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Ailleann - May 10, 2009 10:08:45 am PDT #1263 of 30000

vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda

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?

Dana - May 10, 2009 10:13:28 am PDT #1264 of 30000

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

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.

le nubian - May 10, 2009 11:22:10 am PDT #1265 of 30000

"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."

the movie earned a whole lot of money. the writer is a bit too cute tho...

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Juliebird - May 10, 2009 2:47:45 pm PDT #1266 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

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?

Juliebird - May 10, 2009 2:56:31 pm PDT #1267 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

Also, I want Sulu's leather jacket in SfS. How very dashing.

Tom Scola - May 10, 2009 3:13:23 pm PDT #1268 of 30000

Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500

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.

Matt the Bruins fan - May 10, 2009 3:53:06 pm PDT #1269 of 30000

"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

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 .

Connie Neil - May 10, 2009 4:17:14 pm PDT #1270 of 30000

brillig

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.

Juliebird - May 10, 2009 4:36:03 pm PDT #1271 of 30000

I am the fly who dreams of the spider

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

Jessica - May 10, 2009 4:54:31 pm PDT #1272 of 30000

And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

The Spock/Uhura thing made me REALLY happy. The pure fact of it, but also how it was slowly revealed to the audience. It's never quite hidden, but there are little moments here and there and then suddenly you sit up and realize "Oh. Spock is fucking one of his grad students. Huh." (And then a few scenes later it's made explicit.)

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