Oh, i got the same reaction. My friend and I laughed ourselves silly in the first half and the dude, and others too, were affronted that we were laughing - HELLOOOOO we're FANS!!! not going just because it's cool, or cause it's a summer blockbuster and you want to tell people you've seen it. feckwits like that should NOT be allowed in the cinemas. :)
Well he didn't actually blow up normal trek universe Vulcan and Romulus since it was stated in the movie that it was an alternate timeline. I mean, I'm a ridico-huge fasn but sometimes I think the fans just look for things to complain about.
I think Spock was more emotional than we're used to because he's younger. His control would have continued to grow as he aged and had more life experience. As it was, it seemed he hdn't been away from Vulcan for too long (especially for a Vulcan lifespan) and thus was probably still adjusting to being around so many humans and other emotional beings.
Well he didn't actually blow up normal trek universe Vulcan and Romulus since it was stated in the movie that it was an alternate timeline.
Vulcan, no. but they imply that Romulus got eaten by the supernova in canon...which is the whole basis of Nero's revenge on Spock...i.e. "you were supposed to prevent this supernova and you didn't and i lost my wife and my planet! so NOW i'm going back in time and bombing yours!"
so if we got by Abrams' viewpoint - the canon we know and love - Romulus gets eaten by supernova shortly after Nemesis Abrams-timeline - Vulcan is bombed via red matter by Nero
either way one or the other is gone.
i agree on the Spock thing--just was surprising to see him go into uber-rage on the bridge and try to strangle Kirk, heh. even tho older Spock all but told Kirk to provoke him to do so. XD
yea i see the AU point and will always consider this "good but AUTrek"--but when this movie was all rumors that summed up in "JJ Abrams is making it and it's gonna be about Kirk and Spock when they were young", my opinion was still the same: WHY the hell are they going backwards??
they could have made a DS9 movie. (i would have killed to see S.D. Perry's "Unity" made into a script.) they could have sweet-talked Frakes and Sirtis into helming a Titan movie. hell they could have even tried a New Frontier movie or SCE movie. (oh i'd LOVE to see Mackenzie Calhoun onscreen!)
i think part of what still annoys me is comments Abrams has made about the fandom and fanbase....disparaging a fanbase the size of us is Not Smart when we're the ones you're ultimately marketing to, dude.
Those ideas might make a decent movie, but DS9 and New Frontier just don't have the mass appeal that revisiting the original characters does. It doesn't make fiscal sense to make a movie about any of those things on this scale, especially when the TNG movies didn't prove viable to the studios. Not only does an Original Series Revisited movie have the nostalgic appeal, it has the pop cultural appeal. People still know who Spock and Kirk are even if they've never seen an episode of Star Trek in their lives. No other Star Trek series has the same hold on our collective memory.
Yeah, I sooo need to see this. I just didn't want to see it opening weekend. I'm a fan, but not rabidly so. LOL I binged on Star Trek stuffs on history channel this weekend. Much amusing.
We opted for Wolverine this weekend and had to deal with people sitting further up front that had a frikkin BABY that made noise all thru the movie. Agh.
someone brought a baby to our movie too. it cried during the 15mins before the movie started and while Barbie and i were arranging ourselves into our seats, we commented on it. i said (rather loudly and pointedly) that if the baby cried during the movie, i'd be getting a manager because i didn't want my viewing ruined.
either the parents heard me or the baby sleeps through movies because if it cried or made noise, i didn't hear thing one out of him or her the whole time.
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no they just don't need to be allowed in OUR type of movies :P
btw who is that in your icon and is he mooning me?? O_o
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Sadly, my life is filled to the brim right now.
*le sigh*
Next weekend, I am going to make it happen.
:)
Thanks for the review!
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I think Spock was more emotional than we're used to because he's younger. His control would have continued to grow as he aged and had more life experience. As it was, it seemed he hdn't been away from Vulcan for too long (especially for a Vulcan lifespan) and thus was probably still adjusting to being around so many humans and other emotional beings.
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Vulcan, no. but they imply that Romulus got eaten by the supernova in canon...which is the whole basis of Nero's revenge on Spock...i.e. "you were supposed to prevent this supernova and you didn't and i lost my wife and my planet! so NOW i'm going back in time and bombing yours!"
so if we got by Abrams' viewpoint -
the canon we know and love - Romulus gets eaten by supernova shortly after Nemesis
Abrams-timeline - Vulcan is bombed via red matter by Nero
either way one or the other is gone.
i agree on the Spock thing--just was surprising to see him go into uber-rage on the bridge and try to strangle Kirk, heh. even tho older Spock all but told Kirk to provoke him to do so. XD
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they could have made a DS9 movie. (i would have killed to see S.D. Perry's "Unity" made into a script.) they could have sweet-talked Frakes and Sirtis into helming a Titan movie. hell they could have even tried a New Frontier movie or SCE movie. (oh i'd LOVE to see Mackenzie Calhoun onscreen!)
i think part of what still annoys me is comments Abrams has made about the fandom and fanbase....disparaging a fanbase the size of us is Not Smart when we're the ones you're ultimately marketing to, dude.
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We opted for Wolverine this weekend and had to deal with people sitting further up front that had a frikkin BABY that made noise all thru the movie. Agh.
"laugh more quietly" ?? Srsly? Damn.
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either the parents heard me or the baby sleeps through movies because if it cried or made noise, i didn't hear thing one out of him or her the whole time.
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