Star Trek, the new beginning

[carrieross]

So, I finally watched the new movie Star trek, last night.

Here are a few random thoughts about it. i know there are other great commentaries on my flist and I apologize if this is repeated or downright boring. i'll try to keep everything under a cut.

So...

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[carrieross]

Mhmm... just yesterday I went rewatching the movie and, strangely enough, while I enjoyed the whole thing way more than the first time around, I got bugged by nuKirk's blu eyes whereas I hadn't before.

I can almost forgive them for giving McCoy the wrong pair of eyes, because the actor has the same kind of staring look and the bags under his eyes, but I don't know if I can ignore that Captain Kirk has plain blue eyes that completely change his expressions into less expressive ones. I love Chris Pine, I do, but are we sure that they couldn't cast another actor that had the same qualities, but a little darker eyes (are Shat's eyes green or brown?)?

nuKirk has not blue eyes, he hasn't a lot of our Kirk's psyhcological features, and I don't know if everything can be simply explained by his rebooted life. Spock is so emotional that I instinctively loved him (I was into Kirk in TOS, and I couldn't quite get how millions of female fans could love Spock), that means he's NOT Spock.

Nevertheless, as I told you in my other reply, my mind played a trick on me, turning me from a critic to a lover of this new, I underline the word new, fandom. It's making me childishly happy.

Star Trek TOS is a thing, and nuStar Trek is entirely a different thing, but quite enjoyable. I'll be a critic when it comes to reasonings, but I'll be a fangirl when this nu ST doesn't get compared to the original one. I know, I'm rather twisted...

As for Hollywood rebooting everything, I'm with you. They do Hollywood superficial versions of European movies, they turn great old TV shows into cheap quality movies with wrong castings (ex: Charlie's angels and Starsky and Hutch), they turn comics characters into movie superheroes. I'm bored. Now someone came out with the idea of rebooting the old Brit TV show UFO. I don't know what to think.