OMG, Do I love the new Star Trek!

[Lorax7844]

I love it. Everything about it, from the hopeful look to the future to the hotness of Spock and his lady love. Seriously I cannot wait to see this movie again. Am I alone? I was a casual veiwer of Star Trek. I watched the 60's series on Sunday mornings after wrestling and then briefly flirted with Next Generation, I understand the lore and the love for the original series.

The new series is literally knocking my socks off. With the newly added dimensions, and the new Spock romance, I am 100% in love with this reboot.

Anyone that feels the same way please come and talk with me about how the new dimensions could effect cannon of the original series.

[Frank Cannon]

1. I haven't had this kind of cinematic afterglow since the first Star Wars

It's the first movie in a long time that I want to see again. I have a colleague who was a big Next Generation fan, and she's seen it TEN times.

[Lorax7844]

2. 100% agreed

it is an optimism to be shared with everyone.

[jeff30997]

3. I'm sure I will too but...

apparently the hardcore Trekkies just hate it and are very

disappointed:

wwv.cnn.com//2009/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/21/review.new.star.trek.film./index.html

[Cannikin]

4. Not all of the Trekkies...

I've been watching since I was old enough to sit up at watch tv. The trekkies need to realize that this reboot has breathed new life into an otherwise lame duck. I was grateful for the 'reboot'. I thin JJ did for Trek what Ron Moore did for Battlestar Galactica.


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[Blue_Tires]

5. welcome to the site!

[HopeHoops]

6. Is it one of those rare films that really mandates seeing it on a big screen?

There really aren't many. The Lord of the Rings trilogy was the last thing out I would say qualified.

[Frank Cannon]

7. See it on the biggest screen with the clearest sound system you can

This is the first space movie where the ships seem enormous and actually "feel" like spaceships.

[HopeHoops]

10. Well, let me tell you about the first Star Wars movie...

First of all, if you are old enough to have seen it in a theater when it first came out, you might have known of one of which I speak. This theater had two screens, one really big one and another that was even larger. They later turned them into 3 and 5 screens respectively without expanding the building! I saw it on the bigger of the two. There are no comparable screens in theaters these days - well, other than at a drive-in. IMAX isn't even as big, but I've heard it is a pretty freaky experience - haven't seen one yet.

Anyway, the screen had an ocher-yellow Roman curtain. The thing was still working its way up when the text started to scroll (there were no commercials or trailers ahead of the movie). It finally finished about the time the text faded into the distance. When the rebel ship came out of the upper right corner, everyone ducked. Then came the imperial cruiser - THAT was a big fucking ship!!!

Now fast forward to today. Can you imagine what the new Star Trek would look like on a screen THAT HUGE? Actually, that's got me thinking. I bet it will make it to our drive-in (yes we still have one near by). They dumped the squawk boxes long ago - short-range FM so you use the car's sound system and can't drive off with the damn thing still clamped to the window.

I'll wait and see it there.

[Frank Cannon]

11. Are you in Southern Idaho?

Because that's exactly what they did to one of our theaters here. They took two very nice screens and carved them up into eight little ones. It was outrageous.

Oh, yes, I remember seeing the Star Wars opening on the big screen for the first time. That's something you never forget.

[HopeHoops]

15. No, this was on Rt 40 just outside the Baltimore beltway.

I think it was called "40 West Cinema". I'm not even sure if it is still there. I go past that AREA a lot, but not down that stretch of the road.

[pokerfan]

9. OMG Yes!

Shaky-Cam^TM and computer-generated lens flares can only be appreciated on the big screen! For example, had JJ Abrams directed the TOS episode, Space Seed it might have looked something like this: http://www.youtube.com/v/iAaX8Aq6smQ.

[Captain Hilts]

12. YES!

[Orrex]

8. You should send a PM about it to Deja Q. He totally loves that movie

Welcome to DU! :hi:

[mainegreen]

13. I agree. It was just missing one thing: space Pufferfish.

I mean really, how awesome would that have been? A giant pufferfish sweeping down from on high, phasers blasting all before it!

[Deja Q]

14. 1. It's "canon", not "cannon".

2. The movie should be shot through a cannon, having been aimed at the sun.

3. What dimensions? The crew are treated as campy jokes, the sort that was the same in "Star Trek V"... JJ Abrams, who never liked or understood the show, would not have sat through a couple dozen Trek shows and movies to bring us fans some nudge-nudge-wink-wink references in some vain attempt to 'appeal' to us...

Even Kirk with the Kobyashi maru wouldn't have been a pompous, snide ass.

The movie proves clearly that Abrams doesn't understand Trek.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/07/jj-abrams-interview-star-trek

Maybe Abrams can dig up Gene Roddenberry's space vial, bring him alive, and ask him some questions.

[LanternWaste]

16. A sorely needed reinterpretation of a dead classic.

This new interpretation may invigorate a close to flat-lining franchise. Against my better judgment, I saw it last night and could only think as the end credit began, "Oh, poor, poor LW-- you had no idea they'd finally hit a Star Trek movie out of the park, did you?"

Honestly, after walking out of the theaters for each previous ST film (well, at least since Khan), my first thought was always, "Sigh-- maybe they'll finally get it next time...". Never happened. Until now.

As for canon-- Abrams was quoted as saying just after he got the green-light to do a Trek film, "f**c canon-- I'm doing MY movie!"



A sorely needed reinterpretation of a dead classic.