It has a name: Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Overmind One

GateFans Gatemaster
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If you see it as Galaxy Quest sans comedy, you'll come back with a glowing review.

Perhaps...either way, I will most certainly be up for talking about it. :) But I am now dressed and ready to go. I am first going to get a a cylinder of Sweetarts, and a big roll of LifeSavers Tropical Fruits, down a very expensive bag of popcorn and a water. OR, I could smuggle in a tall RedBull in my jacket. :icon10:
 

shavedape

Well Known GateFan
If you see it as Galaxy Quest sans comedy, you'll come back with a glowing review.

Chris Pine is in it.

Chris Pine is stunning.

Chris Pine loves me, his eyes say so, look for yourself:

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Bow to The Pine! :whip:
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
Perhaps...either way, I will most certainly be up for talking about it. :) But I am now dressed and ready to go. I am first going to get a a cylinder of Sweetarts, and a big roll of LifeSavers Tropical Fruits, down a very expensive bag of popcorn and a water. OR, I could smuggle in a tall RedBull in my jacket. :icon10:

Smuggle the Red Bull and a Subway loaded steak & cheese sub on whole grain.
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Chris Pine is in it.

Chris Pine is stunning.

Chris Pine loves me, his eyes say so, look for yourself:

star-trek-into-darkness-teaser-chris-pine.jpg



Bow to The Pine! :whip:

That face shot says "Mmmm ... your kidneys with fava beans ... *slurp*".
 

Overmind One

GateFans Gatemaster
Staff member
Smuggle the Red Bull and a Subway loaded steak & cheese sub on whole grain.

I thought about that, but Im not hungry really! I just want munchies, and to keep from grinding y teeth to nubs from watching this movie. I just put a JackLinks double peppered beef steak jerky in my jacket, then a roll of Sweetarts and a roll of lifesavers should do the trick. :) Oh, and a red bull. I could put that in my shorts and DARE them to ask about it. :anim_59: Im leaving now.
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
With all the wonderous variety of beef Jerky availiable in the US you pick JACK LINK'S!!!!

That's gonna make me hurl faster than the notion of Kirk being stripped of his manhood by a rabid ape :D
 

shavedape

Well Known GateFan
With all the wonderous variety of beef Jerky availiable in the US you pick JACK LINK'S!!!!

That's gonna make me hurl faster than the notion of Kirk being stripped of his manhood by a rabid ape...

...wielding a Jack Link. :winking0052:
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
I thought about that, but Im not hungry really! I just want munchies, and to keep from grinding y teeth to nubs from watching this movie. I just put a JackLinks double peppered beef steak jerky in my jacket, then a roll of Sweetarts and a roll of lifesavers should do the trick. :) Oh, and a red bull. I could put that in my shorts and DARE them to ask about it. :anim_59: Im leaving now.

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With all the wonderous variety of beef Jerky availiable in the US you pick JACK LINK'S!!!!

That's gonna make me hurl faster than the notion of Kirk being stripped of his manhood by a rabid ape :D

Yeah, and he's gonna wash it down with a 1L can of Foster's.
 

shavedape

Well Known GateFan
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Yeah, and he's gonna wash it down with a 1L can of Foster's.

:smiley-015:


*Actually I picked up a sixer of Newcastle Brown Ale today. It's amazingly good considering it's brewed by a bunch of limey bastards who are marginally a tick above the French on the evolutionary scale to begin with; go figure. :daniel_new004:



(*To all our limey bastard members here, just kidding ;) )
 

Overmind One

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Staff member
OMFG....I just saw this movie. I am posting this less than 15 minutes after seeing the ending credits. JJ Abrams is on my very short shit list...permanently. He is completely CLUELESS about what Trek is supposed to be. He does not understand science, He does not give a flying lemur fart what happens to Trek canon. He simply lacks the intellectual warp power to understand things on the level of the average Trek fan.

Having said that, this is a very entertaining movie. Compare it with Avengers, Transformers, Star Wars I, II, III. It is popcorn and candy entertainment tailor made for theaters. I cant discuss it in detail because not a lot of others have seen it here yet. But I will reveal one thing: The original rumors about Cumberbach playing Kahn were absolutely true. But its not really our Kahn. This guy is English and pale, and Kahn Noonian Singh was supposed to be a Hindu in TOS which is why his name was Hindu. He allegedly led a conquest of South Asia and parts of the Middle East. How did Kahn become a very Anglo Briton? Why is Carol Marcus a Brit and her father is not? Why....who....where....cant reveal too much right now.

I enjoyed the movie for it's entertainment value, but it was definitely not Star Trek. It has Trek's name, but it is entirely new. I will write a review after I recover. :) Also, I actually did like the new Klingon warbirds, but hate the new Klingons. And the Enterprise GT still lives...it was not destroyed. :( At least it lands like Roddenberry said it could, but his vision was only the saucer section which could land. Those "V" shaped sections on the underside of the original Star Trek (TOS) Enterprise were retracted landing struts. The third strut was concealed under the pylon connecting the saucer to the primary hull.

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This movie was a solid follow up to the 2009 movie, but IMO neither one of them capture the spirit or mission of Star Trek and are made for a dumber audience who cares nothing about science. Abrams himself said he did not get Trek. He still doesn't. He probably never will. He has SQUANDERED his opportunity.
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Chris Pine is in it.

