Young Kirk n Spock + Lost = new Star Trek movie

Other than no Khan and no Borg, I'm up for about anything.

Another topic, easter eggs. A friend was listing a few off yesterday, but I'm sure I didn't catch any of the ones he mentioned. Apparently, among many others, there is R2D2, a Star Destroyer, and the Cloverfield monster hidden somewhere in the movie.

the cloverfield monster is the big scary dino that chases kirk. not the exact same but the weird four-part mouth.

Oh, so obvious I didn't even make that connection.

later on, the monster enrolls in Starfleet and becomes Nurse Chapel

yeah i didn't either but cloverfield left a pretty fleeting impression on me.

it is kinda odd that they left Nurse Chapel out of this

I am disappointed in the lack of a Gorn in this flick.

Mugatu would also have been acceptable

(j/k - ice planet monsters were obvious nods, worked for me)

He actually looks like a TOS villain:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_gzLbC0Tg7BM/SXgFyEGqzlI/AAAAAAAAAA8/WpErXB6BNYc/s320/mugatu.jpg

"All the characters who existed in the universe or canon we grew up with are essentially still around in some capacity,"

Foolproof sign of movie-series sharkjumping: COMIC-BOOK ASSHOLE LINGO

He actually looks like a TOS villain:

um

http://www.lixoradioativo.com/uploads2/mugatu.jpg

^^^OG Mugatu

Shakey, McCoy addresses Nurse Chapel offscreen at one point, which means Paris Hilton was a last-minute dropout.

A glowing screen while some ADD case is texting is a distraction to my viewing experience, fuck you very much. Watch the movie or stay home and text on the shitter.

is it okay if i just text from the couch or do you require pooping?

I guess I just don't understand the appeal of dropping $10+ to sit and a theater and text the whole time, or talk through the movie. Surely there are cheaper places to do both?

sit "in" a theater.. ffs

its not $10 with a student id

I have to say, seeing ticket prices in London make me not so mad about $10 tickets in Boston.

I hope they do Khan cos then in a few more years we can see CGI Whales and Stark Trekkers go back in time to the early 2000's!

Yeah but how will they recreate the ghetto blaster bus scene with an iPod?

WTF Mugatu! That completely confounded me. Even though I've seen every TOS ep I somehow do not remember this thing. Thank goodness for Memory Alpha:

The Mugato was called the Gumato in the original script for "A Private Little War"; however, DeForest Kelley could not pronounce the name correctly and it was changed. Both Kelley and Shatner pronounced the name as Mugatu all the way through the episode, and Mugato is still frequently misspelled Mugatu in various sources including The Star Trek Compendium and in Ben Stiller's movie Zoolander, where it was used as the name of the main villain.

Also this:

TNG's first-season episode "Too Short a Season" was conceived originally as a return to Neural by an elderly James Kirk, in an attempt to heal the planet's disintegration into civil war to which he had contributed. Shatner was either unavailable or unwilling, so the venue was changed to another planet.

xpost obv

Yeah but how will they recreate the ghetto blaster bus scene with an iPod?

It'll be some guy loudly talking on speaker phone, the ones with the annoying beeps interspersed in the conversation.

I have to say, seeing ticket prices in London make me not so mad about $10 tickets in Boston.

― Unclench, y'all, unclench (HI DERE), Tuesday, May 26, 2009 10:39 PM (Yesterday)

It was €9 when I saw it, which according to my exchange rate widget thing is $12.60

The theaters I saw (Leicester Square) were... 12 pounds? Which is like 19 bucks.

holy shit!

hang on, are they the fancy ones where you can buy wine and beer and have proper dinner and stuff?

Haha I have no idea! I saw the price and said "uhhh.... no"

Star Trek: The VIP Edition
w/Romulan Ale Bottle Service

Origin stories are hilarious cause they always have shit like in this movie where McCoy is talking about his divorce and he's like "all I've got left are my BONES" and they manage to cut away before he does a giant Lucille Bluth wink right at the camera

Uh it was a fun movie though.

btw i guarantee the villain was pretty stock because they wanted to keep the focus on introducing the backstories for all these characters. i figure the next film will be in 'the dark knight' style w/a major villain.

TS http://www.lixoradioativo.com/uploads2/mugatu.jpg vs http://carpefactum.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/20/bumble.jpg

next villain will obv be old spock all pissed that he lives in a crazy new universe where there's no vulcan and girls won't even tell kirk their names. this isn't logical.

however, he can pick up Young Spock's laundry and use his credit cards

btw i guarantee the villain was pretty stock because they wanted to keep the focus on introducing the backstories for all these characters. i figure the next film will be in 'the dark knight' style w/a major villain.

― blair underwood: "man up" (omar little), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 12:47 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^
yeah this is what i'm thinking. hopefully with some klingons as bad guys again!

Gael Garcia Bernal IS Khan!

i really hope they don't bring back khan

yes, using their alt-timeline freedom to redo every goddamn old plot

i didn't think this was very good

leave the camera in one spot for a second, jesus, it's just a conversation

The theaters I saw (Leicester Square) were... 12 pounds? Which is like 19 bucks.

― Unclench, y'all, unclench (HI DERE), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:10 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hang on, are they the fancy ones where you can buy wine and beer and have proper dinner and stuff?

― ❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉Plaxico❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉❉ (I know, right?), Wednesday, May 27, 2009 1:11 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the funny thing is that no! they are not! and not all of them are even that big, screen-wise. and although the venues were originally done out all fancy, they now look just like any other cinema on the inside.

They are slap bang in the middle of gullible tourist central. Why the fuck tourists would come all this way just to go to the cinema, though, I dunno.

they sort of made sense when you had exclusive releases, and when the venues were genuinely plusher, so you were paying for something you couldn't get elsewhere. im not sure when that ended: very rare to get even a 'london first' release these days, other than on tiny films where they only have a few prints.

Why the fuck tourists would come all this way just to go to the cinema, though, I dunno.

Rain.

Why the fuck tourists would come all this way just to go to the cinema, though, I dunno.

This, of course, is truth.

"Instead of trying to determine which particular anthology you read is supposed to represent all SF..."
If these things I've read and enjoyed that purport to be surveys of contemporary, excellent SF are in fact frauds, I'd like to be let in on it. Like Spock says, "it is impossible to argue without a common frame of reference."
I remember reading this (and others of the series) around the same time as watching TNG: http://www.bestsf.net/reviews/dozois9.html
BTW, I still think this is great, but by no means am I going to suggest it offers profound, graduate-level insights on humanity, but I would very much like to read an SF anthology that does.

"If you are truly of the opinion that the series represents all that SF has to offer, then I think that is a shame and I probably won't be able to dissuade you with a crude list of recommendations."
I'm not, but you're wrong: crude list is definitely appreciated. I'd been trying for many years to push various non-ST SF books on ST-reading friends, many of which are surely more fun and inventive and often less ham-fisted, but one thing I can't claim is, for example, that "Gun, with Occasional Music" is somehow intellectually more advanced or thought-provoking than the "odd philosophical question at the level of a 12 year old"

"I have to say, seeing ticket prices in London make me not so mad about $10 tickets in Boston."
Can you guys give ticket prices adjusted against the local price of a decent Chicken Tikka Masala? Round where I am, it's roughly 1:1.

I'm a vegetarian

btw

sub in saag paneer + mango lassi for chicken tikka?