jordenf v2.0

I have never seen an episode of Star Trek in my life.   I knew that one of the guys had no feelings and the other guy was in the Priceline.com adds and on Boston Legal.  But on Friday night we decided that we didn’t want to be the only people in the country that hadn’t seen it.

We got to the theatre 45 minutes early and it was already packed with men aged 35-45 who had escaped their parents basement for an evening of pop corn and maybe a little human contact.  I didn’t know what to expect (well not much to be honest), but the first 20 minutes was action packed and lots of stuff exploded which is always good.  It then it focused in on a young Luke Skywalker (wait that’s the wrong movie I think)… it focused in on a young William Shatner (actually I think that’s wrong too, well kind of)… it focused in on a young Captain Kirk racing through Iowa in his step-dads stolen car.  The song Sabotage by the Beastie Boys played through the background and I realized right away this isn’t your mom and dad’s old school nerdy sci-fi movie.

Now youtube or the folks from Star Trek wont allow me to embed a trailer for the movie in this post… but the folks at Harold and Kumar are a little more relaxed and to be honest it’s a funny trailer so I’ve included it instead below (however if you want to see the Star Trek trailer click the link and it will take you to the correct youtube page. Star Trek Trailer)

Star Trek was great in my opinion, I didn’t need to be a Trekky to know what was going on and it kept me entertained the whole night.  It had a good mix of action, story line and they didn’t make the characters too lame but at the same time they didn’t try to over do it with coolness… they were just rad enough I guess.

The one thing that I did find really hard to get used to was Harold from Harold and Kumar go to White Castle was Mr. Sulu, he’s the guy who drives the ship.  It’s really hard to look at that guy seriously when you know he just wants to smoke a bowl and take the Enterprise through the White Castle drive-thru for a burger and fries.  I kept waiting for Kumar to show up on the bridge… and even at one point I thought he was one of the extras in the background but sadly I was incorrect.

So in short. Star Trek was awesome… and going to the theatre was an experience on its own as there were a lot of different cats there; some who had never talked to a girl, some in leather trench coats, most socially awkward, and some who write blogs.

Live Long and go to White Castle,

jordenf

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