FMW Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 I too just saw Star Trek: Into Darkness. I too think it's pretty fantastic. The casting for this rebooted enterprise crew is just great. I love Spock and Scotty and Sulu and Uhura. I'm okay with Chekov and Kirk. The only one that rubs me the wrong way is McCoy, but whiffing on 1 for 7 when recasting icons of this stature is an incredibly good ratio. Special shoutout to our new villain Benedict Cumberbatch - can he be our new action star please? He was so so cool. I nominate him to play Martian Manhunter in the inevitable Justice League film, but honestly I'd go to pretty much any action flick featuring him. Expendables 3? Sure, I'm in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 Expendables cast male actors based on appeal to males and being action stars. If the Expendables tried to cater to charming/dapper gentlemen it'd be filled with the Doctors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 (edited) The only one that rubs me the wrong way is McCoy Are you crazy? Karl Urban as McCoy is the best fit of the entire cast! Edited May 30, 2013 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 I didn't even know until it was pointed out to me that he's also Judge Dredd. It's kinda freaky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FMW Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 I think my problem is mostly that new McCoy just feels like an imitation of old McCoy. Most of the other characters have something new going on. Uhura and Spock have a romance. Checkov is younger and more Russian. Sulu actually gets to be a character now as opposed to the faceless lever puller from before, even if he's not super colorful. I really like new Sulu. Scotty is Simon Pegg and he's great. He's better than old Scotty easily. Thin OR fat version. But McCoy? He hasn't been important to either of the movie plots and just kind of wanders in saying an old McCoy catchphrase. So he looks like old McCoy and he sounds like old McCoy... but he hasn't changed at all. He's not clever like Uhura, funny like Scotty and Spock, responsible like Sulu. He's just... same as always. It's a bummer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 (edited) I didn't even know until it was pointed out to me that he's also Judge Dredd. It's kinda freaky. Which is exactly as it should be. Really glad he never took the helmet off in Dredd. I think my problem is mostly that new McCoy just feels like an imitation of old McCoy. Most of the other characters have something new going on. Uhura and Spock have a romance. Checkov is younger and more Russian. Sulu actually gets to be a character now as opposed to the faceless lever puller from before, even if he's not super colorful. I really like new Sulu. Scotty is Simon Pegg and he's great. He's better than old Scotty easily. Thin OR fat version. But McCoy? He hasn't been important to either of the movie plots and just kind of wanders in saying an old McCoy catchphrase. So he looks like old McCoy and he sounds like old McCoy... but he hasn't changed at all. He's not clever like Uhura, funny like Scotty and Spock, responsible like Sulu. He's just... same as always. It's a bummer. I get what you mean, but other than the Spock-Uhura romance, everything you've mentioned is mostly superficial. It's not like any of the characters have been altered in any meaningful way. They're not even meant to be reinventions or new versions of characters in the remake sense, they're literally the same people. They just had the course of their lives changed. I think what I really like is that he's the most ..colorful of the bunch. He's the only one that feels like he's really having fun with the character. Except maybe for Scotty, I guess. But then again, it's just Simon Pegg being Simon Pegg whereas this is quite different from anything I've seen Karl Urban play before. Edited May 30, 2013 by FLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 Yeah Karl Urban is by far my favorite outside of Scotty. It doesn't have to do with him bringing something new to the table, but because he's brilliant in the role. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 Fast and Furious 6. These movies have been better ever since they stopped giving a flying fuck and made it almost into a self-parody which happened with Fast and Furious. This one was fantastic and it seems like it's getting closer to Tokyo Drift's timeline. In fact The ending occurs straight up in Tokyo with a dash of random Jason Statham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 I didn't even know until it was pointed out to me that he's also Judge Dredd. It's kinda freaky. I remember when I first realised he was Eomer in Lord of the Rings as well as the bad guy in Bourne Supremacy. He's a good actor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 Oh, forgot to mention, one thing that did bug me was how they fucking misspelled Qo'nos as Kronos. I mean, it's pronounced the same, but holy fuck, how do you make that kind of a mistake? You're writing a Star Trek movie, do your fucking homework! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 30, 2013 Report Share Posted May 30, 2013 I think they spelled out BOTH ways, which was odd. What bugged me was how it's the future and we have all this amazing technology but everyone still uses flip phones. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 everyone in TV and films uses flip phones even though they are borderline impossible to buy. It's weird but I think it is because it is very visual when someone takes/ends a call and you can put a bit of emotion into closing it etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Did Star Trek do the angry phone slam? I don't remember. