Star Trek movie
 

I saw the Star Trek prequel with my brother over the holiday weekend. I enjoyed it quite a bit. Some nice twists on the original, but including the requisite throwbacks: "I'm a doctor, Jim, not a physicist."

"I'm givin' ya all she's got, Captain!"
That was a good one too. I thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

Spock bumping uglies with Uhura was not an approved change. Grrrr.

It was, in fact, highly illogical. Sorry, had to do it. :blush:

Otherwise, an outstanding movie with excellent casting. Young Spock was perfect. Chekov and Scotty were great also. They managed to squeek in a scene where Chekov's inability to pronounce the letter V created comic relief and a nod to the real geeks who remember that.

The guy in red on the "away" team is killed. Perfect!

And Sulu isn't Japanese this time; he's Korean. But you know, us Asians, we all look the same. :rolleyes:

It's a two-edged sword (speaking of Sulu). When people know enough Asians to differentiate, you'll cease to be 'exotic'.

Although, to be fair, Roddenberry wanted Sulu to be "pan-Asian"
He didn't end up with the more-clearly Japanese given name till ST:VI.

Finally saw it last weekend, and speaking as a Trekkie since the show originally ran on TV when I was a lad, I enjoyed it thoroughly and have zero problems with anything they did.

The whole notion Abrams came up with to portray Trek's universe and history as having changed because the new film begins on a different/parallel timeline was brilliant, and frees future films from the fetters of what we've known before. This allows new ideas to be built upon the framework and characters we know and love.

I wish I was that smart.

I have deliberately not read this thread since I am holding out on seeing Star Trek in Imax. I was hoping to see it down the shore in July, but it looks like the theatre will be switching to Transformers.:sniff:

If I can't see it in Imax, then I will wait to buy it used for $7. There is no way I'm going to pay $12 a ticket to see it in a regular theatre. It's IMAX or home video.

rl -- just make sure it isn't Imax Digital. :angry:

You mean they can boldly go ... where ... no ...

sorry.

Let me guess. Is "IMAX Digital" like digital zoom where optical clarity is faked using algorithms instead of truly being achieved through better optics or larger film stock?

I saw the movie in a packed house--when the camera panned over to that guy, just about everyone in the theater groaned at the same time.

I went on a bit of a rant over here. In short(!), the screen is not the towering seven-story monster of yore; it's a brazen rip-off.