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Sat May 25, 2013, 10:50 PM

TheMightyFavog (13,770 posts)

Saw Star Trek tonight...

Good movie. Although, the guy sitting behind me came up to me after the movie and yelled at me for laughing during the funny and amusing bits telling me "It's Star Trek, not fucking Anchorman." What an asshole. It's called a sense of humor, pal, grow one. It's people like that that made me stop being a Trekkie.

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27 replies	Author	Time	Post
Saw Star Trek tonight... (Original post)	TheMightyFavog	May 2013	OP
sounds like a real jerk!	hrmjustin	May 2013	#1
Like I said, some people take Trek way too seriously.	TheMightyFavog	May 2013	#2
aaaah, a bit of karma kickback perhaps?	magical thyme	May 2013	#11
No.	TheMightyFavog	May 2013	#12
I need to go stat...	Agschmid	May 2013	#3
Nobody yelled at me but I laughed too	olddots	May 2013	#4
What a jerk...	Xyzse	May 2013	#5
My friends and I were "shhhhed" at a basketball game!	Yavin4	May 2013	#6
I saw it with hard-core Trekkies (well, for my neck of the woods)	WolverineDG	May 2013	#7
It's not Star Trek.	Archae	May 2013	#8
+1	magellan	May 2013	#22
I agree	A Little Weird	May 2013	#23
Agreed. But after the last one I didn't expect it to be...	Locut0s	May 2013	#24
It's people like that that made me stop	Flashmann	May 2013	#9
Tell him, "Relax, Gandalf!"	baldguy	May 2013	#10
Lots of laughs there for us Trekkies	mainer	May 2013	#13
Best way to piss of a Trekkie, call it Star Wars	NightWatcher	May 2013	#14
I saw it yesterday, too.	GoCubsGo	May 2013	#15
Check out this article that pretty much skewers it...	AllenVanAllen	May 2013	#16
great laughs. Thanks!	mainer	May 2013	#19
He could have changed seats or asked you to be quiet during the movie	siligut	May 2013	#17
ummm...was he a Trekkie?	burnodo	May 2013	#18
I just turned around and walked away.	TheMightyFavog	May 2013	#20
Enjoyed it a lot.	tavernier	May 2013	#21
I am boycotting this one...	Demo_Chris	May 2013	#25
They deal with his early promotion in this one.	Frank Cannon	May 2013	#27
Yeah, that guy was a jerk	sakabatou	May 2013	#26

Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 10:53 PM

hrmjustin (71,265 posts)

1. sounds like a real jerk!

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Sat May 25, 2013, 11:09 PM

TheMightyFavog (13,770 posts)

2. Like I said, some people take Trek way too seriously.

I should know, I used to be one of them.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 10:13 AM

magical thyme (14,881 posts)

11. aaaah, a bit of karma kickback perhaps?

When you took it too seriously did you ever scowl and mutter at, or outright scold, people laughing at the funny parts?

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Response to magical thyme (Reply #11)

Sun May 26, 2013, 10:20 AM

TheMightyFavog (13,770 posts)

12. No.

But I kind of rage quit Trek after First Contact and something that at the time I thought was badly retconned, when in actuality, my previous notion of this minor plot point came from a book that's really not considered canon, per se.

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Sat May 25, 2013, 11:10 PM

Agschmid (28,721 posts)

3. I need to go stat...

While its still in IMAX!

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 11:17 PM

olddots (10,237 posts)

4. Nobody yelled at me but I laughed too

Bones says Damn it Jim and it was supposed to be funny -only I laughed ---It was a solid 10 -can't wait for more .

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 11:50 PM

Xyzse (8,217 posts)

5. What a jerk...

And Anchorman was not that funny.

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sat May 25, 2013, 11:52 PM

Yavin4 (32,078 posts)

6. My friends and I were "shhhhed" at a basketball game!

Imagine that!

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 09:32 AM

WolverineDG (22,298 posts)

7. I saw it with hard-core Trekkies (well, for my neck of the woods)

all 8 of us, at the midnight show....we roared through the whole thing. Sorry you had to run into the 1 asshole who takes Trek waaaaay too seriously.

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 09:35 AM

Archae (42,616 posts)

8. It's not Star Trek.

And I'm a Trekkie from day one.
(Literally. 1966.)

