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OH MY GOD! THE STAR TREK REBOOT HAS BROKEN MY BRAIN!
I have not come out of a movie with this feeling in my heart in a long time! ACTUALLY that feeling started in the very first scene! After the cold open, my dad and I turned to each other and just said "I love it." "It's great." Seriously, I adored everything about this film. I don't think I can talk coherently about it yet, my head is still in a fog of squee.
BUT SOME CAPSLOCKING LISTING:
1) HOLY SHIT, the cold open! I had involuntary, undeniable tears come to my eyes by the end of it. To have such a powerful scene introducing the parents one of your main characters? EXCELLENT. Plus, this whole movie just has GORGEOUS EFFECTS and just seeing the TOS ships but all new and stunning rendered was probably cause enough for tears.
2) YOUNG KIRK, ILU SO SO MUCH! His introduction of driving the classic car off the cliff and SABOTAGE and "James Tiberus Kirk." It was just so much awesome and perfectly encapsulated the Kirk swagger. I feel like this movie updated Kirk perfectly. As charismatic as Young Shatner is, it's hard to get past the dated womanising-and-brawling. CHRIS PINE TOTALLY NAILED THIS ROLE.
3) We switch to Vulcan! I GASPED. Such a gorgeous establishing shot! I felt I was seeing Rivendell for th first time! YOUNG SPOCK. THE KIDS COME UP WITH INSULTS EACH DAY TRYING TO PROVOKE HIM. Ah, I love EMOTIONALLY CONFLICTED Spock!
4)BUT CONFLICTED SPOCK GETS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN THEY SWITCH TO ZACHARY QUINTO. He totally rocked my world. I was actually most concerned that it would be tough to recapture Spock. I mean Kirk needs charisma but there are tons of charismatic dudes! YET SPOCK is all about saying a lot by doing so little. IT WAS ALL PERFECT. The FEELINGS underneath the control! I LOVE HIM SO. Like EVERYONE IN WORLD, Spock is my favorite from TOS and that RICH TRADITION has been upheld. <3
5) SPEAKING OF, SPOCK/UHURA OTP FOREVER. !!!!! AMAAAZING. He didn't want to show favoristism! But she tells him how it's going to be! THERE WERE BOTH MAKEOUTS AND COMFORT HUGS. It always felt FALSE to me that 99% of the ladies went for Kirk so I'm SO HAPPY the reboot had corrected this by giving him an AWESOME and TOUGH and SMART lady! Before I saw the movie, I was all "Spock/Uhura happens apparently? Huh, I don't know how I feel about that." NOW I KNOW HOW I FEEL AND IT IS FANTASTIC. <3 <3 <3
6) I love the cast. I mean, I already loved the casting but everyone did so well in their roles, better than I could have foreseen. Uhura was so badass and ANTON YELCHIN does Boy Genius!Chehov in such a believable and likable way and BONES was so instantly BONES and there was a SPACE-AGE SWORD ("Fencing.") and Scotty was so appropriately SCIENTIFIC and MAD GENIUS. Every time a new character would appear, it was just so thrilling. Like a whole new world was opening up.
7)AGAIN SPEAKING OF, I love that they VERY EXPLICITLY made this whole thing an AU! It gives them so much leeway with people attached to TOS and opens up all kinds of interesting, fresh character exploration. The only thing I'm bummed about is VULCAN. I just had it in the back of my mind that they were going to fix the timeline and save Vulcan. While I think it's more powerful that they didn't and the "endangered species" is a juicy development for Spock, it's so hard to wrap my mind around them actually destroying Vulcan!
7) Oh man, this whole movie was just such a gift. Every so often I would think "And there's still more movie left?! It's already given me so much!" and I'd watch the next scene with even greater fervor. I just 100% enjoyed myself. As soon as the credits rolled, I turned to my dad and said "THEY BETTER BE GREENLIGHTING THE SEQUEL AS WE SPEAK. FILMING MUST START NEXT WEEKEND." When (it must be when) they do the sequel, I'm looking forward to some actual exploration! And I desperately need more Kirk/Spock BFFery! By the time we got to the good stuff, the movie was ending! (OH I guess I never got to that by YES KIRK AND SPOCK. THEY HAD THE CHEMISTRY.) I'm also pleased as punch that this movie is uniting Trekker/Trekkie and completely new viewers alike. GUYS, NOW WE CAN ALL TALK ABOUT TREK. AND IT'S COOL AGAIN WHAT.
