Lesbian Love Triangle

...has absolutely nothing to do with this post.

But it got your attention, right?

I am under tight deadlines again, and I've spent little time online the last two weeks. In fact I've rarely left my laptop. So when my daughters asked me what I wanted to do for Mother's Day, and I said I have to work...that response was not well received. So we skipped our usual Mother's Day hike and braved the crowds at the movie theater to see the new Star Trek. Here's where I admit Star Trek geek-a-tude. I love Star Trek. The Saturday morning reruns in my childhood was the first time I understood what the words cheesy and campy meant. But I loved it. I even bought my little brother a Star Trek "communicator" for his birthday one year, so I could play with it because my parents would've never bought it for me (BTW, it made that cool chirping sound exactly the same as on the show when you flipped it open). I have plastic Star Trek action figures for godsake--that I bought as an adult--(Toys R'Us employee to me -"Oh, you're buying them for your kids?" Riiiight. My *kids*) that I had lined up in my office when I worked in the gun business. Although I hate Halloween, my fondest desire is to get all duded up with the hair and makeup as a Klingon woman and go to a Halloween bash. I warned ya'll that I'm a ST geek.

I followed Star Trek Next Generation religiously, I even watched Deep Space Nine, but I could never get into Voyager much...you'd think with a female captain I'd've been all over it, but Janeway left me...cold. She didn't have the hotheadedness of Kirk, or the aura of power that surrounded Picard. I never did see any episodes of the spin off show with Scott Bakula. By then I'd moved on. I got hooked on the X-Files. And I started watching a little TV show called ALIAS. This is the point in the blog where I say:

JJ ABRAHMS IS A GOD

I loved ALIAS. I am so freakin' hooked on LOST it ain't funny (and to you naysayers who haven't watched every fucking episode, you have no idea what you're missing. No. Idea.) So I went into the new Star Trek movie with high expectations.

It absolutely blew my shuttle doors off.

I can't remember the last time I've seen a movie that made me immediately want to buy another ticket and see the next showing. Maybe it's because I'm a Star Trek geek and this was so much more...real. It filled in the blanks from the original series. It gave insight into characters and situations and how those tight friendships were established. This movie has it all - killer acting, a great, plausible plot, over the top fight scenes, humor, establishing a new "brand" if you will, without losing long time fans like me, and I appreciated the wink wink nudge nudge inside jokes that added another layer to the overall experience. Casting was absolutely freakin' perfect.

Oh, and the special effects? Supreme. I honestly felt like I'd been in space for two hours.

Go see this movie. Seriously. You will not be disappointed.

Now here's the question of the day: Has anyone seen the previews to Land Of The Lost with Will Ferrell? That show was another cheesy Saturday morning staple in my childhood TV watching diet -- I hated those Slestaks -- so will you go to it for nostalgia reasons?

Comments

[toni mcgee causey]

I am so glad I am not the only ST nerd. I had the same problems with Janeway (she was boring, and she should have been a lot more fun). Love Alias. Still haven't watched Lost (I know, I know). And freaking loved the ST movie. (There are plot holes, and coincidences, but who cares? It's a great movie.) We laughed at the inside jokes (which was funny to see - a lot of the older people at the theater got them, most of the younger ones did not). I totally bought the new casting--that was an excellent set of choices.

[Jeff Shelby]

I have been waiting for a Land Of The Lost movie my entire life. Seriously. I am so fired up for that thing, I can't even tell you.

Marshall, Will and Holly...

[Karen Olson]

Hopefully will get to see Star Trek this weekend. As for Land of the Lost, I saw the trailer when I took Julia and her friend to see 17 Again. Not really all that appealing. I didn't realize it had been a TV show.

[Kieran]

sure, a couple of plot holes, but overall, entertaining value. now will someone please chat with the actors and the studio brass so that egos and pitfalls don't fuck up this reborn franchise like they did with the second bond movie? and for the record, janeway's temperament was what a good skipper's should be. you say cold, i say uncompromised leadership that will kick your ass. now excuse me while I reorganize my pocket protector...

[Lori Armstrong]

Kieran, you liked Janeway? I liked her better when she let her hair down...and that woman totally needed to get laid.

Shelby, totally not surprised you and I are looking forward to seeing the horror that is Chaka :) And it helps that Ferrell can do no wrong.

Karen, how did you miss Land Of The Lost????

Toni - my ST geek sista - isn't cool what we learn about friends online? I never would've guessed you as a Trekkie. And like you, I noticed the fans of the original series laughed in all the right places and my kids were like...what?

