Trekkie

I feel so nerd, but I went to watch Star Trek on opening night. It wasn't preplanned. Someone called me up at like 5:00pm asking if we wanted to watch Star Trek, and I decided to go. Went to the 7:00pm showing. I totally expected a legion of Star Trek fans all dressed up, but the only people dressed up were these two hella nerdy white guys that dressed up as Jedis.

The movie was pretty good. Action was intense, but I was totally lost during most of the story and inside jokes. They had a LOT of inside jokes. I mean even during the intensest action scene Scotty would shout a line and everyone would laugh except me. I guess that's what I get for that being my first ever Star Trek experience. Eric Bana did not look like Eric Bana, and every time Sulu (John Cho) had a line or was on screen I kept imagining Harold and Kumar scenes. Same with Spock (Sylar in Heroes). I just imagined him killing heroes from the first season.

One of the most incongrous (I totally do not know what that means right now, but it sounds right) moments in the movie was when Kirk was having this half naked makeout session in some dorm room of the space academy or whatever, and the girl he's making out with's roommate turns the light on and the chick he's making out with is a green chick. I was totally WTFed out. I have nothing against interacial, but interplanetary shit is crazy.

Oh yeah, there was this hella annoying fat old (late 40s early 50s?) guy that just wouldn't shut up. At first it was cool. He cracked a few jokes during the previews and stuff when everyone was talking anyways, but during moments in the movie he yelled stuff like "SPPPOOOOCCCKKKKK!!!!!" and tried to say something and it was pissing me off. At the end he yelled out "On a scale of 1 to 10 what do you guys rate this movie?" which elicited many responses. Some guys kept yelling 11, the guys dressed as Jedis stood up and kept saying "May the force be with you" to which some other guy responded "It's 10 years late dumbass" and then finally some guy in the back back row shouted out "Shut the FUCK up" which everyone basically did. Some little kids (middle school? elementary?) were like "yeah, shut up!" and the annoying dude kept saying "I kept quiet during the movie, honest guys!".

Other than that it was pretty good. Since my friend bought the ticket for me and lined up before hand I pretty much just walked into the theater without a ticket. The lady totally missed me and everyone (surprisingly) made space for me to walk up to the front of the line. If I return it I get a Golden Ticket, which means I can watch any movie for free. Should I be a cheapskate and do it or be honest?