Chris Pine is stunning.

Chris Pine loves me, his eyes say so, look for yourself:

star-trek-into-darkness-teaser-chris-pine.jpg



Bow to The Pine! :whip:

The characters in this thing are solid. I actually like Pine's Kirk much much better than William Shatner's Kirk. I like this new Uhura way way better than the original as well. Same for all of the others and I am even warming up to Chekhov. But Scotty is being dragged down by that crusty little parasitic alien that he keeps having to tell to get down from stuff. I cant tell if it is his pet or his boyfriend. :facepalm: Spock is going to have the benefit of well...Spock (prime) to guide his emotional development. And as of now, we begin the five year mission (five movies), and Abrams is going to make a ton of money on these movies and the original Trek fans are going to have to suck it up or curl up with TOS, the TNG generation of Trek and the movies pre-Abrams. That Trek is forever gone.
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
Switch the brain off, pretend it's an action flick and bob's your uncle.
Hmm, that sounds familiar...........
 

heisenberg

Earl Grey
The movie is pure action bullshit. There is nothing that makes you think, no clever and creative solutions to overcome obstalces, just brute force.

In the past, when faced with a stronger foe, they employed creativity to overcome the obstacle. They showed how brain will always overcome brawn. This movie has none of that. It's just brute force. Shoot, bomb, smash. That's how they win.

Then there's the whole internal ship design. There's a point where one of the crew needs to physically fix something. When you look at why the f**k it was even designed that way, solely to create a situation and satisfy a scene, you'll want to beat Abrams with his own director's chair. That part reminded me of the scene in Galaxy Quest where they had to go through the "chompers", a completely useless machine in the engine room written in solely to create anxiety for a single episode.

And I'm SO TIRED of that stupid, goddamned apple store bridge with the eye-level blinding lights and that idiotic brewery on the way to the warp core.

I enjoyed the first movie for what it was and gave Abrams a pass for trying. This movie was pure, unadulterated bullshit aimed squarely at kiddies and mindless turds who like to watch things blow up. "Into Darkness" is exactly what one would expect it to be if Michael Bay were helming it.
Sigh, then I'll save my 16 bucks then. No point in wasting money after this. Guess it will be a dvd rental then at best.
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
Dude, when it comes out it will be 18 bucks to buy :P
 

heisenberg

Earl Grey
Dude, when it comes out it will be 18 bucks to buy :P
Not as a rental, it won't :P.I only buy tv series and rent most movies. I end up saving more money in the process :P.

See,if it was something like transformers, I would be okay with switching off my brain but star trek is a completely different story. Being a passionate fan of the franchise for a very long time, if it's just pure action then, that is an insult to the star trek franchise.

Am I right to assume that, there is an insane amount of use of white lighting(including the blinding lens flare) in this movie? A lot of flashy colored lasers and a lot of over the top explosions,yeah?
 

Gatefan1976

Well Known GateFan
Not as a rental, it won't :P.I only buy tv series and rent most movies. I end up saving more money in the process :P.
Meh, I usually get x rentals or wait till the are on for 6-7 bucks, so a wash for me dude. On the whole there tends to be *maybe* 3-5 movies per year I would consider buying new.

See,if it was something like transformers, I would be okay with switching off my brain but star trek is a completely different story. Being a passionate fan of the franchise for a very long time, if it's just pure action then, that is an insult to the star trek franchise.
See, I love Trek, but I have no issue with relegating it to an action flick. I know what it is going in, so I don't expect anything else.
The only movie in recent memory that I have been *really* disappointed with was The Hobbit.

Am I right to assume that, there is an insane amount of use of white lighting(including the blinding lens flare) in this movie? A lot of flashy colored lasers and a lot of over the top explosions,yeah?
I would go with a yes :P
 

shavedape

Well Known GateFan
Sigh, then I'll save my 16 bucks then. No point in wasting money after this. Guess it will be a dvd rental then at best.

I'm having a hard time giving up on this one to be honest. I psyched myself up to see it in the theater so now I really don't want to wait to rent it...although it's sort of sounding like I should. :moody:

You know what's weird, I can make allowances for many things here but the one thing that I just can't abide is that stupid little alien sidekick that they gave Scotty. OM1 says that that thing is back in the second installment. Of all things to have in a movie aimed at adults why oh why would they have that stupid thing?
 

Bluce Ree

Tech Admin / Council Member
I'm having a hard time giving up on this one to be honest. I psyched myself up to see it in the theater so now I really don't want to wait to rent it...although it's sort of sounding like I should. :moody:

You know what's weird, I can make allowances for many things here but the one thing that I just can't abide is that stupid little alien sidekick that they gave Scotty. OM1 says that that thing is back in the second installment. Of all things to have in a movie aimed at adults why oh why would they have that stupid thing?

Let me put it this way. Kirk's new catch phrase is "Punch it" when he orders the ship into warp. Scotty's new catch phrase is "Get down from there!".
 

shavedape

Well Known GateFan
Let me put it this way. Kirk's new catch phrase is "Punch it" when he orders the ship into warp. Scotty's new catch phrase is "Get down from there!".

This makes me very sad. :crying-028:
 
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