"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

 I can sell you the Books Of Ascension for five thousand dollars...

*inside Buffy joke to annoy Nefud*

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

QUOTE: QUOTE:I solicited a homeless man

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE:I solicited a homeless man  I know I'm having a good Gazette day when Booth gives me the canine emoticon.  *blushes shyly*

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE: QUOTE:I solicited a homeless man  I know I'm having a good Gazette day when Booth gives me the canine emoticon.  *blushes shyly*  That dog looks like he knows something.

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

Shoot, I'll confirm your belief that he's not as cool as people think he is. Abrams is lucky people happily lap up summer blockbuster hype. Otherwise Trek would have been a massive flop because it lacked many key elements that make up a decent film. However, because it was basically, as Fud so eloquently put it, Starship porn...which is to say...special-effects-porn...which is the only requirement for a summer blockbuster to succeed, the film has gone through the roof. As pure unadulterated eye candy and mindless dude fare, the film did well. As an actual film though, this movie sucked right up there with Transformers, another cinematic travesty that only stayed afloat because it was a summer blockbuster. *eyeroll*

No, really. When I have enough time to actually say everything in my head, I will come back to this thread with both fists swinging.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."

I fully expect a wall of text from you in this thread sometime, Amanda.  Take your time

"Harry, I'm going to let you in on a little secret. Every day, once a day, give yourself a present. Don't plan it, don't wait for it, just let it happen. Could be a new shirt at the men's store, a catnap in your office chair, or two cups of good, hot, black coffee. Like this."  -Dale Cooper

"What? Did your life pass before your eyes? Cuppa tea, cuppa tea, almost got shagged, cuppa tea..."

baby you crazy. it had plenty of flaws, but it succeeded on most levels. any movie that features a mccoy line like "space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence" is fine with me. the plot kind of sucked balls, but it's like a doctor who regeneration episode-- you gotta get the whole "setting up the new guy" bullshit out of the way. now, if the next one is the standard "omg some guy is going to blow up the earth" then i'll be swinging right beside you.

here's the real proof they care: they didn't check ALL the boxes. no "beam me up scotty"s or "he's dead jim"s or a lot of other bullshit. sure, they checked a few of them-- it's star trek! there were a couple "i'm a doctor, not a..." and kirk was getting it on with a green chick, but if it was really transformers-level bad, they would've done every cliche and john tuturro would've been attempting humor for 2 hours of padding.

i will admit, however, that i'm not an objective judge. they brought my favorite character (pike!) back, de-crippled him, and gave him some fantastic lines. i could forgive a lot more in exchange for that. :)

OK, let me take a few steps back for a minute.

I've seen the film twice now. The first time I saw it, it rocked and I had an awesome time, even though there were definitely elements that irritated me, and the tissue-thin plot, equally-thin characters, and piss-poor nemesis were all obvious to me then. But because it was such a fun movie, I overlooked all of that.

Watching it a second time, where you're not experiencing it as a shiny new toy...the flaws come screaming out at you, and you start to notice a lot of crap that makes the movie not very re-watchable and frankly a bit crap. Like making Kirk a complete douchebag. No, really...he's a fucking cocksucker in this film. I have a problem with that. Kirk was definitely a rebel most of the time, but he was a geniune person with a shetload of smarts in his head. Chris Pine's Kirk is an asshole. And I can't tell if there's more blame to be heaped on the script, the actor, or the director.

There's a boatload more, but as usual I'm running out the door to go run errands and then spend some quality time at the library finishing up a research paper. Huzzah. I will open up the can of worms real soon. I promise.

~ Amanda

"Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave..."