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Do they still have sandwiches there?
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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When Spock escapes from Nero's ship with the little craft original-Spock was piloting to Romulus when its sun went nova and the plot kicked off, Nero screams after him in time-honored fashion: "SPOCK! SPOOOOOOOCK!" It was endearing.
It may be a more frivolous thing: He swaggered, and for me to like a guy who swaggers, I have to find the guy physically attractive... and I didn't find this one physically attractive.
I don't argue that he's cocky. I don't want to go to bed with Chris Pine's Kirk; I just find him a more complex character than Shatner's.
Within the confines of the movie story, he definitely improved after his conversation with Old!Spock.
Yeah. Leonard Nimoy does that to people.
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I agree with you there--he is shown to be more complex. And he develops during the course of the movie, which is something that Shatner-Kirk didn't do much--not in the series ever, and in the movies hardly.