Very cool - the main cast, the writers, and director of the new Star Trek movie spent Easter with the troops entertaining and premiering for them the new Star Trek movie which doesn't premiere here in the USA for another month. Normally they wouldn't get a chance to see the movie until returning to the states. Here's the info from aintitcool.com:
"Hey folks, Harry here... I've known that JJ and the Crew of the new STAR TREK would be doing this - but isn't this a nice way to celebrate Easter with our Armed Forces? To give them a peek at something that usually they'd have to wait for a trip home to enjoy? And that JJ and Crew actually went and spent this Easter with the Troops - that's all kinds of special. Here we go - there are a few spoilers here, so boldly go if you do not wish to be spoiled... otherwise read about a special Easter delight!
Harry, I emailed you a week or so ago. I'm in the Army and deployed to Kuwait. The cast of Star Trek along with J.J. Abrams were at our camp today to premiere the new movie. Below is my review. I hope that you find it post worthy:
Star Trek Review
I am in the Army and currently deployed to Kuwait. We have a movie theater on post that shows “second run” movies, meaning that we get the movie about a week or two after they are released in the states. At times, a special effort is made to show the movie here on the same date it is released in the states. With that being said, I was shocked to see the movie schedule that was published for the first half of April. According to this schedule the new Star Trek movie will have a “special premier” on April 11th. I found it very hard to believe that we would be able to view a big “summer time blockbuster” movie that won’t premiere in the States for another 27 days.
Sure enough, the movie actually did get played today and I was able to get in to see it not just once, but twice. Not only did the movie arrive in Kuwait, but J.J. Abrams and most of the “bridge crew” cast (Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, John Cho, Eric Bana and Karl Urban) were here as well.
The cast went out of their way to entertain us before and after the movie was shown. They were more than happy to interact with the soldiers (Eric Bana leaped out of his “reserved” seat and sat next to a female soldier who invited him next to her) and they took their time describing their experiences making the film and answering questions and requests (Quinto obliged a soldier who asked him to call his daughter back in the states and say hello to her). I was truly impressed and grateful in the fact that they went out of their way to thank us and to offer this film to us. I’ll admit that this review won’t be as objective as it could because of the way the cast lent themselves to us. My biggest thrill was walking up to J.J. Abrams after the film and having the opportunity to give him my general impressions of it. How many times does a geek like me get a chance to do that?
~snip~
more at:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/40743
Printer-friendly format
Email this thread to a friend
Bookmark this thread
(1000+ posts)
Send PM |
Profile |
Ignore
