Maybe it's a squirt of makeup goo to make them look extra rheumy?
Why does Nimoy look YOUNGER in this movie?
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Maybe it's a squirt of makeup goo to make them look extra rheumy?
I can't believe you guys aren't picking up on this. He has had a surgery that TONS of older men are having, called an eyelift. Drooping parts of the eyelids are removed, resulting in a larger, brighter appearance to the eye. The downside is that it ALWAYS results in the eyes standing out too much from the rest of the face. They look out of place, too young. It is clearly evident in this picture that his surgeon overdid the procedure and did not leave a natural appearance to his eyes.
That may be so, but I don't believe anything I see on a screen entirely. Filmmakers are in the illusion business, after all. I think it may have something to do with the lighting, as another poster suggested.
Don't know what you guys are smoking, but Nimoy looks ancient to me in the trailer. I hardly recognized him. Not any fault on his behalf - that is what high age is doing to you. Most people look "themselves" until 70 but then aging really wrecks havoc, especially to your face. Just look how small and tired his eyes look now.
I wished they had done some make-up work to at least partially counteract the aging and make him look more like "old Spock". I don't think anyone but the most ardent hardcore fans will recognize him.
I wished they had done some make-up work to at least partially counteract the aging and make him look more like "old Spock". I don't think anyone but the most ardent hardcore fans will recognize him.
Well, I can only speak for myself, but I don't really keep up on cosmetic surgery techniques, nor on gossip about which Hollywood personality has had what procedure done (and how many times.) To be honest, I can't imagine many things which would be more tedious to track. Should it really have been so obvious as that to me?
M', gets testy when people play the "I can't beLIEVE" card
True enough. They say part of the movie is set in the post-Nemesis timeframe....they just haven't said *how* post
If the movie being made 17 years after "Unification" translates to roughly the same time frame for the Nero/24th century scenes of the film, that could mean Spock travels back from roughly the year 2385, which makes HIM about 155 years old and sets those scenes about six years after NEMESIS.
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^ Awesome. 
Sorry, martin, but at 2000 pixels wide, that's going to stretch a lot of screens, so I've converted it to a link. If you could break it up into three rows, perhaps, that would work as an inline image (though I realize it probably messes up the linear progression you were going for.) Board policy calls for a max width of 640, and I've let those in the image-heavy threads go a bit larger -- to 800, say -- but this is just too far over that to leave.
I posted this in another thread, but it might be more appropriate here...
I just realized that Old Spock from the Star Trek XI trailer looks a lot like Estelle Getty when she was on "Golden Girls." Can we get a side-by-side comparison? And put a pair of old lady glasses on Spock, just for good measure.
This image is a little dark, but you get the idea:
http://i.current.com/images/epg/remembers/GoldenGirls/1_400x300.jpg
I just realized that Old Spock from the Star Trek XI trailer looks a lot like Estelle Getty when she was on "Golden Girls." Can we get a side-by-side comparison? And put a pair of old lady glasses on Spock, just for good measure.
This image is a little dark, but you get the idea:
http://i.current.com/images/epg/remembers/GoldenGirls/1_400x300.jpg
No problem. Just trying to be considerate of those with less-than-mind-boggling screen resolution.
I think you made a pretty comprehensive set, and yeah, it was.
I think Old Spock is about 155 in the new movie, which makes him 47 years younger than his father when he died on TNG...but remember Spock is also one-half human and so ages at a different rate than a full-blooded Vulcan and would look as bad if not worse than Sarek at a younger age.
He doesn't look younger.
He looks ancient.
He looks ancient.
Because of his human DNA. Any human who lived even close to the age of 155 would look like one of those 1840s Franklin Expedition bodies buried in the permafrost and ice of the Canadian Arctic...only worse.
Spock may be half-Vulcan, but the genes from Amanda have made him look like Denis Leary with AIDS and after staring into the Ark of the Covenant.
Spock may be half-Vulcan, but the genes from Amanda have made him look like Denis Leary with AIDS and after staring into the Ark of the Covenant.
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It was once believed that sex with virgins could make a man feel and look younger. Maybe he finally got married; perhaps to T'prings 18 year old daughter via Stonn...you never know. Those vulcan are kind of kinky in that way.
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I was getting really confused when people started talking about the trailer....and then I noticed this thread was from last year and had been resurrected.
But yeah, I thought he looked damn old.
But yeah, I thought he looked damn old.
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