Originally Posted By trekkeruss I saw the movie today, but I'm too lazy to write something up now. I'll just say I enjoyed it very much. Also, I see some of you talking about TOS. CBS.com has 20 of the shows online. So if you don't have the DVD sets, you can watch The Man Trap, The Trouble With Tribbles, The City On The Edge Of Forever, and more: <a href="http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/" target="_blank">http://www.cbs.com/classics/star_trek/</a>
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Karl Urban's delivery really irritated me. Otherwise, the movie was fun. Not great, but fun.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Karl Urban's delivery really irritated me. >> Wow, I thought he did a great job as Bones. He was closer in spirit to the original character than any of the other actor's were to theirs.
Originally Posted By BlueDevilSF Sorry. While I thought the other actors -- especially Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine -- slipped easily into their roles, I felt Urban's performance bordered on parody or else it was just lazy acting on his part.
Originally Posted By danyoung Another vote FOR Urban. He seemed to be just right as a younger version of an old crotchety doctor. I wasn't that into Zachary Quinto, but that's probably because I spent (wasted?) a couple of seasons hating him on Heroes.
Originally Posted By markymouse For me, the weakest character had to be Kirk. Well, Nero. But after Nero, Kirk. McCoy was a good job of "doing" McCoy. Scotty and Chekov were parodies, but funny. Sulu and Uhura were kind of eh. And Spock was imperfect but as good as I can imagine any one doing. But I really didn't care for Kirk. It's as if the writers sat around trying to figure out how to make him Kirk, and what they came up with was skirt chasing. And not original Kirk successful skirt chasing. But creapy guy skirt chasing that couldn't walk past a female without checking her out. It's sad that no one since the mid 60s has been able to write Kirk as anything but a joke. I kept expecting him to say "Heh, how you doin'?" ala Joey. I'd love for someone to write a great Kirk story. Because he's not just a horny fat guy with a ... weird ... speak ... ing ... style.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss In a lot of ways, the movie is just not that well written. That whole bit with Spock shooting Kirk off in an escape pod down to the icy planet, then Kirk getting chased by the monster, meeting up with future Spock, who then takes him to the outpost where Scotty is hanging out...just lame. Overall, the movie was skewed too much towards action. But now that the producers have gotten the reintroductions out of the way, in the next movie they can hopefully focus less on the eye-candy and more on crafting a more compelling story and dive deeper into the relationships between Kirk, Spock, McCoy and the rest of the crew.
Originally Posted By Mr X Absolutely. By the way, what were they just sort of throwing away that escape pod? How much do those things cost? Wouldn't beaming him directly to the outpost have been far cheaper?
Originally Posted By ni_teach Mr X said: By the way, what were they just sort of throwing away that escape pod? How much do those things cost? Wouldn't beaming him directly to the outpost have been far cheaper? A escape pod has supplies and other things that would let Kirk live. Beaming him down in his street cloths on an ice planet would have been closer to murder. Spock was not trying to kill him. Personally I really enjoyed the movie. Yes, it has many plot flaws but it was "fun".
Originally Posted By trekkeruss <<Wouldn't beaming him directly to the outpost have been far cheaper?>> It's unclear how far away that planet was when he was ejected from the Enterprise. Perhaps it was not within transporter range.
Originally Posted By ecdc >>In a lot of ways, the movie is just not that well written. That whole bit with Spock shooting Kirk off in an escape pod down to the icy planet, then Kirk getting chased by the monster, meeting up with future Spock, who then takes him to the outpost where Scotty is hanging out...just lame.<< This was my real beef with the film, too. Since it's dealing with time travel, the writers could have included some brief exposition explaining that Spock knew Kirk would be there and he was waiting for him. But to have it be a coincidence that they meet up there and that they meet up with Scotty? Wow, that's asking me to suspend A LOT of disbelief. And of course, I can suspend that and believe in different things in the context of the movie.
Originally Posted By DlandDug I assumed that Spock, being from the future, knew that Kirk would show up and was essentially waiting for him. Spock didn't seem at all surprised to see Kirk, did he?
Originally Posted By DAR Trekerruss not steal your thunder but You Tube has all three seasons of TOS <a href="http://www.youtube.com/show?p=Zk2dX5DnW_c&s=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/show?p=...nW_c&s=1</a>
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^Yeah, just too bad you have to be in the U.S. to watch them . <<In a lot of ways, the movie is just not that well written. That whole bit with Spock shooting Kirk off in an escape pod down to the icy planet, then Kirk getting chased by the monster, meeting up with future Spock, who then takes him to the outpost where Scotty is hanging out...just lame>> Yep this was my biggest gripe of the film with I think a lot of peoples. This and how Kirk was just made Captain at the end when the kid havent even graduated from Starfleet academy yet. C'mon, its a little TOO far fetched!!
Originally Posted By WorldDisney <<I assumed that Spock, being from the future, knew that Kirk would show up and was essentially waiting for him. Spock didn't seem at all surprised to see Kirk, did he?>> No offense Doug, but if you seen the movie, I dont know how you could make that assumption. Number one, Spock didnt plan to go back to the past, he was simply sucked in. Hell, he didnt know what time period he landed in until he got there. And two, he clearly states he was dumped there by Nero, so its not like he planned to be there himself. Both of them coincidently got dumped on the same planet and he looked really surprised to me to see Kirk standing in front of him. And three, since Nero's very pressence changed everything in that time period and Spock followed right behind him in the black hole, Spock would be just as clueless about what was happening and the wherabouts of Kirk since the chain of events of how they first met was obviously changed in this timeline. How that scene was written, there is so much wrong with how they got together, but I personnally think it wouldnt seem SO random if they at least met at the starfleet outpost. At least it wouldve been a focal point of both meeting up somewhere more logical, then say, a cave, and explain how they both ended up being at the same place. They both go there for shelter after both being unceremoniously dumped there, that would make SOME sense!! But the whole meetinging-in-a-random cave bit on a desolate ice planet is ridiculous from an otherwise good movie.
