http://slyoyster.com/movies/2009/did-the-beastie-boys-inadvertently-invent-the-vulcan-nerve-pinch/
Some people have too much time on their hands...
Some people have too much time on their hands...
Did the Beastie Boys inadvertantly invent the Vulcan Nerve Pinch?
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The article itself seems to be a parody of the fandom tendency to overanalyze, if I read the tone right. Even if that wasn't the intent, funny stuff.
One of his basic premises is wrong... well, half wrong, anyway. It does indeed appear that Young Jimmy Kirk plays the song on the car's sound system, yet when the car goes over the cliff and crashes into the floor of the quarry, the song continues to play at full volume. It disconcertingly goes from being in the scene to being over the scene and does not cut off until the cop's boot hits the ground, long after the car and its sound system are smashed to bits far below.
How's that for overanalysis?
How's that for overanalysis?
The whole scene was useless (Nokia in the post-WW3 future? Really?), and should have been excised.
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Again, some people have too much time on their hands...
I think most people recognised that some scenes were mostly product placement and are conditioned to accept and then disregard this as a necessary adjunct to the film's budget. Although its still intresting to point out how it might have been done so as to detract less from the immersion of the film.
Of course it was Mr Nimoy who ingeniously invented the vulcan nerve pinch i believe as a useful means of avoiding strenous fight scenes before the beastie boys were even born
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"Sir, there's a multilegged creature crawling on your shoulder...". (Decoying prelude to vulcan nerve pinch.)
Of course it was Mr Nimoy who ingeniously invented the vulcan nerve pinch i believe as a useful means of avoiding strenous fight scenes before the beastie boys were even born
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"Sir, there's a multilegged creature crawling on your shoulder...". (Decoying prelude to vulcan nerve pinch.)
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Well, Nokia is a Finnish company, so who knows what role if any Finland played in the war. It doesn't seem like they'd be a major player, whatever happened.
And, the Nokia was a period piece in a period car. Even the brand being displayed might have been a bit of nostalgia - the electronics behind it could have had nothing to do with Nokia. Like those Victrola-style stereos that have CD players in them and player MP3s.
The whole scene was useless (Nokia in the post-WW3 future? Really?), and should have been excised.
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Agreed the scene was useless...except of course for that bike cop and his toned thighs...that shot was imperative to the plot.
Which is a fitting description of 99% of the threads devoted to critiquing, discussing, and bashing of Star Trek 2009 since the day it debuted.
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