Advance screening/World Premiere discussions [the NO-SPOILERS version]

Discussion in 'Star Trek Movies: Kelvin Universe' started by M'Sharak, Apr 7, 2009.

  1. indranee

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    great!! report back! :techman:
     
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  3. indranee

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    thanks, Dennis. I absolutely, ABSOLUTELY agree about Pine. had I been a decade younger, I'd have been in danger of developing a serious, starship-sized celeb crush on the guy.

    he nails this role AND does more for his career than anybody ever imagined.
     
  4. Therin of Andor

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    Thanks to a Facebook colleague's timely heads-up while I was on vacation, I had to undertake a mission to SMS every friend I knew who possibly had access to "boutique SMS calls", since mine was blocked. One of those who sent in a newspaper competition entry on my behalf came through, and tonight my friend Karen and I saw...

    ... a sneak preview of JJ Abram's new "Star Trek" movie in the Sydney CBD. Oh wow! "Star Trek" has been reborn, and it's wonderful!

    My local comic shop also had the movie 6" figures out. I simply had to buy a Nero to tide me over till my order arrives from NewForce Comics. I thought the six inchers looked fine! Kings Comics also had the ship, communicator, phaser and tricorder, but I didn't want to buy and carry them all to the cinema tonight, since the security staff were already making people check their mobiles and cameras into the cloakroom.


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  5. Mordock

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    Great review. I especially liked this passage:

    Also great in a somewhat different way is the fact that Devin Faraci shows up in the comments, still bitching about starships being built on Earth...
     
  6. SalvorHardin

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    You know, the day an absolutely negative review emerges should be celebrated by all of us.
    The way this is going it seems like it will be a once in a lifetime event.
     
  7. Admiral Buzzkill

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    Who do you suppose will be first with a negative review (I mean a real review, not something from someone like Devin Farraci)?

    I'll go for the Washington Post or Time.
     
  8. indranee

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    yep, I am betting on Stephen Cohen. he's an old, crotchety Trekkie. :p
     
  9. Admiral Buzzkill

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    God, who's the Post critic who you'd swear fires spittle all over the microphone when he's on the radio chortling at himself - Stephen Hunter? Bet he doesn't get it.
     
  10. Aragorn

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    Who is Devin Faraci?

    I'm surprised Rotten Tomatoes hasn't already linked to some random negative "review" by someone who clearly hasn't even seen the movie, like they did with Mission: Impossible III.
     
  11. Admiral Buzzkill

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    No one.
     
  12. indranee

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    oh gosh, yes. Hunter. not Cohen. a bit of a senior moment there ;)

    PS. Therin, so glad you loved it!!
     
  13. pookha

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    hunter retired
     
  14. indranee

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    oh. didn't know :(
     
  15. Aragorn

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    I'd say Ben Lyons on the basis that he's a total moron who gets stuck on the dumbest things. However, since he is the biggest quote whore alive and Trek is shaping up to be a big tentpole movie, Lyons will have to get out his generic comments for this one.

    "The movie event of the summer!"

    "A roller coaster ride from start to end!"

    "I was on the edge of my seat the whole time!"

    Or, if his review comes out BEFORE the movie does: "The breakout hit of the year!"
     
  16. Admiral Buzzkill

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    I imagine Ebert will like it; he'll just have to give it a mildly befuddled review that starts off something like:

     
  17. Gepard

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    ^:lol:

    Did you make that up, or is it adapted from something he wrote?
     
  18. Admiral Buzzkill

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    It just sounded to me like something he'd write - he did some dark muttering about how stolid the whole thing had become in either "Nemesis" or "Insurrection" that I just adored. He's my favorite reviewer, by a mile.
     
  19. datas_cat_spot

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    I drove an hour to DC tonight to see an advanced screening after winning some tickets, only to be turned away when I got there due to overbooking. Needless to say, I'm pretty annoyed. I think it would've been fun to see it with a bunch of Trek fans.
     
  20. Gepard

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    It seriously does. Which is why I asked--if you hadn't clued me in, I'd have thought he really had written it.