Star Trek - Into Darkness
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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Malakriss
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Soygen
The Dirty Dozen For the Price of One
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Blackyce
Silver Knight of the Realm
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Blackyce
Silver Knight of the Realm
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McCheese
SW: Sean, CW: Crone, GW: Wizardhawk
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That's why I don't click on TV/Movie threads between the time of release(airing, for TV shows) and the time I see it. I avoided the Iron Man thread for the entire week between the international release and the US midnight showing I went to. It's the only way to be safe!yeah fuck me for getting up early and seeing all that shit, thanks soy but done had the movie spoiled for me
taebin
Same trailer, different park
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Saw it last night at a double feature. Suffice to say, alarm going off at 5:30 this morning was no bueno. I'm fading hard and it's only 11:44.
Movie was very entertaining. Better story/plot than the first. Still had a lot of hole's and "well isn't that convenient" moments (we're calling this plot armor now?). Saw it in 3D and it was pretty impressive. More so than The Hobbit/Avatar, which are only two other 3D movies I've seen.
7/10.
Movie was very entertaining. Better story/plot than the first. Still had a lot of hole's and "well isn't that convenient" moments (we're calling this plot armor now?). Saw it in 3D and it was pretty impressive. More so than The Hobbit/Avatar, which are only two other 3D movies I've seen.
7/10.
Sadly, the only part of the movie where I was impressed by the 3D was right in the beginning where the spears were flying right at me. After that I ceased to notice anything of note.
Well, Bones was pretty much relegated to the comedic one liners and/or stating the obvious for the dumber members of the audience. It was predominantly a Kirk/Spock lovefest with a bit of Uhura thrown in for the empowered female audience. You go girl!
Merrith
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Great movie. Best of the year so far, the bar has been set in my mind. This is from someone who really liked Iron Man 3 quite a bit as well. They manage to give nods to the past while still doing things in a new way. They have places to go after this film too as well.
I don't understand the people who complain about lens flare. I feel like you're the same people who complain about Bale's "Batman" voice, and Littlefinger's voice on GoT. Just weird.
I don't understand the people who complain about lens flare. I feel like you're the same people who complain about Bale's "Batman" voice, and Littlefinger's voice on GoT. Just weird.
Xeldar
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It was meh-level-entertaining. I felt that we're introduced to KHAAAAAAAANN as a villian and then he's unconscious. The end.
immersion breaking shit: The Enterprise and KHAAAAAN's dreadnought get into it at 237,000km from Earth (distance to the moon). Afterwards, they're falling into Earth's gravity. Really? A ship with no engines flies 236,000km in 2 minutes?
I come into each thread to get people's impressions of a movie so I have an idea if I should actually spend money on it. If everyone agrees it is a steaming pile I will probably wait till the DVD comes out and Netflix it.
Also there are the sleepers that I would have never watched if not for comments in the Movie House. Dredd is a good example of one I unfairly wrote off and am glad I read a bit about it.
Phazael
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Liked it. Might have liked it more if they had more if there was a tad more plot and more dialog interaction with Cumberbatch, but I am having a hard time remembering a movie with better pacing than this one. Aliens maybe? Literally no wasted time in this movie, just kept the foot on the gas the entire time but never to the point of overwhelming. Of course there are plotholes that neckbeards and nostalgic basement dwellers are going to bitch about on the Intertube Rage Machine, but that was the case with the first one. This one was at LEAST as entertaining and wasn't wasting time with an origin story. The villain also really separated this one from the first, in my mind. Haters are going to hate and that's why they are haters. I loved it and even as someone who loved the older series, I can appreciate this as a great take on it. The originals had plot holes you could drive trucks through, so complaining about them here is just looking for something to bitch about, as far as I am concerned.
If I had one real critique, beyond needing a touch more dialog with the main villain, it would be that I hope that in the next movie the primary adversary is not quite as overwhelmingly superior, so you actually get to see the Enterprise actually duke it out with something on equal footing and kick some ass, rather than just constantly getting its shit slapped around. Kirk was supposed to be a space combat tactical genius and I would like to see that in one of these movies.
FYI, Chekov actually had his most active role in ST2. He was a first officer on another ship and fairly involved in the plot of that movie. He generally got descent stuff to do in even numbered Trek movies and jack shit in the odd numbered ones (Koenig said as much himself), which coincidentally are also the worse of the movies. In this movie, there were a lot of characters and not a lot of time to seriously visit most of them. As it was, Scotty got good screen time, Sulu got to wear the big boy pants, and Chekov got to do his boy genius thing. The only underutilized character, in my view, was McCoy, but given the story of the movie I am not sure what else they could have given him to work with. Karl Urban owns that fucking role, though. I hope they do more with him and less with Saldana in the next movie, though the conversation in the trade ship was great.
If I had one real critique, beyond needing a touch more dialog with the main villain, it would be that I hope that in the next movie the primary adversary is not quite as overwhelmingly superior, so you actually get to see the Enterprise actually duke it out with something on equal footing and kick some ass, rather than just constantly getting its shit slapped around. Kirk was supposed to be a space combat tactical genius and I would like to see that in one of these movies.
FYI, Chekov actually had his most active role in ST2. He was a first officer on another ship and fairly involved in the plot of that movie. He generally got descent stuff to do in even numbered Trek movies and jack shit in the odd numbered ones (Koenig said as much himself), which coincidentally are also the worse of the movies. In this movie, there were a lot of characters and not a lot of time to seriously visit most of them. As it was, Scotty got good screen time, Sulu got to wear the big boy pants, and Chekov got to do his boy genius thing. The only underutilized character, in my view, was McCoy, but given the story of the movie I am not sure what else they could have given him to work with. Karl Urban owns that fucking role, though. I hope they do more with him and less with Saldana in the next movie, though the conversation in the trade ship was great.