The new Star Trek movie...

[Wing Nut]

TOTALLY FREAKING ROCKS!  Saw it today with the wifey and it was incredible...  :)

[machineman9]

Along with Wolverine, it is a film I am really looking forward to seeing.

I saw Star Trek: Nemesis the other weekend (yeah, there wasn't anything else on) and it wasn't too bad... So I am hoping this is very good too.

[Mazza]

FULLY AWESOME

[Wing Nut]

No problem...  Do they take American at the theater?

[Travis]

Machineman: this is unlike any other Trek ever created.  It rethinks most of the technology, as well as the story (whoops!), but leaves the characters pretty much as they were intended to be.

A friend of mine went to see a screening of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan in Austin, TX a week before the new movie came out.  Just after the beginning credits finished, the film burned up.  At that point the house lights came up and who walks out?  None other than Leonard Nimoy himself!  He asks the viewers if they want him to try to reload the film, or if they would just like to watch the new movie . . .  He even sat there and watched it with them!

One thing to remember about this film: Nimoy told an interviewer that when he sat on set watching the interaction between Zach Quinto (Spock) and Karl Urban (McCoy) that he actually got misty-eyed and teared up.  That should satisfy nearly any die-hard Trek fans worries about the characters.

The old Trek space battles always felt to me like WWI naval battles.  By comparison, these battles are like watching WWII dogfights.  Not the usual, at all!

[Craig.]

It was ok.
There were times I felt I was watching a rehashed nemesis to be honest, but it was good.
The thing that got me was the computer graphics. To see the enterprise in that new style was absolutely amazing and made the movie.
I'm hoping because of the way its been written we may get a next generation era movie explaining the timeline of events that lead to nero's situation. It's also left open the door for more from this timeline too.

[Goulash]

I thought the movie was excellent tbh 9/10. Only reason it doesn't get more were some dodgy sections with the plot but i can overlook that. This movie poo poos all over Nemesis and all that came before it (except Wrath of Khan, top story). Showing my age by saying i grew up watching it from day one but i think the cgi and other fx have definately helped a tired franchise. Rumour is the actors signed up for a set of three films assuming the first one did well so expect more to come. I personally can't wait

[Wing Nut]

To be honest, when I first saw Nero, I turned to the wife and said 'Romulans AGAIN?'  It does share a couple elements with Nemesis,which totally sucked.  Data singing is right up there with Kirk, Spock and McCoy doing "Row, Row, Row your boat in ST5.

[JBaymore]

My wife and I saw it last night... and LOVED it!

[Goulash]

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Leonard Nimoy also was great.... but I hope that most of his "age" there was makeup to make him his Vulcan age......... not reality.

[Wing Nut]

The only dialog they missed was ....... "He's dead, Jim!"

DeForrest Kelly always said he HATED saying that line...  ;)

[JBaymore]

Just a quick update, Leonard Nimoy is old lol, it's been over 40 years since the original Star Trek series

Yeah, I know that.  It is just that he looked pretty "unhealthy".  I am hoping that is his many 100's of year "Vulcan" age showing delinberatley, not that he is looking that frail in real life.  He must be well into his 80s IRL by now.

best,

.................john

[Craig.]

John I wrote a very simmilar review to yours before my internet crashed. I cant be bothered to write it again as you've summed it up nicely.
I would say though I disagree on the Kirk comparisons. I thought he did quite a poor job in comparison to the others.
Without a doubt the best has to be McCoy. I think Deforrest Kelly would have been proud of the job he did. The only criticsm there would be he was slightly too big. Bones was always quite a skinny man.
Zachary Quintos look was so much like a much younger spock that he nailed the part perfectly.
Eric Banna is one of my favourate actors so I was always going to enjoy his role as Nero.
As soon as I saw the guy in the red uniform I think I along with everyone in the theater let out a laughing, "he's a gonner"

I'm so glad Nimoy did have a part in the movie, his emotion and acting ability brought something to the movie that made it easy to feel the loss of Vulcan in the character.

[microlight]

Goulash,

The guy who plays Scotty in the new film is Simon Pegg, a UK actor and ex-stand-up comedian whose father (according to Wikipedia) was a jazz musician and keyboard salesman. This quote might help - "Paul McGillion auditioned for the Scotty role for the 2009 Star Trek movie, and received James Doohan's son's endorsement. However, Simon Pegg's casting was announced on October 12, 2007."

[Goulash]

Thanks for the heads up on that microlight, i knew scottys son was involved somewhere along the line