Star Trek 2009 out on DVD today!

[lorijds]

Woot! I'm watching it right now! Woot!

[journeymom]

Thanks for the reminder! I'll have to pick it up while I'm out.

[journeymom]

We watched it last night, with the kids this time. Great fun!! I want to watch it again!

Karl Urban was such a good Bones.

McCoy: I may throw up on you.

Kirk: I think these things are pretty safe.

McCoy: Don't pander to me, kid! One tiny crack in the hull and our blood boils in thirteen seconds. Solar flare might crop up, cook us in our seats. And wait till you're sitting pretty with a case of Andorian shingles, see if you're still so relaxed when your eyeballs are bleeding. Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence.

Kirk: Well I hate to break it to you but Starfleet operates in space.

McCoy: Yeah well, I got nowhere else to go. The ex-wife took the whole damn planet in the divorce. All I've got left is my bones.

[lorijds]

I may have watched it more than once already.

[JessicaS]

I need to call my family and drop hints about getting it for dh for his birthday.

[MCatLvrMom2A&X]

I need to watch it again to help me clear up my mind because it is so different than the original laid out in the books. I did like it as a stand alone movie though.

[Alyantavid]

Loved it! I've never been much into Star Trek but I really enjoyed this one.

And yeah, we watched it more than once!

[eclipse]

We enjoyed it, too. I about died laughing at Bones delivering some of the classic Bones lines.

[ACsMom]

This movie is about as perfect as movies get! Oh, yeah, we'll be owning this one. Santa will be bringing it.

[Smokering]

Watched it yesterday on a friend's huge flatscreen telly.

I enjoyed it more this time around (third viewing), but the faults were more glaring at the same time. I really think the villain - heck, the plot in general - could have been better conceived. Having a gravelly voice to demonstrate evil stopped being the pinnacle of characterisation some time ago. Also, I really didn't like the actor who played Kirk as a kid. And I still think Winona as Spock's mother was an unnecessary distraction. And Leonard Nimoy acted too human.

In terms of good stuff... I noticed Bones' performance a lot more this time. And I loved the hint to how he got the nickname. I also really noticed the Shatnerisms of Chris Pine in the last scene on the Enterprise bridge... very nicely done! Almost uncanny. And there were a couple of moments where older Spock (not Spock Prime, just regular grownup Spock) looked very similar to the actor who played him as a boy. A nice bit of casting there! (The moment he appeared on the transporter pad without his mother, with dirt on his face, was when I first noticed it.)

Also - that short alien who's friends with Scotty? He reminded me so much of my one-year-old!

[journeymom]

Also, I really didn't like the actor who played Kirk as a kid.

Me too! He wasn't endearingly defiant. He was irritating. And he wrecked a beautiful car!!

What was the point of casting Winona Ryder? She's only six years older than Zachary Quinto.

[blizzard_babe]

The opening scene (Kirk's birth) makes me cry every. Single. Time. Blubbery and weepy.

I think I'm going to buy it; we have it out on Netflix right now.

[Smokering]

Me too! It kind of annoys me at the same time because of the timing - I'm pretty sure it shouldn't have taken the Kelvin that long to crash into Nero's ship. But still. SO sad. Drat, I'm tearing up just thinking about it. *sniff*

journeymom: AND that kid had obnoxious dyed hair. Couldn't they have cast a blond? And did they have to include the oh-so-blatant product placement? That really threw me out of the movie - it was just tacky.

[lorijds]

Re: Spock prime acting too human. On that one, I totally disagree. I think it was a conscious decision to play him human--after all, he *is* half human. He learned to love and appreciate his human side through his relationship with Kirk. If he would have been too analytical and reasonable, he would have been just like baby Spock.

I do agree that the story line could have been better--but I can completely suspend belief and reason for the movie.

I also agree about Winona Rider. Why was she cast? I mean, she did a fine job, but every time I saw her I was thinking "Winona Rider in make up to make her look old. Hmm." I didn't ever see her as Spock's mother.

The acting and humor is on the whole spectacular. I love the way Spock, Kirk, Bone, Uhura, Sulu and Scotty are presented. I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

If I get home early from work tomorrow, I'll probably watch it again. I cannot get enough of it. Total Geek.

Oh, and that opening scene. Sob. Every damn time I watch it. Every freakin time.

[Smokering]

Re: Spock prime acting too human. On that one, I totally disagree. I think it was a conscious decision to play him human--after all, he *is* half human. He learned to love and appreciate his human side through his relationship with Kirk. If he would have been too analytical and reasonable, he would have been just like baby Spock.

But it destroys the appeal of his character. The essence of Spock is tension. The reason the occasion display of affection or emotion makes fans so happy is that they're hard-won. We like to see his human side peeking through, but only peeking - if Spock turns into your regular emotionally normal average Joe, he ceases to be tortured and thus ceases to be interesting. I think he was veering too far in that direction even movies 1-6, but in this movie he didn't really have a Vulcan vibe at all. If his lines had been said by a human character with the same facial expressions, you'd hardly have thought anything was amiss (the odd Vulcan eyebrow raise, perhaps).

Enterprise, of all things, did it OK. That episode where the older T'Pol counsels the younger one about Tripp shows a nice blend of Vulcan restraint with a tempering of age and emotional maturity. Not that T'Pol was half-human, of course, but the same general idea applies. Spock Prime just gave too much away too easily. (Like his first words to young Kirk - "I have been, and always shall be, your friend". It was probably supposed to be heartwarming, but I found it irritating. It came across as a glib catchphrase rather than the painful, restrained, tearjerking admission of friendship that it originally was.)

[Satori]

Anyone know if they plan on making more movies from this one of maybe another series from it?

[eclipse]

I've read that there's another movie in the works for 2012ish, but that there is no script yet.