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I thought Karl Urban stole the show. Bones was always my favorite.
Yes, I thought Karl Urban was great also.
I thought Karl Urban stole the show. Bones was always my favorite.
I am interested to see his take on Judge Dredd.Yes, I thought Karl Urban was great also.
I am interested to see his take on Judge Dredd.
You're dealing with a Trekker...
...a total rejection of Starfeelt as a meritocracy in favor of dumb force-of-personality moments and a series of absurdly contrived coincidences.
Not many people seem to know the distinction between a Trekker and a Trekkie. I've always considered myself a Trekker as well.
I've always been, quite defiantly, a Trekkie. At least in circles where Trekker is used to denote a certain fan mindset that consider itself "above" the stereotypes associated with "Trekkies". ... I've also often heard it used to denote a distinction between those who like all Star Trek, in particular who embrace the original series, and those "Trekkers" who specifically disliked Kirk and Spock and their chums, but enjoyed the Next Generation (I remember this usage in popular use in sci-fi circles in Belfast at least before DS9 arrived).
Sign me up for that camp too. I've been a "Trek" fan since my teens, and while the casting for this film was good, it sent me out of the theatre shaking my head. Kirk as a 23rd-Century James Dean? Spock having an affair? Lens flares in nearly every bridge scene? The notion that it's apparently okay to leave your post if you have a really, really good reason? And the hardest thing to swallow, as someone mentioned here: Since when do new Academy graduates get posted to the bridge crew on multitrillion-credit starships, let alone get to command one? Do new ensigns in our world get to command nuclear carriers as their first or second postings?. . . I'm not sure why people liked it so much. Just a lot of yelling, running about and explosions: Michael Bay meets Luc Besson in space. While I am a fan of most of the Star Trek series and films, I'm not a trekkie and I still didn't care for that last film that much.
Sign me up for that camp too. I've been a "Trek" fan since my teens, and while the casting for this film was good, it sent me out of the theatre shaking my head. Kirk as a 23rd-Century James Dean? Spock having an affair? Lens flares in nearly every bridge scene? The notion that it's apparently okay to leave your post if you have a really, really good reason? And the hardest thing to swallow, as someone mentioned here: Since when do new Academy graduates get posted to the bridge crew on multitrillion-credit starships, let alone get to command one? Do new ensigns in our world get to command nuclear carriers as their first or second postings?
"Trek" at its best at least tried to be plausible in its created world. Roddenberry and his TV successors would have caught a plot development like this and sent the writer back to his typewriter/word processor. "Try again, boyo."
I liked the heroic flavor of the opening scene, with Jim Kirk's father and mother. But after that? Not really.