Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie

Also, I like how the Enterprise looks like the TMP refit, certainly in response to timeline changes. I just wish that the earlier ship looked slightly more TOS-ish. Alternate timeline also explains the "Riverside Shipyard." (wow, I guess I've been suckered in!).

Now seeing this on Saturday late afternoon, as more friends can attend.

Blimey - the UK broadsheets love it (almost)unconditionally...
****** from The Guradian and The Times. **** in the Telegraph.

<3 this film, tooo

The origin stuff didn't bother me in this film as much, mostly because we don't spend too much time w/ pre-Starfleet Kirk, and because I genuinely enjoyed the young Spock stuff.

Come on, guys, you’re already part of a make-believe world in which mankind can outfly the speed of light. Isn’t that parallel enough for you?

Has this person never met a Trekkie before?

Scott Foundas:

there’s so much talk about people’s dead parents that you start to wonder if Dave Eggers did an uncredited rewrite.

might have to cancel going to this tonight to go some performance art : (

"Let me show you something that will make you feel young as when the world was new."

"I did what you wanted. I stayed away."

20-minute video essay by Matt Zoller Seitz, "Vulcan: The Soul of Spock":

http://www.thelmagazine.com/newyork/vulcan-the-soul-of-spock/Content?oid=1152781

<3ing Zoller Seitz' video essay output of recent. His Benjamin Button one at the Moving Image Source actually makes me want to see it. Though the New World bit was like "lol drink".

Thought Star Trek was pretty good. Not great. Quinto makes up for creature fleeing.

JR Jones links the movie (meh) to the first series' episodes on children and aging:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/moviereviews/090507/

I was kinda hoping it'd be more like this:
http://current.com/items/90029658_starship-enterprise-destroyed-by-the-death-star.htm

But I hate Trek....

Ha, there's a scene in that trekkies documentary where this guy goes "I don't like star trek because they have different settings on their phasers. In star wars there's just one setting you don't have to think as much." the coworker he's arguing with is the crazy TNG-uniform rural juror.

man this was pretty great

FUCK YEAH.

i cried

ALSO, the Starbase orbiting the Earth was straight out of Starfleet Battles!!!

this was cool, even though at times it seemed a bit like people playing dress up. I liked that Pine didn't do a Shatner, and he doesn't really look like him, but there were little moments, when he's at the bar, and at the very, very end, when he says "Bones!" that he suddenly absolutely turns into Kirk.

yes, he parceled it out.

"great," jeeeezus

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you CAN'T destroy Vulcan.

my mum informs me this is awesome, i kinda wanna see it now

In star wars there's just one (phaser) setting

Just FYI.

My wife and I just watched the first Star Wars movie last Saturday. In the first ten or so minutes Darth Vader orders some storm troopers who are looking for Princess Leia, who has stolen the plans for the Death Star and is attempting to smuggle them to Alderan, to set their phasers on stun because he wants her taken alive. They comply, and the Princess is phasered and yet taken alive for questioning.

red line for kill, blue circles for stun. everyone knows that.

Morbs - I had assumed the same thing, which is why I spent the rest of the movie wondering when the hell they were going to go around the sun and back in time to prevent it. Kind of awesome they did, though.

Yeah so I'm def gonna see this on Monday.

thought this was a blast! first theatrical movie i've seen this year i can actually say i truly enjoyed.

yeah there's some corny pandering shit but what works works really well. good casting.

great catering too!

so i hear

Is there really a canyon that deep in Iowa?

bones was probably the best of the central cast.

Agreed. Bana wasn't Montalban but then again he wasn't F. Murray Abraham either so we lucked out.

Enjoyed it, not truly great but even so, more thoughts tomorrow.

Nice touch -- the pumped-up indirect homage to the original show opening credits via the main closing credits here.

^ The whole cinema laughed when I saw it. There was an insanely excited feel in the air and everyone hung out in the lobby forever talking about it.

also A+ @ beastie boyz

Yeh all the pandering was from the good bits of the original series; they dropped all the crap from the other seasons -- eg not a single stupid language to be heard.

Loved those end credits. And the warp effect.

A friend asked me to look out for the 'inevitable Greg Grunberg cameo,' which in fact was inevitable. (Voice-only role -- he plays Kirk's stepdad chewing out young Kirk while he's driving the car.)

I left at the start of the end credits. What exactly did I miss?

i think they just meant the font and the song?

x-post -- If you saw the first couple of credits you saw what the deal was -- big splashy one-name-at-a-time credits playing out over various different stellar/planetary backdrops while an arrangement of the original theme song played.

Pegg was really good as Scotty even though he was basically just being Simon Pegg with a slightly Scottish accent. I liked the tiny alien helper he had too. "you eat a bean and you're full!"

I liked when he told him to "get tae ..."

I read somewhere he was trying to give the character a partial Lithlingow accent.

KEENSER

Why did I know you'd remember the name.

That was just a random interjection, sorry.

http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/5281/rittenhouse11mala.jpg

Linlithgow, Ned!

Not seen this yet or heard his accent, but I expect him to sound more Scottish than Doonan because: a) how could it be worse? and b) I know that he's spent at least a little time in Scotland because I once saw him in Borders in Glasgow.

doohan even

Linlithgow, Ned!

Thank you, I figured I was spelling it wrong.

He got married in Glasgow too; I think his wife is Scottish.

About the accent: I think he was tryin to merge real Scoatush w/Scotty's. Am maybe just overthinking it tho

Just took the boy to see this. It was good fun, Bones was probably the best performance, we lolled quite a bit, it made 2 hours go past quick. Morbs OTM re: Vulcan, but a refreshing lack of emo all the same. Don't think it bears over-analysing tbh.