(an abridged account)
“So, how was your day today?”
“Is Star Trek still in cinemas? Then I was on a forum bitching about it.”
“…uhuh.”
“You probably should stop asking, especially since I’ve been doing this for the fifth consecutive time now.”
“Fifth consecutive time that I know of.”
why not?
Voice Meme
- Your name and username.
- Where you’re from.
- Pronounce the following words: Aunt, Roof, Route, Theater, Iron, Salmon, Caramel, Fire, Water, New Orleans, Pecan, Both, Again, Probably, Alabama, Lawyer, Coupon, Mayonnaise, Pajamas, Caught, Naturally, Aluminium, GIF, Tumblr, Crackerjack, Doorknob, Envelope, GPOY.
- What is it called when you throw toilet paper on a house?
- What is a bubbly carbonated drink called?
- What’s the bug, that when you touch it, it curls into a ball?
- What do you say to address a group of people?
- What do you call the kind of spider that has an oval-shaped body and extremely long legs?
- Be a wizard or a vampire?
- How old are you?
- Is it cold where you are?
- What is your favorite color?
- What color are your eyes?
- Do you have freckles?
- When is your birthday?
- What was the last thing you drank?
- Would you rather: Have a million dollars or a million friends?
- Eat a taco or a quesadilla?
- Be a shark or an elephant?
- Do you speak a second language? Say something in it.
- What do you call gym shoes?
- What do you call your grandparents?
- What do you call the wheeled contraption in which you carry groceries at the supermarket?
- What is the thing you change the TV channel with?
- Choose a book and read a passage from it.
- Do you think you have an accent?
- Do you know anyone on Tumblr in real life?
- End audio post by saying any THREE words you want.
Dude what’s wrong with your voice, so control wan.
Late night lah, that’s why.
SPOILERS are further down, so if you don’t want to spoil anything, stop when you see the warning
- I will say that Into Darkness was unquestionably one of the finest cinematic experiences I have ever witnessed. I will not compromise this statement under any circumstances.
- The overall theme/message of the film was ‘
this does deserve a fuller response but i’m still stuck that the word ‘eloquent’ has just been used to describe the work from the brain trust that brought you the Transformers movies and Prometheus. Also I need to sleep.
<3 shine on you crazy diamond.
http://io9.com/star-trek-into-darkness-the-spoiler-faq-508927844
honestly, just reading this in the sequence it’s intended is giving me life.
why not?
Voice Meme
Can we just talk about the new Flickr for a second? Wow, I love it! And 1 TB of free photo storage? Even better. And guess what? This is a Yahoo property.
Also, we should be flickr friends! Add me.
Me too, though I have no photos and don’t usually take any.
(let’s post this to the right blog this time)
I’m hachibanme no.
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Michael Kaplan
You have got to be shitting me.
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ACTUAL quote from Damon Lindelof, writer of Star Trek Into Darkness. When asked about Benedict Cumberbatch’s shirtless scene (which was apparently scripted at some point but then got cut), he wrote:
“As for the shirtless scene… we scripted it, but I don’t think it ever got shot. You know why? Because getting actors to take their clothes off is DEMEANING AND HORRIBLE AND…
Oh.
Right.
Sorry.”
These guys don’t even pretend to make an effort, do they? TOO MANY DICKS ON THE DANCEFLOOR.
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Hard to tell out of context, but this could be his way of saying, “JJ Abrams/the producer made me do it”?
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No, it’s not. Lindelof is definitely joking around, but in such a way that makes it clear that he doesn’t have much respect for the criticism. I’m relatively familiary with his sense of humour (I follow him on Twitter, anyhow), and to me this comes across as him acknowledging the problem but also basically saying, “I don’t give a shit”. The movie’s costume designer also said that the reason Alice Even has this scene is purely because there has to be a gratuitous hot-girl scene, and it was “her turn” because Zoe Saldana did it in the first movie.
The Abrams/Lindelof attitude reminds me a lot of Steven Moffat’s jokey way of brushing off all criticism as the ramblings of ~crazed internet feminazis. And all three share Christopher Nolan’s belief that if you show your scripts to your wife, it’s like an official sexism vetting process. “I’m married to a woman, I CAN’T be sexist!”
Also, Damon Lindelof and JJ Abrams are longtime collaborators so this definitely wasn’t a situation where Lindelof had an artistic vision that was quashed by Abrams. All publicity interviews with JJ Abrams, Damon Lindelof or Roberto Orci (another co-writer and producer, alongside Alex Kurtzman) have them presenting a united front re: attitudes towards classic Trek, the Star Trek fanbase, and women/female characters in general. Orci and Kurtzman are also longtime writing partners, and co-wrote the first two Transformers movies.
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Nurse Chapel is a beloved [Trek] character,” says Orci. “Even before the first movie came out, a lot of online chatter was, ‘Is Nurse Chapel gonna be there?!’”
Alas, although we hear Dr. McCoy (Karl Urban) say “Nurse Chapel” in 2009’s Star Trek, we never officially saw Christine Chapel — and she’s still MIA in Into Darkness. Instead, Carol Marcus tells Kirk that she learned of his reputation as a ladies man from her friend Christine Chapel, who has become a nurse since her romantic encounter with him — which he does not recall.
“We just figured that would be a great reference, and we loved that Kirk didn’t remember her,” says Orci. “It’s an in-joke that also speaks volumes about his character when it comes to women. That’s why we used it.”
So will Nurse Chapel ever actually make a flesh-and-blood appearance on the Enterprise? Orci just laughs. “That’s certainly possible!
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Bob Orci talks to BuzzFeed about fan references in Star Trek Into Darkness. [x]
All I have to say about this is:
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#the misogyny is so fucking palpable im going 2 throw up #you had the opportinity to introduce another female character #(having more than 2 is too much for you maybe???????) #but nooo #you had to be gross and write her off as just another conquest in kirk’s book #HILARIOUS AM I RIGHT!!!! #women are dispensable!!!!! #and not only the fucking blatant misogyny you also seem to not understand kirk’s character #like apparently for these dudes sleeping around = being a sleazy douchebag #which???? no?????????#people who have a lot of sex maybe do b/c…they enjoy sex??????? #wow revolutionary i know #anyway god im just so angry about this
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because i want to reblog non-food stuff too dammit. maimakan.tumblr.com is my main one for the foodblogging. my bff and i also have a craftblog
