I feel almost human

My wife and I went out with a friend to see a movie yesterday. It was like being a real person. We have now broken our long-standing annual total of movies seen in one year. For 2009 our total is now 3! Yay!

We saw Star Trek. It was, in a word, fun. I expected some major changes – as you would need to do to make a movie of this sort where many pieces are reworked into a whole – and I have some complaints, but for now I’ll keep them to myself. They managed to get in all of the original main characters in a reasonable way which was not easy. The cast was very good, but for me there were two standouts.

I think Zachary Quinto nailed it as Spock. There was one moment there with a raised eyebrow and an expression where he absolutely channeled Leonard Nimoy. Karl Urban was also pretty darn good as McCoy. He just had the personality down. Oh, I almost forgot Simon Pegg. How could I do that? He was fun and exuberant and a little crazy. His attitude was pure Scotty.

I also loved the lines they threw in: I’m a doctor not a physicist. I’m givin’ you all she’s got. There might have been more, I forget. That was fun. At one point it got a laugh out of us at a tense moment, but it was too much fun to care.

Go see it.