So over the past few years I’ve seen an increasing trend (news to nobody I’m sure) of retro art inspired by previous art. That is, you have ‘fake’ movie posters or wholly new ‘ads’ for TV series re-imagined, like the book imaged below, which I saw in a Barnes & Noble recently (and was able to resist buying it, even!).
I’m sure the myriad of artists on Etsy have long been in this game, came across some cool recent examples there, too:
So, first up, (was) the new Star Trek movie this past weekend. In a nutshell – Very good!
Likes:
– Villain, (Benedict Cumberbatch, the next Alan Rickman);
– special effects (the new ‘warp’ light effect is very cool);
– the interplay between the main characters;
– Spock (simply kicks a**)
– Karl Urban as McCoy
– definitely good to see Peter Weller in anything, it’s been too long!
Nerdy Nits to pick:
– The need to turn every stressful scene into The Poseidon Adventure;
– The underlying, unstated (but must exist?) competition between Joss Whedon and JJ Abrams to one-up each other with these movies (See my Avengers commentary from last summer, and of course now that JJ Abrams is doing at least one (likely more) Star Wars movie, the gamesmanship may never end;
– a few plot holes I won’t spoil for you (we can argue about them over beer later)
– the lack of much for McCoy to do in this one vs. the last one
– Transwarp beaming? It was bulls*** in the last one, still a plot dodge bigger than a galaxy full of Holodecks (thankfully not in either movie);
– Chris Pine still looks too young to be Captain Kirk, although he does a great job in the role generally – maybe some Dippity-Do in the hair area would make him look older?
If Buzz Aldrin’s fist wasn’t proof enough – and for me it surely would have been 🙂 – this video should finally put to rest ALL those stupid conspiracy theories!
Well DONE, SG Collins – my hat is off to you! And I suspect Mr. Kubrick would be equally in your debt, were he still with us….
