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the actors managed to do a lot with subtext - an expression, a gesture
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Yes. The acting was really top notch all around.
I'm seeing it again on Thursday in IMAX with people from work. Squee squee squee bounce bounce bounce!
(Dear Zachary Quinto, pls marry me. Kthxbye.)
I went to see Trek again today, because I'm a grownup and I'm allowed! (Or something.)
Held up quite well, actually. Jessica said something upthread about did the Romulans just camp out waiting for Spock, and I don't think they did, because when we see them showing up as old!Spock is coming through, they actually had to arrive back at the coordinates. Also, they went to attack that Klingon outpost, or fleet, or whatever it was. So... they didn't just hang out? Guess they went on a really long field trip?
I don't think they knew when Spock would show back up. So maybe they spent the time chasing down black holes? And beating up the Klingons.
I'm rewatching The Search for Spock and there is absolutely nothing wrong with the score!
By which I mean to say that if the new Trek had even just a few small but familiar cues sprinkled throughout to trigger the Pavlovian response before breaking out into full swing at the end would have been nice.
Unless they were sort of saving that for when they were all truly united as a crew? Not unlike the end to a Casino Royale where he *finally* says the classic line.
Is the music topic spoilery?
Also, I want Sulu's leather jacket in SfS. How very dashing.
I saw Trek today, and I loved it!
Except that I hated the score, for the same reasons that Jessica and Juliebird did.
I also did not like Spock/Uhura. I kind of wonder if Nurse Chapel was a character in early drafts of the script, and had her character combined with Uhura later on.
I saw it this afternoon. Overall, I was underwhelmed. I thought way too many things were shorthanded too quickly, and wasn't crazy about the plot, the villain, the frenetic action sequences, the abyssmally unfunny attempts at comedy, or Kirk in general. (In TOS his character had earned both his overconfident, flying-by-the-seat-of-his-pants approach and his command. Here, NSM.) What I did like were Quinto's, Urban's, Saldana's, and Greenwood's performances. And, of course, I was filled with squee whenever Leonard Nimoy was onscreen .
I"m wondering if I'm going to have the same reaction to the new Trek as I did to the Mission: Impossible movies when I found out who the bad guy was in the first movie. I'm not a fan of having heroic characters gutted.
I actually really dug the Spock/Uhura romance. It made Spock so much more interesting to me.
Another thing I absolutely loved? The ship that future!Spock came in. whirl whirl whirl flip whirl whirl