Saw the latest Star Trek opus last night in a mostly emtpy theater in Sao Paulo. With a few minor places where the movie looked too much like Starship Troopers, it was quite good. It's probably not going to win any Academy Awards, except maybe some technical ones, but it's worth a watch, especially for casual fans of Star Trek-interesting to see the main characters as young men and women.
The casting of movie was excellent, most notably Zachary Quinto as the young Spock. The guy is just so perfect. Looks right. Sounds right. Is right. Simon Pegg as the young Scotty was also an inspired choice.
I was sort of disappointed that none of the aliens spoke in any language other than English. I was expecting to have some trouble with that part of the movie as the subtitles would have been in Portuguese. I even prepared Raquel that she would have to translate for me, but it turned out to be unecessary. The last time I saw a movie in Brazil, The Lord of the Rings, I completely missed on everything the Elves said because there was no translation in English. No problems on that end here.
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