Star Trekkin...Across the Universe...
On the starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk...!
So..yeah. New Star Trek movie = Awesome. Ainyan and I went to see it over the weekend. We've not really stopped just..looking at each other and going. "Oh, like that part when...."
I mean. Wow. The comparisons they made between the original cast and the actors and actresses they got to play the younger versions of the original cast. It's kinda suprising too. It wasn't until I got to the credits that I realized who Bones had been. Imagine him with reddish brown armor, a horse, and a burning desire to defend the Riddermark against the Orcs. Imagine him being exiled.
Yes. Bones is Eomer is Karl Urban.
Young Spock is the bad guy from Heroes.
Scotty was played by the guy who did Shaun from Shaun of the Dead.
Harold, of Harold and Kumar, played everyone's favorite sword wielding helmsman, Hikaru Sulu.
Go see this movie. If you are a fan of the Trek series, go see it. If you're not a fan, go see it. It really is a massive action rush from beginning to end.
This movie did two things. The main thing it did, I think, was to re-envision Roddenberry's dream for a whole new group of fans. It really is Star Trek the way he intended it, instead of the four person 'Western In Space' that the TV producers wanted and began to turn it into. (It's true: Roddenberry originally wanted an incredibly progressive and idealistic show that featured the entire cast, much like TNG. The TV execs told him they wanted something more like Gunsmoke. That's why there were two pilots. 'The Cage' features Roddenberry's original ideas. 'Where No One Has Gone Before' features the series after he was done making it to what the execs wanted.) The second thing I think may have been to get William Shatner out of the story for good. That may just be my thought though...I mean, the character of Kirk was always one of my favorites, even if the actor who played him was a boorish person.
So..yeah. New Star Trek movie = Awesome. Ainyan and I went to see it over the weekend. We've not really stopped just..looking at each other and going. "Oh, like that part when...."
I mean. Wow. The comparisons they made between the original cast and the actors and actresses they got to play the younger versions of the original cast. It's kinda suprising too. It wasn't until I got to the credits that I realized who Bones had been. Imagine him with reddish brown armor, a horse, and a burning desire to defend the Riddermark against the Orcs. Imagine him being exiled.
Yes. Bones is Eomer is Karl Urban.
Young Spock is the bad guy from Heroes.
Scotty was played by the guy who did Shaun from Shaun of the Dead.
Harold, of Harold and Kumar, played everyone's favorite sword wielding helmsman, Hikaru Sulu.
Go see this movie. If you are a fan of the Trek series, go see it. If you're not a fan, go see it. It really is a massive action rush from beginning to end.
This movie did two things. The main thing it did, I think, was to re-envision Roddenberry's dream for a whole new group of fans. It really is Star Trek the way he intended it, instead of the four person 'Western In Space' that the TV producers wanted and began to turn it into. (It's true: Roddenberry originally wanted an incredibly progressive and idealistic show that featured the entire cast, much like TNG. The TV execs told him they wanted something more like Gunsmoke. That's why there were two pilots. 'The Cage' features Roddenberry's original ideas. 'Where No One Has Gone Before' features the series after he was done making it to what the execs wanted.) The second thing I think may have been to get William Shatner out of the story for good. That may just be my thought though...I mean, the character of Kirk was always one of my favorites, even if the actor who played him was a boorish person.