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May. 8th, 2009 01:36 amStar Trek: WIN
May. 8th, 2009
Movie Squee: Star Trek
May. 8th, 2009 02:20 pmIT 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.
( Here there be spoilers. )
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.
( Here there be spoilers. )
So in conclusion: OMG SO GOOD. EPIC WIN.