Star Trek Movie - Possible Spoilers

[1AZRAEL1]

Without giving anything away, it is amazing.
I dont want to reveal anything until others have seen it, I need to dsicuss it

I want to hear your opinions once you have seen it.

God I love getting Black Curtain tickets.

Oh and I reckon TF2 will have same tickets, if anyone is interested, I can give details on how to get them.

[TheDirtyDigger]

This looks great. I'm not even a fan but I'm looking more forward to this than I was to Wolverine.

[1AZRAEL1]

Good thing is, you dont have to be a fan to like it.
I reckon most of the people who got tickets to it last night just went because it was free.
But even they enjoyed it.

[swoop]

I'm off to see this on saturday, hopefully it'll live up to the hype. So these tickets how did you come by them?

[1AZRAEL1]

Its a Myspace thing, nothing extra special.
Gotta be friends with Black Curtain Australia.
RSVP for the event by smsing a code word to the number they give you.

This was the third such a movie for me, saw Dark Knight and Watchmen like this.
T4 may be the next one.

[Vector Sigma 13]

Im looking forward to this also, might drive to Mildura (1hr 20min away) to see it, wont get it locally for a month or two which sucks in a massive way.

There are some great movies coming out this year!

[FFN]

I love this film. As I've told Roberto Orci (one of the writers), as much as I am a Transformers fan, I am an even more passionate Star Trek fan, though I tend to keep that to myself. I have never felt so satisfied to have my faith rewarded in a film.

A scene at the start of the movie I think is beautiful.


And AHAHAHAHA it proves Orci and Alex Kurtzman CAN write, despite what all critics of the 2007 Transformers movie say! It's currently holding onto 96% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes with 218 reviews in total (209 positive, 9 negative, IIRC). Apparently it's the best-reviewed wide-release film of 2009 so far, and frankly, I don't think any other wide release film this year has a chance of toppling it in terms of critical acclaim.

[loophole]

okay i just say this movie tonight and im a bit of a trekkie myself and grew up with the original series which i think is the best Star Trek ever, and yes i thought it was awesome but they did change previous Star Trek history which i didnt like too much but oh well i will just have to get over it.

I would have to disagree with you Paulbot i think the general audience will enjoy it more than the Trekkies the geeks will just pick it to death where as the normal cinema goer like the non Star Trek fans that i saw it with will just watch it for what it is and not what it should be like and the freinds that i saw it with thought it was awesome too.

There were a couple of things that just bugged me like Pikes' age he was too old the Enterprises exterior appearence was changed just a little bit too much oh and the whole Spock and Uhuru thing that was just WRONG! and Chekov shouldnt of even been there either!

But it was still a great movie too watch, and the guy who played McCoy did a top notch job absolutely spot on.

[Lord_Zed]

okay i just say this movie tonight and im a bit of a trekkie myself and grew up with the original series which i think is the best Star Trek ever, and yes i thought it was awesome but they did change previous Star Trek history which i didnt like too much but oh well i will just have to get over it.

I would have to disagree with you Paulbot i think the general audience will enjoy it more than the Trekkies the geeks will just pick it to death where as the normal cinema goer like the non Star Trek fans that i saw it with will just watch it for what it is and not what it should be like and the freinds that i saw it with thought it was awesome too.

There were a couple of things that just bugged me like Pikes' age he was too old the Enterprises exterior appearence was changed just a little bit too much oh and the whole Spock and Uhuru thing that was just WRONG! and Chekov shouldnt of even been there either!

But it was still a great movie too watch, and the guy who played McCoy did a top notch job absolutely spot on.

Well I saw it yesterday, some background on me and Star Trek. I guess I'm a Trek fan, although I never really got into the Original Series as it was already looking old when I was growing up, only started watching Trek late in Next Gens run. So I really can't nit pick to much when it comes to TOS.

Having said that I enjoyed it, and thought it was full of awesome fan tidbits and Trek cliches. I almost burst out laughing when that gung ho redshirt showed up. And I thought all the crew were portrayed pretty well. As for all the ways this Trek differs from established canon, well the way I see it most of them can be atributed to the old Buterfly Effect caused by the event in the first scene. Afterall who knows what ripples this could have had on the universe as a whole. the only thing it doesn't explain is Pike's age. Although maybe he got stressed out from losing his friend from the Kelvin and aged prematurely.

Anyways if thats not enough you could also blame Kirk, Picard, Sisko, Janeway, Archer, or any Federation timeship for screwing with time. That's what happens when you screw with time you get these alterante timelines.

Nero's ship was pretty sinister looking and tough for a mining ship. Although I guess it was from a time 60 years after the last previous Trek movie. It looked almost Borg like in a few scenes, although that would make perfect sense seeing as how ships in that time would probably have the best tech of most of the known races in the Star Trek universe.

In any case I thought it was good, and as an origins movie I thought it sure kicked Wolverine's butt.

EDIT: It just occured to me in retropsect the coincedences required to bring all the old crew together on the Enterprise to save the day are as ilogical and improbable as Anakin building C3-PO. Still it doesn't hamper my enjoyment of the film. I just assume the universe just tries to right itself when these time thingies happen, either that or overzalous temporal guardians made it so.

I wonder what Nero's ship did for 25 years?

[STL]

This just pissed all over Star Wars.

I'm a massive sci-fi fan but have never really known much about Star Trek so I'm a definite outsider but this movie was awesome. I think the characters were compelling and the plot was wonderfully constructed with a high degree of elegance. The way it weaved what I could infer were re-write of continuity issues so smoothly into the plot and yet maintain the forward momentum kept the movie running at full steam ahead.

One of my questions: Are Uhuru and Spock meant to be together or is it Kirk and Uhuru b/c my original impression was it would be Kirk/Uhuru given the way they met up and the way the plot was going until all of a sudden Uhuru starts tonguiing Spock. It was probably the one thing that bothered me b/c it seemed to happen out of nowhere.

Anyhows, its going to be very hard to top this movie this year. I loved every moment of it. The fight scenes weren't the greatest but they didn't need to be. It was about how compelling each of the characters were, the plot and the universe that was being built.

I reckon I'll probably see it again. I wasn't a fan by any stretch of the imaginaton before the movie but I am now. Strongly contemplating watching some episodes and reading some comics but I got to find me some time!

EDIT:

And any Melbourne fans who haven't seen it and plan to go, let me know! I want to see it a few more times!