"Star Trek" - Thoughts
Jul. 8th, 2009 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
patgundFinally saw the new Star Trek film tonight.
Some of you might remember that my response to the trailer was "there's a small chance this movie might not suck"?
It did not suck. I get the feeling Gene was looking down and going "Okay, not bad"
That being said, there were a few quibbles. (not the least of which is I think Kirk should have gone over the edge WITH that Corvette. Wince.)
* At one point I went "Yep, it's Trek, there's Vasquez Rocks"
* And the engine room. Wow, I remember going on the tour of the Van Nuys Budweiser brewery back when they still had Busch Gardens.
* And hey, look, it's CSU Northridge!
* I'm sorry. Yeah, the cadet with the massive behavioural issues and complete lack of regard for the rules just saved Earth. Overlook almost getting kicked out for cheating and give him a medal, fine. Jump him a grade to LT and put him under a captain that can harness that energy property. DON'T jump him four grades and put him in charge of your flagship!!! Do you have any idea how livid other ships captains must feel??
Unless they tore long bloody strips off of him in private and was told "do NOT fuck up or you'll be flying a desk on Starbase BFE for the next 20 years"
Only thing I can think of is that Spock Prime basically called in some favors and said "look, he's going to bend the prime directive over a railing without lube on a regluar basis. But he'll produce results. Cope"
* That scream? Like millions of slash writers suddenly wetting their pants plotting the Spock/Uhura slash? Yeah, that one.
* When did Kirk have a chance to go though the Academy in three years, much less hack the Kobayashi Maru test, with the amount of bed-hopping he was doing? (sings) "Big, Little or Green or Blue / Guess he'll try to boff them too......"
* "Hi, my name is JJ Abrams, I'm a lens flare addict"
Some of you might remember that my response to the trailer was "there's a small chance this movie might not suck"?
It did not suck. I get the feeling Gene was looking down and going "Okay, not bad"
That being said, there were a few quibbles. (not the least of which is I think Kirk should have gone over the edge WITH that Corvette. Wince.)
* At one point I went "Yep, it's Trek, there's Vasquez Rocks"
* And the engine room. Wow, I remember going on the tour of the Van Nuys Budweiser brewery back when they still had Busch Gardens.
* And hey, look, it's CSU Northridge!
* I'm sorry. Yeah, the cadet with the massive behavioural issues and complete lack of regard for the rules just saved Earth. Overlook almost getting kicked out for cheating and give him a medal, fine. Jump him a grade to LT and put him under a captain that can harness that energy property. DON'T jump him four grades and put him in charge of your flagship!!! Do you have any idea how livid other ships captains must feel??
Unless they tore long bloody strips off of him in private and was told "do NOT fuck up or you'll be flying a desk on Starbase BFE for the next 20 years"
Only thing I can think of is that Spock Prime basically called in some favors and said "look, he's going to bend the prime directive over a railing without lube on a regluar basis. But he'll produce results. Cope"
* That scream? Like millions of slash writers suddenly wetting their pants plotting the Spock/Uhura slash? Yeah, that one.
* When did Kirk have a chance to go though the Academy in three years, much less hack the Kobayashi Maru test, with the amount of bed-hopping he was doing? (sings) "Big, Little or Green or Blue / Guess he'll try to boff them too......"
* "Hi, my name is JJ Abrams, I'm a lens flare addict"
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Date: 2009-07-09 04:36 am (UTC)I thought the movie was pretty good, and that they handled the universe reboot in a mostly-canon way.
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Date: 2009-07-09 08:27 am (UTC)Top Gun anyone??
Date: 2009-07-09 09:11 pm (UTC)You fuck up just THIS MUCH and you're gonna be finding yourself piloting a freighter full of rubber dog shit out of Alderan!! ^o^