinks you'd have to look back almost as far as Raiders of the Lost Ark to find an adventure this consistently, thrillingly, joyfully fun.

- Chris Hewitt (St. Paul Pioneer Press)

The aim here is to court a new generation of fans without alienating the true believers speaking Klingon in the box-office lines.

- Bob Mondello (NPR) and top critic

Take note, George Lucas: This is how it's done.

- Rene Rodriguez (Miami Herald)

...even if you've NEVER seen "Star Trek" you'll be hooked.

- Michael A. Smith (Nolan's Pop Culture Review)

This is the first 'Star Trek' for everyone.

- Scott Mantz (Access Hollywood)

It's not necessary to be a longtime fan of the Star Trek universe to appreciate the sheer emotional punch and swagger of this rough and randy Enterprise crew.

- Marc Savlov (Austin Chronicle)

[Nehkara]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

From what I've read yes. In fact their has been some online Trekkie backlash about how "this isn't your fathers Star Trek", etc.

That reaction I don't entirely understand. I LOVE Star Trek in most of its iterations but ever since ST: DS9 (which is actually my favourite series), I think the franchise has been losing steam and becoming more and more irrelevant to the point where it has (until today!) been off the big and small screen for 4 years.

The franchise needed a reboot. It had to have new people come in with new ideas and new ways of doing things. People who had the ability to market it properly and excite the public about a franchise that has been struggling for the better part of a decade.

This movie (which is getting a phenomenal early response) has the potential to breathe a tremendous amount of new life into Star Trek. Already there is a sequel planned and that may well turn into a trilogy and then probably we will see a new series down the road.

This was the only way to do things and I am very pleased that Star Trek, which I have loved my entire life, has been brought back and brought back for a long time.

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Nehkara

That reaction I don't entirely understand. I LOVE Star Trek in most of its iterations but ever since ST: DS9 (which is actually my favourite series), I think the franchise has been losing steam and becoming more and more irrelevant to the point where it has (until today!) been off the big and small screen for 4 years.

The franchise needed a reboot. It had to have new people come in with new ideas and new ways of doing things. People who had the ability to market it properly and excite the public about a franchise that has been struggling for the better part of a decade.

This movie (which is getting a phenomenal early response) has the potential to breathe a tremendous amount of new life into Star Trek. Already there is a sequel planned and that may well turn into a trilogy and then probably we will see a new series down the road.

This was the only way to do things and I am very pleased that Star Trek, which I have loved my entire life, has been brought back and brought back for a long time.

Agree with you 100%. Especially when it comes to Deep Space Nine. And for those playing at home. I don't always nerd out like this.

[CaptainCrunch]

I'll hold judgement, there are just a bunch of things that I don't know if I like the idea of

In white some spoilers

Seeing Kirk as an unruly teenager, then seeing him sitting in the Command Chair screaming, just doesn't seem like Kirk who to me was more of a level headed thinking in that chair.

Blowing up Vulcan? wtf? They're doing that to change the timeline in the story, but its vulcan, it means that several of the great episodes can't happen.

I hate the look of the new enterprise, the nacelles look like my sisters hairdryers, the all white hallways and engineering looks like a 18th century steamship.

Is Eric Bana's character another cookie cutter character with flawed reasons for his revenge ala dinklestein in the last TNG movie.

I've had such bad experiences with Trek movies where I'm going into this one with the expectation that its going to let me down and hoping for the best.

Trek Movies

Star Trek TMP - Too slow and sterile, but when it came out I was so starved for Star Trek that they could of put nacelles on a piece of dog poop and I would have loved it

Star Trek TWOK - Best movie of them all, incredibly well done and acted. Kirstie Alley was incredibly hot.

Star Trek TSFS - Christopher Lloyd devoured that movie. "You Klingon , you killed my son" one of the best lines in all of the movies.

Star Trek TVH - I really liked this one even though there was no enterprise. The acting was great, the humor was great, they allowed the actors to age.

Star Trek - TFF - Outright poo, they made fun of all the characters who weren't Kirk or Spock. Scotty taking pratfalls, Uhura constantly horny and doing the fat girl fan dance, Sulu weak minded.

Star Trek - TUC - I really liked a lot of this movie. It had a tight plotline, there was a lot of emotion, really well acted with Christopher Plumber eating up scenary as General Chang. A nice use of the cold war. And the final log of the Enterprise

[Kirk's final Captain's Log]
Captain James T. Kirk: Captain's Log, stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun, and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man... where no *one* has gone before.

Star Trek Generations - Outright poo, all of the characters with the exception of Picard and Data were wallpaper. Kirk was uncharacteristic with the screw the universe part, and the whole Antonia thing in the middle. Just badly written Malcolm Macdowell who's an excellent character actor had nothing to work with.

Star Trek First contact - Pretty good movie, once again managed to flatten every character not named Data or Picard. Troi drunk, that chick can't act at the best of time and now you want her to play drunk. This movie though started the pussification of the Borg, now they would all die without the queen.

Star Trek Insurrection - Out right garbage, the villians might as well have come with curly ended mustaches and railroad tracks. Again the characters with the exception of Picard and Data were merely there as overglorified extras. The sing along scene made me outright cringe. Picard once again goes from being a ship captain to being John Mclain.

Star Trek Nemesis - Poo on a platter. A villian who doesn't make sense (The Romulans screwed me so I mean to avenge myself by destroying my twin and Eart) The deux ex Machina ultimate weapon starship that had a convienient self destruct device in the bridge (they might as well have saved some money on CGI by just putting a big red button by the door). The lamest character death ever when you knew he was going to be reborn in the lamest plot device ever. A dune buggy scene that made no sense. A lame ass wedding scene. The worst actor ever playing the villian and ripping off the Orc death scene from lord of the rings.

So forgive me for being a little gunshy over my 10 bucks.

[Yeah_Baby]

CC how specific are your spoilers? I already know too much.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

CC how specific are your spoilers? I already know too much.

There's only one real spoiler in there, but its pretty key.