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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: erika on May 08, 2009, 11:19:18 AM
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Saw this last night and it was so good! I highly recommend it! Nice character development and the plot was all time-travelly and very cool. Plus, sparkly sparkly ships! I never liked Star Trek much (except for a slight crush on Patrick Stewart) but this movie was so much fun. Go see it!
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I'm kind of pissed that I'm graduating law school and getting married this weekend because I want to see this so bad.
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Haha I'm sure it'll wait for you! Congrats on your happy happies.
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How was Zachary Quinto?
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There's a hot, hot rumor that McLovin is in the background somewhere in this playing a Vulcan.
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How was Zachary Quinto?
My favorite.
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How was Zachary Quinto?
My favorite.
That's a call screener's name if I ever heard one.
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I had absolutely no interest in seeing this a few months ago, but all the glowing reviews have piqued my interest.
Well, the reviews and that one scene in the trailer where a planet is being sucked into itself. Set your phasers to FUN!
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I have never seen Star Trek in any form. Original series, Next Generation, any of the movies. Nor have I ever had any interest to. Will this convert me?
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I have never seen Star Trek in any form. Original series, Next Generation, any of the movies. Nor have I ever had any interest to. Will this convert me?
Eh I don't know. You'll at least be into the story I think. But I still can't get past the cheesiness of the original series. I do like a lot of the concepts and such. But, if you haven't seen it, you don't know you won't like it, right?
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But I still can't get past the cheesiness of the original series.
Shame on you! It's the only one worth watching! Everything that came afterwards was sooooo booooring. Half of all the TNG episodes involved hanging around on the bridge chatting with Q, and the rest were bullshit holodeck episodes.
I'm so glad they figured out that they had to go back to Kirk et al. in order to make this franchise fun again.
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I have never seen Star Trek in any form. Original series, Next Generation, any of the movies. Nor have I ever had any interest to. Will this convert me?
Eh I don't know. You'll at least be into the story I think. But I still can't get past the cheesiness of the original series. I do like a lot of the concepts and such. But, if you haven't seen it, you don't know you won't like it, right?
I guess. I mean, I know next to nothing about other than the names of the characters, and that it's in space.
Maybe I could be a perfect test subject as to the objective quality of the movie. Like, the nerd in the Skinner box.
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It's a good movie all around. You don't have to know the characters to get into it.
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I have never seen Star Trek in any form. Original series, Next Generation, any of the movies. Nor have I ever had any interest to. Will this convert me?
I haven't seen Star Trek in any incarnation either. Kind of odd, I suppose - but it never appealed to me as a kid, and I've never followed up on it as a teen/adult.
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I've tried like ten times since I was 13 or 14 to get into TNG. I guess it's never going to happen.
I do sometimes end up watching TOS at like three in the morning.
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It's good. Real good.
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I'm going to see this in IMAX tomorrow night. I will review it then.
I'm really excited. I love TNG and think DS9 and TOS are good too. I'm not the biggest fan of the movies, but this one looks promising!
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This was absolutely as good as I could have hoped. The plot was fine, stretched a little at times, but more than good enough. The cast was wayyyyyy better than I'd thought, and I was delighted to be proven wrong. Everyone felt so natural and confident in their characters.
I guess this was commonish knowledge, but Tyler Perry? What the hell? Half my theater exploded when he came on-screen. I was baffled.
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as someone who really doesn't like anything Star Trek related I gotta say I really enjoyed the movie alot. I'm really glad they threw all the boring shit out the window.
man, I almost jumped out of my seat when Sabotage came on. honestly, after that scene I didn't give a shit what else came after, it had won my heart.
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as someone who really doesn't like anything Star Trek related I gotta say I really enjoyed the movie alot. I'm really glad they threw all the boring shit out the window.
man, I almost jumped out of my seat when Sabotage came on. honestly, after that scene I didn't give a shit what else came after, it had won my heart.
Weird, that was the scene that almost lost me. It felt really out of place and totally unnecessary (not to mention I saw it a million times in the trailer).
