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Went to my second viewing of Star Trek today (this time in IMAX).
For those of you who haven't go, GO! It's rediculously good. Takes alot to make me cry in a movie, but that first chunk of movie, with the Kelvin... I've seen it twice now, and both times it's got me right on the verge. Heartwrenchingly well done sequence.
Only things I didn't like: Not entirely sold on the look of the ship (externally, internally is great), camera work on the bridge needs help (every third shot looking straight into some blinding light = bad), and there's one scene where they take the fact that it's an alternate reality, wrap it around a baseball bat and hit you in the face with it.
Things I liked: the soundtrack was awe inspiring. The scene where the computer can't figure out what the hell Checkov is saying. The scene where Sulu can't understand something when put to him in english, but gets it instantly when reworded in treknobabble. Scotty.
There's also one scene, took me a bit to catch it. Kirk, a senior bridge crewman, and a previously unmentioned officer in a red uniform form an away team. Guess who makes it back?
I find myself with some questions for the future however: Does future Spock intefere in the timeline any more? (maybe "Ok guys, get your best geneticists together, we've got about 10 years to clone a Humpback whale.") What kind of bombshells will they recruit for the next one to play Rand and Chapel? (I will laugh myself stupid(er) if one of them's Jeri Ryan) Will they try to find a replacement for the late Mr Montalban and explore how this new Kirk will deal with stumbling across the Botany Bay?
Also, today while I was in line for the movie there was a guy behind me in line, and we'd been outside in line for a good 10 minutes at this point. (they had it outside because I was a good 100m down the outside of the building :P) Anyways, he looks at the girl he's with and says (perfectly straight, he meant it) "Man, look at this line, is this one of those cultural phenomenon movies or something?" and she says "You... you've never seen Star Trek?" to which he replies "Naw, I was never into that Star Warsie nerd stuff, probably wouldn't be seeing it if you didn't want to."
Man talk about stereotype reversals. :D
P.S. The song I listen to here, "This Town" by the band OAR, is awesome, and you should all go and acquire it through "entirely legitimate means" through the intarwebs.
For those of you who haven't go, GO! It's rediculously good. Takes alot to make me cry in a movie, but that first chunk of movie, with the Kelvin... I've seen it twice now, and both times it's got me right on the verge. Heartwrenchingly well done sequence.
Only things I didn't like: Not entirely sold on the look of the ship (externally, internally is great), camera work on the bridge needs help (every third shot looking straight into some blinding light = bad), and there's one scene where they take the fact that it's an alternate reality, wrap it around a baseball bat and hit you in the face with it.
Things I liked: the soundtrack was awe inspiring. The scene where the computer can't figure out what the hell Checkov is saying. The scene where Sulu can't understand something when put to him in english, but gets it instantly when reworded in treknobabble. Scotty.
There's also one scene, took me a bit to catch it. Kirk, a senior bridge crewman, and a previously unmentioned officer in a red uniform form an away team. Guess who makes it back?
I find myself with some questions for the future however: Does future Spock intefere in the timeline any more? (maybe "Ok guys, get your best geneticists together, we've got about 10 years to clone a Humpback whale.") What kind of bombshells will they recruit for the next one to play Rand and Chapel? (I will laugh myself stupid(er) if one of them's Jeri Ryan) Will they try to find a replacement for the late Mr Montalban and explore how this new Kirk will deal with stumbling across the Botany Bay?
Also, today while I was in line for the movie there was a guy behind me in line, and we'd been outside in line for a good 10 minutes at this point. (they had it outside because I was a good 100m down the outside of the building :P) Anyways, he looks at the girl he's with and says (perfectly straight, he meant it) "Man, look at this line, is this one of those cultural phenomenon movies or something?" and she says "You... you've never seen Star Trek?" to which he replies "Naw, I was never into that Star Warsie nerd stuff, probably wouldn't be seeing it if you didn't want to."
Man talk about stereotype reversals. :D
P.S. The song I listen to here, "This Town" by the band OAR, is awesome, and you should all go and acquire it through "entirely legitimate means" through the intarwebs.