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In (original) canon, Spock served on the Enterprise before Kirk, with Captain Christopher Pike. Is this out the window?
It's better to get my complaining out of the way, because Hubby wants to see this, and he'll be happier if I'm not grousing the whole time.
They don't really address that, although it's possible, since Spock and Pike are familiar with each other in the scenes we see them in together.
And boy howdy, that Ed Burns is dreamy, isn't he? Whoever made this movie sure thinks so!
You laugh, but that same approach was the only remotely watchable aspect of A Sound of Thunder...
Movies I have walked out of: Muppet Movie
GASP!
In (original) canon, Spock served on the Enterprise before Kirk, with Captain Christopher Pike. Is this out the window?
No, that's still canon. Spock is First Officer for Cpt Pike and teaching at the Academy when he's not on active duty.
Oh, yeah, we saw A Sound of Thunder. Hubby loved the story. It wasn't too bad, but we never see movies first run, always at the dollar movie, so we don't feel bad for paying the money.
Re: Trek and Spock.
OK, the meeting of Spock and Kirk hasn't been covered in anything other than some novels, so this approach works.
Trek novels: a fanfic writer's wet dream.
Crash (the Cronenburg one).Zounds!
Matt -- Ah, but Ed Burns didn't write & direct A Sound of Thunder.
The excitment about Star Trek confuses me, too. I still think it looks godawful. Just as a movie, leaving aside the Trek-ness of it... I mean, nobody else thinks it looks like Starship Troopers without the funny parts? That, plus my general reaction to Abrams, makes me suspect it's best if I don't bother.
Besides, I'm still guilt-ridden over missing Crank 2.
Only movie I ever walked out of: "Rudy."
I wasn't really there to see the movie. A friend and I were casing the joint to see if we wanted to rent it for a theater project we were working on. About halfway through the movie, he looked at me and said, "Do you care about any of this?" And I thought about it and said, "No. No, I don't." So we left.
I don't think I've ever walked out of a movie, but it was funny to see people leaving Sweeney Todd after ten minutes, when it became apparent that they'd accidentally gone to see a musical.