It has the label, the character names, even the Enterprise.

But Roddenberry's optimism is gone.

It's JJ Adams "I wanna blow shit up!" movie.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 07:24 PM

magellan (13,257 posts)

22. +1

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Sun May 26, 2013, 09:38 PM

A Little Weird (1,754 posts)

23. I agree

I enjoyed the movie but it didn't feel like Star Trek. Oh well.

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Response to Archae (Reply #8)

Sun May 26, 2013, 10:15 PM

Locut0s (6,154 posts)

24. Agreed. But after the last one I didn't expect it to be...

Indeed Roddenberry's touch is gone. So is any semblance of a theme 'about' something. ST was always a thinly veiled discussion on the ails of modern society and the 'what if' of what could be if we could overcome out petty differences.

As an action film and popcorn muncher I still enjoyed it though.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 09:59 AM

Flashmann (2,140 posts)

9. It's people like that that made me stop

Going to movie theaters altogether...

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Sun May 26, 2013, 10:02 AM

baldguy (36,649 posts)

10. Tell him, "Relax, Gandalf!"

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Sun May 26, 2013, 11:16 AM

mainer (11,065 posts)

13. Lots of laughs there for us Trekkies

And lots of familiar tropes. I loved it, even though I thought the chase scenes went on too long.

Would have liked more banter among the crew.

Simon Pegg is a hoot!

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Sun May 26, 2013, 11:17 AM

NightWatcher (38,400 posts)

14. Best way to piss of a Trekkie, call it Star Wars

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Sun May 26, 2013, 12:16 PM

GoCubsGo (26,054 posts)

15. I saw it yesterday, too.

It was okay, but too predictable. I was disappointed that they basically remade "The Wrath of Khan". It was certainly entertaining, but I had hoped they'd come out with a more original story line.

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Response to GoCubsGo (Reply #15)

Sun May 26, 2013, 12:34 PM

AllenVanAllen (3,134 posts)

16. Check out this article that pretty much skewers it...

but does it with some humor. Fair warning, it's full of spoilers for those who haven't seen it.

http://io9.com/star-trek-into-darkness-the-spoiler-faq-508927844

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Response to AllenVanAllen (Reply #16)

Sun May 26, 2013, 01:19 PM

mainer (11,065 posts)

19. great laughs. Thanks!

Although he's meaner about it than I would be.

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Sun May 26, 2013, 12:49 PM

siligut (12,272 posts)

17. He could have changed seats or asked you to be quiet during the movie

That he acted like an ass after the fact and that he wasn't pointing a gun at you indicates he should have been ignored and given no more consideration.

Glad to hear you liked the movie, I am trying to inspire Rot to go with me to see it.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 12:57 PM

burnodo (2,017 posts)

18. ummm...was he a Trekkie?

There are plenty of rude idiots who are not Trekkies. Besides, I would have told him "Next time, stay home and wait for the DVD, or pay for all the tickets and get a private screening"

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Sun May 26, 2013, 03:08 PM

TheMightyFavog (13,770 posts)

20. I just turned around and walked away.

1. I didn't even want to give that ass the time of day.

2. I had to use the can really bad.

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Sun May 26, 2013, 03:14 PM

tavernier (9,160 posts)

21. Enjoyed it a lot.

I saw Iron Man yesterday and didn't think it was nearly as good.

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Mon May 27, 2013, 12:36 AM

Demo_Chris (6,234 posts)

25. I am boycotting this one...

I cannot forgive the idiocy in the last one-- redesigning the Enterprise bridge and turning it into a mall beauty salon?! Cadet Kirk getting proted six freaking ranks?! Oh hell no!

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Response to Demo_Chris (Reply #25)

Mon May 27, 2013, 05:05 AM

Frank Cannon (7,570 posts)

27. They deal with his early promotion in this one.

Starfleet begins to have second thoughts about their whiz kid Captain with the hero father. And even Kirk begins to wonder if he's got the right stuff.

I liked this one a lot, even better than the first one. But I'm hoping that in the next one, they stop with the fanboy-targeted callbacks and give us an entirely new voyage, something we haven't seen before.

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Response to TheMightyFavog (Original post)

Mon May 27, 2013, 12:50 AM

sakabatou (38,009 posts)

26. Yeah, that guy was a jerk

But I don't like the new ST movies.

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