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OhMissScarlett
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Um...Um...think you might wanna see the movie before you say that
GUH. That's all I have to say.
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We just got back from watching it, and this movie was so much fun!
It was very faithful to the original series, and there were even a couple of moments where I felt like standing up and cheering.
Great flick, go see it.
Agreed. And the discrepancies are tied up all nice & tidy with the alternate timeline bow.
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I loved the fact that Leonard Nimoy is in it. Spock was always my favorite.
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Someone shoot me a spoiler if they can..... please.... Do they explain how Kirk hacks the Kobayashi Maru?
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No Spoilers now!
Cloudy, did young son like it? I don't suppose he's ever seen the original series or has he?
He's never seen the original series, but he loved it, even though he didn't get some of the inside jokes (and why I was laughing)...wanted to see it again immediately.
Yes.
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Well, I watched it last night also - and I agree, the storyline and the characters are very much in line with the original series. It's a good movie, but definitely not my favourite... Lots of impressive effects and action, in other words good fun, but it lacks the depth of the TNG movies, like "Insurrection" - but that's probably comparing apples and oranges. Still, a cool movie, not only for fans of the original series.
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He has to blow Spock for the answer...no, wait, that was a fanfic I read once.
CharleyH
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Edited. Sorry, they show Kirk beating the Kobayashi Maru, but they do not explain how he did.
I enjoyed the movie immensely, but wasn't fond of the whole Spock/Uhura thing. Did anyone like it? I thought it fell flat.
I also felt Chekov was miscast, but man did Simon Pegg peg the role of Scotty (PS, I loved his little alien sidekick - what a laugh). Also, as a chick, I noticed why all the ladies are attracted to Kirk ... big package!
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They did explain how he beat it.
Yeah, the Spock/Uhura thing wasn't the best, but I can see why they did it.
Scotty was great! Actually, I think they all were. And Ha - never noticed the package. Kirk nailed the old Shatner move in the last scene when he entered the bridge.
The one weak plot device that stood out to me was when Kirk was ejected to the ice planet. Overall though, a great ride. Worth seeing on the big screen.
Looking forward to GI Joe and Transformers now!
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No. They didn't. They said he "somehow hacked into the system" and cheated, but they didn't explain how he did.
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I disagree about the casting for Checkov.
I mean, he doesn't look like Walter Koenig. But I enjoyed his interpretation of the character and loved the enthusiastic, "I can do that!" scene. I totally bought that he was a seventeen year old whiz kid and while I thought the accent was a bit overdone, I think he played the character just fine.
But I keep hearing this bitching that he doesn't look right. Curly hair doesn't throw me that much.
Hell, I thought the person that nailed it the best was Karl Urban as Bones. And the support for that position has been pretty widespread, meaning I wasn't the only one.
Yet, I've still seen a couple of "No way, Eomer can't be Dr. McCoy" comments out there. At some point, while you do everything you can to please the audience, there has to be a place to step back.
So, I am fine with the way the kid played Checkov, even if the physical appearance gap was bigger for him than it was for the others.
I'm interested to hear why Charley didn't like the casting choice... and hoping that, considering the source as someone we know isn't shallow, it has zero to do with him not looking like Koenig.
I mean, he doesn't look like Walter Koenig. But I enjoyed his interpretation of the character and loved the enthusiastic, "I can do that!" scene. I totally bought that he was a seventeen year old whiz kid and while I thought the accent was a bit overdone, I think he played the character just fine.
But I keep hearing this bitching that he doesn't look right. Curly hair doesn't throw me that much.
Hell, I thought the person that nailed it the best was Karl Urban as Bones. And the support for that position has been pretty widespread, meaning I wasn't the only one.
Yet, I've still seen a couple of "No way, Eomer can't be Dr. McCoy" comments out there. At some point, while you do everything you can to please the audience, there has to be a place to step back.
So, I am fine with the way the kid played Checkov, even if the physical appearance gap was bigger for him than it was for the others.
