Official I WATCHED TREK thread
POSTED BY: LincolnZ
UPDATED: Monday, May 18, 2009 11:06
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Yeah, I plan on going twice this weekend, and while I enjoyed Wolverine fairly well, it's not a movie I had a need to repeat. Star Trek is entirely different and it was a joy to experience last night. The reviews here so far are excellent!
I do agree with the comments on music that it was less than stellar, but hey... I'm not sure I would want someone to try to fake Jerry Goldsmith. Oh, and for Pine to try to imitate the Shat *would* have come across as a farce, so I'm glad he's developing his own style. Uhura's interest in linguistics and improved role made me happy! Nimoy was practically perfect in every way. I admire Ben Cross' work, but he's no Mark Lenard, alas...
I knew Majel Barrett Roddenberry had passed away during post-production, but I didn't remember that she had done voice work until it got to the "In Memory of" during the credits. I'll have to listen for her when I watch it again (hopefully) tomorrow afternoon.
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Yeah she recorded some dialogue for the film just weeks before she passed. Surprisingly(or maybe not) there isn't much of it in the film. Hopefully she recorded more and they'll use it in other movies. Lets hope.
About the music, I didn't really care much for Serenity's score either. I dislike the habit of changing not only a composer but the entire style and tone of a franchise's soundtrack, doesn't feel right. I didn't hate the music but it didn't feel Trekkie enough for me. BTW you can also hear tiny bits of the previous Trek theme during other moments of the film, one of the transporter sequences for example.
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To start with it's a good blockbuster film. Secondly it's a great star trek film.
...and I'm not a star trek fan.. at all.
But this works.
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I can pretty much agree with all the good points laid out above.
Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto were definitely the stand outs but all the cast pulled their weight and filled their respective shoes admirably.
For me it was the little moments that made it (spoiler warning just in case):
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Spock pulling down his vest when he stood up at Kirk's Kobayashi Marus hearing.
Scotty mentioning Admiral Archer's beagle.
Bones's "Dammit man, I'm a Doctor not a physicist".
Kirk and the green alien woman (I forget the name of the race).
Kirk hanging off things a lot.
The Vulcan landscape looking like the angled rocks they always used in TOS Trek.
Bones calling Spock a "green blooded hobgoblin".
Scotty saying "She canna take any more" (or something like that).
There were many others but that'll do for now.
I also agree that this is not really a reboot or anything. It fits within the canon of Trek and is perfectly plausible withing their universe.
Looking forward to seeing this again.
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Captain James T. Kirk of the starship Enterprise is the first original browncoat. Check it out in the episode " The City on the Edge of Forever". Looks like a short version of Captain Malcom Reynolds. 
"Battle of Serenity, Mal. Besides Zoe here, how many-" "I'm talkin at you! How many men in your platoon came out of their alive".
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I saw the original show when it aired on TV in the late 60's in Athens Greece. I think this movie was very well done and I was happy that they even managed to sneak in a tribble.
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Quote:
Originally posted by FutureMrsFIllion:
I think this movie was very well done and I was happy that they even managed to sneak in a tribble.
There was a tribble?
You jest do you not?
I don't remember a tribble.
At what part did it appear?
"I don't believe in suicide, but if you'd like to try it it might cheer me up to watch."
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Wow, some great reviews. I have nothing to add to all the above goodness, really, except that I simply want to express that the overwhelming sense I got throughout the entire movie was one of: "Sigh. This is what all the previous movies should have been like." It was astoundingly good. Fast-paced, gripping, funny, never over the top, well-timed, plausible characters, and great special effects.
I also really liked the younger cast. They were excellent would-be's of their older selves: voice, facial expression, mannerisms, it was all a perfect match. 'Sylar' made for a superb Spock: mostly logical, but not so dry as to deny his youthful existence. And I like how 'Bones' got his nick name. :) You know, there was this girl in the theatre, one row in front of me (you know, the kind that doesn't know Star Trek from Star Wars, but who just comes along with her boyfriend). During the admission I overheard her saying she didn't understand much of it. But for the rest of the world, familiar with Star Trek, it was replete with cute and subtle references to its origins, which really added an extra dimension. As for that girl in front of me, well, we all know what happens to people who talk at the theatre. :)
And call me shallow, but I liked watching an attractive Uhura, for a change, and not one who always looks like an ever-more washed out version of Tina Turner. In that vein, I could probably have done without the geriatrics of Leonard Nimoy; but overall I'm overwhelmingly positive about this latest Trek experience. A 'must-see' event, far as I'm concerned.
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Quote:
Originally posted by lwaves:
There was a tribble?
You jest do you not?
I don't remember a tribble.
At what part did it appear?
Scotty had one in a cage:)
~lissa
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