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ST soundtrack: I really enjoyed the use of the erhu for Vulcan. But I'm a sucker for that sort of thing.
Also: Spock's Fuck You to the council or whatnot after they dissed his human parentage. That "Live long and prosper" was priceless in it's delivery.
What Juliebird said about that line delivery. Just perfect!
I am so squeeee about the new Star Trek!!
I love Spock/Uhuru! My new OTP for the franchise.
I was very much afraid I'd have a hard time seeing Zach Quinto as anything other than Sylar on Heroes, but he was perfect as Spock. So nicely sarcastic and just enough smug to actually make him come across as closer to human rather than purely Vulcan.
I have to agree with Jessica that it was the building up of the Spock/Kirk relationship that makes this movie work. The way they start out so diametrically opposed in outlook, but end up having to work together and compromise with each other to achieve their goals until they get to where they can appreciate the other person's style for what it is.
It was a pretty damn tight movie. With so many bloated three hour extravaganzas where the plot gets lost at sea after the first hour, it was refreshing to have a movie be able to hit all the main points with good timing and do it in two hours. At no time did I get squirmy in my seat wondering how much longer could they drag it out, nor did I feel short-changed at the end. I liked this one so much, I'm almost afraid for anything coming after this one. I'm afraid it will break the spell.
At no time did I get squirmy in my seat wondering how much longer could they drag it out, nor did I feel short-changed at the end.
YES. This, I think, is the most impressive thing. It kept my attention all the way through. Since I watched Natural Born Killers and Quantum of Solace yesterday, I had forgotten movies could not be boring.
Juliebird, I totally agree with you on the awesome thing. Yes. I want one.
From a couple of days ago but had to respond...
Anything with Meg Ryan in it is grounds for being immediately elsewhere.
Except Innerspace! Joe Dante love!
Just saw Star Trek.
Made of win, imho. Made of total and utter win. Especially Spock!
(I have a longer reaction here, but I think 'Made of win, especially Spock' is the essence of it.)
I have to agree with Jessica that it was the building up of the Spock/Kirk relationship that makes this movie work.
Yeah. I thought this was done very well. Often it's rather subtle, as when Spock calls Kirk "Jim" for the first time.
(I don't think this is spoilery, but I hid it just in case....)
Damn. Haven't seen it yet. But I will be seeing it at an Imax theater this coming Sunday. Wheeee!
I enjoyed Star Trek, but - much to my surprise - not as much as I expected I would.
I just hate narrative shortcuts where things fall too easily into place for the characters and this whole movie pretty much runs on that principle to get the crew all together by the end.
I can actually buy Kirk getting the captaincy as his actions not only saved the Enterprise as they arrived at Vulcan, they also saved the Earth. But McCoy, Uhuru and especially Scotty getting permanent senior positions just like that? Must have left a lot of other Starfleet officers feeling pretty pissy about this bunch of over-privileged cadets.
As for the Romulans apparently vanishing for 23 years, I could totally buy that if they had made one single comment about going into cryo. After all their plan of revenge hinged on the red matter in Spock's craft so they didn't really have much to do until he showed up. I also got the impression that it was a different location due to the lack of a nearby star in shot. Still, given that they were pretty much certain they were in the right spot at the right time, it would have been nice if there'd been a throw away line about having gotten better at tracking the energy from the time distortions.
Finally, my only major quibble was Engineering. I hated the look of it. Not because it didn't look like what had come before, but because it just didn't feel like part of the ship. There was some minimal set-dressing on what appeared to be an actual factory. A few more bulkhead walls or something that was a visual link to the other levels of the Enterprise would have been nice. Engineering simply didn't look like it was on the same ship. It bugged me sufficiently that every time there was a shot of Engineering it took me out of the movie.
On the upside, my personal geek moment was the beauty shot of the Enterprise rising out of Titan's atmosphere. That was glorious.
Oh, and there's one other thing that bothers me. I'm not getting another 'episode' next week.
Edit: Because the spoiler font clearly likes fucking with me.