Author Topic: Star Trek (Read 126895 times)

Djimis Telescopic Leg · « **Reply #200 on:** May 14, 2009, 01:53:47 am »

That was a fucking film and a half. Absolutely spellbinding, the 2 hours passed in the blink of an eye!

Literally the first time I've ever enjoyed Star Trek. J. J. Abrams is a fucking genius.

OsirisMVZ · « **Reply #201 on:** May 14, 2009, 02:06:27 am »

Not sure if it's been mentioned before but did anyone feel Abrams Star Wars'd Star Trek? I enjoyed the film fuckloads (am a newcomer to Star Trek myself) and it certainly seemed much faster paced than other tidbits I've seen of the Trek series here and there.

miss_heather · « **Reply #202 on:** May 14, 2009, 11:27:56 am »

Absolutley BRILLIANT! Best film I've seen for ages!
I am a newcomer to Star Trek really, I've seen the orginal film, and that was ok, but JJ Abrams has really updated it. The special effects are amazing, but this took nothing away from the story and emotional bits

It had everything in it!

Spoiler

Loved the bit were Bones kept injecting Kirk! Really funny

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10/10 for me

Uhoh AureliOs · « **Reply #203 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:50:25 pm »

Pretty good overall.

PortlandRed · « **Reply #204 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:09:09 pm »

Saw it last night. Entertaining, funny in parts, and I felt like I got my $9 worth. I will buy the DVD.

CHOPPER · « **Reply #205 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:13:46 pm »

Quote from: PortlandRed on May 14, 2009, 07:09:09 pm

Saw it last night. Entertaining, funny in parts, and I felt like I got my $9 worth. I will buy the DVD.

Download it man, ya canny breek the laws a' pisstakes

killer-heels · « **Reply #206 on:** May 16, 2009, 01:47:10 am »

Saw this today and it was a decent enough summer blockbuster.

It had some great special effects and the first 10 minutes were particularly spectacular. The Starfleet Academy bits were also quite enjoyable. It certainly looked very good in its visuals and looked quite fresh, compared to how horribly dull and unappealing the TV and Film versions previously looked. Also some of the banter between Spock and Kirk was good.

The problem was that none of the remaining action was as good as the first 10 minutes. The film didnt seem or end very epically, considering its a Space adventure movie. There wasnt many more highlights after the initial scene and the ending wasnt done very well.

The story itself was a bit all over the place as well. It was well confusing to follow, although thats probably because I am not a trekkie and lose any sense of understanding when time travelling and parallel universe elements come into play.

Also, I found the cast well strange. You had Chris Pine who I remember from his fantastic turn in 'The Princess Diaries 2'. Not sure he was good enough to be leading a major Hollywood blockbuster and made it look like a TV film, especially as nearly everyone on American TV shows can do the whole 'angry-young-rebel' routine.

You then had Sylar being, well, Sylar. I was expecting him at any moment to swish his fingers and cut off Kirk's head. You had Simon Pegg being Simon Pegg in a Scottish accent and the guy who made the term 'MILF' famous. They also managed to make Karl Urban turn from the fitty he was as Eomer in The Lord of the Rings and in The Bourne Supremacy into the least attractive version of himself ever.

All in all, a decent enough action film which people who initially detest Star Trek (like me) may enjoy. Although it seems that existing Trekkies love it so clearly a sequel will be made and for my interest, hopefully there is better and much more epic action in it.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #207 on:** May 16, 2009, 01:52:12 am »

The action in this was a thousand...no a million...no, a BILLION times better than the action in the garbled shitty cunty twaty bollocks in Transformers, and that is a fact.

killer-heels · « **Reply #208 on:** May 16, 2009, 02:00:35 am »

Quote from: RedFerLife on May 16, 2009, 01:52:12 am

The action in this was a thousand...no a million...no, a BILLION times better than the action in the garbled shitty cunty twaty bollocks in Transformers, and that is a fact.

Its all relative. Transformers was about toys fighting in a street in an American city somewhere.

Star Trek was set in the future and takes place in outer space. In that case, it should have been more epic and had more scenes like at the start, which was pretty impressive.

