Having had some time to mull it over, I have had a slight change of heart about the new Star Trek movie. While I do still entirely disapprove of writers and directors taking long-standing fictional characters, recreating their entire universe, and then explaining it all away with time travel nonsense, I do have something good to say about the movie … other than that lots of things blew up and the effects were great. I’m not wild about the movie, but there was one small aspect of it which might make me want to see it again and possibly even own the DVD.
In a word … Spock.
I have a very firm mental image of Spock. As a small child, I was in love with Spock. Need I remind you of the silly drawings of Spock I did in third or fourth grade? I had a crush on Spock well into my tweens. Maybe longer. OK, forever … I will love Spock forever! Anyway, when I heard who they had cast for the part of Spock in the new movie, I was –to put it politely– peeved. But now I am prepared to announce … I still have a crush on Spock. :sweety:
Sort of yummy, if you are into Vulcans. I won’t say his character was especially well written, but I’ve decided to like the new Spock, for now. I’m sure they will screw it completely up in the next movie. Well, as far as I am concerned, they have already screwed it all up with this alternate reality bull and destroying the entire known Star Trek reality to create new stories with redesigned and rewritten old characters. Too damn lazy to work with the universe that existed, I guess. Much easier just to make stuff up as they go along.
Hmmmm. Now that I think about it a little more, the only things I liked about the new Star Trek movie were the effects, explosions, and Spock. Both Spocks. Everything else about the movie still annoys my inner Star Trek geek a little too much.
Though the new Spock is no naked Hugh Jackman running through the woods, so I do still want to go see Wolverine. Hugh Jackman naked? That’s worth $7 and the possibility of watching a movie I think will annoy me in the same ways the Star Trek one did.
Fascinating.
Sylar!! I didn’t know he was playing Spock :D :boobies:
My boyfriend went to go see Wolverine with his parents…he didn’t mention anything about Wolverine being naked in the movie!! Someone’s in trouble…
See, and now I am having second second-thoughts about it, and even the new Spock can’t make me like the movie. Well, except that he is cute and looks like I wouldn’t mind a young Spock looking. ;)
I’d have loved the movie had it not been a Star Trek movie. It was a good scifi movie, and the story would have been just as good without forcibly recreating things that have been around forever. I hate that.