Happy Star Wars Day!

[thewayne]

May the Fourth be with you!

I hope Disney doesn't muck up the new series, I guess we'll find out. I'm a little paranoid about them getting Ford, Hamill, and Fisher back. That series started almost forty years ago, I remember seeing it as a teen in Phoenix. I know Harrison Ford is looking very craggy, saw him on Craig Ferguson a couple of weeks ago, and Carrie put on a lot of weight. Going to be interesting seeing Han and Leia as retired people. I have no idea what Hamill looks like these days, he mainly went to voice acting for a long time.

We watched the Abrams' Star Trek movie last night as a refresher as the new one opens really soon, and to be honest, I still find it kinda *meh*, and I'm not sure why. The characters are kinda cool, especially Simon Pegg, as limited as his appearance was. The Kirk/Spock characters really didn't grab me, I think Kirk just struck me as an arrogant jerk, but at least I could see his evolving arc a little more clearly.

I'll definitely see the new movie, and the new Star Wars movie whenever it releases, but what I really want is to buy the original Star Trek collections, which will cost about $100 for all three seasons. *sigh* Maybe one of these days I'll get a job.


Tonight or tomorrow: Iron Man 3! W00ties!

Comments

[vaudy.livejournal.com]

I basically thought the Star Trek reboot was just an action movie that happens to use names from Star Trek. And that's fine if you just like action movies, but (IMO, obviously) it lacks a certain Trek-ness, for a Star Trek movie.

I agree about Chris Pine's Kirk. He epitomizes all of Kirk's negative qualities, without any charm to soften them. He's an entitled frat boy, in space.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

Frat boy in space. Excellent way of putting it. We'll see how he shapes up in the next movie. I'm kind of concerned about Into Darkness. As far as I can see from the trailers, it's set on Earth about a Fleet officer who goes rogue and basically becomes a terrorist. Where's the Star aspect of this? I'm getting the same feeling of a franchise losing its focus, like Timothy Dalton's second Bond movie, License to Kill. Bond against drug lords? Yes, it's a revenge flick, but it just didn't strike me as superspy material.