Saturday, May 16, 2009
Settling down to watch "Star Trek"
Got my grossly overpriced Diet Coke and absurdly over-buttered popcorn, the 14 year-old girls in my charge are watching "Angels & Demons," and I'm ready for Star Trek. If you've seen the movie and want to pre-spin my review or mock me for being a geek flip off the safety and fire away. Or use this as an open thread to pontificate about anything that grates your cheese.
UPDATE: From the comments, this review is spot on, I think.
10 Comments:
By 
, at
Sat May 16, 08:09:00 PM:
Two thumbs up IMHO, but better if you never knew the original characters, because they spin them differently. (Kirk gets beat up a bit often and Spock comes off as an emotional loose cannon.) Different interpretations of other bridge officers as well (Scottie, Sulu, et cetera)...Guess it's a different timeline. Great opening scene, and good pace for a summer movie. Wife and kids liked the movie, too.
By 
Foxfier, at
Sat May 16, 08:50:00 PM:
Please please please tell me the girls saw the plot holes....
By , at
Sat May 16, 09:10:00 PM:
Saw it last sunday on an IMAX screen. The Onion review was accurate. They acknowledge that it is a different timeline, but the basic characters do remain the same--"James Kirk was never a boy scout," to quote Carole Marcus; Uhrua's character is closer to the way she was developed in the books (yes, I admit to having read some of them), Scotty once described himself as "an old Aberdeen pub crawler," Karl Urban was closest to "Bones" McCoy, and Sulu was just about right. The new timeline opens some interesting possibilities. See also Donald Sensing's review for comments on the car chase.
By , at
Sat May 16, 09:25:00 PM:
Enjoyed the movie. I'm forgiving of things, if the movie is enjoyable.
I hope the girls enjoy their movie. Not one I'll be seeing, though.
By John, at
Sat May 16, 09:50:00 PM:
Both Star Trek and Angels and Demons were excellent; the best theater flicks I've seen so far this year. And I didn't like da Vinci Code very much.
By , at
Sat May 16, 10:02:00 PM:
Absurdly over buttered popcorn kind of defeats the purpose of Diet Coke, does it not, TH? BTW, I love over buttered popcorn, provided real butter is used.
By Noocyte, at
Sat May 16, 10:07:00 PM:
I think you'll be impressed, TH. here's my review. Genuinely curious what you'll think of it, as you appear to be pretty well-versed on the Trek 'Verse...
By Georg Felis, at
Sun May 17, 12:28:00 AM:
Two thumbs up. Only had a few problems like all the Vulcan kissy-face (really, come on), a couple of stretched plot points just to get fight scenes ("Captain, instead of shooting, I propose we jump out of a shuttle, free fall a hundred miles, pop our chutes and land on the platform"), and enough exaggerated lens flare and strobes to trigger a fit (really though, you don't notice them after the first two and a half hours)
My first thoughts on seeing previews of a movie like this is "Looks good, but they could screw it up soooo bad." (i.e. Punisher, Daredevil, Starship Troopers). I'm happy to say they didn't screw up.
By , at
Sun May 17, 05:50:00 PM:
Socrates rightly said, in Plato's Republic, that the poets ought to be censored.
Even though this film was good and enjoyed the review---the constant black/white kissing, the intimated miscegenation was morally wrong and offensive. Marxist morality on display. A Novus Ordo movie for a Novus Ordo crowd.
Disgusting. Again, the one Russian, the one black, the one honky, the one chinaman. Political correctness run amok. Oh yeh, the constant theme of the "wise black man". There were many in that film. Like it has anything to do with reality. If a black man really was that good, don't you think NASA would be full of them?
The political Correctness B**s**t runs deep and wide in this movie.
By Chris, at
Tue May 19, 06:17:00 AM:
WLindsayWheeler, you are an idiot. Thank you for beclowning yourself. Did you have your mother spell the big words for you?
