Reaction: Star Trek - Into Darkness

[caffienekitty]

I've seen the Star Trek: Into Darkness in 2D at a matinee showing with about 20 people in the theatre. Yay ticket under $11.

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AWESOME. If you like Star Trek, Benedict Cumberbatch, sci-fi, or just special effects, etc, go see it. *twitches to add something but it would be spoilery so*


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[lobelia321]

Thanks, that was fun! First actual Star Trek fan (I am not one so had no clue) I've come across who enjoyed the film and isn't joining in on Harrisongate. [Spoiler (click to open)] Khangate

[caffienekitty]

I'm not really in the Star Trek fandom at all (I just am a general fan of the 'verse from way way back) so I'm happy to say whatever that is has passed me by.

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I enjoyed this movie despite disliking the reboot enough that I almost didn't see Into Darkness.

The Coat! By the end of the movie, I had a laundry list of complaints about science and plot failures (which does not preclude enjoyment), and so did Brilliant Husband, but the every top of his list was Harrison's ability to jump into a crowd and emerge at once with a coat that fit him.

[caffienekitty]

The coat fitting didn't bother me because he's not an atypical size, and given this was near Starfleet Headquarters, there'd be a certain homogeneity of build due to most of them doing the same training, so he could eyeball the sizing (or the person leaving their coat behind, can't remember if there was a quick shot of someone leaving that table in the mayhem) on the fly and get something pretty close.

Now if I'd jumped off a crashed starship, rolled into a crowd and come out wearing a perfectly-fitting long coat, that would be a severe blow to the suspension of disbelief. As would me jumping off of a crashed starship. XD

[aelfgyfu_mead]

I meant to say I enjoyed your LJ cuts!

[caffienekitty]

I tried to give the dithering plenty of chance to have second thoughts.

[shadowfireflame]

Awww, the Yee Haw! LOL!

Like a human bomb. Perfectly silent and still until there's violence exploding everywhere.

THIS!!! I saw him as more of a snake coiled up and ready to strike into action, but yes, a bomb works very well too, and fits in with the torpedoes! And, yeah, I was also rooting for him (despite the whole evil terrorist thing).

“Holy crap, Benedict” = insane crying scene?!?! Because that one gave me shivers, damn.

[caffienekitty]

I don't think so, the crying scene was earlier (and yes, that was rather amazing considering it wasn't the usual 'cut to perfect manly tear/cut away' but you could see the tears building up in his eyes as he spoke, and it was done as one long cut, and having that much focus and control over crying while at the same time delivering lines face first into a camera is pretty darn impressive).

It might have been something in the attack on the guards when they got on board the dreadnought where it was definitely him doing something and not a stunt guy.

[irismay42]

Glad you got to see it! I really wasn't spoilered at all - hadn't even seen a trailer for it - all I knew was Benedict Cumberbatch was in it. So I immediately knew he had to be a bad guy. Because he's English. Such is the way with American movies and TV! Which is why Carol Marcus was also a red herring for me, but in a different way. Before I realised who she was, I figured she had to be a baddie just because she was English! Hooray for an English good guy! (I'm not sensitive about this at all, you understand!)

Great to see Noel Clarke acting his socks off too. I always thought he was a bit wasted in Who. (Am I allowed to say that?)

Absolutely loved the Kirk and Spock reversal after Kirk got irradiated. Utter stroke of genius!

[caffienekitty]

RE: English accents in American movies being evil. Hee! I'd blame ingrained colonial resentment for that, handed down the years in the entertainment industry to become a trope. I don't think it's quite as prevalent as it used to be though.

Noel Clarke didn't get much opportunity for that level of intense internal conflict in Who as the left-behind-sort-of-boyfriend-maybe of Rose. Mickey was initially written as a bit of a twerp (although he did have significant character growth), but he didn't do too shabby with what he was given.

That scene, I knew they had to reverse it or alter it some way, and for a while I thought it might be some other character altogether, but of course it is such a Kirk and Spock moment it had to remain a Kirk and Spock moment, only this time from the other side.