Star Trek into darkness

[vandeleur]

Finally persuaded my eldest to accompany me to the movies to see this , once she finishes her tea.
So spoiler free review to follow .

[Hardrock69]

Does not arrive here in the states until Friday.

I get off work....I go straight to the theater....

[vandeleur]

Won't spoilt it for folks , but it's pretty fucking good

[jhale667]

Won't spoilt it for folks , but it's pretty fucking good

Cool, meant to see it last weekend (have free movie passes, FFS), but was a bit under the weather... definitely want to try and catch it this weekend!

[Hardrock69]

Oh I am sure it kicks ass. The last one blew my mind, as I have posted numerous times.

[vandeleur]

Gents I won't say much because I'll spoil it ,but it rocks big time .
You will not be disappointed.

[TFM_Dale]

I'm planning on going this weekend, glad to hear it is good, I loved the last one, and I'm not even a Trek fan.

[Seshmeister]

It's fine but



UNLEASH THE SPOILERS....













DON'T GO ANY FURTHER

















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YOU WERE WARNED...

[Seshmeister]

A lot of stuff bugged me about this movie bringing it down to a 6/10.


I'm not a Trekkie by a long way but have seen most of the movies and most of TNG and the original series.

So in list form

1) Is it just me but is NewKirk not a bit of a dick? Has the guy any charisma beyond his Angelina Jolie lips? If you met him would you want to go for a beer?

2) It's a bit tiresome as a Scottish person to have an English guy impersonate a Canadian impersonating a Scot but ok whatever.

3) Magic blood? Really? Magic fucking blood? You repeat the most poignant scene from any Star Trek movie but replace the whole next movie Genesis plot line with magic blood. Did anyone who saw this think for a second that Kirk had died?

Also apart from the magic blood in Khan we have 72 other magic blood people to use so lets not go risk our lives to ridiculous levels to get his.

4) Afterwards we freeze the magic blood people and the power of immortality? Hmm...

5) Jerkoff can lift 2 people with 1 arm? This is such a movie piece of crap thing you always see. Hero grabs bar with one arm, hangs over precipice and pulls himself up. Most people can't do that. To extend it to 2 people is pushing it to fuck, especially when physically Checkov makes me look like The Rock.

6) 1 Stun shot on the bridge stuns Khan but 6 at the climax have no effect?

7) I heard a Nerdism that when Spock in the earlier movies sees his home planet, family, billions of people, and everyone he has ever known his human side means he looks a bit perturbed. In this movie he's shouting KHHHHHHHHHHAAAAAN at the merest provocation.


I'm sure there are dozens of super researched assassinations of this film on the web by Trekkie experts. I'm just talking here about those that will annoy a 'normal' person.

It was ok...

[Seshmeister]

Also just sayin but it's a great bar argument which I will hand to you guys.

The new Star Trek franchise is set 250 years in the future.

Unless for most of that time the world is run by extreme fascist organisations then it's pretty fucking unlikely that in the 10 generations between us and them that everyone wouldn't end up being mixed race?

Over 90% of the planet are not white, how likely is it that most of the Enterprise personnel is?

[FORD]

Now that you mention it, it is odd that the only character in the original Star Trek cast (and also the new movies) of mixed ethnicity was Spock, and his parents were from two different planets.

Of course the old school Captain Kirk did his best..... he was hitting on everything female from one end of the galaxy to the other. White....black....green....blue.... didn't matter to him. But in the end, his only apparent offspring (seen in Star Trek II) was born to a white woman. Maybe in the new franchise Kirk and Uhura might actually hook up and have a kid?

[Seshmeister]

Is it just me that always hears that name as A Whore A?

[vandeleur]

I have a nobba/genius at work who says such stupid/genius things that he has hit legendary status.

So his take on star wars is this .

"The original star wars it was great, dead good loved all the space ships .the second one that empire strikes back that was great. dead exciting loved the darth vader bits. But that jedi one fuck me that was far fetched"

Sesh beware

[Seshmeister]

Fair comment but magic blood for fuck sake...???

[FORD]

Isn't the magic blood thing more or less a ripoff of the "midi-chlorians" thing from the Star Wars prequels??

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Midi-chlorian