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) More like a frustrated phone slam, but yes the future went back to flip phone communicators. I too saw the new Star Trek movie days ago, but honestly I'm not a big Star Trek fan. J.J. Abrams' fetish for lens flair coupled with the flashing red and green lasers made me sure I was going to have a seizure, just like the feeling I had in the last film with the phaser fight on the Romulan ship. Otherwise, captain musical chairs, role reversal twists, old Spock, KHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNN, and underwear. Edited May 31, 2013 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Spoilers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Crap, I forgot that technically wasn't common knowledge for the film. It's just kinda obvious, as much as the rest of the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Oh, forgot to mention, one thing that did bug me was how they fucking misspelled Qo'nos as Kronos. I mean, it's pronounced the same, but holy fuck, how do you make that kind of a mistake? You're writing a Star Trek movie, do your fucking homework! http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Qo'noS#The_name_of_the_homeworld Kronos: The Klingon homeworld remained canonically unnamed until Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, in which it was identified as "Kronos", spelled that way in the film's script. [6] The spelling "Kronos" was also used in most of the scripts of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes. [7] It was also used in the script of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Broken Bow". [8] According to the pronunciation guide in the script of DS9: "Tears of the Prophets", KRO-nos is the phonetic spelling of "Kronos". [9] The spelling "Kronos" was first seen on screen in Star Trek Into Darkness. Qo'noS: According to the Star Trek Encyclopedia and The Klingon Dictionary by Marc Okrand, "Kronos" is the pronunciation and anglicanized form of the Klingonese word "Qo'noS". According to the script of "Tears of the Prophets", however, where the Klingon death chant is spelled in Klingonese: "neH taH Kronos. Hegh bat'lhqu Hoch nej maH. neH taH Kronos. yay je bat'lh manob Hegh.", "Kronos" is the way the name is spelled in Klingonese as well. [10] The alternate spelling QO'NOS was sometimes used instead of KRONOS in closed-captioning, in the official DVD releases of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episodes for example. On screen, the first time the spelling "Qo'noS" appeared was in Star Trek Into Darkness, displayed on computer screens in that movie. It was also the spelling used in the novelization of Star Trek Into Darkness. This was the first time either spelling had ever appeared on screen, and the movies and TV series are the only really true canon. Anyway, to me it's no more jarring than an American moving saying "Germany" on screen instead of "Deutschland". As for the flip phones, they just wanted to use the same design as the original series, since it's set around the same time period. In-universe explanation as to why they're so bulky compared to modern phones could easily be that they're subspace transmitters, rather than simply radios like our cell phones are, and that equipment is larger. Also, when was the last time you saw someone in a TV show or movie using a flip phone? (Excluding things that were made when flip phones were still common.) I've never noticed them being prevalent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 Oh, forgot to mention, one thing that did bug me was how they fucking misspelled Qo'nos as Kronos. I mean, it's pronounced the same, but holy fuck, how do you make that kind of a mistake? You're writing a Star Trek movie, do your fucking homework! http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Qo'noS#The_name_of_the_homeworld Not sure what you're trying to say with that link. Did you just search for "Qo" ? Because that's all there is in the url once I open it. This page exists, though. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Qo'noS (eh, copy paste the whole thing I guess, the apostrophe breaks the link when I preview my post) Anyway, I wasn't going off memory from previous films or anything. That's just how I've always seen it spelled online and such. Totally missed that both spellings were in the film, too. I guess it makes sense when you look at it from the Germany vs. Deutschland angle. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) Looper. Damn, that's...huh. That's pretty heavy stuff. Liked it, but I think I might need to mull over it some more. Going in, I was actually expecting something a little 'smarter' and thriller-like when it was actually more of a drama that favours story over airtight logic (not necessarily a bad thing...and it's already a time travel film anyway.). I've seen people say it's like a film of two halves but I don't consider it quite so demarcated. The performances and direction were really cool, and it's nice seeing Bruce Willis properly acting. Edited May 31, 2013 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 (edited) @FLD: I was trying to link to that stuff I quoted immediately after it. The apostrophe broke my link too. Let's try this: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Qo'noS#The_name_of_the_homeworld *Edit* - And that's interesting what you say about always having seen it spelled Qo'noS, because I've never seen it spelled any way other than Kronos. Edited May 31, 2013 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoStarr Posted May 31, 2013 Report Share Posted May 31, 2013 I just watched Pontypool and really enjoyed it. It's all about these people who are at a radio station doing a show when people start turning into these faux-zombie things. It's pretty creepy considering you don't really see the "zombies" all that much for the first 3/4s of the movie and most of the scariest bits are auditory stuff; them getting phonecalls and whatnot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 7, 2013 Report Share Posted June 7, 2013 The Glass Key (1942 version) Watched one of the film noirs from my set. Really enjoyed it. A neat little twisty story, one from which I can see Miller's Crossing drew inspiration. William Bendix is really good, plus Veronica Lake is nice too look at and listen to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 1942 noir film? Was there a detective in an office and a hot seductress? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) Funnily enough, no. The main character was an 'enforcer/right hand man' for some crooked political guy, and the woman wasn't so much a seductress as a hot chick who...got a bit mixed up in things. The original book (along with Red Harvest, an earlier, similar story by the same author) is the template for films like Yojimbo, A Fistful Of Dollars as well as later stuff like Miller's Crossing and Brick. The ending of the film is a little too happy compared to the book, whereas the Miller's Crossing version makes it even unhappier. Edited June 8, 2013 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted June 8, 2013 Report Share Posted June 8, 2013 (edited) You said A Fistful of Dollars and suddenly my interest was piqued. Edited June 8, 2013 by Waldorf And Statler Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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