Fred ,'Life of the Party'
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
I thought it was fun too. Stupid, but fun.
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.
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.
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.
Count me in on the liked it train.