Star Trek

[innerSpaceman]

Alex was making an analogy between last year's Transformers thread and this one. blueerica apparently also posted in the Transformers thread that it was getting repetitive and done (just as she recently did in this one), but that thread went on to 143 posts.

Alex posits Star Trek is worth more posts than Transformers. And I heartily agree.


I wonder what Chris is doing tonight and if he'll call me. He's so dreamy.




Ok, more substantively ... Alex, what don't you like about Urban's take on Bones McCoy? Most people seem to love his characterization. I'm in that crowd. What's wrong with you?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Ok, more substantively ... Alex, what don't you like about Urban's take on Bones McCoy? Most people seem to love his characterization. I'm in that crowd. What's wrong with you?

Two things, one his fault and one not so much his fault.

1. I thought he was trying too hard to to an impression of DeForest Kelley. And, in my opinion, he didn't do a good one. I think I said this earlier but to me it sounded like he was doing an impression of DeForest Kelley doing an impression of Jack Nicholson. It just grated on me.

2. I really didn't like the slapstick involved in getting Kirk on the enterprise so since he was central to that I'm sure he was tainted and then not given enough additional work in the rest of the movie to overcome it. The one big spotlight moment being just so he could toss out a cliched (not one of those pieces of Star Trek tradition that I like) "Dammit <name>, I'm a ... not a ..." line. Especially since he said "Dammit <name>, I'm a doctor not a physicist" and then immediately followed it up with an exact understanding and restatement of the implications of the physics mumbo jumbo he was responding to.

Maybe he'll grow on me in the next movie if given more to do.