Celebrated my apparent return to something vaguely resembling actual health (yay antibiotics!) by taking myself off to see the new Star Trek this morning. Um.
See, this film has generated a lot of buzz, and various trekkoids of varying degrees of frothing fandom have been fairly positive about it, and said it feels like Star Trek. Only problem is
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Before I saw it I heard 2 opinions:
1) "It sucks, it's sort-of star trek but mainstream, not for trekkies"
2) "It was really good, like star trek but a real film"
Make of that what you will.
PS: See you next week?
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Had forgotten you were incoming! yes, must definitely get together. Let me know your time frames and free evenings etc.
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I am enough of a ST heretic to think that the series could use a reboot, that some of its sensibilities are rather outdated, but by JJ Abrams? Hell no, babe. This was a confused mess. At times a confused mess with a hot cast, but still confused. (You could, though, convert me to the No Reboot Way by, for example, lending me Next Generation to watch in its entirety, thus improving my tragic lack of education...)
I, too, am looking forward to the new Sherlock Holmes, while confidently expect it to outrage the canon sideways in all directions. I'm with you, it's RDJ, he can do what he damned well likes :>.
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Don't think I'll bother with ST. I thought of you when I saw the Sherlock Holmes movie trailer, as in "Ooooo, this could have been made especially for extemporanea!" :-)
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Sherlock Holmes is going to horrify me utterly from a canon point of view, I can tell you right now, but I don't propose to let that stop me from enjoying it enormously :>.
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