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extemporanea

only going forward, and things are getting worse

May 24, 2009 15:02

Celebrated my apparent return to something vaguely resembling actual health (yay antibiotics!) by taking myself off to see the new Star Trek this morning. Um.

See, this film has generated a lot of buzz, and various trekkoids of varying degrees of frothing fandom have been fairly positive about it, and said it feels like Star Trek. Only problem is ( Read more... )

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Comments 11

strawberryfrog May 24 2009, 14:46:38 UTC

I enjoyed star trek.
Before I saw it I heard 2 opinions:
1) "It sucks, it's sort-of star trek but mainstream, not for trekkies"
2) "It was really good, like star trek but a real film"

Make of that what you will.
PS: See you next week?

extemporanea May 24 2009, 15:21:17 UTC

Yes, I'm a bit miffed because I expected to enjoy it a lot more than I did. I'm usually very forgiving of plot holes and bad science if it's a fun film, but it clearly wasn't fun enough to suspend my disbelief. Sigh. I'll have to see what the Wolverine movie does to me.

Had forgotten you were incoming! yes, must definitely get together. Let me know your time frames and free evenings etc.

strawberryfrog May 24 2009, 15:43:42 UTC

Dates are here. Most evenings are free.

strawberryfrog May 25 2009, 18:05:52 UTC

Is Wednesday good?

Thread 5

An ally! first_fallen May 25 2009, 10:35:07 UTC

Hooray, I thought I was the only person in the whole world who didn't like it :P ( ... )

Re: An ally! extemporanea May 25 2009, 11:13:08 UTC

I dunno, the Romulan spaceship was OK, and the spinny-wheel Spockmobile was quite cute, but neither of them made me go "Wow!" like, for example, the spaceships in Babylon 5 do. They both seemed a bit ... done. Pedestrian. Nothing new.

I am enough of a ST heretic to think that the series could use a reboot, that some of its sensibilities are rather outdated, but by JJ Abrams? Hell no, babe. This was a confused mess. At times a confused mess with a hot cast, but still confused. (You could, though, convert me to the No Reboot Way by, for example, lending me Next Generation to watch in its entirety, thus improving my tragic lack of education...)

I, too, am looking forward to the new Sherlock Holmes, while confidently expect it to outrage the canon sideways in all directions. I'm with you, it's RDJ, he can do what he damned well likes :>.

Re: An ally! first_fallen May 25 2009, 11:16:29 UTC

You are then third in line to borrow TNG, after the Sad and Andcara. Although the Pirate Lord Sadler will most likely rip it to AVI or something, so might be more widely available soon.

anonymous May 25 2009, 21:18:55 UTC

Watched Wolverine this week--not brilliant, but lots of fun. And Hugh does a good job. Also, yum.

Don't think I'll bother with ST. I thought of you when I saw the Sherlock Holmes movie trailer, as in "Ooooo, this could have been made especially for extemporanea!" :-)

everymoment

extemporanea May 26 2009, 06:43:37 UTC

Aargh! I hope you're not avoiding ST just because I'm all disgruntled about it? I am widely known to be entirely bloody-minded in my movie responses and quite possibly didn't like it just because everyone else did. (Stv's theory: I like the movies I shouldn't like, and vice versa.)

Sherlock Holmes is going to horrify me utterly from a canon point of view, I can tell you right now, but I don't propose to let that stop me from enjoying it enormously :>.

khoi_boi May 26 2009, 16:37:30 UTC

I liked it. Was just mentally comparing it to "ST:Contact", which in retrospect was shite. Let's not even mention "ST:Insurrection ( ... )