Comments on: Star Trek One Of Paramount’s Films For Award Season Consideration

By: Adaline Agoras

Adaline Agoras — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:17:13 +0000

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By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 03:23:54 +0000

#133: The two needn’t contradict, though … her _capacity_ for impeccable grammar needn’t be questioned, but if she also has social skills, then she knows the difference between being right and being correct. That’s the thing a pedant can’t (or won’t) understand, but Uhura isn’t presented as pedantic.

By: Son of a Maui Portagee

Son of a Maui Portagee — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:58:20 +0000

#132.

I took it the other way, that her impeccable grammar was one of the things that most likely attracted him to her.

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 19:24:52 +0000

#130: “I have to agree. It was the oddest choice to have her be an expert linguist but represent her expertise onscreen with such poor English.”

Yet another reason it might have been nice to have some writers hired on as consultants to the, ah … the writers.

But in seriousness, even I must face the possibility that she was being colloquial/casual because she’s social, and that’s one way to characterize with language (kind of a remedial way, but still a way). Impeccable grammar might lend Uhura a note of pedantic stiffness, and pedantic stiffness is Spock’s territory (insert your own joke here).

By: MvRojo

MvRojo — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:02:02 +0000

#119. That’s the sequel to an excellent French film, “District B-13,” which has amazing action sequences.

By: Son of a Maui Portagee

Son of a Maui Portagee — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:52:36 +0000

#128.

I have to agree. It was the oddest choice to have her be an expert linguist but represent her expertise onscreen with such poor English.

By: Jan

Jan — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:34:13 +0000

I guess STs best Acadamy Award chance is “sound” and “sound effects editing”, because the sound department was often honorably mentioned by critics.

“Visual Effects”? Maybe, but there’s a big competition (Terminator, Transformers, … )

And “Best Movie”? Mhhh…. I’m afraid that’s too much!

By: Hawaiowa

Hawaiowa — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 11:28:56 +0000

Trek is the Three Stooges of Hollywood…never got a major Oscar award. None of the Stooges ever got an Oscar despite being one of the force majures of Columbia studios in popularity and green energy creation. The guys were living legends, yet they were deemed to gauche by the Oscar-makers. Same goes for Trek and its actors. As for emotionally draining drama, I focus on Asian cinema which is much more intense and invested than anything coming out of Woddyhole or the so-called ‘indie’ circuit.

“And did I not score the highest marks when tested in oral proficiency?” Uhura speaking to Spock in ST 11.

Not exactly Oscar-level writing (or grammatically correct)…more like the common style of coarse simpleton humor one finds in the National Lampoon movies and their ilk.

By: S. John Ross

S. John Ross — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:19:12 +0000

#126: “Where did this notion that a good film has to be emotionally draining come from?”

I’ve been wondering that, too. This thread is the first and only place I’ve seen it mentioned :/

By: JHeroes

JHeroes — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:00:48 +0000

Where did this notion that a good film has to be emotionally draining come from? Trek does not deserve Best Picture when so many better films have come out this year, not because it was a popcorn flick.