'Just Rewards (2)'
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And what's with not liking Simon Pegg?! I vote wrongcakes.
I like Simon Pegg fine in Shaun of the Dead. Here, his tonally jarring and inappropriate-to-character slapstick made it seem like he'd been cut and pasted from an episode of Red Dwarf and made me wish Scotty had been left in exile on the ice planet.
Or on Vulcan .
But McCoy and Kirk were equally slapstick. So I don't think that was tonally jarring. That was the movie's tone. The movie had a surprising amount of broad comedy that I thought worked.
I had a big WTF reaction to Winona Ryder, though. To which I amend: What the fucking Fuck?!
But McCoy and Kirk were equally slapstick.
Disliked that too. I almost walked out of the movie when Kirk's puffy cartoon hands first appeared. If I hadn't known Leonard Nimoy had a substantial role, I would have .
One word: Tribbles.
TOS: often goofy.
Hec, this is close to an exact text of an IM between a friend and myself after we first saw it:
me (after IMDB check, because she looked familiar and I couldn't place her--they did a good job on the age makeup): Huh, Spock's Mom was Winona Ryder. Him: No way. You're making that up. Me: I'm serious [link to IMDB]. Him: that is messed up.
I enjoyed the broad comedy in Trek and, like Hec, thought it worked surprisingly well. Although I do agree with Matt that Scotty, tonally, was a little different. I mean, I love Simon Pegg and I love the sandwich line, but it did feel like he'd walked in from a different movie, a little.
I just watched Gosford Park, which I liked more than The Player, even though there was so much shit going on that I didn't catch all of it. But I could follow the most important things.
I loved all of Morris Weismann's phone conversations. "They have accents! They sound like they're from London!" "What about Claudette Colbert? She sounds British. Is that an affect or is she British?" Haaaa ha ha ha.
Just saw Star Trek, and we're more on Matt's end of things. It didn't *look* good and it was sillier than Cocktail.
Was happy to see that Bob's work survived as the Starfleet academy, even if apparent global warming moved it to SF.
I just watched Gosford Park
Love that movie so much, and not just for my first glimpse at Clive Owen.
Was happy to see that Bob's work survived as the Starfleet academy
That was CSUN, right?
Hec, this is close to an exact text of an IM between a friend and myself after we first saw it:
Heh. It was only after I saw her from three different angles that I realized who it was. You're right - the makeup was good. But still, it threw me.
I also really enjoyed the faux sixties fashions of it all. Yay, liquid eyeliner out to there.
I do get GC's complaints about agency, but I really liked the actress who played Uhura. Her presence and restraint worked perfectly. As much as the comedy got broader than TOS, there were scenes in this movie that had much more delicacy.
Uhuru
Uhura! I can tell this is going to drive me crazy like when people refer to "Rimbaldi."
I knew it was Winona Ryder before I saw the movie, so I couldn't not recognize her, and thus I didn't think the age makeup was very good. I'll try to take an objective look at it next time. If I can get through my abridged TOS before the movie leaves theatres, I'd like to see it again. Well, I'd like to see it again anyway because it was really fun.