...I'm going to need to see this movie again very soon. Also, icons.
I have not come out of a movie with this feeling in my heart in a long time! ACTUALLY that feeling started in the very first scene! After the cold open, my dad and I turned to each other and just said "I love it." "It's great." Seriously, I adored everything about this film. I don't think I can talk coherently about it yet, my head is still in a fog of squee.
BUT SOME CAPSLOCKING LISTING:
1) HOLY SHIT, the cold open! I had involuntary, undeniable tears come to my eyes by the end of it. To have such a powerful scene introducing the parents one of your main characters? EXCELLENT. Plus, this whole movie just has GORGEOUS EFFECTS and just seeing the TOS ships but all new and stunning rendered was probably cause enough for tears.
2) YOUNG KIRK, ILU SO SO MUCH! His introduction of driving the classic car off the cliff and SABOTAGE and "James Tiberus Kirk." It was just so much awesome and perfectly encapsulated the Kirk swagger. I feel like this movie updated Kirk perfectly. As charismatic as Young Shatner is, it's hard to get past the dated womanising-and-brawling. CHRIS PINE TOTALLY NAILED THIS ROLE.
3) We switch to Vulcan! I GASPED. Such a gorgeous establishing shot! I felt I was seeing Rivendell for th first time! YOUNG SPOCK. THE KIDS COME UP WITH INSULTS EACH DAY TRYING TO PROVOKE HIM. Ah, I love EMOTIONALLY CONFLICTED Spock!
4)BUT CONFLICTED SPOCK GETS SO MUCH BETTER WHEN THEY SWITCH TO ZACHARY QUINTO. He totally rocked my world. I was actually most concerned that it would be tough to recapture Spock. I mean Kirk needs charisma but there are tons of charismatic dudes! YET SPOCK is all about saying a lot by doing so little. IT WAS ALL PERFECT. The FEELINGS underneath the control! I LOVE HIM SO. Like EVERYONE IN WORLD, Spock is my favorite from TOS and that RICH TRADITION has been upheld. <3
5) SPEAKING OF, SPOCK/UHURA OTP FOREVER. !!!!! AMAAAZING. He didn't want to show favoristism! But she tells him how it's going to be! THERE WERE BOTH MAKEOUTS AND COMFORT HUGS. It always felt FALSE to me that 99% of the ladies went for Kirk so I'm SO HAPPY the reboot had corrected this by giving him an AWESOME and TOUGH and SMART lady! Before I saw the movie, I was all "Spock/Uhura happens apparently? Huh, I don't know how I feel about that." NOW I KNOW HOW I FEEL AND IT IS FANTASTIC. <3 <3 <3
6) I love the cast. I mean, I already loved the casting but everyone did so well in their roles, better than I could have foreseen. Uhura was so badass and ANTON YELCHIN does Boy Genius!Chehov in such a believable and likable way and BONES was so instantly BONES and there was a SPACE-AGE SWORD ("Fencing.") and Scotty was so appropriately SCIENTIFIC and MAD GENIUS. Every time a new character would appear, it was just so thrilling. Like a whole new world was opening up.
7)AGAIN SPEAKING OF, I love that they VERY EXPLICITLY made this whole thing an AU! It gives them so much leeway with people attached to TOS and opens up all kinds of interesting, fresh character exploration. The only thing I'm bummed about is VULCAN. I just had it in the back of my mind that they were going to fix the timeline and save Vulcan. While I think it's more powerful that they didn't and the "endangered species" is a juicy development for Spock, it's so hard to wrap my mind around them actually destroying Vulcan!
7) Oh man, this whole movie was just such a gift. Every so often I would think "And there's still more movie left?! It's already given me so much!" and I'd watch the next scene with even greater fervor. I just 100% enjoyed myself. As soon as the credits rolled, I turned to my dad and said "THEY BETTER BE GREENLIGHTING THE SEQUEL AS WE SPEAK. FILMING MUST START NEXT WEEKEND." When (it must be when) they do the sequel, I'm looking forward to some actual exploration! And I desperately need more Kirk/Spock BFFery! By the time we got to the good stuff, the movie was ending! (OH I guess I never got to that by YES KIRK AND SPOCK. THEY HAD THE CHEMISTRY.) I'm also pleased as punch that this movie is uniting Trekker/Trekkie and completely new viewers alike. GUYS, NOW WE CAN ALL TALK ABOUT TREK. AND IT'S COOL AGAIN WHAT.
...I'm going to need to see this movie again very soon. Also, icons.