Trek!
I, too, have seen the new Star Trek, and wow it was awesome.
Trek aside, it was just a damn fun movie -- that it had these characters we know in it, felt like sort of an bonus treat thingy.
• Oh man, Vulcan? Ouch.
• I'm totally in love with Quinto's Spock, and I'm just a little weirded out by that, because, man, it's Spock. ZQ was really quite fantastic, and it's nice to see him in something where I don't think his character is clearly too stupid to live.
• Urban's Bones was just fantastic, too. Actually, they pretty much all were. And I liked that, while the film is very much Kirk and Spock (both of him), the other characters had their scenes in which to shine -- Chekov managing the freefall transport; Sulu kicking ass on the drill platform (also, forgetting to turn off the external dampners. Heh), and managing to warp into Titan without, you know, hitting anything major; Scotty being snarky and awesome Scotty; McCoy being, well, McCoy and being the ornery bastard who gets Kirk onto the Enterprise in the first place; Uhura having a job that was more than just answering the phone (score on decoding Klingon distress calls and speaking three dialects of Romulan), and being, to a degree, Kirk's pre-Spock foil. But, really, lots and lots of love for Bones.
• No, really, totally in love with new Spock. That's quite the temper he's got there, too.
• Fantastic effects. Just lovely, lovely stuff.
• Pine was very good as Kirk, and his level of ass-kickedness was nigh on Crichtonion, because seriously, does he have more than two minutes of film time where he's not beat to hell? Also, his final "Bones!" was eerily Shatner (in a good way).
• If I would have one nitpick, it might be that the friendship between Kirk and Spock required the intervention of old Spock. However, since what happened to the timeline did, somewhat, involve old Spock, it would only be natural that he'd want to fix that at least, so it's not much of a nitpick, and I can clearly see how Kirk and New Spock could be friends once they got past the bugging the shit out of each other thing.
• Lots and lots of nods to the origial, but done well and not really in a "look how clever we are" sort of way. And fantastic use of Original Spock.
• I'm totally seeing this again tomorrow in IMAX, because the spatial disorientation was not disorienting enough on the regular screen. Hooray for space being actually three dimensional.
Yay!
Trek aside, it was just a damn fun movie -- that it had these characters we know in it, felt like sort of an bonus treat thingy.
• Oh man, Vulcan? Ouch.
• I'm totally in love with Quinto's Spock, and I'm just a little weirded out by that, because, man, it's Spock. ZQ was really quite fantastic, and it's nice to see him in something where I don't think his character is clearly too stupid to live.
• Urban's Bones was just fantastic, too. Actually, they pretty much all were. And I liked that, while the film is very much Kirk and Spock (both of him), the other characters had their scenes in which to shine -- Chekov managing the freefall transport; Sulu kicking ass on the drill platform (also, forgetting to turn off the external dampners. Heh), and managing to warp into Titan without, you know, hitting anything major; Scotty being snarky and awesome Scotty; McCoy being, well, McCoy and being the ornery bastard who gets Kirk onto the Enterprise in the first place; Uhura having a job that was more than just answering the phone (score on decoding Klingon distress calls and speaking three dialects of Romulan), and being, to a degree, Kirk's pre-Spock foil. But, really, lots and lots of love for Bones.
• No, really, totally in love with new Spock. That's quite the temper he's got there, too.
• Fantastic effects. Just lovely, lovely stuff.
• Pine was very good as Kirk, and his level of ass-kickedness was nigh on Crichtonion, because seriously, does he have more than two minutes of film time where he's not beat to hell? Also, his final "Bones!" was eerily Shatner (in a good way).
• If I would have one nitpick, it might be that the friendship between Kirk and Spock required the intervention of old Spock. However, since what happened to the timeline did, somewhat, involve old Spock, it would only be natural that he'd want to fix that at least, so it's not much of a nitpick, and I can clearly see how Kirk and New Spock could be friends once they got past the bugging the shit out of each other thing.
• Lots and lots of nods to the origial, but done well and not really in a "look how clever we are" sort of way. And fantastic use of Original Spock.
• I'm totally seeing this again tomorrow in IMAX, because the spatial disorientation was not disorienting enough on the regular screen. Hooray for space being actually three dimensional.
Yay!