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Land Gets Lost At Box Office
Star Trek Boldly Resurrects Franchise
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I chuckled through it all. No gut-busting, and no courtesy knee-slapping, just a consistent flow of one-liners and slapstick. The T-Rex and the Pterodactyl scenes work well on the big screen (you can see the money), but most folks won't care.
I imagine there are probably some good deleted scenes / gag reel on DVD too. I kind of wonder if they'd gone for the R rating, how much could it have been improved?
06/06/09
I still haven't gotten over Ferrell in that Xmas abomination, Elf.
06/07/09
Carrey can actually pull off a decent role, if it's not written specifically for him. Granted, The Truman Show was the only movie I can remember seeing that wasn't at least partially influenced by his In Living Color days.
06/06/09
Seriously, the original may've been a cheap, children's series...but it was also often a surprisingly intelligent, cheap, children's series (like how the Sleestak, for example, devolved from a technologically advanced race into a bunch of primitive, superstitious nitwits) that was written by the likes of Ben Bova, D.C. Fontana, David Gerrold, Larry Niven, Norman Spinrad and Theodore Sturgeon.
If Hollywood can respect a cartoon that was basically just a glorified commercial for a pre-existing line of toys ('Transformers'), then why couldn't it also have shown some respect to 'Land of the Lost'?
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Seriously though, they'll probably make it up in DVD sales.
06/07/09
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Land of The Lost's buzz? not so much...
05/10/09
I'm lying to my non-nerd friends about liking Star Trek *more* than I do. This is amazing. The world is upside-down.
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05/10/09
I'm not going to see it in IMAX b/c of the shaky cam and lens flares. I'm prone to migraines and I'd like to enjoy a Star Trek movie experience without blinding headaches and vomiting, thanks very much.
05/10/09
The thing I really liked about it: though they made the caracters "edgier", adding teenageangst and whatnot, they managed to make the Enterprise nicer and yet more realistic.
Especially dug the Engineroom, it looked kinda like a sub´s (but why does a spaceship has a basement?) and made spacetraveling in the ST universe relateable.
Also I see this movie as some kind of Natman Begins, as a retcon torn between being a good film with bad elements or being a stupid film with some extraordinary stuff thrown in.
This movie will by future generations be called:
Star Trek: The Exposition, while the Sequel´s name will be
Star Trek 2: Where Something Other Than Introducing The Crew Happens
Hopefully!
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i was, however not a fan of Sylar... he just didn't feel right as Spock. the rest of teh cast was spot on in every detail. one of my friends is hoping that paramount is seeing this as a wake up call to relaunch the franchise as a TV show with the movie cast.
i tried to explain that its doubtful because Sylar is locked up in heros, but here is to hoping.
as a die hard trecker, it was the best star trek movie ever. hat tip to JJ for a great job...
the only negative is the amount of stupid lens flairs.
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05/10/09
Agreed. Let's hope the plot is a little more logical next time, and they actually make the bad guy sympathetic. One should not have to read a prequel comic book to fill in the gaps in the story.
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AND I WOULD WATCH.
05/10/09
not to get off topic but I think george lucas should have done the same with star wars. That is...the problem with doing these prequels is that you essentially know how it all ends. However, if something is thrown in (in star trek's case, time travel) which allows the story to remain essentially the same, but at the same time allows for a different outcome and even different events, then I think you have the perfect middle ground for telling (prequel) or even retelling (re making) a story.
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...unlike the audience I saw it with yesterday who broke into applause when the Star Trek Logo came on the screen for the opening credit sequence, and reacted positively to every reference the movie threw at us.
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Anyway, loved the movie.
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His appearance last week or so on Craig Ferguson's show was hysterical. Two of my fave guys goofing on stuff.