'Dirty Girls'
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Did any of the non-white-non-male-non-humans in that scene have lines, though? Present in the background is a pretty low bar for diversity.
I was bugged that, once again, the apparently super-competent female scientist felt the need to randomly change clothes in front of Kirk. These movies have at least as much male eye candy as female, but do we ever get to see Zachary Quinto in his underwear? Fair's fair, JJ!
Did any of thenon-white-non-male-non-humans in that scene have lines, though? Present in the background is a pretty low bar for diversity.
They did not, but in fairness, no one in that scene spoke except Kirk, Pike, and Marcus. Everyone else was background. Even Spock didn't have any lines, although he got to emote some.
In this brave new universe, Spock emotes. A lot. He's emoted more in two movies than he did in three seasons of the tv show. This is not the old Spock. I don't dislike it, exactly, but it bothers me a bit. With all his talk of getting rid of his feelings, he's pretty emotional.
I noticed the same thing Felicia Day noticed, but I also appreciated the black helmswoman who took over for Chekov (or, wait, Sulu's at the helm, so I guess she's the navigator) and the general diversity of characters on the bridge.
I did not know that After Earth was a film by M. Night Shyamalan. Beau *hates* Will Smith, so I knew I wasn't going to see this film in the theater. The trailers made it look unappealing.
But the M. Night shit? Wow. I may not even watch this on TNT.
And Will Smith's character is named: Cypher Raige.
Wut.
I wondered how something with such a patently ridiculous plot got made! Is he financing the project with his own money, or did he get incriminating pictures of a studio head?
Oh, and Will Smith contributed to the script story.
Matt, I have NO idea, but this may be the definition of a clusterfuck.
I think Will Smith gets anything he wants. He's one of the most bankable stars out there.