1. Fast & Furious 6 $122M
2. The Hangover Part III $51M
3. Star Trek Into Darkness $48M
4. Epic $44M
5. Iron Man 3 $24.6M
Vroom vroom! (That's the estimated four-day gross, three-day being $98.6 million.)
Mal: You tell me right now, little Kaylee, you really think you can do this? Kaylee: Sure. Yeah. I think so. 'Sides, if I mess up, not like you'll be able to yell at me.
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Polter-Cow - May 26, 2013 8:45:20 am PDT #24556 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Atropa - May 26, 2013 9:42:46 am PDT #24557 of 30000
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
I need to go back and read what y'all wrote about Trek, but I just saw it. So many lens flares. So much stupid.
We saw it last night. Pete spent the drive home ranting about everything that was wrong, dumb, and frustrating, which was entertaining. My take-aways from the movie were: J.J. Abrams shouldn't have been allowed near the Star Trek franchise, Simon Pegg as Scotty is still adorable, and I really like Cumberbatch's voice even if all he's doing is chewing on the scenery.
le nubian - May 26, 2013 10:19:31 am PDT #24558 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I actually was okay with Abrams for the first movie. I thought that was well done and saw the movie a 2nd time soon after the 1st.
This movie though really chapped my hide.
Tom Scola - May 26, 2013 10:51:45 am PDT #24559 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
J.J. Abrams shouldn't have been allowed near the Star Trek franchise
I don't think Abrams could do a coherent version of Make Way for Ducklings.
Gris - May 26, 2013 11:31:14 am PDT #24560 of 30000
Hey. New board.
Wow, I really missed the disliking-STiD boat, huh? I still thought it was a lot of fun. I doubt I'll buy it like I did the first one, but I'd watch it again on Netflix streaming for sure.
le nubian - May 26, 2013 11:39:38 am PDT #24561 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I will rewatch it too! I will stop when the torpedoes go off in Khan's newly acquired ship. And maybe FF until the final 5 minutes. The End!
Dana - May 26, 2013 11:49:11 am PDT #24562 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I thought it was fun too. Stupid, but fun.
§ ita § - May 26, 2013 11:53:18 am PDT #24563 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I read a complaint that old!Kirk respected women, with a not-so-between-the-lines implication that nuKirk did not.
I'm trying to imagine Shatner's Kirk evincing any particular respect for women, or Pine's Kirk being a sexist ass that's new to the franchise (for some reason my brain keeps replacing Shatner's communicator with an ERA Now! button), and I'm not sure what in particular they're referring to.
Consuela - May 26, 2013 12:02:52 pm PDT #24564 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My take on Shatner!Kirk is that he's not particularly bad for the time when it was made. It was expected that a single male lead/hero would have an assortment of brief attachments during the run of the show. And only one was something I'd call love (Edith Keeler). He's not obnoxious to the women on his crew, and I can't imagine him stealing a look at someone changing her clothes after she's asked him not to.
Pine!Kirk is more, well, obnoxious, I think. He hits on Uhuru pretty relentlessly, and comes across as more of a jackass generally, even if he doesn't necessarily sleep around any more than Shatner!Kirk did.
That's my take, anyway. If ST is supposed to convey an egalitarian future, in comparison to the present day, Pine is failing rather more than Shatner did.
Jesse - May 26, 2013 12:04:31 pm PDT #24565 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
In the new timeline, we're only just approaching the timing of TOS, right? I hope Pine!Kirk gets less jackassish as they go, assuming they're going to keep going.