Once you eliminate the impossible...
May. 11th, 2009 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackwabbit...whatever is left, however improbable, must be the truth.
And that improbability is that I loved Star Trek a second time!
Not only that, I have re-ordered my list, at least for tonight: Undiscovered Country > 2009 > Kahn > Insurrection > First Contact >> Nemesis >>> Voyage Home > Generations > Search for Spock > Final Frontier > The Motion Picture.
Seriously, this movie is made of win and that is really all there is to say.
They didn't get me the first time, but this time the end credits nearly made me cry, and everything held up flawlessly and I just may have to go see this yet again. I'm not one for doing that, but...it's just that enjoyable of a movie.
I didn't watch ST: TNG when it first came out because I thought there was no way you could replace Captain Kirk and have Star Trek still be Star Trek. You know what? I was wrong. TNG is a damn fine show. I had serious misgivings about this film because I thought a pseudo-prequel just wouldn't work and I thought it looked entirely too 90210 to be any kind of decent. Know what? Wrong again.
This movie makes me want to reread every Star Trek novel I've ever read (a long list) and read every one I've ever missed (a short list). It makes me want to have Star Trek movie marathons and sit and watch the series for days on end. It makes me proud and happy and entirely full of squee at my Trekkie status. In short, it works, it's fabulous, and I fucking love it.
Live long and prosper.
That is all.
This cut is essentially spoiler-free, but be warned of a dirty word or two and some serious squee!
And that improbability is that I loved Star Trek a second time!
Not only that, I have re-ordered my list, at least for tonight: Undiscovered Country > 2009 > Kahn > Insurrection > First Contact >> Nemesis >>> Voyage Home > Generations > Search for Spock > Final Frontier > The Motion Picture.
Seriously, this movie is made of win and that is really all there is to say.
They didn't get me the first time, but this time the end credits nearly made me cry, and everything held up flawlessly and I just may have to go see this yet again. I'm not one for doing that, but...it's just that enjoyable of a movie.
I didn't watch ST: TNG when it first came out because I thought there was no way you could replace Captain Kirk and have Star Trek still be Star Trek. You know what? I was wrong. TNG is a damn fine show. I had serious misgivings about this film because I thought a pseudo-prequel just wouldn't work and I thought it looked entirely too 90210 to be any kind of decent. Know what? Wrong again.
This movie makes me want to reread every Star Trek novel I've ever read (a long list) and read every one I've ever missed (a short list). It makes me want to have Star Trek movie marathons and sit and watch the series for days on end. It makes me proud and happy and entirely full of squee at my Trekkie status. In short, it works, it's fabulous, and I fucking love it.
Live long and prosper.
That is all.
This cut is essentially spoiler-free, but be warned of a dirty word or two and some serious squee!
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:08 am (UTC)Yes, DM is a kinda pretty bad guy...
um. Yeah. So that's all I have to say about that.
*refer to icon*
That said, I really enjoyed the crud out of this ST movie, and I realize some think the um, spoilerfree, um, "plot device" they used was a cop-out. No, no. It was the only way they could reconcile both visions without calling one shlocky or better etc. They are what they are- two imaginings of the same essential universe and characters, through the eyes of two different moments in time, about 40 years apart (in real time).
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:13 am (UTC)There are grappling hooks, you know.
It's been ten years, Tim! (holy fucking shit...dude...ten years since those fateful days on the sidewalk...wow)
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:22 am (UTC)That may have been the first fannish thing we did together.
Holy CRAP, dude!
The PhantomVersary is in a week! (5.19.99-09!)
*okay, so there are more redeeming things about Menace, Horatio, than are dreamt of in my memory*
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:23 am (UTC)WHO THE FUCK KNEW???
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:24 am (UTC)*GUFFAW*
LOGRAY WICKET AND TEEBO!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Date: May. 13th, 2009 02:28 am (UTC)