I'm interested to hear why Charley didn't like the casting choice... and hoping that, considering the source as someone we know isn't shallow, it has zero to do with him not looking like Koenig.
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Ah. Specifics of how he installed the subroutine. But spending precious screen time explaining it fully would not have moved the plot along and taken time away from the "scary red beast chasing Kirk in the snow" scene.
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Kirk nailed the old Shatner move in the last scene when he entered the bridge.
Yeah, he nailed that completely.
I'd like to see it again, actually. It moved along at such a fast clip that I'm almost positive I missed something.
I'm with ya...I really liked the "I can do this!" scene.
I know everyone was impressed with the McCoy portrayal, and while I thought he did an admirable job, I don't see that he was any better than the rest. They were all superb.
I have to admit that when I first started hearing about this movie, I thought that no one could play Spock. I've always loved Leonard Nimoy in that role, and thought he was irreplaceable, but Zachary Quinto did a great job. The only quibble I have with his portrayal of Spock was that almost-lisp thing he has going on. Spock doesn't lisp. Ever.
Overall, though, I have nothing but praise for the casting.
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CharleyH
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The moment he started speaking, I couldn't buy into the character. The delivery of his lines were staid. I simply thought he was a lousy actor. PS? It didn't help that he didn't look like Chekov.
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That was Karl Urban? My respect for him just went up ten-fold. It's not that I didn't like him. I enjoyed him in Lord of the Rings, Born Supremacy, and even Doom and Chronicles of Riddick. But I didn't know that he could actually act!
Well done indeed.
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Agreed. As we seem to not be worrying about spoilers any more as enough folk have actually seen it...
I appreciated that the change in time-line allowed us to accept some differences in the characterization. Kirk was still Kirk, but we accept that this Kirk, raised without a dad (or brother if you recall the original Trek), is more insubordinate than ever, looking for trouble, etc. Quinto's Spock has not served a year under Captain Pike when we meet him. He never, because of disrupted time, gets that chance to be tempered by that experience and instead has this trauma to make him a little different.
And yet...it's still Spock!
And I'm probably going to see it again as well, as you're absolutely right. It went by so fast that I'm sure I missed stuff. I'm hoping it's even better the second time around.
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Very much apples and oranges. This is a roller coaster ride, not a dissertation. And I'm so damn glad of it! I've had my fill of dark, heavy, weighty, grey, pompus sci-fi that takes itself soooo seriously and thinks it can offer some amazing insight into the human condition that's never been imagined before, usually by hitting us over the head with it. An anvil is not deep. It's just heavy.
I'm delighted beyond words to get back to sci-fi with adventure, optimism, fun and the sheer joy of exploration. It's about fucking time someone recaptured that. I'll take this movie over any other Trek movie since they rescued the Whales. After nearly two decades, I finally enjoyed myself at one of these fucking films.
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Not only allowed us to accept some differences, but does away with the pesky future that has already been done. Now the franchise is free to do what it wants.
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The moment he started speaking, I couldn't buy into the character. The delivery of his lines were staid. I simply thought he was a lousy actor. PS? It didn't help that he didn't look like Chekov.
See, here is what I was going at when I said I thought that he overstated the accent a bit. It was like because he knows he doesn't look like Koenig, he tried too hard to sound like him.
And honestly, I'll blame a director on something like that. Because I am certain that if J.J. wasn't looking for that accent, it would have been reeled back.
But"staid?" I always think of staid as meaning sober and dignified. I din't take that away from that performance at all.
The crit (other than the curly hair thing) I keep hearing on that casting is like the Karl Urban casting... only it's "No way Charlie Bartlett plays Chekov!" instead of Eomer/McCoy.
However, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the subject.
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Did I mention? I know the time line thing, but I really liked Janice and Nurse Christine Chapel in the original series. Was sad not to see them in this version. Perhaps the next.I like the girls.
I think we'll get more of the girls in there... they had a lot of character introduction to do in this one and well they could have thrown in a couple more, it was kinda getting tight already.
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I no longer think of Walter Koenig as Chekhov. I think of him as Alfred Bester.
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