I saw Start Trek on Friday and Zombie Strippers yesterday due to a complete inability to stay conscious. Start Trek is…. well…. awesome. More on that later. Zombie Strippers is pretty funny. It is what it is, that’s for sure.
How about you? See anything good? Star Trek perhaps? Anything non-Trek related?
I snuck outta Hot Docs to see Star Trek (and even managed to get a review up and chat on a podcast about it), and otherwise it was all Hot Docs, all weekend. Kudos up to Yung Chang’s Ali Shan a fantastic short film that is beautiful.
I also revised X-Men, got nostalgic after watching Wolverine and wow, the first film is a lot of fun!
I saw Star Trek. Twice. In one night. I thought it was amazing. Best movie of the year so far? Yeah, I’d agree with that.
Very mild spoilers ahead
Still… elements of the ending (and the movie as a whole) upset me a great deal. The only way I can truly enjoy it is if I turn off my sense of morality. And the thing that always made Star Trek ‘Star Trek’ for me is how it made me think, and tickled that sense of morality, and inspired me through it. I guess it does make sense with a movie so inspired by Wrath of Khan, but I would have appreciated something that treated the idea of compassion with a bit more respect.
I’ve found very few people that agree with me on this, and I don’t mean it in an uber-geeky ‘They didn’t get anything right because it wasn’t JUST like the series.’ The look and style and acting and everything was beyond amazing. I was very moved by the opening scene, and had a big geeky grin on my face for almost the whole thing. I just… I’ve always passionately defended my love for Star Trek as something that’s more than just space battles and pretty ships. The movie did a great job with the space battles and pretty ships. (And a bang up job on the characters too.) There was just nothing there of what’s made me so passionately defend it from detractors in the past.
Which makes it ironic that this seems to be the movie that’s winning over those detractors.
Does this make sense? Or do I seem like one of those trekkies that’s condemning the movie for being too fun? Anyone out there reading this blog that agrees with me?
Oh, I also watched the Unspoiled: Noir selection, Under Fire (with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte) and Serenity.
I had a few quibbles with Star Trek so I couldn’t put it at #1 of the year. So far, #1 of the year is still held by Pontypool.
Hot Docs, Hot Docs, Hot Docs & Inside (A l'interieur).
Ho-lee Ben. I haven’t read all of your comment yet because I haven’t written my Star Trek review. I will eventually, I promise.
I’m VERY surprised to hear Shannon say that she didn’t think this was the best movie of the year so far, but I can hear her on a few of her points. Maybe it was the media blackout I was in before the movie (Shannon inspired, by the way, you should all try it, it’s awesome) or maybe it was because I was flat out exhausted but I was willing to over look a few things (ahem crazy ass ret-conned relationship anyone!?!?!) because the rest was just so good. SO. GOOD. Wolverine was good, but not this good by far and I’m very skeptical that Salvation can match this, as much as it will try.
Although… Pontypool is one amazing movie!
We saw Star Trek on Saturday and we loved it! They have definitely changed some stuff….but that’s good I think. It leaves the door open for new story telling. I loved Sylar as Spoke – so good! The casting overall was superb. I heart Simon Pegg!