Stussy · « **Reply #209 on:** May 16, 2009, 02:08:04 am »

Given they were setting up the new cast and re-introducing the characters there was a traction on how much action they could have in it, and all things considered, given how this was an 'establishing' movie, they got the balance really well indeed, between re-introducing the crew, establishing the characters, and blending that with an adequate narrative, action, suspence etc etc

The next one won't have to worry about all the things this movie had to do.....they can just go for it Wrath of Khan style and take the foot off the pedal.

killer-heels · « **Reply #210 on:** May 16, 2009, 02:12:52 am »

Quote from: Stussy on May 16, 2009, 02:08:04 am

The next one won't have to worry about all the things this movie had to do.....they can just go for it Wrath of Khan style and take the foot off the pedal.

Yeah they have now the opportunity to ramp up the action considerably and I am sure that most non-trekkies will look for this to happen.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #211 on:** May 16, 2009, 02:23:30 am »

Quote from: killer_heels on May 16, 2009, 02:00:35 am

Its all relative. Transformers was about toys fighting in a street in an American city somewhere.

Star Trek was set in the future and takes place in outer space. In that case, it should have been more epic and had more scenes like at the start, which was pretty impressive.

You are arguing with a fact. That's just crazy.

Finn Solomon · « **Reply #212 on:** May 16, 2009, 03:11:44 am »

I for one thought there was almost too much action. I would have liked to see a little more interaction between the crew.

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #213 on:** May 16, 2009, 03:36:15 am »

Quote from: Finn Solomon on May 16, 2009, 03:11:44 am

I for one thought there was almost too much action. I would have liked to see a little more interaction between the crew.

Quote from: RedFerLife on May 9, 2009, 03:38:33 pm

There was almost too much action.

Fanxxxxtastic · « **Reply #214 on:** May 25, 2009, 11:25:31 pm »

Went to see it at the Odeon in Liverpool One this afternoon, and it all began quite strange. I've been used to just purchasing your ticket and making your way to the theatre, and sitting where you want. Not at this gaff. We were quietly sat for about 5 mins all on our own. Suddenly, this usher waltzed in, and asked to see our tix. Had to laugh. Didn't realise it was protocol to wait in the foyer to be called in and properly ushered to yer seat. Found it really strange that folk had to form an orderly queue in order for the usher to escort you to your seat. I also had to giggle when a few people tried to make a break for it, and he'd chase after them. Oh, how times have changed

On to the film. Fucking loved it! I've never been a trekkie, but thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Great special effects, story line not too tacky, thought the casting was pretty good too. The final scenes as Kirk appeared on the bridge as captain, said it all to me. His whole body language was so William Shatner. Mind you, I had to laugh at Kirk, he spent half the film getting beat up, oggling girls (which he was famous for), and hanging from dangerous ledges. It must have been a world record for hanging from a dangerous ledge for one character.

Loved Spock too.

Can't wait for the next Trek movie myself.

OsirisMVZ · « **Reply #215 on:** May 26, 2009, 01:36:25 am »

Yeah I did find it strange that he got his arse kicked in almost every single scene.

Circa1892 · « **Reply #216 on:** May 26, 2009, 10:02:31 pm »

Went to see this today!

As someone who's never really watched much of the original Star Trek, but loved Deep Space Nine (and tolerated Voyager and The NExt Generation), I absolutely LOVED it.

All the characters seemed to fit well, old Spock and young Spock comfortably stole the show - although Bones was equally good! Uhuru was fit!

Not too impressed with Nero as the bad guy, think they could've shown a lot more of him - I know he was sort of developed in a series of books before the film, but in the film it was just a bit "oh he's pissed off cos Romulus got destroyed in the future", it could've developed him a bit more. But aside from that minor gripe, such a good film!

Some great lines and moments aswell, e.g. "I would rather die than accept help from you", "Okay, Mr Sulu fire all we've got" - can't wait for number 2 (or is it number 12?)

CHOPPER · « **Reply #217 on:** June 13, 2009, 08:26:53 am »

Took the missus last night and she loved it and so did I, again!, surprised there were so many there to be honest a good 30 to 40 which ain't bad, anyways when were driving home I ask her did she get onto any of the old refernces, the redshirt death, the truth beetle etc she turns around and says "ye! wasn't it great that Spock got to kiss Uhura instead of Kirk, which how it was originally of meant to have been but Roddenberry changed the scene so Kirk did"

i nearly crashed the car!!! I didn't know this!
I grilled her all night to find out how she new this, she eventualy broke and told me she'd watched that Justin Lee Collins show about saving Star Trek that was on a couple of weeks ago and remembered it from there, for a minute there I nearly went to defcon 5 and arranged the wedding there and then.

BTW the film is still class a second time around and the 2 hours still flies, get on it before it moves to DVD, ye can't beat a large screen.

Stussy · « **Reply #218 on:** June 13, 2009, 12:14:40 pm »

Best mainstream Hollywood movie of the summer so far by far

Doubt it will be topped by any blockbuster

killer-heels · « **Reply #219 on:** June 13, 2009, 12:35:54 pm »

Quote from: Stussy on June 13, 2009, 12:14:40 pm

Best mainstream Hollywood movie of the summer so far by far

Doubt it will be topped by any blockbuster

Not exactly a high standard to reach to though is it?

Stussy · « **Reply #220 on:** June 13, 2009, 12:47:26 pm »

Quote from: killer_heels on June 13, 2009, 12:35:54 pm

Not exactly a high standard to reach to though is it?

Who cares?

I'm going to catch it again before it teleports out of cinemas to planet DVD!

jaygraham · « **Reply #221 on:** June 14, 2009, 09:18:49 pm »

Quote from: CHOPPER on June 13, 2009, 08:26:53 am

Took the missus last night and she loved it and so did I, again!, surprised there were so many there to be honest a good 30 to 40 which ain't bad, anyways when were driving home I ask her did she get onto any of the old refernces, the redshirt death, the truth beetle etc she turns around and says "ye! wasn't it great that Spock got to kiss Uhura instead of Kirk, which how it was originally of meant to have been but Roddenberry changed the scene so Kirk did" i nearly crashed the car!!! I didn't know this!
I grilled her all night to find out how she new this, she eventualy broke and told me she'd watched that Justin Lee Collins show about saving Star Trek that was on a couple of weeks ago and remembered it from there, for a minute there I nearly went to defcon 5 and arranged the wedding there and then.

BTW the film is still class a second time around and the 2 hours still flies, get on it before it moves to DVD, ye can't beat a large screen.

Hahahahahahaha

tHe^CuLpRit · « **Reply #222 on:** June 15, 2009, 07:23:50 pm »

Just saw this. Old Spock may have set the timeline right at the end so to speak, but the fact is there's no more Romulan or Vulcan home planet in this new timeline.

And the fact that Kirk had been brought up without a father makes it all slightly different, so it will be interesting. Add to the fact that Spock lost his mother, along with the majority of his people.

If done nicely it could make for some good sequels.

voodoo ray · « **Reply #223 on:** June 16, 2009, 10:17:47 pm »

Quote from: tHe^CuLpRit on June 15, 2009, 07:23:50 pm

Just saw this. Old Spock may have set the timeline right at the end so to speak, but the fact is there's no more Romulan or Vulcan home planet in this new timeline.

And the fact that Kirk had been brought up without a father makes it all slightly different, so it will be interesting. Add to the fact that Spock lost his mother, along with the majority of his people.

If done nicely it could make for some good sequels.

Romulan world is still around in this timeline, it got destoyed in the 'original' timeline.

tHe^CuLpRit · « **Reply #224 on:** June 16, 2009, 10:37:44 pm »

Quote from: voodoo ray on June 16, 2009, 10:17:47 pm

Romulan world is still around in this timeline, it got destoyed in the 'original' timeline.

Ah yes silly me. And there's also the paradox that the supernova is bound to still happen. But Kirk knows the whole deal now.

And, can they still make the red matter? Because only the Vulcans had the technology to do so.

OsirisMVZ · « **Reply #225 on:** June 17, 2009, 01:47:03 pm »

It's Star Trek! All will be revealed in the next episode

andym41 · « **Reply #226 on:** June 17, 2009, 02:24:01 pm »

Saw this last night and thought it was superb.

I thought the actors they chose to play the younger versions of the original cast were all pretty good especially Simon Pegg and the guy that played Sulu

CHOPPER · « **Reply #227 on:** September 21, 2009, 03:42:39 pm »

lionel_messia don't read this

Spoiler

The DVD rip is out there people and a Vgood one at that

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GBF · « **Reply #228 on:** September 21, 2009, 04:36:49 pm »

Quote from: CHOPPER on September 21, 2009, 03:42:39 pm

lionel_messia don't read this

bad time it came out....been checking almost every week if the damn doovdee was out

Okkervil · « **Reply #229 on:** September 21, 2009, 04:37:54 pm »

Have pre-ordered the blu-ray 3 disc special edition with free comic book!

Ive got all the other 10 films so will fit in nicely!

Manila Kop · « **Reply #230 on:** September 22, 2009, 03:12:15 am »

Quote from: Okkervil on September 21, 2009, 04:37:54 pm

Have pre-ordered the blu-ray 3 disc special edition with free comic book! Ive got all the other 10 films so will fit in nicely!

I hope that's the comic book which gives the backstory to the movie, it fills in a lot of the movie's plot holes

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #231 on:** November 10, 2012, 12:26:02 am »

Sometimes you watch a Star Trek Episode and think

WHAT. THE. FUCK.

[new username under construction] · « **Reply #232 on:** August 4, 2017, 12:48:23 pm »

Just downloaded all of DS9......holy Crap it's fucking boring! WFT!!!!

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #233 on:** August 4, 2017, 01:16:10 pm »

Give it time. However, there is a guide on which episodes you can skip if you're doing a mini run through. I'll see if I can find it, although I think it was posted in this thread.

PhilV · « **Reply #234 on:** August 4, 2017, 01:28:30 pm »

Quote from: shadowbane on August 4, 2017, 12:48:23 pm

Just downloaded all of DS9......holy Crap it's fucking boring! WFT!!!!

It can be slow but the Dominion War arc was awesome and some really cool battles, USS Defiant FTW! All the Bajoran shit sucked though.

oojason · « **Reply #235 on:** August 4, 2017, 01:29:01 pm »

Quote from: shadowbane on August 4, 2017, 12:48:23 pm

Just downloaded all of DS9......holy Crap it's fucking boring! WFT!!!!

It kicks in and hits it's stride during season 3 mate - after that it is some quality tv from a time where there were too few decent shows around.

From Season 1 I'd give Emissary, Past Prologue, A Man Alone, The Storyteller, Duet, Battle Line, The Nagus, In the Hands of the Prophets a go - and Q-Less too if you're a fan of Q.

From Season 2 I'd give The Homecoming, The Circle, The Siege, Cardassians, Rules of Acquisition, Necessary Evil, The Alternate, Whispers, The Maquis, Part I, The Maquis, Part II, The Wire, The Collaborator, Tribunal, The Jem’Hadar all a go.

Form Season 3 start watching all of them mate - there's a few stinkers and 'meh' episodes along the way - but mainly it's quality and starts to have story arcs throughout...

(pretty much any early episode featuring O'Brien and Garak heavily are worth watching too

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[new username under construction] · « **Reply #236 on:** August 4, 2017, 06:16:21 pm »

I'm trying guys but jesus it's dull......doing the abridged version that is online as well. Just....i can't even explain it. I'll keep going for now lol

Circa1892 · « **Reply #237 on:** September 23, 2017, 08:24:07 pm »

Discovery premiers in the UK on Netflix on Monday - be interesting to see whether it works...

Libertine · « **Reply #238 on:** September 24, 2017, 11:33:08 am »

Quote from: Circa1892 on September 23, 2017, 08:24:07 pm

Discovery premiers in the UK on Netflix on Monday - be interesting to see whether it works...

Will certainly watch it and give it a chance (no matter how bad the first trailer looked).

One of the things I don't like about it is the whole look and feel - it's set 10 years before the original but looks like a different century/universe. Now obviously they can't just recreate the dodgy sets of the original, but they could have incorporated a lot of the style, rather than what's standard these days - metallic looking "futuristic" that's just the same as any other sci-fi show and really forgettable.

Looking at some youtube videos - Ricky from My so-called life is in it!!

Circa1892 · « **Reply #239 on:** September 24, 2017, 03:51:29 pm »

Quote from: Libertine on September 24, 2017, 11:33:08 am

Will certainly watch it and give it a chance (no matter how bad the first trailer looked).

One of the things I don't like about it is the whole look and feel - it's set 10 years before the original but looks like a different century/universe. Now obviously they can't just recreate the dodgy sets of the original, but they could have incorporated a lot of the style, rather than what's standard these days - metallic looking "futuristic" that's just the same as any other sci-fi show and really forgettable.

Looking at some youtube videos - Ricky from My so-called life is in it!!

Yeah the metalic and lens flare from the trailers does seem to give it a lot more in common with the JJ Abrahms universe than the original. I do think it's a shame the show didn't pick up 20 years or so on from Voyager and DS9, but willing to give this a go...