The Dayton Kitchens "I Hate Star Trek" box set.

Re: Best Line From the Star Trek Movie

The actual quote you're referring to is "Your father was captain of a startship for 12 minutes and saved 800 lives."

Good one though.

Re: Question For People Who Like the Star Trek Movie?

I "liked" it in some aspects. It was enough of a rollercoaster that you could almost ignore the plot holes.

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The casting was well-done, especially Zachary Quinto as Spock.

And while there were a few scenes that seemed to exist solely for the sake of a cheap gag or a special effect (Kirk being chased across Delta Vega by CGI alien monsters, Scotty getting beamed into a tube of water that has no other logical reason for existing), it was nowhere near as bad on that front as the last couple of movies.

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It had a midget.

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1) Kirk and the Kobayashi Maru.

2) The scene where the Enterprise drops out of warp and immediately has to go evasive to dodge all of the wreckage.

3) The scene where they drop out of warp inside a planet's rings, then goose the thrusters just enough to pop up out of it.

4) Sulu on the mining platform.

5) Pretty much every scene involving Pike.

6) Most of the Pegg/Scotty scenes involving him actually doing something with the transporters or the engines. Didn't like the water tube thingie

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"......Bullshit."

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Oh, and the first ten minutes was one of the best sequences in all of Trek.

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It was the first reboot of a series that 1)cared about the original characters to try to keep them true to that characterization and 2)knew that a slightly different take on the series itself was needed without sacrificing the characters.
Now all JJ has to do is find a better story and scriptwriter.











Oh, and definitely get a different camera man

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um... hello... Burger King collectible glasses!

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Everything UA said plus a couple more:

-Spock's "fuck you" to the Vulcan Science Academy

-Kirk's bar fight.

-Adrenaline junkie skydiving into the drill and killing himself

-Kirk whining into his log about Spock then hearing the howling of that creature. The look on his face is priceless when he see's what it is.

-"Jim, I think I love you"
"That's . . . interesting"

-I like the way they show ships going into warp. The gunshot sound worked for me. Made it seem faster.

-I liked hearing The Beastie Boys and seeing Budweiser. One thing that always bothered me about Trek, especially TNG, is that all of human culture seemed to consist of Mozart, Dickens, and a little bit of Mark Twain. What the hell happened to the rest of it? Do people seriously not listen to rock and roll anymore? People seriously still listen to jazz? The Captain plays a gay little flute, the Android likes violin and the First Officer plays the fucking trombone? Really? Kirk should be playing the Federation anthem on electric guitar and banging groupies. I like that angsty teenagers still listen to angsty music. I like it that military personnel still go to dive bars, drink lots of crappy beer, and start fights. I'm tired of seeing my Trek captains get pissy about something and go listen to some hardcore opera to unwind. Come on!

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You know, I hated ID4, but I've been known to say, "Was that a good oops or a bad oops?" a time or thirty. I can't think of any lines from the new Trek movie that'll stick with me and make me want to whip them out at some point. It'll be interesting to see what others have to say.

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I finally saw it yesterday. God, was I ever disappointed.

Cast:

Kirk - different, but I kinda bought it. Definitely needs some work before the sequel.

Spock - Sorry, but Quinto didn't sell me.

McCoy - Totally sold me. Urban did a great job.

Uhura - Meh! Zoe's hot, but she didn't sell me on the character.

Sulu - Sold me, but that character needs work too.

Checkov - Pure parody. Tone that overblown accent down and give him some substance.

Scotty - They parodied the character badly at first. I was finally able to buy him by the end.

Old Spock - WTF was that? They even mangled a well established character and cast member. It was like watching Spock in The Cage.

I kinda thought the story was boring. Halfway through, I was thinking about stepping out for a cigarette. That's a bad sign for a movie. I stayed put though, hoping it would get better, but it didn't.

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My favorite line was Spock reciting, "Space, the final frontier.."

That meant the film was over and I could get the hell out of there.

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I liked that part, but for different reasons. I guess I'm a whimp.

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On first viewing, I thought it was touching. On second viewing, I thought it should have been Kirk doing it. Away with the old, in with the new.

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Kirk: "Don't you want to know my name?"

Uhura: "I'm fine without it."

Kirk: "You are fine without it."

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Kirk'll do it from now on (or at least until Mr. Pine prices himself out of the franchise and they replace him with a Captain Decker).

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Re: Does "Abrams Trek" Really Have Any Long Term Future?

I would love to own TOS on DVD, but I refuse to pay those ridiculously inflated prices that Paramount is charging for a TV series that was paid for with commercial advertising 40 years ago.

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She looks hot, but it was really another point on which the movie didn't sell me. She doesn't look like an Orion; she just looks like a girl that was painted a horrible shade of green. The TOS Orions looked better than she does. ENT actually succeeded in doing them well.

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^I thought about stepping out for a cigarette too.

And I don't even smoke.

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I've NEVER understood Science Fiction fans getting all worked up over tits and ass in one of their shows.

the nuBattlestar Galactica crowd was famous for this.

If I want to see tits and ass there are thousands of places to see more, higher quality, and more explicit.

For free.

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I like it because you don't like it.

Re: Does "Abrams Trek" Really Have Any Long Term Future?

So they redid the special effects for fun?

Re: Does "Abrams Trek" Really Have Any Long Term Future?

No, to get people talking about TOS like it was new. Just like Debbie Gibson, upon finding that her career was flagging, decided to pose for Playboy. You'll note that the folks in charge of redoing the TOS effects didn't go "all over the top" with them, but replicated the scenes as they originally existed, including leaving in the obvious mistakes. They could have simply cleaned up the effects shots (like they did with the shots of the actors) and you would have gotten the same results. The sole purpose of it was to enable them to hype this as a "feature" for the HD-DVD release (and charge a premium for it).

AFAIK, the only dialog they had redone, was the Shat's narration of "Space. . . . the final frontier. . . " and they even went so far as to get the same type of microphone that he used to originally record the stuff. They didn't bother (unlike Lucas, who surely would have done this) to "fix" things so that Checkov encountered Khan during the Space Seed episode, so that when someone watches TWoK, they know that Khan did, indeed, see Checkov.

Re: Does "Abrams Trek" Really Have Any Long Term Future?

Are you sure you attended college? There is no group with larger DVD collections than college students. The typical dorm room will have shitty everything except the TV, sound system, 500 DVD's, and posters of Scarface on the wall. Well I guess the posters are shitty too.

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You know what Captain Kirk does to unwind? He bangs chicks!

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1. Characterizations. The ability of the main three actors to embody the "feel" of the Trinity was uncanny and turned out to be VERY compelling to me

2. Nimoy. Despite quibbles with the plot, to me every second he was on screen was instant-classic magic.

3. some "old school" moments - most notably the interaction between Kirk and Spock on the Romulan ship, and the arrival of the Enterprise to save the day.

4. A fast-moving story. For all it's flaws, the movie kept things happening constantly throughout. This is not a necessarily "Trekish" manner of storytelling, but it does make a "popcorn flick" more enjoyable. Once i resigned myself to the reality this wasn't going to be a "thoughtful" movie so much as a summer action flick, then I judge it on the basis of what it professes to be.

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One guy on my floor had a big screen TV and video games, but that was about it. Most people at my college go there in order to learn, not to purchase and watch 500 DVDs.