City of IF

alexandrie · Posted: Tue May 26, 2009 2:48 pm Post subject: Star Trek

Was this movie awsome or what! Tell me what you thought of it.

DeadManWalking · Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 1005

Pretty awesome.

Although, one little thing that bothered me in the movie.

When Nero is pinning Kirk down to the ground by his neck, he says something along the lines of "I'll kill you like i killed your father."

How does Nero know that he killed Kirk's father?

Bearing in mind that in the original time stream it is specifically said that Kirk's father is not killed, so the fact that Nero comes from the future wouldn't help him there, and the fact that he hasn't had any contact with anyone in the years of waiting (otherwise, Starfleet etc. would know more about them)

Alegria · Posted: Wed May 27, 2009 1:33 pm Post subject:

LOVED it! It was so interesting, which, I must say, is something I have always felt the original movies and series lacked...

Reiso · Posted: Thu May 28, 2009 10:04 pm Post subject:

Kirk: BONES, my LEG is... broken!
Bones: Dammit Jim, I'm a DOCTOR, not a--oh. Yeah, ok... I'll get right on that.

The White Blacksmith · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 2629

I was waiting for Spock/Sylar to slice Kirk's head open when he was angry and holding him down.

vgmaster · Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 68 Location: The City of Angels

Chekov is so cute!!! Plus, this movie really put some background on the characters from the show.

Geek_girl72 · Posted: Wed Jun 03, 2009 9:25 pm Post subject:

Spock was always my favorite on the original series, and I liked what they did with his character in this movie. The scenes about his life growing up condensed and explained a lot of things that were scattered over the original series, and it was cool how they parralelled him with Kirk to show they were going to be a good team.

In short, this movie flat out rocks, I hope they make more.

The White Blacksmith · Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 2629

Simon Pegg was pretty funny as Scotty. Love all his films though, so that's no surprise.

"Can I get a towel?"

Amichan · Posted: Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:18 am Post subject:

I honstly haven't seen this movie Can anyone tell me does it hold a light to the origonal 1966 series??

Crunchyfrog · Joined: 12 Dec 2006 Posts: 3998

*still trying to get a chance to see the film and avoiding spoilers like crazy*

:?

The Powers That Be · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 545 Location: Santa Monica, CA

It was horrible. But it was fairly inoffensive in its horribleness, and some of it reached "so bad it's funny" territory, so it wasn't really all that upsetting.

"Prepare the red matter!"

Amichan · Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 1:05 pm Post subject:

so it pretty much disrespects the old series. hmm probably not worth seeing then

sparta12 · Posted: Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:12 am Post subject:

Are you kidding? The New Star Trek film was spectacular!
Hell, I saw it 4 times while it was in cinemas!

The Powers That Be · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 545 Location: Santa Monica, CA

sparta12 wrote: Are you kidding? The New Star Trek film was spectacular!

Yes, it was 'spectacular' in the sense of being really big and loud. And it was spectacularly dumb, so there's that.

Kang wrote: so it pretty much disrespects the old series. hmm probably not worth seeing then

I wouldn't say that it disrespects the old series. It does, quite literally, destroy the old series - at the end of the movie, it's made clear that none of the events of the original series will ever actually happen. That was an interesting choice.

LordoftheNight · Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 5276 Location: Hell

Well, in all fairness it's an alternate reality. It's not that the original series doesn't happen, just that it happens in another dimension.

sparta12 · Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2009 11:17 pm Post subject:

The Powers That Be wrote: sparta12 wrote: Are you kidding? The New Star Trek film was spectacular!

Yes, it was 'spectacular' in the sense of being really big and loud. And it was spectacularly dumb, so there's that.

Kang wrote: so it pretty much disrespects the old series. hmm probably not worth seeing then

I wouldn't say that it disrespects the old series. It does, quite literally, destroy the old series - at the end of the movie, it's made clear that none of the events of the original series will ever actually happen. That was an interesting choice.

Really? You think that the new Star Trek was dumb?
So you thought the idea of stealing Humpback Whales from the past and time-travelling in to the future to save the Earth from an unknown alien probe in Star Trek IV was good?
Yeah...

The Powers That Be · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 545 Location: Santa Monica, CA

sparta12 wrote: Really? You think that the new Star Trek was dumb?
So you thought the idea of stealing Humpback Whales from the past and time-travelling in to the future to save the Earth from an unknown alien probe in Star Trek IV was good?
Yeah...

It's not clear to me that "smarter than Star Trek IV" (and I'm not necessarily conceding the point that it was) is a very compelling argument in favor of, well, anything.

But I do have to admit that I always liked the climactic conversation between the probe and the whale in that movie:

"We brought back your golf ball."
"Oh, that's ok, keep it."

vgmaster · Joined: 18 Oct 2008 Posts: 68 Location: The City of Angels

It's all a matter of opinion I suppose. I liked it in it's entirety, and I didn't think it was dumb at all. Powers, what about it did you think was dumb?

Amichan · Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:13 am Post subject:

I guess i'm partial to the older movies all of them ( including the next generation movies ) were all very good and i had heard that this newest one supposedly took place before all of them got the Enterprise hence my leeriness to watch it

sparta12 · Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:53 am Post subject:

Yeah, the more recent Star Trek film is effectively a reset of the franchise as there's the concept of timeline interference so the writers, directors and actors had a lot of creative space to work with. Which I feel that they did effectively.

PopeAlessandrosXVIII · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 5:05 am Post subject: I think.....

Best line ever: I can fix that!