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

[indranee]

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I saw a preview screening this evening

Tomorrow night in Sydney for me... Newspaper/mobile SMS contest.

great!! report back!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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For whatever it's worth, "Moriarty"McWeeny has posted his review of the movie at HitFix:

Chris Pine is a movie star. You don't walk into an iconic role like this, give a performance that positively pisses confidence, and not walk away from it a movie star. He looks absolutely nothing like William Shatner. There's nothing about him that overtly reminds me of a young Shatner. But so what? He's not playing William Shatner. He's playing James T. Kirk, and that's what he gets right. Pine is tremendously charismatic from the moment he appears in the film, but there's still room to grow. He may believe in himself, but his journey here is proving to others that the swagger's not just an act, and by the time he drops into the captain's chair at the end of the film, I absolutely buy it. I can see him as someone who a crew would follow into battle. And, more importantly, he strikes me as someone who would get them through that battle intact.

 

[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.

 

[Therin of Andor]

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great!! report back!

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.

 

[Mordock]

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For whatever it's worth, "Moriarty"McWeeny has posted his review of the movie at HitFix:

Great review. I especially liked this passage:

As much as long-time fans take it as a given that Kirk and Spock are life-long friends, it's one thing to be told that and it's another thing to take a new audience back to the events where Kirk, Spock, and McCoy first became the united front they've always been on the show. Sure, audiences in the '60s weren't shown the beginning, either, but at this point, with such a daunting backlog of material, you have to give a new audience something, some definitive jumping-on point, and here, we get a story that isn't "just" an origin story, but is instead showing us what happens when the butterfly's wings reach hurricane force, when one incident snowballs into a universe that looks like the "Trek" we know, but where rules are totally different.

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...

 

[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.

 

[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.

 

[indranee]

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yep, I am betting on Stephen Cohen. he's an old, crotchety Trekkie.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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yep, I am betting on Stephen Cohen. he's an old, crotchety Trekkie.

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.

 

[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.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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Who is Devin Faraci?

No one.

 

[indranee]

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yep, I am betting on Stephen Cohen. he's an old, crotchety Trekkie.

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.

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

PS. Therin, so glad you loved it!!

 

[pookha]

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hunter retired

 

[indranee]

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oh. didn't know

 

[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!"

 

[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:

"I have to confess that I've had a difficult time with Star Trek movies in the last decade or so. It's as if every time it looks like someone might say something interesting, a buzzer or an alarm goes off somewhere in another room and the actors have to rise stiffly from their chairs and stride purposefully out of frame. There's a lot of striding purposefully in old Star Trek, except for the lead who's - oddly - expected to sit throughout a lot of the film.

"There's less sitting in 'Star Trek (absent the heretofore de rigeur subtitle)' and that's something different right away."

 

[Gepard]

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^

Did you make that up, or is it adapted from something he wrote?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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^

Did you make that up, or is it adapted from something he wrote?

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.

 

[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.

 

[Gepard]

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It just sounded to me like something he'd write

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