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Saw the new movie last night, and honestly I was expecting it to suck like most of the recent Star Trek everything. Anyone who grew up watching the series, or the reruns (like I did) should enjoy this-- it actually made me want to rent the original series. Good reasonably plausible plot, nice special effects-- probably the best Star Trek movie since the Wrath of Khan. Very nice origin movie, and nice casting of the young characters (especially Spock, Scotty, and Checkov).

I saw it last night too, I am an unrepentant dork, and I freaking loved it. The effects were awesome, the story was just plain enjoyable. I found myself sitting there just grinning at the screen.

Will it make me want to put my hand up Uhura's skirt as badly as I did back in the day?

Will it make me want to put my hand up Uhura's skirt as badly as I did back in the day?

Oh hell yeah. If you can get past Spock.

Fat Cat wrote:Will it make me want to put my hand up Uhura's skirt as badly as I did back in the day?

Yes.

I saw it today. Its good. If you've watched much of the original series, there is a lot of humor also.

Thought it was great, too. The best trek movie since #4.

This makes a nice commentary on how Trek went wrong:
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/t ... _trek_film

"If I wanted to see young, cool people doing exciting things I would go watch sports."

Never been a Trekkie but I loved this flick.

If anybody bumps into Jack say hi from the IGX crowd. I'm sure he'll be seeing it many times.

hoosierpete wrote:If anybody bumps into Jack say hi from the IGX crowd. I'm sure he'll be seeing it many times.

If you bump into him be careful, he'd probably break like an icicle.

I did have some dude leering over teh stall at me.
JEEKPEEKs.

MarcoFP wrote:I did have some dude leering over teh stall at me.
JEEKPEEKs.

Was he as impressed with you as Jack was with Garm?

I thought it was great, except...I'm tired of the whole time travel thing as a plot device. It's gone from "whoa dude, travel back in TIME!" to "yawn, of course, back in time, yea, there's Spock." I understand they needed it so they could break from the previous history and have a whole new series and 10 sequels, but talk about a seriously ridden hard and put up wet plot device.

nafod wrote:I thought it was great, except...I'm tired of the whole time travel thing as a plot device. It's gone from "whoa dude, travel back in TIME!" to "yawn, of course, back in time, yea, there's Spock." I understand they needed it so they could break from the previous history and have a whole new series and 10 sequels, but talk about a seriously ridden hard and put up wet plot device.

Agreed. If we could just go back in time and make the stop it!

hoosierpete wrote:

MarcoFP wrote:I did have some dude leering over teh stall at me.
JEEKPEEKs.

Was he as impressed with you as Jack was with Garm?

He pulled a cup out of the urinal & had a dreenk when I was done........

That movie was Modern American Mythology, pure and simple.

We all grew up with these characters, there is a little part of them in alot of us and they did them right.

Instead of trying to copy the old actors or totally dismiss them as many remakes do, they went to the core of what Kirk and Co. were and went from there.

They updated the visuals and weapons, made them make more sense and impress a newer audence but kept the basic designs of the show as well. The combat was great, I am sure this is the Enterprise Jack sees when he closes his eyes or goes on his " Star Fleet would crush the Empire" tirades.

I just saw it 20 minutes ago and I will admit I had an emotional response to it and I am a die hard "Star Wars slays Star Trek" fan. This fucker at times got me in my black little heart, especially Kirk's birth.

Total strangers walked out of that theater and started talking to each other about it.

Great movie, the best I have seen in a long time. I want to grab my boy and go see it again.

DARTH wrote:That movie was Modern American Mythology, pure and simple.

We all grew up with these characters, there is a little part of them in alot of us and they did them right.

Instead of trying to copy the old actors or totally dismiss them as many remakes do, they went to the core of what Kirk and Co. were and went from there.

They updated the visuals and weapons, made them make more sense and impress a newer audence but kept the basic designs of the show as well. The combat was great, I am sure this is the Enterprise Jack sees when he closes his eyes or goes on his " Star Fleet would crush the Empire" tirades.

I just saw it 20 minutes ago and I will admit I had an emotional response to it and I am a die hard "Star Wars slays Star Trek" fan. This fucker at times got me in my black little heart, especially Kirk's birth.

Total strangers walked out of that theater and started talking to each other about it.

Great movie, the best I have seen in a long time. I want to grab my boy and go see it again.

Yeah, I agree. This one got back to the heart of what made Trek great instead of continue what it had become. The time travel thing was lame but it had to be done to clear the dreck away.

Kirk's birth was very touching. No trek movie since Wrath of Khan had touched that.

My wife hasn't seen any of the other movies but she wouldn't stop talking about this one. She never does that.

I took the boy to see Star Trek after Jujutsu class.

Got to introduce the boy to Kirk the "Fighting and Fucking 'round the Comos Pim" before reruns introduce him to Paccard and his crew of U.N. in space liberal douchbags.

He loved it and thinks Spock is "Real Cool!'.

Now that's Next Generation!

Very good, lots of action and humor. Plus it's got a green Orion chick in it, always a plus.

nafod wrote:I thought it was great, except...I'm tired of the whole time travel thing as a plot device. It's gone from "whoa dude, travel back in TIME!" to "yawn, of course, back in time, yea, there's Spock." I understand they needed it so they could break from the previous history and have a whole new series and 10 sequels, but talk about a seriously ridden hard and put up wet plot device.

Completely agree about the time travel stupidity, but the show was fantastic. I would pretty much put up with anything that would wipe that franchise's slate clean.

As far as 10 sequels, let's hope Abrams will be around (actively) for at least the first three.

Again great movie, thought for sure it would disappoint due to its hype, but it did not at all. And as was said above, tons of humor if you watched plenty of Trek before.

Norman U. Senchbau wrote:

nafod wrote:I thought it was great, except...I'm tired of the whole time travel thing as a plot device.

Completely agree about the time travel stupidity...

I'm pretty sure it didn't have any skinny chicks head-butting big guys unconscious, which is one of my other big peeves about movies. Watched some movie with Angelina Jolie in it last week (Tomb Raider? Sucked, whatever), and there was a fight scene, and I said to my wife, "Here's comes the head butt", and she says, "No way...have you seen this?" and of course Angelina deals a crushing skull-on-skull coup de grace kill to some thug with an inch thick cranium.

Can anyone explain the physics and bio mechanics of the head butt? How come the buttin' person never knocks him/herself out?

Andy75 wrote:Can anyone explain the physics and bio mechanics of the head butt? How come the buttin' person never knocks him/herself out?

They either hit a softer part of the other person's head with a harder part of theirs (e.g., forehead striking nose), or they're already so brain damaged/drunk that it doesn't matter.

Watched it tonight; super fun. They nailed the casting.

Pinky wrote:

Andy75 wrote:Can anyone explain the physics and bio mechanics of the head butt? How come the buttin' person never knocks him/herself out?

They either hit a softer part of the other person's head with a harder part of theirs (e.g., forehead striking nose), or they're already so brain damaged/drunk that it doesn't matter.

Or a gentle love-tap to the temple with the striker's frontal. I was surprised by the "dropped like a sack of batteries" effect that had.