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Man. You adapt one gesture from the Kohanim and the next thing you know, six billion of your people are dead and the rest in galactic diaspora. But why did you have to pick on us?
. . . by which you may understand that I just got back from Star Trek (2009) and I have an extraordinarily bad heachache, so this is not going to be a review. On the whole, my reaction is positive. Simon Pegg as Scotty: awesome. John Cho as Sulu: very awesome. Anton Yelchin as Chekov: adorable. It is quite likely I prefer Chris Pine to William Shatner. I do not prefer Zachary Quinto to Leonard Nimoy, but I did not expect to. And I really do not prefer Karl Urban to DeForest Kelley, which is unfortunate—McCoy is traditionally my favorite of the three principals, as problematic as he is, but there were places in this film he actively annoyed me. I would have liked more for Zoe Saldaña to do, because xenolinguistics: awesome. I have a wholly unwarranted fondness for Bruce Greenwood based on I'm Not There and having seen Chariots of Fire last summer, I am pleased to find Ben Cross still working; I can't explain anything to do with Spock's mother, at all. Any further discussion should probably go in the comments, if there's anyone left who hasn't talked the movie out weeks ago. It did make me want to rewatch the original series.
I wish the Omni theater at the Museum of Science still had Leonard Nimoy's voice.
. . . by which you may understand that I just got back from Star Trek (2009) and I have an extraordinarily bad heachache, so this is not going to be a review. On the whole, my reaction is positive. Simon Pegg as Scotty: awesome. John Cho as Sulu: very awesome. Anton Yelchin as Chekov: adorable. It is quite likely I prefer Chris Pine to William Shatner. I do not prefer Zachary Quinto to Leonard Nimoy, but I did not expect to. And I really do not prefer Karl Urban to DeForest Kelley, which is unfortunate—McCoy is traditionally my favorite of the three principals, as problematic as he is, but there were places in this film he actively annoyed me. I would have liked more for Zoe Saldaña to do, because xenolinguistics: awesome. I have a wholly unwarranted fondness for Bruce Greenwood based on I'm Not There and having seen Chariots of Fire last summer, I am pleased to find Ben Cross still working; I can't explain anything to do with Spock's mother, at all. Any further discussion should probably go in the comments, if there's anyone left who hasn't talked the movie out weeks ago. It did make me want to rewatch the original series.
I wish the Omni theater at the Museum of Science still had Leonard Nimoy's voice.
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I did not think it was the second coming of the modern film industry, but it was worth my time and ten dollars; it's the kind of movie you want to talk about afterward; if anyone I know wound up with the DVD, I would gladly watch it again. I think a slightly different script could have been a truly stunning film, but I also acknowledge that my ideas of stunning differ from many other people's (I'm still thinking about Repo! The Genetic Opera) and considering how ridiculous even the idea of a recast and rejiggered Star Trek first sounded, I'm impressed. I don't need to see an epidemic of reboots, though. I have enough trouble with the frenzy of remakes Hollywood seems to be suffering at the minute.
Also, I approve of your icon.
Also, I hope rest comes for you and takes your headache away.
Thank you. If you have any hotlines to Morpheus, I would not mind knowing about them.
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I don't need to see an epidemic of reboots, though. I have enough trouble with the frenzy of remakes Hollywood seems to be suffering at the minute.
Amen. But alas, I don't think it is to be; risk aversion is the zeitgeist, and the only new work in Hollywood seems to be based on proven properties in other media. That said, it was cool for comic book fans for a while, but, not being much of one, I have some serious super hero fatigue.