Star Trek on now

[RichyBoy]

Why is it the James Kirk character acts nothing like Shatner however the rest of the characters you kind of know who they're meant to be in the future?

[davepoth]

Alternate timeline. Do pay attention.

[weyland yutani]

My guess is they tried the long pauses in his delivery but it didn't work well so they'l just write in Kirk having a minor stroke in the future

[Mutley]

The Enterprise looks nothing like the 60's one either, but you just go with it

[Sheets Tabuer]

Wait until you get to the thoroughly annoying scotty, pegg plays him as if he's had a few lines of coke before every take

[FourWheelDrift]

RichyBoy said:

Why is it the James Kirk character acts nothing like Shatner however the rest of the characters you kind of know who they're meant to be in the future?

Didn't you hear him at the start of the Kobayashi-Maru test? He did a perfect Shatner.

[Frog Dog]

Watching this for the first time, its not that bad.

[Nuclearsquash]

It's certainly a very good reboot of the franchise, which was getting a bit stale.

[Mutley]

Sheets Tabuer said:

Wait until you get to the thoroughly annoying scotty, pegg plays him as if he's had a few lines of coke before every take

Peggs take on Scotty was good, but marred by the accent, but IIRC James Doohan had an odd Scottish accent, so kinda fits

[RichyBoy]

Also watching for the first time and just seems like the usual hollywood rubbish. Even if its an alternative reality, kirk should act like kirk.

[Jasandjules]

Frog Dog said:

Watching this for the first time, its not that bad.

I thought it was a superb film, was more than pleased (I didn't expect much!)...

[poing]

It's one of my favourite films and my favourite Start Trek film. I just love the way it's filmed and the epic sounds, just great in 5.1 on a big tele.

[FourWheelDrift]

Bedazzled said:

And the young Kirk as a drunk layabout is poor.

In the original timeline Kirk is brought up by his mother and his father and he always wanted to follow in his fathers footsteps by joining starfleet, in this timeline that Nero has created his father is killed on the day he is born and his mother has remarried someone Kirk hates and he has no respect for and he had no time for Starfleet as he felt it killed his father. So why should young Kirk behave like Shatner's older wiser and more experienced Kirk?

[Y282]

Watching it too, really liked this.

Opening scenes leading up to titles really grabbed the audience by the nuts when it was in the cinema.

[ajprice]

First time I've seen this too, I'm liking it.

[Happy82]

Awesome reboot of the Star Trek brand, TNG era films were pretty awful apart from First Contact.

[rudecherub]

safe to say if you're just seeing the new trek for the first time now, you're not a trekkie / trekker

[ajprice]

rudecherub said:

safe to say if you're just seeing the new trek for the first time now, you're not a trekkie / trekker

Thank frakk for that

[rudecherub]

ajprice said:

rudecherub said:

safe to say if you're just seeing the new trek for the first time now, you're not a trekkie / trekker

Thank frakk for that

:P well sure... I'm Star Trek generation, I grew up watching the original series re-runs, the animated Series on BBC after school.

It's to blame for my SF interest, and for that matter interest in science - but I'm no Trekker, I don't own a shirt for a start.

[Y282]

rudecherub said:

ajprice said:

rudecherub said:

safe to say if you're just seeing the new trek for the first time now, you're not a trekkie / trekker

Thank frakk for that

:P well sure... I'm Star Trek generation, I grew up watching the original series re-runs, the animated Series on BBC after school.

It's to blame for my SF interest, and for that matter interest in science - but I'm no Trekker, I don't own a shirt for a start.

You must get very cold. Should we have a whip round?