Cow's right, bones was really, REALLY spot on.
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Cow's right, bones was really, REALLY spot on.
He was making a "Stand By Me" joke you uncultured orangutan.Quote:
Originally Posted by TODE
This movie was fucking rad.
I think this is sort of unfair. I thought the way that Abrams managed to reboot the series while still being respectful to canon (by creating an alternate universe, which is totally possible in ST) was pretty clever. I actually would have liked to see more of what led up to this film (on a TNG side), except not in funny book form. But come on, I think saying that it's a weak story is unfair, especially compared to the shit fests that other Trek movies put out.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
The only time that I thought explanation got a bit off was when Spock explains that they've created an alternate reality to how their lives would have panned out. It's like, no shit really? Vulcan just imploded you green blooded know-it-all, we know.Quote:
It just feels like a waste of time and makes bits of the movie a little awkward, because they're really annihilating the canon and "rebooting" it.
I think if any of them NEEDED to be impersonated it was McCoy. Spock could be a bit different because, shit there was old Spock right fucking there. The others sounded, looked and acted a bit different, but the character were essentially the same. Even Pine, who said he wouldn't do Shatner, turned out a couple of Shatner esqe phrasings. Especially his "....... BOnes." at the end.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowutopia
Bullshit, they're goofy characters to begin with. Come on:Quote:
Originally Posted by bahn
That chemistry has always been there, just never exploited: http://pics.livejournal.com/skywardp...7efwq/s320x240Quote:
Originally Posted by bahn
Again, bullshit. I agree that Star Trek has always been a capable medium for this sort of discourse, but in the context of a 2 hour movie, it makes it feel bloated. That's what the first Star Trek film IS, it's just a bunch of assholes pontificating about bullshit and not doing ANYTHING. Some of the best episodes of star trek don't have a single explosion in them (Measure of a Man, for example), but you simply can't do that type of story in a major franchise picture. The best Trek movies is always when something major goes down (Khan stealing Genesis, that whale loving alien thing ripping up earth's shit, the end of a war, a Borg invasion of the past) and I think A pissed off Romulan going back in time and creating black holes in the center of major planets is kind of a big deal.Quote:
This too, is what I was trying to say above: "The Gene Roddenberry years, when stories might play with questions of science, ideals or philosophy, have been replaced by stories reduced to loud and colorful action."
Although one thing about this whole movie is With all of this bad shit going down and changing the universe, what happened to universe of the show? Typically in star trek there's a ripple effect, what happens in the past changes the future, so did it actually prevent TOS/TNG etc from ever happening? *Edit* - Fuck it, who cares Red matter split dimensions or some shit and they happily live beside eachother End of concern.
Chekov is ridiculously goofy.
Also, holy shit, they even made an Enterprise reference
She's not THAT old, she was made up to look older.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cowdisease
I went to see it last night and it was a grando A+! I will be seeing it again probably in Imax and I don't buy bluray at full price, but this one is getting bought day 1!
The New Yorker review makes me want to jump into my monitor and punch this snide blowjob. Guh.
Jesus, shut the fuck up.Quote:
Not being a Trekkie, I didn’t particularly mind how he refashioned the gizmos, but it was still surprising to learn that, when beaming down to planets and up to the ship, the crew members no longer vanish with the old granular shiver but, instead, whip around and around, aided by cartoonish whirling strokes, as if planning to reconstitute themselves as fruit smoothies at the other end. They even get to communicate, as they did in the nineteen-sixties, via these marvellous little phones that you actually hold up to your ear! Isn’t the future great?
This. And, how about, we fucking stop, with commas every, three words, 'k, chief?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
He's just too amused with his own quips that he has to use them all. This might be my favorite:
Good lord.Quote:
"Chekov (Anton Yelchin) apparently nudging puberty; mired in his Russian accent, he mixes up his “v”s and “w”s, (“wektor,” “inwisible”), a tongue-slip that Dickens pretty much exhausted for comic value in “The Pickwick Papers,” but I guess the old jokes are the best."
A friend of mine just ahd a thought. What if by the end of this series all of the characters grow beards and become:
http://www.davelgil.com/korea/spock.jpg
WHOOOAOAAAAAAAA
Too out there. Miss is forgivable.Quote:
Stand By Me
I don't know how you can blame Voyager since that show came first... and I admit Enterprise had some neat ideas esp in the final season and the whole Vulcans spying on Andorians thing. But, that THEME SONGQuote:
Originally Posted by Cheebs
I missed it! What was it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K
Enterprise showed us that the mirror universe began at First Contact when instead of greeting the vulcans, we beat them up and stole their ship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr-K