UKRM Film Club: Star Trek

I watched the first preview screening of the new "Star Trek" film
(called "Star Trek") and it's bloody good.

< 'Trailer 3 - in HD'

Seems more action oriented than the rest of the films and has a nice
little revenge plot line as well as some totty (of both persuasions)
as a distraction.

It follows the main cast through their first mission aboard the
Enterprise and is directed by J.J. Abrams (Lost, Fringe) and features
a rather unknown Chris Pine as Kirk (I could eat him alive), Zachary
Quinto as Spock (Heoroes, 24) Eric Bana as the baddie, our local Simon
Pegg as Scotty and Winona Ryder even has a few brief appearances as
Spock's mummy.

< 'Trailer 2 - in HD'

Probably not for everyone, it's an action Sci-Fi flick after all, but
I took mother to see it with me and she enjoyed it too.

 

#My name is Norman Bates.

 

Dammit, you ginged me while I was writing my review.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

And I included trailers.

 

Although not a Trekkie myself, I find the similarity between the name of
the actor portraying the young Kirk and that of the Captain in the pilot
episode (Christopher Pike(1)) uncannily similar.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Pike_(Star_Trek)

 

I don't want to fuel your paranoia, but Cpt. Pike's in this one too.

To quoth the man himself, "Your father was in charge of a star ship for 12
minutes and saved 800 lives. I dare you to do better".

Hey, I did say that there were some cheesy lines.

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Before I bugger off to bed, can I just take exception to this, and point out
that this film has the most stupid revenge plot ever, please?

Minor spoilers follow ...


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Look at Nero's motivation - he's slightly pissed off because his home
planet's been destroyed, but then he travels back in time and gains access
to the technology to stop the destruction happening.

Does he scoot on his merry way and stop his planet being destroyed? Does he
buggery. He uses the technology to try to blow up two completely unrelated
planets and to torment (apparently) the only person in the entire galaxy who
lifted a finger to save his home planet in the first place. And, on the
way, he destroys 20-odd ships from a *totally* unrelated race for no fucking
reason what-so-ever.

To me that's not a "nice little revenge plot line".

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The speccy Geordie twat.

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, AndrewR
<> typed

(Snip)

Could I refer Sir to any daily newspaper?

Because (let's be honest here) that's nowhere near as fucked-up as the
justifications for half the shit that happens daily on this rather small
planet in an unfashionable region of the Milky Way.

--
Wicked Uncle Nigel - "He's hopeless, but he's honest"

I have already made the greatest contribution to the fight against climate
change that I can make: I have decided not to breed. Now quit bugging me and
go and talk to the Catholics.

 

He did have 20 years in the alternative reality to get rather pissed
off about it.

Plus if the baddie hadn't been totally OTT then the MPAA & BBFC would
have given the film a higher certificate than a 12A because violence
is only justified if it is reasonable in comparison to the threat.
Therefore if the baddie had just sat there sobbing and Kirk pressed
the LET'S BLOW HIM UP MWAHAHAHAHAH! button it wouldn't have been
justified.

 

Was it going to be destoyed? Was there an escape capsule or whatever
on the futuristic ship that could have let Nero do evil, evil things
to the Vulcan & Federation peeps through the wormhole, whever that
might have been a portal to?

 

A decent (for a cam) version of it from Kingdom was released this
morning. It uses the audio from the DEViSE release and the video from
the Russian Telesync (doesn't look like a TS to me, it's a cam) - and
it's REASONABLE quality for cam. The audio is, for some reason,
encoded at 172kb/sec when the source DEViSE audio was only 115kb/sec.

Torrent:
<http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4889827/Star_Trek_2009_TELESYNC_AAC-SecretMyth_(Kingdom-Release)>