I didn't exactly love it, but I thought it was a lot of fun. Kirk and Spock were pretty great, although I can't help but see Spock as Syler. I guess I was expecting a more serious take on the franchise, just because that seems to be the trend these days. I'm glad it didn't play that way because it would've been kinda boring without the laughs. I laughed quite a bit, although in hindsight it was more "oh, I recognize that reference to a previous incarnation of Trek" than genuinely funny. Not sure why they wasted Eric Bana, he was one of the most uninteresting villains I've seen in a long time.
Also, I think this is the first time I've seen Tyler Perry playing a man.
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Yeah, I thought the Sabotage scene was rough stuff as well. And on top of that I pretty much hate Star Trek. But I found this one to be really engrossing. For once I watched a Star Trek ep and did not feel like there were tiny people putting on a play inside my TV.
Although I don't think I these goings-on bode well for Lost.
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I never got into any previous Star Trek thing, any previous JJ Abrams thing, or any science fiction at all, really, so I was shocked to find myself even watching this movie, let alone LOVING IT.
Thumbs way up.
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on a scale of 1 to 100 I give it a 65.
good:
-competent acting.
-good effects.
-fast paced.
-some amusing moments.
bad:
-story. I've seen this premise in Star Trek properties no less, at least a dozen times. stale.
-the cameo. why? exposition, exposition, exposition.
-Kirk. He's written as a annoying prick with almost no redeeming qualities. the actor here is good but hasn't got the level of personal charisma that let the admittedly hammy Shatner still be likable.
-plot convenience theater. Kirk's rise to power is completely unbelievable and doesn't make sense even in the logic of the movie's world.
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I'm on board with the Tyler Perry bashing. Totally useless. And I may be insane but I swear, absolutely swear, that I saw a Dave Matthews cameo. There was about a 3 second cut to some Enterprise crew reacting to Kirk and Pike arguing and Matthews was standing there in a yellow Federation shirt. After it happened there was murmurs and giggling throughout the theater like, "Was that just fucking Dave Matthews?" Can anyone back me up on this?
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I'm on board with the Tyler Perry bashing. Totally useless. And I may be insane but I swear, absolutely swear, that I saw a Dave Matthews cameo. There was about a 3 second cut to some Enterprise crew reacting to Kirk and Pike arguing and Matthews was standing there in a yellow Federation shirt. After it happened there was murmurs and giggling throughout the theater like, "Was that just fucking Dave Matthews?" Can anyone back me up on this?
"HEEEEEEEE WAKESSS UPP IN THE MORRRRRNING, DOEZZZZ HIS TEEETH, BITE TO EEEEAT AND HEEEE'ZZZ ROOOOOLLING!!!!!!!1"
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I'm glad that a movie that left 6 billion dead still had a happy ending.
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I'm glad that a movie that left 6 billion dead still had a happy ending.
Not to worry - there are still innumerable alternate realities in which Vulcan is still alive and well.
I saw this Sunday night and had a great time. Two complaints, though:
1) Not enough Simon Pegg.
2) The kid who played Chekov. I'm sure he's a great actor, but I kept thinking he was about to break a sweat trying to keep up that accent.
As someone who has never given a hoot - a hoot! - about STAR TREK, I'm now fully onboard...with this reboot. The last 40-plus years of STAR TREK, I will continue to completely ignore.
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as a kid, we owned the first four films on laser disc. so far, thats been my general exposure to star trek. im excited for this.
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I saw this Sunday night and had a great time. Two complaints, though:
1) Not enough Simon Pegg.
Agreed on this one for sure. But then again, every movie could use more Simon Pegg.
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I'm amazed at how many comments I've seen across the internet, complaining that Simon Pegg isn't Scottish (James Doohan was Canadian!)
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man, I almost jumped out of my seat when Sabotage came on. honestly, after that scene I didn't give a shit what else came after, it had won my heart.
I can't believe I forgot about the Shatner sabotage thing. Stern used to play it all the time.
http://io9.com/5251724/why-the-beastie-boys-made-a-star-trek-cameo