Star Trek: Into Darkness

[redbrunja]

Okay, before we get to the movie, why do people hate Benedict Cumberbatch? I know I am not a fan because I hate Sherlock but am pretty sure that's not why other people dislike him. That said,he was a terrible choice for Khan because even leaving aside the racism of white-washing the character, he does not have anything near the charisma needed to play off of Chris Pine.

My other two nit-picks are the the opening was both funny and skeevy as hell (I don't know how to articulate it and I might be being over-sensitive, but... I was skeeved out), the movie did not do a great job with the ladies, and I didn't understand how the Enterprise and Khan's ship could be the only two space ships in orbit around freaking EARTH.

Other than that, the movie was quippy, I really enjoyed Kirk's relationships with everyone. I definitely wanted more Kirk/Uhura BFF-ery and more Uhura/Spock in general (I feel liked that relationship needed one more really strong character beat, right at the end). I thought everyone got a chance to shine, I really liked the reversal of Kirk and Spock's roles from the original movies, and I greatly appreciate that the next movie isn't going to be 'Search for Kirk.'

Two additional thoughts:

1. In retrospect, I really dislike the time-travel element. I wish that they would have just done a clean reboot with this series and just given Leonard Nimoy a reoccuring cameo to show his support for the new films.


2. Goddamn, was there a lot of collateral/civilian deaths in this movie. Like, I was watching those buildings go down when Khan's ship crashed into buildings in the end, I was trying to figure out how many people must have been in them. And Kirk's 'no crewmembers dead' streak has been smashed to bits

Now I want to read ALL the Spock/Uhura.

Comments

[streussal.livejournal.com]

There's been a few instances of Benedict Cumberbatch complaining about "posh-bashing" and being typecast in posh roles. But according to various English people, he has the type of accent that only posh people could possibly have. (Dominic West also has an upper-class accent, but can definitely do other ones. I don't know if Cumberbatch can.) And also since the stereotypes applied to posh roles in media are generally more ...respectful? than the ones applied to working class people. (Like it's generally understood that Lauren Socha from Misfits would have a hard time finding other roles unless she can learn other accents.)

(Also I keep remembering that time a mainstream British newspaper reviewer actually spent a paragraph or two talking about how irritating they found Ben Whishaw's natural working-class accent as Freddie Lyon in The Hour, until they realized it was actual accent and he "couldn't help it". So.)

This combined with how grating some of his fans can be has basically made him a subject of derision on tumblr. He probably gets more hate than he actually deserves. (But I'm not really bothered by it.)

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

There's been a few instances of Benedict Cumberbatch complaining about "posh-bashing" and being typecast in posh roles. But according to various English people, he has the type of accent that only posh people could possibly have.

Ha ha ha ha ha, on my heart bleeds for the poor boy. IT BLEEDS.

(Also I keep remembering that time a mainstream British newspaper reviewer actually spent a paragraph or two talking about how irritating they found Ben Whishaw's natural working-class accent as Freddie Lyon in The Hour, until they realized it was actual accent and he "couldn't help it". So.)

Yeah, England still has A LOT of classism.