Star Trek: Official Movie Discussion Thread

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Man, did I love this movie. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Originally I had my doubts about Chris Pine as Kirk, but no more, he nailed it. Anybody thing Zoe Saldana looks like a younger Thandie Newton? Very Hot. I also like that they expanded her role on the ship to be include the acoustics/sonar duties found on submarines. And its about time they brought short skirts back to the Enterprise. Anybody catch Scarlett (Rachel Nchols) from the upcoming GI Joe movie was the red headed Orion?

SPOILERS***********************

Eric Bana’s role as Nero was excellent. Nero posed great enough threat to the Federation to be exciting but didn’t interfere with the development of the new cast/crew members. He would be a fun villain to see return, but that probably won’t happen as he is now space debris or black hole fodder.

Had a short post movie debate with my Non-Star-Trek-Fans-Will-Ferrel-Movie-Loving-Idiot-Buddies whom I saw the movie with. If you thought the “Mining Vessel” had too much fire power for a non-combatant ship remember that there probably are no ecological or moral concerns with destroying lifeless asteroids, moons or planets in order to mine resources. You could simply drill a hole, plant an explosive, and then ‘crack’ an asteroid, moon or planetoid in half. Planets with solid crusts and liquid/plasmatic cores could be ‘cracked’ by deploying guided warheads along the faults of tectonic plates. This is why the ship had enough fire power and the guided cluster missles to take out the Federation ships.

Who knew Spock would grow up to be such a dirty old man? If you missed it, I shall decipher the final conversation between Old Spock and New Spock.

New Spock: Hey Dad! You wanna play catch before we leave?
Old Spock: I am not your father.
New Spock: Holy shit. Its me. But like way old. Hey man, I was gonna quit Star Fleet and help repopulate our drastically reduced species.
Old Spock: Dude, your young. You seriously don’t want to saddled with a wife and kid while so young. Remember you’re gonna be stuck with them for like 300 years.
New Spock: Yeah, that would suck.
Old Spock: Plus, we got the same DNA, bro. You can chill here with Star Fleet. Explore the galaxy, have a few brews, get Uhura drunk on Risa and get her to agree to a 3-way with an Andorian. That was a great night. And I can go kick it with some young pointy-eared hotties. I still got lead in the old pencil. Procreation, baby.
New Spock: Live Long and Prosper.
Old Spock: Live Long and Shock Her. (Flashes the shocker hand sign)

Dirty old man.

END SPOILERS*************************

I don’t usually go see a movie twice, but Star Trek was so good I may be headed back to see it in a day or so.

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Man, did I love this movie. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Originally I had my doubts about Chris Pine as Kirk, but no more, he nailed it. Anybody thing Zoe Saldana looks like a younger Thandie Newton? Very Hot. I also like that they expanded her role on the ship to be include the acoustics/sonar duties found on submarines. And its about time they brought short skirts back to the Enterprise. Anybody catch Scarlett (Rachel Nchols) from the upcoming GI Joe movie was the red headed Orion?

SPOILERS***********************

Eric Bana’s role as Nero was excellent. Nero posed great enough threat to the Federation to be exciting but didn’t interfere with the development of the new cast/crew members. He would be a fun villain to see return, but that probably won’t happen as he is now space debris or black hole fodder.

Had a short post movie debate with my Non-Star-Trek-Fans-Will-Ferrel-Movie-Loving-Idiot-Buddies whom I saw the movie with. If you thought the “Mining Vessel” had too much fire power for a non-combatant ship remember that there probably are no ecological or moral concerns with destroying lifeless asteroids, moons or planets in order to mine resources. You could simply drill a hole, plant an explosive, and then ‘crack’ an asteroid, moon or planetoid in half. Planets with solid crusts and liquid/plasmatic cores could be ‘cracked’ by deploying guided warheads along the faults of tectonic plates. This is why the ship had enough fire power and the guided cluster missles to take out the Federation ships.

Who knew Spock would grow up to be such a dirty old man? If you missed it, I shall decipher the final conversation between Old Spock and New Spock.

