RikerChick

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  2. Posted

    I can't believe I forgot about this, but it's another thing that was annoying...

     

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    Obvious product placement! I liked the song playing during Kirk's "scenic drive", but the glaringly obvious Nokia product placement was distracting. I don't recall any product placement in other Trek movies.

    I spotted that too and rolled my eyes at it. lol

     

     

    Ok, even I, who loves this movie with a passion, thought that was silly.

    See? We do agree on the movie! lol

     

     

    lol at least on one thing anyway :superhappy:

  6. Posted

    I can't believe I forgot about this, but it's another thing that was annoying...

     

    Click for Spoiler:

    Obvious product placement! I liked the song playing during Kirk's "scenic drive", but the glaringly obvious Nokia product placement was distracting. I don't recall any product placement in other Trek movies.

    I spotted that too and rolled my eyes at it. lol

     

     

    Ok, even I, who loves this movie with a passion, thought that was silly.

  7. Posted

    I'm feeling a strong urge to chop my hair into a pixie cut and dye it a weird color. :superhappy: Think I might do that this weekend. I'm bored to tears with longish hair.

    If you do that you'll just regret it later. You've been growing your natural color out for how long now and now you want to dye it?

     

    Oh I dyed it months ago, I'm just bored with the current color lol. You know I never stick with one style/color for long, change is too fun

  10. Posted

    Green Day's new album 21st Century Breakdown.

     

    See my review here http://www.startrekfans.net/index.php?show...c=60782&hl=

     

    I posted a link there to MTVs The Link, which currently has the whole album up for free preview. I am on my third listen though and it keeps getting better each time.

     

    The first video off the album, Do You Know Your Enemy? is up at the following page. http://www.greenday.com/site/photosvideos.php

     

     

    Gonna have to take a look at that. I didn't know you were a Green Day fan AE.

     

     

    I'm The Only One - Melissa Etheridge

  17. Posted

    "a) movie was geared more towards NONStar Trek Fans(of TOS)."

     

    That was the whole point of the movie. We learned from Nemesis and Enterprise that there just aren't enough "purists" out there anymore to support the franchise. There haven't been since First Contact. This was a reboot and, with any reboot, you are going to loose a few things.

     

    To be honest, this debate about canon vs non-canon isn't helping our cause. We may have moved out of our parents basement and put the Spock ears away but our behavior hasn't changed. If we want to hang onto the new fans brought in by the movie we need to GROW UP as a fan base and let the new fans enjoy the movie for what it is. It is a movie, not holy scripture.

     

    Amen Roy, amen

  19. Posted

    Well, all of our poll results for the past week were lost and we must now try to get the numbers back to where they were. I'm really disappointed that they were lost, I really wanted an accurate reading of the opening days of the movie and how people were rating it.

     

    From the best of my memory we had 50 votes that broke down like this.

     

    5. It's great, I loved it! [ 35 ]

    4. It's good. [ 1 ]

    3. It's average [ 0 ]

    2. It's not that good [ 6 ]

    1. I hated it! [ 8 ]

     

    I'm not positive on that though. I think that the 5 star rating was at 66.67%, meaning a two thirds approval.

     

    Please vote again.

     

    I think you have the numbers right there.

  20. Posted · Edited by RikerChick

    I would argue that Star Trek is hardly dead, it's been completely brought back to life by this movie. Star Trek was dying a slow and painful death because it couldn't move on. Now it has and thank god. Star Trek has a whole new audience and a whole lot of long time fans like myself who are so relieved that this happened.

     

     

    I disagree. Its dead, face it and 'move on'. If it were 'alive' it wouldn't go out of its way to be re-packaged, re-cast, and re-written for the semi-literate 'fans' that need to get their sci fi fix.

     

    If your 'relieved', fine. Thats great, but also sad that you could find 'relief' from a film whose performances could've been phoned in and whose story is such a blatant violation of established canon that no serious fan can really accept this dour attempt to insult lifelong fans of the franchise. :spock:

     

    So I'm not a serious Trek fan because I have a different opinion on the matter? :superhappy: LOL ok have fun with that point of view, it's not even worth arguing. Enjoy your bitterness.

     

    BTW, many Trek actors have mentioned they love this movie, Leonard Nimoy included. I guess they don't live up to your idea of real Trek fans.

  24. Posted

    :P Great review. I actually think (I'm going to make so many enemies here lol) that Chris Pine does Kirk better than Shatner ever did. He is Kirk imo. Karl Urban was amazing! Zoe does a beautiful job as Uhura (always my favorite character). She's not yet as "refined" as Uhura in the show, but she's a lovely younger Uhura. I'm not 100% sold on Winona Ryder as Amanda, but she didn't do it badly at all, it just didn't feel quite right. Regardless she also did a fine job. I have no complaints at all.