Star Trekkin'
I know that no amount of praise any fan of Classic Trek® makes about New Trek® will sway the opinions of a certain furry biker in southern California, so said biker may skip this entry or bite his tongue.
I caught a matinee of the new Star Trek movie this afternoon. I loved it. I immediately wanted to see it again.
It's true that setting things in an alternate timeline/reality/universe allows changes to established canon. It still doesn't explain (nor does it try to explain) the technology light-years ahead of the original show. Even the technology at the time of Kirk's birth, when the determining Event happens, was well beyond anything in TOS.
I like what they did with costumes. However, since we're in an alternate universe, could be have some Mirror Mirror styling? Sashes, goatees, sexy minidresses? This Uhura was wearing the gogo boots, but the dress was so... politically correct and bland.
I liked the fact that they all got to say established tag lines.
I liked how Capt. Pike ends up in a wheelchair (although when I reflexively made beeping noises, it was the Futurama morse code beeping instead of the slow yes/no beeps). In fact, I REALLY liked Capt. Pike. A lot!
Ben Cross was a perfect casting choice for Sarek. However, Winona fucking Ryder as Amanda? Puh-leeeeeze. Who did she sleep with to get that part? (Also, naming Kirk's mother "Winona"! Again, who the frack was Ms Ryder sleeping with?)
Zachary Quinto is the only actor aside from Nimoy and Mark Lenard that actually looks Vulcan. All the other Vulcans I've ever seen just look like actors with pointy ears and slanty eyebrows. He was perfect as Spock, although there were a couple times all I could think of was him opening someone's skull and eating their brains.
Karl Urban as Bones: genius!
Simon Pegg as Scotty: perhaps a bit too comical and caricaturish, but good nonetheless.
Chris Pine: Who? Sure, he can pull off the "James T. Kirk -- Space Stud!" image better that Shatner could ever have hoped to, but is he really up to the role?
Eric Bana: Sexy, sexy bad boy villian.
John Cho: a Korean playing a Japanese. Yeah, Hollywood still thinks all east Asians look alike. Still, he's hot and gets to fight with a sword. Too bad it wasn't shirtless.
Anton Yelchin: Ok, so they got a real Russian to play Chekov. Was that accent real, or was it an even worse parody than Koenig used?
Jason Matthew Smith ("Burly Cadet #1" aka "Cupcake"): Hubba hubba!!!!!
Dedication to Gene AND Majel: I teared up.
Nitpicking: They are all still Academy Cadets, and yet Bones is already a senior medical officer... on the flagship!
I caught a matinee of the new Star Trek movie this afternoon. I loved it. I immediately wanted to see it again.
It's true that setting things in an alternate timeline/reality/universe allows changes to established canon. It still doesn't explain (nor does it try to explain) the technology light-years ahead of the original show. Even the technology at the time of Kirk's birth, when the determining Event happens, was well beyond anything in TOS.
I like what they did with costumes. However, since we're in an alternate universe, could be have some Mirror Mirror styling? Sashes, goatees, sexy minidresses? This Uhura was wearing the gogo boots, but the dress was so... politically correct and bland.
I liked the fact that they all got to say established tag lines.
I liked how Capt. Pike ends up in a wheelchair (although when I reflexively made beeping noises, it was the Futurama morse code beeping instead of the slow yes/no beeps). In fact, I REALLY liked Capt. Pike. A lot!
Ben Cross was a perfect casting choice for Sarek. However, Winona fucking Ryder as Amanda? Puh-leeeeeze. Who did she sleep with to get that part? (Also, naming Kirk's mother "Winona"! Again, who the frack was Ms Ryder sleeping with?)
Zachary Quinto is the only actor aside from Nimoy and Mark Lenard that actually looks Vulcan. All the other Vulcans I've ever seen just look like actors with pointy ears and slanty eyebrows. He was perfect as Spock, although there were a couple times all I could think of was him opening someone's skull and eating their brains.
Karl Urban as Bones: genius!
Simon Pegg as Scotty: perhaps a bit too comical and caricaturish, but good nonetheless.
Chris Pine: Who? Sure, he can pull off the "James T. Kirk -- Space Stud!" image better that Shatner could ever have hoped to, but is he really up to the role?
Eric Bana: Sexy, sexy bad boy villian.
John Cho: a Korean playing a Japanese. Yeah, Hollywood still thinks all east Asians look alike. Still, he's hot and gets to fight with a sword. Too bad it wasn't shirtless.
Anton Yelchin: Ok, so they got a real Russian to play Chekov. Was that accent real, or was it an even worse parody than Koenig used?
Jason Matthew Smith ("Burly Cadet #1" aka "Cupcake"): Hubba hubba!!!!!
Dedication to Gene AND Majel: I teared up.
Nitpicking: They are all still Academy Cadets, and yet Bones is already a senior medical officer... on the flagship!