New Spock: Hey Dad! You wanna play catch before we leave?
Old Spock: I am not your father.
New Spock: Holy shit. Its me. But like way old. Hey man, I was gonna quit Star Fleet and help repopulate our drastically reduced species.
Old Spock: Dude, your young. You seriously don’t want to saddled with a wife and kid while so young. Remember you’re gonna be stuck with them for like 300 years.
New Spock: Yeah, that would suck.
Old Spock: Plus, we got the same DNA, bro. You can chill here with Star Fleet. Explore the galaxy, have a few brews, get Uhura drunk on Risa and get her to agree to a 3-way with an Andorian. That was a great night. And I can go kick it with some young pointy-eared hotties. I still got lead in the old pencil. Procreation, baby.
New Spock: Live Long and Prosper.
Old Spock: Live Long and Shock Her. (Flashes the shocker hand sign)

Dirty old man.

END SPOILERS*************************

I don’t usually go see a movie twice, but Star Trek was so good I may be headed back to see it in a day or so.

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[quote]Bujo wrote:
Man, did I love this movie. I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was knee high to a grasshopper. Originally I had my doubts about Chris Pine as Kirk, but no more, he nailed it. Anybody thing Zoe Saldana looks like a younger Thandie Newton? Very Hot. I also like that they expanded her role on the ship to be include the acoustics/sonar duties found on submarines. And its about time they brought short skirts back to the Enterprise. Anybody catch Scarlett (Rachel Nchols) from the upcoming GI Joe movie was the red headed Orion?

SPOILERS***********************

Eric Bana’s role as Nero was excellent. Nero posed great enough threat to the Federation to be exciting but didn’t interfere with the development of the new cast/crew members. He would be a fun villain to see return, but that probably won’t happen as he is now space debris or black hole fodder.

Had a short post movie debate with my Non-Star-Trek-Fans-Will-Ferrel-Movie-Loving-Idiot-Buddies whom I saw the movie with. If you thought the “Mining Vessel” had too much fire power for a non-combatant ship remember that there probably are no ecological or moral concerns with destroying lifeless asteroids, moons or planets in order to mine resources. You could simply drill a hole, plant an explosive, and then ‘crack’ an asteroid, moon or planetoid in half. Planets with solid crusts and liquid/plasmatic cores could be ‘cracked’ by deploying guided warheads along the faults of tectonic plates. This is why the ship had enough fire power and the guided cluster missles to take out the Federation ships.

Who knew Spock would grow up to be such a dirty old man? If you missed it, I shall decipher the final conversation between Old Spock and New Spock.

New Spock: Hey Dad! You wanna play catch before we leave?
Old Spock: I am not your father.
New Spock: Holy shit. Its me. But like way old. Hey man, I was gonna quit Star Fleet and help repopulate our drastically reduced species.
Old Spock: Dude, your young. You seriously don’t want to saddled with a wife and kid while so young. Remember you’re gonna be stuck with them for like 300 years.
New Spock: Yeah, that would suck.
Old Spock: Plus, we got the same DNA, bro. You can chill here with Star Fleet. Explore the galaxy, have a few brews, get Uhura drunk on Risa and get her to agree to a 3-way with an Andorian. That was a great night. And I can go kick it with some young pointy-eared hotties. I still got lead in the old pencil. Procreation, baby.
New Spock: Live Long and Prosper.
Old Spock: Live Long and Shock Her. (Flashes the shocker hand sign)

Dirty old man.

END SPOILERS*************************

I don’t usually go see a movie twice, but Star Trek was so good I may be headed back to see it in a day or so.[/quote]

Dammit, man! I’m a doctor, not a physicist! What are you trying to say?

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I loved it all. The witty dialogue. The slight mannerisms. The action. The effects. All 3 Spocks. Just a giant pot of awesome.

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[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
I loved it all. The witty dialogue. The slight mannerisms. The action. The effects. All 3 Spocks. Just a giant pot of awesome.[/quote]

There were three? Oh, you mean the kid? Yeah, he whipped ass too.