[Robin]

This is when I hang my head in shame. My cousin's relentlessly tease me that I missed out on a "real" childhood because I had no time to watch Land of the Lost. My husband is an only child, and all he apparently did was watch TV...it's such a bonding experience for him when we visit with my cousins, and I'm such an outsider....sniff. I might have to go see the movie just to figure out what the hell I missed all this time.

[David Terrenoire]

Is Land of the Lost that show with the little monkey-kid? Please tell me I'm thinking of something else, because I just remember wanting to shoot that little bastard.

I don't do cute well.

[Jake Nantz]

Oh good lord, am I really considering this? Going to see a freakin' STAR TREK movie? Ugh. I hated that show. I mean loathed it. Then again I was watching anime shows like ROBOTECH on my Saturday mornings. The only redeeming aspect of any of the Trekkie experience that I ever liked was the section of one of the movies where that Klingon captain kept quoting Julius Ceasar. I love the lines when they're going to re-rig the torpedo, his voice still ringing through the ship, and Bones goes, "I'd pay real money if he'd shut up."

That and Sulu's "Target that explosion and fire," are the only redeeming things I can think of in all of the Star Trek galaxy.

I mean, any film series that had Ricardo Maaaahhntalbaaahhhn can only be taken with a grain of salt. For cryin' out loud, Picard is the captain several thousand years in the future, and they STILL don't have a cure for MALE PATTERN BALDNESS??? Come on.

[Gerard]

The heck with the movie. I'm a fan of lesbian threeways. Let's hear more about that.

[Jim Winter]

Will Ferrell does battle with a T Rex and yells, "Matt Lauer can eat it!"

Why wouldn't I go?

[Jim Winter]

And while I'm on the subject, do we all realize the genesis of the LAND OF THE LOST movie came from JAY & SILENT BOB STRIKE BACK, where Ferrell played wildlife Marshall Willenholly?

Conincidence? I don't think so!

And Star Trek rocked.

[AlisonGaylin]

Jake, Picard was bald and HOT. Putting hair on that would be messing with perfection -- and I'm not even a Trekkie. Can't wait to see the movie though. It looks great!

[Lori Armstrong]

DITTO Alison. Picard is the genesis of my love affair with bald men. Putting hair on him would be...shudder.

Jim, I laughed my ass off at the Matt Lauer line too!

Jake, dude, take a chill pill. Just because I loved it doesn't mean you have to, and really if you hated the series go see something else like Wolverine--ugh not even Riggens from FNL can get me to that movie. Naturally I'm gonna go all Trekkie on your ass when I get a chance, especially when this is the BEST thing to happen to the franchise. Ever.

Gerard - flustered you, didn't I?

Robin - thanks for coming by and now you have no excuse not to bone up on Land of the Lost

David, you'd be correct, the monkey thing (hey, maybe that is where my hatred of monkeys comes from) needed to be eaten by a T-Rex...

[Wilfred Bereswill]

Saw the Star Trek movie. One word...

Fuckin' Awesome!

Okay 2 words.

BTW, a lot of the ship interior scenes (tanks and when Scottie beamed into the wessle (in the words of Chekov) were filmed at the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in Van Nuys Cali.

[Karen Olson]

Lori, I'm older than you. I'm of the My Favorite Martian generation. Which should have totally been made into a movie.

[norby]

My folks and I went to see Star Trek last weekend. My mom and I are trekkies, I go for the old school Trek and TNG, mom loves Voyager. We both loved the movie.

I'm still mixed about the Land of the Lost movie, the trailer made me a little more positive about it, but I'm not sure. Will Ferrell can be iffy for me.

[Lori Armstrong]

Wil, my man how've you been??? Thanks for popping in! And people are so up in arms about the new Vulcan ship looking like an Apple store...you should inform the world that the Enterprise cargo bay is a beer store :)

Karen, who would you pick to play the lead role in today's acting world?

Norby, good to see you too. My mom hated ST and couldn't fathom why I'd want to spend part of my Mother's Day in space (she doesn't get my Ferrell or my Sandler adoration either) so I'm jealous you got to go with your mom -- what a great Mother's Day gift :)

[Jake Nantz]

Lori, that's just it. I'm jealous. I've seen the trailer countless times, and JJ Abrahms has actually managed to make Star Trek look cool enough that I'm interested, and that takes some doing.

Meanwhile, David Benioff and Skip Woods create a movie that has my two favorite comic book characters of ALL TIME, Gambit and Deadpool, and they ignore one and screw the other one up completely.

You guys get someone who has always wanted to make Star Trek cool, and he succeeds. I get two schumcks who have obviously never opened a comic book in their lives.

It's not fair, I tell you.

(PS - relax, I was just givin you shit about ST, though Picard's MPB always made me depressed when I first started losing my hair.)