Movie Squee: Star Trek
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sigmastolenIT WAS GOOD. OMG IT WAS SO GOOD.
So it went down like this: Roomie texts me at 12:30ish while I'm in class and asks if I want to see Star Trek at 10:20, because she is buying tickets.... I say OMG YES HOW MUCH DO I OWE YOU??? and proceed to have paroxysms of nerdy joy for the next nine hours. (I had completely forgotten it was opening, actually. And I guess it must have opened early in selected theatres? Because the one we went to had been playing it the entire day, even though it was billed as opening today. w/e I'm not complaining or anything... ) Turns out there are seven of us going, which is brill -- Roomie, her sister, her sister's bf, her sister's bestie, Flatmate's band's drummer (who is also one of our downstairs neighbours), Roomie's friend from Bruin Democrats, and me. Which was awesome because they are all awesome people.
AND OMG IT WAS SO GOOD.
Favourite post-movie quote:
Roomie: Spock can have my babies.
But honestly, I think it was an extremely successful reboot of a franchise that has been fizzling out (because lord knows I hadn't heard many great things about Enterprise), and they left the door open to make more movies! (Although someone mentioned that they could do a new TNG and I wasn't so sure about that, but it's probably because it's the one I'm most attached to; I was much more open to this movie because I'm not as familiar with TOS.)
I was very pleased with (and proud of) the cast, as well (fanboy's dream team that they are), and I was especially impressed with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto as Kirk and Spock. Simon Pegg's Scotty was a hoot, and Karl Urban played a Bones that I was much more fond of than TV Bones. John Cho was an admirable Sulu, and Anton Yelchin as Chekov was too cute. P.S. Also Zoe Saldana is fuckin' gorgeous.
I was also glad it didn't take itself too seriously, which was one mistake (of many) that Star Trek: Nemesis made (oh god I still can't believe I paid money to see that film) -- a lot of things were played for laughs, and still more sequences were at least open to being funny, if they didn't explicitly try to be.
Now, I didn't love everything -- with such an established franchise, it's of course impossible to please everyone all the time. Things I did not love: Spock/Uhura (their makeout scenes made me uncomfortable, in a "that's not supposed to happen" kind of way); blatant disregard of physics (especially the parts where entire planets winking out of existence have no impact on their star systems, and 12-year-old children can do things that would require the strength of five gorillas); Karl Urban's "American twang"; the blinding proximity to a star in the opening sequence; fuxxing space-time; Lucasfilm getting all over my Star Trek franchise (The ILM design is most obvious in the critters).
Things I totally did love: Quinto's acting; Chekov's accent confusing the computer; Sulu's swordfight; Chris Pine's swagger; Kirk eating an apple during the Kobayashi Maru; fuxxing space-time; getting totally emotionally involved within the first 5 minutes; grinning madly the entire time; Chekov being ALL-ADORABLE, ALL THE TIME; Quinto's eyebrows; Spock.
Things that just distracted me: Cameron from House as Kirk's mom; that doctor-lady's eyes; Uhura's roommate; Karl Urban (because I couldn't remember that it was him, so I spent the entire movie trying to figure out who he was) (the answer to that question, btw, is "Éomer of Rohan"); fuxxing space-time; improbable physics.
So in conclusion: OMG SO GOOD. EPIC WIN.
So it went down like this: Roomie texts me at 12:30ish while I'm in class and asks if I want to see Star Trek at 10:20, because she is buying tickets.... I say OMG YES HOW MUCH DO I OWE YOU??? and proceed to have paroxysms of nerdy joy for the next nine hours. (I had completely forgotten it was opening, actually. And I guess it must have opened early in selected theatres? Because the one we went to had been playing it the entire day, even though it was billed as opening today. w/e I'm not complaining or anything... ) Turns out there are seven of us going, which is brill -- Roomie, her sister, her sister's bf, her sister's bestie, Flatmate's band's drummer (who is also one of our downstairs neighbours), Roomie's friend from Bruin Democrats, and me. Which was awesome because they are all awesome people.
AND OMG IT WAS SO GOOD.
Favourite post-movie quote:
Roomie: Spock can have my babies.
But honestly, I think it was an extremely successful reboot of a franchise that has been fizzling out (because lord knows I hadn't heard many great things about Enterprise), and they left the door open to make more movies! (Although someone mentioned that they could do a new TNG and I wasn't so sure about that, but it's probably because it's the one I'm most attached to; I was much more open to this movie because I'm not as familiar with TOS.)
I was very pleased with (and proud of) the cast, as well (fanboy's dream team that they are), and I was especially impressed with Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto as Kirk and Spock. Simon Pegg's Scotty was a hoot, and Karl Urban played a Bones that I was much more fond of than TV Bones. John Cho was an admirable Sulu, and Anton Yelchin as Chekov was too cute. P.S. Also Zoe Saldana is fuckin' gorgeous.
I was also glad it didn't take itself too seriously, which was one mistake (of many) that Star Trek: Nemesis made (oh god I still can't believe I paid money to see that film) -- a lot of things were played for laughs, and still more sequences were at least open to being funny, if they didn't explicitly try to be.
Now, I didn't love everything -- with such an established franchise, it's of course impossible to please everyone all the time. Things I did not love: Spock/Uhura (their makeout scenes made me uncomfortable, in a "that's not supposed to happen" kind of way); blatant disregard of physics (especially the parts where entire planets winking out of existence have no impact on their star systems, and 12-year-old children can do things that would require the strength of five gorillas); Karl Urban's "American twang"; the blinding proximity to a star in the opening sequence; fuxxing space-time; Lucasfilm getting all over my Star Trek franchise (The ILM design is most obvious in the critters).
Things I totally did love: Quinto's acting; Chekov's accent confusing the computer; Sulu's swordfight; Chris Pine's swagger; Kirk eating an apple during the Kobayashi Maru; fuxxing space-time; getting totally emotionally involved within the first 5 minutes; grinning madly the entire time; Chekov being ALL-ADORABLE, ALL THE TIME; Quinto's eyebrows; Spock.
Things that just distracted me: Cameron from House as Kirk's mom; that doctor-lady's eyes; Uhura's roommate; Karl Urban (because I couldn't remember that it was him, so I spent the entire movie trying to figure out who he was) (the answer to that question, btw, is "Éomer of Rohan"); fuxxing space-time; improbable physics.
So in conclusion: OMG SO GOOD. EPIC WIN.
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Date: 2009-05-11 05:47 am (UTC)a;sjf;akjfs;ksadjf;lkasdjf;kjad;sflkj.
:)
;)
I don't know. I just.... am so happy.
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Date: 2009-05-11 06:08 am (UTC)OMG I KNOW RIGHT???
I may have taken my brother to see it today. Let me say, the second time was just as good. Even though I noticed the overabundance of lens flares and sound in space this time.
Because, EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE