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Star Trek! MOVIE. <3
Okay! To begin with I like the score. Screw the elitists; the tuba was awesome. Any instrument you can feel whenever the villain is onscreen? Is a party. ^_^
Then there's...Oh George and Winona. (That's Mr. And Mrs. Kirk, to most of you.) I'm a great audience, waterworks on cue, if not for the cue I was supposed to have them for. The strings swell and the shuttle pulls away and some asshole front left center coughs "BULLSHIT!" into his hands. His friends hissed him to silence, preventing me from diving over some railing.
I can appreciate that there are people who love to point out how the magician does it.
I will not endure it on release day. Luckily there was no need to choke a bitch, as there was nary a peep from thence.
But right yes, excellent start, and then we have Yes, But MY Genius Farmboy Does It TO THE BEASTIE BOYS, cut just short enough to be awesome. And give me goosebumps, because, to a young James, that song is classic classic rock, as in Fur Elise type classic, speaking purely in terms of age.
Then there was...God I don't remember now, it's a blur of OMG OMG OMG <3 and stuff blowing up, and Chris Pine is so hot, I mean really, really, I thought he was fun in the trailer JESUS CHRIST. The screen lights up when he's on it and all the hotness in the room is just kind of sucked toward him.
I want to touch him. A lot. Inappropriately.
AND THEN THERE WAS KARL URBAN. DRAWLING AT ME. <3
...Oh, right, the movie. Um.
The new Romulans are Nomads, if Nomads had smaller teeth and wore homeless coats. When Nero literally hit the deck, my breath caught because that is exactly how they move, like something bigger and heavier and meaner than human.
They also tend to verbalize the same way, right in a person's face. Not shouting, shouting is for being heard at a distance, but right up against you without blinking, because food has this annoying tendency to believe it can escape. Which it cannot. Not without super tag-team Kirk and Spock awesome backup. Period.
This is still not quite movie. Okay...
UHURA. Is still the most awesome, despite not getting to do a whole lot except rub up against Spock at every opportunity.
There's evidence for that in canon, and I thought it was cute, and also her Orion roomie was hot.
There's a lot of hot in this movie. Both ways. So even if you hate Star Trek, hey, eye candy!
We also have adorable overactors with Scottish accents? And for some reason Sarek (Spock's dad) is British now? *Deliberate obvious bait is obviously deliberate.*
People have said there was junk science, but other than the usual Treknology (a magically super-duper destructive substance), it wasn't bad.
Inner feminist notes that Young Spock only threw down when Vulcan bullies said, "Yo daddy so stupid an' yo mama puts out like WHUT DAYUM", but when interrogated said only, "They called you a stupidhead" to his father.
In other words: his mother's reputation matters for exactly the length of time it takes him to bunch his knuckles and take a swing.
That's seriously my only gripe with the entire movie. Other than the "BULLSHIT" asshole, but that's no fault of the movie. It sounded rather like it was the fault of a few beers, actually.
Sulu was a fucking martial arts GOD, WITH A SWORD, and the way they got rid of the redshirt was hilarious and throat-closingly awful at the same time.
Actually everything was like that, giving you just enough time to gasp at Things Gone Horribly Wrong before the next laugh, the next line, the Next Worse Emergency.
The pacing was so very, very good. The action was entertaining. I loved how Kirk got his gun. And how he became captain! And, well, everything Spock did, because, he's Spock, and every girl in this fandom who has achieved or will achieve puberty has gone through A Thing For Spock, because he's smart and completely unavailable and seriously strong.
But it's more than that, it's the whole "one foot in either culture" thing and I think it just got too personal in here. Anyway.
And Leonard Nimoy is in it, and the alternate-reality plot was solid, and THE ONION IS RIGHT THERE ARE NO BORING SPEECHES, just.
There will be more convincing squee once I'm awake again.
Stuff BLOWS UP. IN A STAR TREK MOVIE. And there's BRASS INSTRUMENTS. Mostly tuba.
Go see this movie. Go do it now.
Okay! To begin with I like the score. Screw the elitists; the tuba was awesome. Any instrument you can feel whenever the villain is onscreen? Is a party. ^_^
Then there's...Oh George and Winona. (That's Mr. And Mrs. Kirk, to most of you.) I'm a great audience, waterworks on cue, if not for the cue I was supposed to have them for. The strings swell and the shuttle pulls away and some asshole front left center coughs "BULLSHIT!" into his hands. His friends hissed him to silence, preventing me from diving over some railing.
I can appreciate that there are people who love to point out how the magician does it.
I will not endure it on release day. Luckily there was no need to choke a bitch, as there was nary a peep from thence.
But right yes, excellent start, and then we have Yes, But MY Genius Farmboy Does It TO THE BEASTIE BOYS, cut just short enough to be awesome. And give me goosebumps, because, to a young James, that song is classic classic rock, as in Fur Elise type classic, speaking purely in terms of age.
Then there was...God I don't remember now, it's a blur of OMG OMG OMG <3 and stuff blowing up, and Chris Pine is so hot, I mean really, really, I thought he was fun in the trailer JESUS CHRIST. The screen lights up when he's on it and all the hotness in the room is just kind of sucked toward him.
I want to touch him. A lot. Inappropriately.
AND THEN THERE WAS KARL URBAN. DRAWLING AT ME. <3
...Oh, right, the movie. Um.
The new Romulans are Nomads, if Nomads had smaller teeth and wore homeless coats. When Nero literally hit the deck, my breath caught because that is exactly how they move, like something bigger and heavier and meaner than human.
They also tend to verbalize the same way, right in a person's face. Not shouting, shouting is for being heard at a distance, but right up against you without blinking, because food has this annoying tendency to believe it can escape. Which it cannot. Not without super tag-team Kirk and Spock awesome backup. Period.
This is still not quite movie. Okay...
UHURA. Is still the most awesome, despite not getting to do a whole lot except rub up against Spock at every opportunity.
There's evidence for that in canon, and I thought it was cute, and also her Orion roomie was hot.
There's a lot of hot in this movie. Both ways. So even if you hate Star Trek, hey, eye candy!
We also have adorable overactors with Scottish accents? And for some reason Sarek (Spock's dad) is British now? *Deliberate obvious bait is obviously deliberate.*
People have said there was junk science, but other than the usual Treknology (a magically super-duper destructive substance), it wasn't bad.
Inner feminist notes that Young Spock only threw down when Vulcan bullies said, "Yo daddy so stupid an' yo mama puts out like WHUT DAYUM", but when interrogated said only, "They called you a stupidhead" to his father.
In other words: his mother's reputation matters for exactly the length of time it takes him to bunch his knuckles and take a swing.
That's seriously my only gripe with the entire movie. Other than the "BULLSHIT" asshole, but that's no fault of the movie. It sounded rather like it was the fault of a few beers, actually.
Sulu was a fucking martial arts GOD, WITH A SWORD, and the way they got rid of the redshirt was hilarious and throat-closingly awful at the same time.
Actually everything was like that, giving you just enough time to gasp at Things Gone Horribly Wrong before the next laugh, the next line, the Next Worse Emergency.
The pacing was so very, very good. The action was entertaining. I loved how Kirk got his gun. And how he became captain! And, well, everything Spock did, because, he's Spock, and every girl in this fandom who has achieved or will achieve puberty has gone through A Thing For Spock, because he's smart and completely unavailable and seriously strong.
But it's more than that, it's the whole "one foot in either culture" thing and I think it just got too personal in here. Anyway.
And Leonard Nimoy is in it, and the alternate-reality plot was solid, and THE ONION IS RIGHT THERE ARE NO BORING SPEECHES, just.
There will be more convincing squee once I'm awake again.
Stuff BLOWS UP. IN A STAR TREK MOVIE. And there's BRASS INSTRUMENTS. Mostly tuba.
Go see this movie. Go do it now.
