Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie

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.

bottom line: diverting, uneven junk

and thus it was decreed

morbs why dont u tell us what u really think

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

even better, Star Trek V has jet BOOTS:
http://phantomleap.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/star-trek-v-boots.jpg

new movie also cribs ST V's imminent faceplant death saved at last moment, but have to hand it to
STV for shatner's rubbery facial expression at moment of non-impact.

WINNER: Star Trek V??

"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."

In Ebert's defense that space drill jamming explanation is delivered pretty rapidly and doesn't invalidate the larger point that in-warp beaming would seem much more impressive to the average dude than cutting through a power drill's interference. On the other hand, he is a fat nerd with a notebook so maybe there's no excuse.

Origin of Kirk race-baiting Spock to save the day:
"Your father was a computer and your mother was an encyclopedia!"

the new one looks cooler and the actors are more attractive.

I post weird things when drunk

enrique big on buff models in movies

you're too easy

i get a really cool hillary clinton vibe from this movie :)

I think it is very fantastic that our great leader Barack Obama, is also a startrek fan. He is such a perfect president and this is such a perfect movie better than original startrek.

Barack's Illinois senate career was essentially launched by Republican 7-of-9 Borg sex scandal. (For reals)

Just saw this movie and it is AWESOME! I'm not a huge Star Trek fan but I've recently been Netflixing the original series and some movies (Wrath of Khan is some next-level shit). This was a really well-done movie, good for fans and non-fans alike!

Also is Diora Baird in this movie? I figured maybe she was the green alien but my friend said no and we didn't see her in the credits.

WHO

I don't know who that is but the Orion girl was played by Rachel Nichols

http://www.thenewblog.net/diora-baird.jpg

Maybe her scene got cut.

Apparently, Diora Baird's supposed appearance got a lot of promo and got mentioned as starring in the flick, but the actual Orion chick was somebody else, as mentioned above.

Also, don't, uh, GIS her while you're at work.

xp exactly

if they can cut your role out completely during the post-production process, chances are you were never "starring" in the movie.

okay, change 'starring' to 'appearing', whatev

and STARRING Tyler Perry

For anyone who is crying about the lack of Klingons, Stovokor (the Klingon metal band) debuted a music video on Youtube today:

lol

against lens flares and hyperactive camera movement:

http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2009/05/why_the_enterprise_matters_and.html

also recommend the full Seitz comments he links, esp on Vulcans/Jews issue.

I thought ferengi were jews and bajor was palestine?

origin of chekov V->W humor:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSJFrhb-HM

I like the lense flares, and as for 'shaky camera' i didnt think it was overused at all, and it added to the more urgent parts of the film. I thought the CGI was pretty tasteful when compared to most things these days.

confession: all these shaky camera and lens flare fripperies are mitigated to zero when watching via russian bootleg. (it's shaky cam already, so they cancel out! Is that truly movie flare, or the torch of a vigilant usher?)

the shaky cam stuck out when they tried to use it in close-up. Doesn't work there, as you can see hair isn't moving etc

I didn't find the lens flares or "shaky cam" particularly distracting. And I usually hate that kind of thing in other movies.

i've never seen people freak out so much about LENS FLARES before. at least dude had a consistent vision for how it should look, i mean did you really want it to look like a '60s tv show?

looking like a '00s tv show is sooooooo much better.

the plethora of closeups is way more annoying, frankly

Hmm, we rarely seem to agree Morbs, but I'm with you on this. When I can see individual pores on Kirk's face then chances are we're too close.

How close was that ice planet to Vulcan? About the distance from the Earth to the Moon? Why is there a Starfleet base on the equivalent of a Vulcan moon? And why isn't it affected by/don't they seem to know/care about the black hole that's REALLY REALLY nearby? Where did Spock get his torch? How carefully did Nero coordinate his placement on the ice planet with their black hole, so that the rotation would give him an unobstructed view of Vulcan at just the right time? Wouldn't it have been easier to just put him on Vulcan or keep him on the ship without bringing another planet into things? What do they do at that Starfleet base? Who else works there? Does Starfleet miss Scotty when he leaves or care that he will apparently never return to his assigned post? So Nero transported Spock the the surface of the ice planet/moon for him to observe Vulcan, walk into a cave, light a torch, and just kind of hang around by himself (but nearby a Starfleet base) until Kirk was ejected onto the same (moon-like?) ice planet and wandered into the same cave?
These are the things that keep me awake at night.

oh why does a 10 year old rebel blast like 300 year old music?

hoth? they should have called it coldth.

^^^ Couldn't get that line out of my head throughout that bit of the movie.

looking like a '00s tv show is sooooooo much better.

― Dr Morbius, Friday, May 15, 2009 5:36 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know you don't want to hear this, but '00s tv shows generally look a lot better than '60s tv shows.

yeah, The Prisoner badly needed lights shining into the lens.

i dunno, there was no internet for people to bitch about effects believability back then xp