Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie

ageist

i came out thinking the dumbest thing was Nimoy just finding Kirk like that (+ lol how do they get anything done with those female uniforms and now it's not the 60s) but enjoyed it overall.

loved Bana's original message to the Enterprise ("Hi Christopher...")

s1ocki, I was not "on the ship" for any TNG movies cept the one where they killed Kirk. I never saw the TNG series more than twice, I think, and the only reason I saw this film was to review it. I just have no interest in future installments of something I grew up with, done on a relatively humble scale, being mega-loud and "young."

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you know TNG is pretty awesome tho right!!

spock obama is now my new desktop image.

Being 11 years old when TNG debuted means that TNG is pretty much the central ST for me.

That, and eps like the one with Paul Winfield, where they have to fight a cloaked Predator.

i liked this, but nimoy totally reminded me of his appearance on the monorail episode of the simpsons.

"My work here is done."
"But you didn't do anything!"
"Didn't I?"

The cosmic ballet...goes on

Wanted to like it but couldn't handle smug dick Kirk, scenes w him getting sonned by Spock in fights/over Uhura were ok

had no real problems with Kirk at all (not that i'm a big ST fan...hey maybe you could make a portmanteau out of that). Pegg was also OK (cutting him some slack for the occasional accent lapses).

think they overdid Chekhov accent lols tho - but he was wonderfully played anyway. i'd be cool with a sequel just so the likes of him could get a bit more time and action (and really there was very little time for ladies in this, which felt as throwback as keeping their short skirts).

I thought the kirk guy was surprisingly good! was ready to hate on him bc of his frat boy stylee, but I really liked how he didn't play it exactly like shatner, but some shatner-isms definitely came out here-and-there. (the part where he slaps spock on the back comes to mind.)

and if we're going to get into original:reboot smug dick ratios, I had way more of a problem w/spock. kirk was always really smug! if not quite this smug, yeah.

not surprisingly, I really enjoyed all of the fan service stuff. (sulu fencing, the bad guy busting out those gross things that khan stuck in chekhov's ear, all of the classic lines.)

and at first, I was a little disappointed about how played-down the utopian future was. but then I realized that this isn't really a big part of khan either, and I love that one, so...

watching old star trek on youtube, I'm retroactively getting the jokes.

hey let's post videos explaining origin of every single scene in the movie:

the bad guy busting out those gross things that khan stuck in chekhov's ear

Just too blatant, added nothing.

Pike's line about Starfleet being a "peacekeeping armada" was a laugh. That always works well.

The more I think about it, I just keep coming back to the flimsy pretext for throwing all of the recruits onto the Enterprise. It was explained as receiving a distress signal but the rest of the armada being "out to lunch" or something??

they were vacationing in the laurentians

tbh I bet a star trek movie that takes place predominantly at starfleet academy would be better. (are you listening, tv executives?? this would be a killer competitor for gossip girl.)

it would be a better tv show, id watch that

prefer oldskool Spock-mom scenes:

i kinda liked scott's mom as a VILF. would smash.

wait, she's not even a vulcan. fuck me.

Scott's?

see, i don't even know what teh fuck i'm typing today.

NO COFFEE, NO WEED = DUMB IAN

time for a mind meld

Couldn't find video but... better get used to that chair, Pike. HA!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/STMenagerie.jpg

Big LA Times interview with Nimoy.

I would totally watch a starfleet 90210.

aren't there enough high school/college based shows jeez (altho i'm happy to swap all the current ones for one ft. aliens)

Riker used to direct an aliens 90210 called Roswell I think. It was like x-files crossed with felicity or some such barfism.

I'm going to see this for a second time later today.

But I'm really posting to say this: THE SEQUEL BETTER HAVE SOME FUCKIN KLINGONS!

This is kind of terrible but it was reprised for the new movie so:

Wil Wheaton FTW

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/6028/7804211.jpg

i thought this was dreck. overhyped, overproduced, and no klingons.

jj abrams also was very rude to me in person one time.

I'm starting to wish I'd given it 2.0 instead of 2.5 stars so I'd be getting flamed by postliterate Trekkies on RottTomatoes.

btw I'm guessing they're not going to fry Pike into quadriplegia, now that Abrams has kissed the Classic Trek timeline goodbye.

"btw I'm guessing they're not going to fry Pike into quadriplegia"

what are you saying; that wheelchair at the coronation ceremony was just a tease?

if there's a wheelchair introduced in the first act...

wait, Abrams is reprising CUT FOOTAGE from Generations??? and they're calling the new movie's skeptics geeks?

that just looks like a skydive to me that has nothing in common with the Star Trek Zero baloney.

you're telling me that they don't have jet packs in the star trek universe? that is some baloney.

I need to see this again. I haven't stopped thinking about it for 2 days.

Oh yeah, and we all noticed the names inscribed on the shuttlecraft, right?

RIGHT?

You would think that some old episodes of the Battlestar Galactica reboot would have made it to Star Fleet so they could get the idea of sending a reconnaissance shuttle first to see if there's a trap before sending the whole goddamn fleet.

Nah, same bad planning which doesn't allocate enough resources for proper terran defense networks.

Also, i hope this means there won't be any Orion chicks in the next flick...

more for the rest of us then

no K, why don't you tell us the names inscribed on the shuttlecraft so we can make you Emperor of the Treehouse.

why don't you keep dogging everyone who liked this movie so we can make you emperor of the doghouse.

you green-blooded hobgoblin.

star trek/spiderman crossover was what i was thinking there

with dilithium crystals come great responsibility

The logic is also a little puzzling when Scotty can beam people into another ship in outer space, but they have to physically parachute to land on a platform in the air from which the Romulans are drilling a hole to the Earth’s core. After they land there, they fight with two Romulan guards, using ... fists and swords? The platform is suspended from Arthur C. Clark’s “space elevator,” but instead of fullerenes, the cable is made of metallic chunks the size of refrigerators.

Ebert's review is bs; when you spend the paragraph above complaining about the logic you'd better not totally miss the (fully explained) point ie. the space drill is what PREVENTS teleporting and it's HANGING from the Romulan ship so space elevator comparison is complete bollocks.

Plenty of fun hating on the thread, but myself and Mrs A loved this. Wildly exciting in parts, a decent fist of it from the cast and FX super intense, esp in IMAX.