I’m just glad Hollywood seems to be making a comeback. For about 10 years, I didn’t think about going to see any of this shit in the theater. Now we’ve got Batman, Iron Man, Star Trek, Transformers and hopefully a decent GI JOE movie on the way (even though I am getting bad feelings about that one).

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[quote]Doug Adams wrote:
I loved it all. The witty dialogue. The slight mannerisms. The action. The effects. All 3 Spocks. Just a giant pot of awesome.[/quote]

I made an ass of myself shouting “Harai Goshi” when itty bitty Spock use that hip throw on the pointy-eared bully.

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I saw it last night and liked it a lot. I never really watched any of the tv series or other movies, but i kind of knew who the main characters were. I didn’t even realize until the movie was over that Eric Bana played Nero. It definately kills the Wolverine movie.

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Saw it the other night. Thought it was great.

For those who want to revisit the past, CBS and YouTube have all the original Star Trek episodes available for viewing:

YouTube (better sorted):
http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Zk2dX5DnW_c

CBS:

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[quote]Bujo wrote:

Old Spock: Live Long and Shock Her. (Flashes the shocker hand sign)
[/quote]

Hehehehehe.

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I didn’t like this movie. Whoever told me you don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it lied.

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Just saw it great movie.

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[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
I didn’t like this movie. Whoever told me you don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it lied.[/quote]

I’m not a Star Trek fan and I enjoyed it. Considering the vast majority of humans seemed to like it, perhaps YOU just have bad taste.

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[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
I didn’t like this movie. Whoever told me you don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it lied.[/quote]

He didn’t lie…he just voiced it to the wrong person.

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Oh…and its been all but confirmed that the guy who portrayed George Kirk,Chris Hemsworth,is being cast as Thor.

I actually think he would make a good Captain America…oh well.

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[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
I didn’t like this movie. Whoever told me you don’t have to be a Star Trek fan to enjoy it lied.[/quote]

I’d apologize, but apparently you don’t enjoy things that are fun.

You still don’t need to be a Trek fan to enjoy this movie!

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[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
Oh…and its been all but confirmed that the guy who portrayed George Kirk,Chris Hemsworth,is being cast as Thor.

I actually think he would make a good Captain America…oh well.[/quote]

I’m torn. I’m not sure he makes a good Thor, but I’m not sure an Aussie should play Captain American either. However, I thought he was good in his limited time in Star Trek. Sorry to be crude, but I’d rather it be him than some fag American actor that’s an embarrassment to masculinity.

Supposedly, he’s 6’3" or 6’4". If that’s true and they can bulk him up, that’s at least a step in the right direction.

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I have bad taste because I didn’t like Star Trek and I don’t enjoy things that are fun…lol.

I didn’t know people would take it so personally.

However, the movie was better than I expected.

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[quote]AngryVader wrote:
Big_Boss wrote:
Oh…and its been all but confirmed that the guy who portrayed George Kirk,Chris Hemsworth,is being cast as Thor.

I actually think he would make a good Captain America…oh well.

I’m torn. I’m not sure he makes a good Thor, but I’m not sure an Aussie should play Captain American either. However, I thought he was good in his limited time in Star Trek. Sorry to be crude, but I’d rather it be him than some fag American actor that’s an embarrassment to masculinity.

Supposedly, he’s 6’3" or 6’4". If that’s true and they can bulk him up, that’s at least a step in the right direction.[/quote]

Too bad Triple H probably doesn’t have the acting chops: otherwise he’d make a good Thor.

Now back to our main topic…

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good comparison

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[quote]Kreal7 wrote:
I have bad taste because I didn’t like Star Trek and I don’t enjoy things that are fun…lol.

I didn’t know people would take it so personally.

[/quote]

It’s not personal. If 1,000 people see a movie, 990 people enjoyed it and 10 people didn’t, I am very inclined to believe that the movie was actually decent rather than assume the 10 who hated it are expert movie critics with amazing unmatched taste on what makes a good movie.