I don't care what variety of nerd you are, you better see that movie...
(two posts from my other site combined to make one giant squee)
Star Trek is fantastic. It's classic, it's new, it's all good. I was already pretty excited about it, more than Wolverine even, and it did not disappoint!! I'm an even bigger Spock fan than I already was.
As I said to another friend, true, I think I saw it a third time so that I could solidify my fantasy marriage to Spock in my head, but this in no way diminishes my huge love for Simon Pegg. Simon is brilliant, and I would never take back the 63 times I have seen Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. I was thrilled with every little thing he did as Scotty.
I'm very happy with all of the casting in this, it's just great. Karl Urban was SO good with the classic McCoy attitude and sayings. All the classic favs were great, and each one had their times in the spotlight during the whole movie, and it wasn't just a Kirk-fest, which I was worried it may be. The guy cast as Kirk did a great job and was perfect. Spock, Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu...everyone...all great and well worth watching at least twice! A bunch of cool actors popped up in the movie. Not to mention the surprise appearance of you-know-who.
Which WAS a surprise to me, actually. I often steadily avoid spoilers/behind-the-scene/first-look type info about movies I'm really excited about, so I don't even want to know casting or anything like that. Not everything can be avoided, and I did learn of the casting for Spock and Scotty because people told me, but that's about it. I didn't know about the storyline or antagonists, so that fact that I recognized Eric Bana in that makeup is pretty awesome. I also recognized his Second from several films, but I can't remember the actor's name right of the top of my head. He was funny in Replacement Killers.
Anyway! I enjoyed everything about this movie, the actors, the photography, the music, the effects, costumes and makeup.
The more I think about ST and how great it was, the more disappointed in Wolverine I am. What does the future hold?...
They showed the trailers for the three movies I've been waiting for this year. (I mean, there are others I def want to see this year, but three major action films I'm geeking on are coming soon.) Two, I'm excited about, one I'm iffy about. Transformers and Terminator will be incredible (and I'll probably post more about that later, on my LJ) but G.I. Joe....*sigh*..looks like it's probably nothing like actual G.I. Joe at all. I saw two characters that look like they may be based off the original, Baroness and Scarlet, and I did see SnakeEyes and StormShadow. But that was all. *sigh* I'm scared.
Yo, Joe???
I've got love for Transformers no matter what, but Terminator had better be as great as I think it's gonna be. And well, G.I. Joe. I'm not saying it won't be a good movie, maybe it'll even be a great movie. I'm just saying, from the trailers, it's not very G.I.Joe-ish. I mean, my sister just told me that the guy in the suit that I've been seeing in the trailers (Christopher Eccleston) is supposed to be Destro. Destro. Man, are you f!%$ing kidding me. She better be wrong about that...
Star Trek is fantastic. It's classic, it's new, it's all good. I was already pretty excited about it, more than Wolverine even, and it did not disappoint!! I'm an even bigger Spock fan than I already was.
As I said to another friend, true, I think I saw it a third time so that I could solidify my fantasy marriage to Spock in my head, but this in no way diminishes my huge love for Simon Pegg. Simon is brilliant, and I would never take back the 63 times I have seen Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. I was thrilled with every little thing he did as Scotty.
I'm very happy with all of the casting in this, it's just great. Karl Urban was SO good with the classic McCoy attitude and sayings. All the classic favs were great, and each one had their times in the spotlight during the whole movie, and it wasn't just a Kirk-fest, which I was worried it may be. The guy cast as Kirk did a great job and was perfect. Spock, Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, Scotty, Sulu...everyone...all great and well worth watching at least twice! A bunch of cool actors popped up in the movie. Not to mention the surprise appearance of you-know-who.
Which WAS a surprise to me, actually. I often steadily avoid spoilers/behind-the-scene/first-look type info about movies I'm really excited about, so I don't even want to know casting or anything like that. Not everything can be avoided, and I did learn of the casting for Spock and Scotty because people told me, but that's about it. I didn't know about the storyline or antagonists, so that fact that I recognized Eric Bana in that makeup is pretty awesome. I also recognized his Second from several films, but I can't remember the actor's name right of the top of my head. He was funny in Replacement Killers.
Anyway! I enjoyed everything about this movie, the actors, the photography, the music, the effects, costumes and makeup.
The more I think about ST and how great it was, the more disappointed in Wolverine I am. What does the future hold?...
They showed the trailers for the three movies I've been waiting for this year. (I mean, there are others I def want to see this year, but three major action films I'm geeking on are coming soon.) Two, I'm excited about, one I'm iffy about. Transformers and Terminator will be incredible (and I'll probably post more about that later, on my LJ) but G.I. Joe....*sigh*..looks like it's probably nothing like actual G.I. Joe at all. I saw two characters that look like they may be based off the original, Baroness and Scarlet, and I did see SnakeEyes and StormShadow. But that was all. *sigh* I'm scared.
Yo, Joe???
I've got love for Transformers no matter what, but Terminator had better be as great as I think it's gonna be. And well, G.I. Joe. I'm not saying it won't be a good movie, maybe it'll even be a great movie. I'm just saying, from the trailers, it's not very G.I.Joe-ish. I mean, my sister just told me that the guy in the suit that I've been seeing in the trailers (Christopher Eccleston) is supposed to be Destro. Destro. Man, are you f!%$ing kidding me. She better be wrong about that...