Comments on: Star Trek

By: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy » Movie Monster

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy » Movie Monster — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:29:53 +0000

[...] this story to an agent played by Benedict Cumberbatch, who was just cast as the villain in the next Star Trek movie—it’s enough to coldcock the space-time continuum.) Oldman says that he saw Smiley as [...]

By: Super 8 » Movie Monster

Super 8 » Movie Monster — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 03:08:30 +0000

[...] Abrams is reintroducing us to those familiar faces, and for nostalgists that seems to suffice. Star Trek was a string of self-effacing clichés that, with a few time-warps and a lot of scotch tape, looked [...]

By: Inception » Movie Monster

Inception » Movie Monster — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 21:18:05 +0000

[...] worthy of that mantle, and that’s precisely because it was overloaded.) Nolan is like an upscale J. J. Abrams, but that scale doesn’t rise too high—and, as much as I don’t want to spoil anyone’s fun (I [...]

By: Paul » Movie Monster

Paul » Movie Monster — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:04:25 +0000

[...] fine work as free agents. In fact, they’ve transcended their material: Pegg, with his brains, in Star Trek, and Frost, with his belly, in Pirate Radio. Working with a good director, Greg Mottola, and an [...]

By: Tron: Legacy » Movie Monster

Tron: Legacy » Movie Monster — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 21:24:37 +0000

[...] 1982 prequel hearkened me back to a tiff I once got myself into upon claiming that the effects in Star Trek were inferior to those in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Maybe the thought is native only to [...]

By: Iron Man 2 » Movie Monster

Iron Man 2 » Movie Monster — Thu, 13 May 2010 15:51:15 +0000

[...] by not coasting through the rest of his roles. He Russifies well, but he and Eric Bana (the Star Trek nemesis) ought to form a support group for neglected adversaries. Vanko is a symptom writer’s [...]

By: The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » Movie Monster

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus » Movie Monster — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 06:55:59 +0000

[...] tang, but what—if anything—has been resolved? It’s as if Gilliam hired the writers of Star Trek to pen the end of Parnassus, and exile the good doctor in a parallel universe. When the director [...]

By: Avatar » Movie Monster

Avatar » Movie Monster — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:37:44 +0000

[...] Avatar have some witty lines, but I never felt the lithe vibes of Up, or the trashy exuberance of Star Trek. Cameron is too busy “[disrupting] an entire industry” to realize how silly his enterprise is. [...]

By: District 9 » Movie Monster

District 9 » Movie Monster — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:50:35 +0000

[...] wayward children of that broken home: The genre had become so commercially debased that even square Star Trek was lobotomized. But movies of the past that were comparable to District 9—like, say, Planet of [...]

By: Inglourious Basterds » Movie Monster

Inglourious Basterds » Movie Monster — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 05:49:45 +0000

[...] arsenic lollipops to our inner children, but this film’s even guiltier than a Transformers 2 or Star Trek or G.I. Joe because we’re resigned to their big-movie stupidity and opportunism. Who’s an [...]