More movie gleeing...

[dangermousie]

1. Am still obsessing over Star Trek. If it wasn't for the baby, I'd so see it repeatedly in the theater. It's such a well-made scifi movie - I am so in love. I am not a hard-core Trekkie by any means, but I used to like the classic Trek a lot when I was younger (never got into any of the other Trek offspring) and this is like everything I liked

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[crumpeteer]

I love that Kirk really didn't get the girl and spent most of the movie getting the crap kicked out of him. I sort of loved Chris Pine's version of Kirk, all testosterone and arrogance with a sort of goofy streak thrown in.

I'm totally in love with McCoy though. He's manic and cranky, but is more than willing to back up Kirk's hairbrained ideas, grumbling and jabbing needles in him all the way. He and Kirk are both damaged goods, which is probably why they get along. The only place they fit in is this rather reckless and nutty crew.

Meanwhile, Daddy!Kirk is some handsome manflesh right there. I'm thrilled he's cast as Thor.

[dangermousie]

The scene where McCoy dragged Kirk onto the Enterprise might be my favorite scene in the movie (that or Kirk provoking Spock into an explosion). He is just so snarly and yet rock-solid friend.

I too loved that Kirk has some genuine demons of whatever sort that drive him - it's like all the crazily reckless stuff he does, and his drive, is the only way to work it all out. In some ways, he reminds me of test pilots Tom Wolfe wrote about in The Right Stuff...

I loved Daddy!Kirk - the scene with hims dying made me all emotional (even as someone who's just recently given birth, I loled at the speed of it the labor).

[crumpeteer]

I don't think Kirk has a speed other than full throttle. That's the same reason he'll never settle down. Awesome fling, but McCoy is the cranky, loyal sourpuss that I'd rather end up with in the long run. And how did Karl Urban make a grumpy doctor so darn sexy?

I had to laugh at the labor speed too and also the fact that spaceships seem to be entirely made up of basements.

[dangermousie]

Agreed on McCoy v. Kirk - Kirk would make a great fling but an awful permanent partner :)

LOL at the basement thing. Also, one way to kill everyone on Nero's ship would be to drop an turned-on electric appliance on the floor - it's all watery and would do everyone in :)

[ancarett]

There were so many good things about the New Trek movie, I find it hard to start listing them all. I love Kirk, all arrogance and asshattery rolled into someone who just also knows what the heck has to be done (most of the time). Spock's expression, when Kirk's cheated his way through the Kobiyashi Maru? Awesome to see. Spock/Uhura? Triple awesome. And Karl Urban's McCoy is too damned hot for words!

[dangermousie]

I just love how Kirk was unappologetically arrogant and yet often right - you can see both how people could loathe him on sight and how he could become someone others could admire and follow. He has this driven disregard, if it makes sense...

I also loved Spock - and their initial loathing of each other made sense even without the Kobiyashi Maru thing - their approach to life is so very polarly antithetical to each other.

I never thought I'd find McCoy hot but here...whoa!

[ancarett]

I know, I was surprised. I loved Karl Urban in everything he's done but I thought McCoy would be impossible to carry off and still remain sexy. Hats off to him, here!

And, yes, seeing both Kirk and Spock at their prickliest? Yet both having such strengths that were necessary for solving this problem? Great job of acting and writing.

The entire ensemble was really great -- I have such love for this franchise again which is kinda neat, thirty years after I started writing and illustrating in this fandom!

[dangermousie]

I am so glad LOTR made Urban known - he really is someone I always enjoy watching.

I loved seeing Kirk and Spock learn to work together despite their differences - they are complimentary to each other...

30 years? Wow!

[syrenstar]

I haven't seen the movie, I'm not even sure if it's out in the UK yet (it probably is), but the amount of Star Trek influenced fic coming out for my pet Big Bang Theory ship is making me very happy.

I was always been more of a TNG fan than original series one, even as a kid the Kirk type annoyed me ^_^

[dangermousie]

More fic is always a good thing :)

I adored Kirk - he'd be the worst husband ever but an exciting fling :)

[seven_trees]

I'm so glad you liked Star Trek! It's one of the few Summer action movies where I left going, "ZOMGMUSTSEEAGAIN!"

Totally with you on the Spock/Uhura ship. I was so glad they didn't pair her up with Kirk. I thought they were going to because, well, that's what always happens, but then when they did the elevator scene I just couldn't stop flailing in my seat because I was so excited.

I liked McCoy too, mostly because I've had a thing for Karl Urban since LotR. Honestly, I went to see DOOM because of him. But I have to admit that for me, it's all about Spock. Well, Spock and Uhura because she's a language nerd and I can relate.

[dangermousie]

Yeah, I was so sure she'd be with Kirk - the whole trope of brash guy and gal who is unimpressed but then is and they hook up is a total cliche and I was expecting it.

I perked up a bit at the favoritism scene (as in "huh? that is a bit odd") and then the elevator scene came and I went "!!!!!!!" and gleed like mad.

[village]

Yay! I'm glad you liked it. I loved it and desperately want to go see it again. Spock/Uhura = SO MUCH WIN. I loved that they did that and it worked so beautifully. Loved Kirk too and I really enjoyed the evolution of his relationship with Spock in the film. I can't wait for the second movie and third and ... ;)

[crumpeteer]

Drive by icon love!

[village]

High five! ;) Love Merlin and I'm so glad NBC is airing it next month - at least they were the last time I checked - my computer screen can only go so far. heh. Can't wait to watch all the pretty in HD. *g*

[crumpeteer]

It'll be so much fun watching it on a normal screen rather than my tiny computer one. I'm starting to hear all sorts of stuff for next season too. Squee!