Star Trek

[annwfyn]

And lo! Last night a mob of us went to see Star Trek - pierot, ksirafai, reindeerflotila, astro_dust, unifex, castorlion, adze, becky_spence and suave_steve. Plus me.

It was, first of all, lovely to see everyone, and secondarily, I really enjoyed Star Trek. It was a glorious, full throttle, unapologetic re-boot of the franchise. The performances were all stellar, I think I'm in love with Spock (it will make sense if you see the film), and goddamnit, it was cheating to open the film with a Thunderchild-style doomed final stand. I was nearly in tears in the first ten minutes.

It's the best film I've seen this year. Really. Go and see it!

I got home in a good mood and went to bed early. And then, sadly, woke up at 5 am having a mild panic attack. God knows why, but it meant I couldn't get back to sleep until 6 am, and so I'm a little wobbly today. Still, hopefully today will be a quiet day and I'll get a load done at work.

Onward!

Comments

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

Moving swiftly through the waters,
Cannons blazing as she came,
Sent a mighty metal warlord,
Crashing down in sheets of flame...

OK, now I want to see the first ten minutes. Because I think we have similar tastes in heroism :)

[adze.livejournal.com]

I have to say that I love going to see big movies with big mobs of people.

And yes, the movie was awesome - I very, very rarely applaud movies, but this time I couldn't help it!

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

Oh, for you, Chris Pine, who played Kirk, has apparently recently been announced as Green Lantern.

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

He was a possible, but Bradley Cooper from Alias is currently the front-runner. At leat that's what my spies are saying.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

IMDB says it's announced, but I could be wrong...

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

IMDB is pretty wrong pretty often, but who knows? I'd be happy with either.

[adze.livejournal.com]

I had heard this as a rumour, and we discussed it briefly in the car last night.  I’m not sure about it, to be honest.  They’re going with a Hal Jordan movie, which makes sense as a way to introduce the hero, but I see two problems with Chris Pine as Hal.

Firstly, Hal Jordan and Jim Kirk have a lot of similarities – enormous self-confidence, bordering on arrogance; a womanising streak a mile wide; complete fearlessness & a refusal to give up.  So what you  might end up with is people looking at the movie and saying “Hey, it’s Captain Kirk with a green ring.”

Secondly, I just can’t see Chris Pine as an experienced Test Pilot.  He’s just too young.

That said, he might pull it off really well, so I’ll wait and see.

 

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

They're planning Hal as a bit younger.

[castorlion.livejournal.com]

Firstly, Hal Jordan and Jim Kirk have a lot of similarities – so what you might end up with is people looking at the movie and saying “Hey, it’s Captain Kirk with a green ring.”

I'll take it as a compliment that you've completely ripped off my opinion and commentary from the car journey home last night and claimed it as your own, shall I?

[twicedead.livejournal.com]

I loved Trek too. Those opening ten minutes just emotionally connected and tied you into the characters.

I loved how the hero shots of the characters and even the Enterprise were tastefully done but still gave you a Woo! feeling.

[annwfyn.livejournal.com]

It was just so very well done. It hit exactly the right line between 'taking itself too seriously' and 'just silly', and was this glorious romp. I thought Zachary Quinto was perfect at Spock, and I really liked Chris Pine as Kirk. I loved the reasoning for why this is a slightly alternate reality as well - I think it's really liberating and is going to be a really positive thing for future films.

I'm just now wondering how long Quinto will keep doing Heroes, for it is not the big and shiny thing it once was, and I suspect he's about to have a lot of options as to what he wants to do with his time.