What is with our compulsion to take perfectly complete cultural experiences and redo them?
Retelling stories is as old as stories though. And it's certainly been a tradition since the beginning for film.
May have been the losing side. Still not convinced it was the wrong one.
Mal ,'Bushwhacked'
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lisah - May 08, 2009 1:51:57 pm PDT #1208 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
Juliebird - May 08, 2009 2:31:53 pm PDT #1209 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Trek: good fun! Left the theatre smiling.
But after watching Jack and Sawyer take ginormous beatings on Lost and have no concussions and then to watch this, I'm annoyed with Abrams. It just makes the next beat-down less worrisome. I know this isn't just a J.J. Abrams quirk, but they were mere days apart for me, so it stood out.
Kathy A - May 08, 2009 2:31:58 pm PDT #1210 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Interesting--Slate's review of Star Trek, while not overly spoilery, does have a link to an audio discussion of the film that is spoilery and titled as such. At the end of the audio, one of the reviewers points out the debt that Abrams owes to Joss Whedon and Serenity, and states that the Firefly-verse might end up being significantly influential in future SF films.
Juliebird - May 08, 2009 2:34:20 pm PDT #1211 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
Starship Troopers
I had a mad Star Wars vibe throughout. Complete with the ice planet of Hoth.
Even the pyoo pyoo pyoo sounded more like SW than ST.
Kathy A - May 08, 2009 2:37:43 pm PDT #1212 of 30000
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Speaking of audio cues, I loved it when Pike broke up the bar fight by whistling the "this is the captain speaking" pipe notes.
Ailleann - May 08, 2009 4:20:11 pm PDT #1213 of 30000
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
HOLY CRAP STAR TREK.
That's all I got right now.
tommyrot - May 08, 2009 5:20:08 pm PDT #1214 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Trek was fun. Also silly at times, but mostly just lots of fun.
tommyrot - May 08, 2009 5:25:58 pm PDT #1215 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Speaking of audio cues
I was thinking it was one of those whistle-things they use in the Navy (and some Trek movies and ST:TNG) to pipe people aboard the ship, etc.
dcp - May 08, 2009 5:56:59 pm PDT #1216 of 30000
The more I learn, the more I realize how little I know.
I was thinking it was one of those...
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Star Trek was okay. Many nits to pick, a few smiles, but no laugh out loud or Yay! moments.
I can't decide if including Clifford the Big Red Ball was meant as a joke or not.
tommyrot - May 08, 2009 6:04:13 pm PDT #1217 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
What was annoying was the time or two I laughed loudly, and no one else in the crowded theater did. There were more times when I was the first to laugh, by myself, followed by everyone else a second or two later.