Comments on: VIDEO: Casting Spock – Star Trek DVD Special Feature

By: DavidC

DavidC — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:08:24 +0000

#8 – CarlG, you know Scotland is part of Britain, right? Also, they died his hair. So, Pegg’s an *English* redhead whose wife is from Scotland and can therefore do a pretty convincing accent (although it occasionally slipped slightly), with his hair dyed black. I agree that he’s not the most Doohan-alike actor on the planet and he was probably the furthest actor from his original counterpart in the movie, but “a British redhead” doesn’t really hold much water.

By: KevinA Melbourne Australia

KevinA Melbourne Australia — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:48 +0000

STAR TREK on disc was released here in Australia last weekend. Although I have the Collectors Edition on order from Amazon , I couldn’t pass up the chance to see the movie again on my big screen.

The Blu-Ray is magnificent!!!
I have watched the movie twice now, the Dolby TrueHD sound field is spectacular, and once with commentary. These guys really had some fun with this movie.

The deleted scenes explain a lot, like who is the kid walking down the road when young Kirk trashes the car. I only wish JJ had finished the scenes and offered an extended version on disc.

The extra’s are the best I’ve seen. I spent all of Sunday last watching everything including the Spock Video here. The menus are laid out in an absolutely “Logical” fashion and easy to use.

I would say this is the best Paramount Disc I have seen. Now to download my 1st digital Copy to my iPod. I’ve never really worried about using these digital copy discs before but STAR TREK is one movie I want to carry around.

By: cd

cd — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:28:59 +0000

#33 – I must have seen a different movie. >;>}

#38-’incredibly emotional calm’ Huh? You mean when he was getting visibly frustrated when Kirk and Scotty would not answer him? When he threw a temper tantrum and nearly killed Kirk? Not really so much ‘emotional calm’ there.
On Saldana, I thought one of the positive things they did do was improve the way Uhura was presented, gave her a quite a bit more than ‘Hailing Frequencies open’, although the Spock-Uhura romance seems contrived to me. But, as far as Nero, that was very one dimensional, maybe even less than that.

By: greenapple7

greenapple7 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:09:37 +0000

I thought Quinto was incredible! And completely Spock! He had that incredibly emotional calm that is so oxi-moranishical (wut would the adj form even b??). I thought that all the actors did an amazing with only saldana’s and especially bana’s script falling a little short. Though all the actors were incredible! Fabulous movie as well!

The DVD release is a bit odd though, or more like just trying to make things fair. The US always gets the DVDs first (from what i hear, I’m not the one buying them). Though with Star Trek Poland is like getting them practically a whole month before the /uS.

By: Leyla

Leyla — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:36:59 +0000

Pine and Greenwood stealing the show?
They were good and Greenwood was even better, as always, but it was Quinto who stole the show.
I saw the movie with half a dozen friends and their praise was for Quinto first, then the others.
I believe all the cast was terrific, true, but it was Zach who gave it a special feeling. Just look at his face, he’s probably one of the best younger actors around. After Christian Bale I had never seen anyone so young and so talented.

By: Eli

Eli — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:06 +0000

While I enjoyed the special features for Transformers 2, Trekboi, most of it came across as yet another giant Bay-gasm. Just featurette after featurette of Bay patting himself on the back congratulating himself on how great he is and oh, by the way, here’s how ILM completed this shot with 20 minutes to spare in time for the Tokyo premiere.

Unless the previews for Transformers 3 are “Iron Man” quality fantastic, I am so going to pass unless the critical reviews convince me otherwise.

Now, back on topic, Quinto rocked as Spock!

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:27:45 +0000

#30: “Also how the Trek fans and writers were concerned and thought it was too risky.”

Some of us Trek fans think dipping from the well of Khan (again!) would be too __lazy,__ (easy, timid, cheesy, cheap), not and not in any way “risky.”

By: Trekboi

Trekboi — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:25:16 +0000

Have The STAR TREK DVD for a week already in Australia- the Special features while well produced are only around 1hour 40 minutes spread over 2 DVD’s not including the commentary with no Previews of the Film while TRANSFORMERS 2 has over 3 Hours of special features not including the commentary with a preview included- WTF?

As for Zack- give the boy as Oscar for even trying to replace an iconic actor who has played the role for 45 years from 1964’s pilot “The Cage”

By: John Kirk

John Kirk — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:19:17 +0000

Some of the comments about Quinto are ridiculous. He’ll be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Wait and see. His performance was heralded in the media from day 1. As far as the movie in general, well, the success speaks for itself. Lighten up people, we have Trek back, and it’s awesome!

By: Cygnus-X1

Cygnus-X1 — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:12:21 +0000

Zach did a great job. No doubt about it.