Since this post essentially has no content it is completely spoiler-free! Guaranteed!

First off, and I'm serious here, I've never, ever attended a movie with so many stereotypically nerdy-looking people before¹. But, anyway...

Ten-word-two-thirty-in-the-morning-summary:

Great movie, excellent cast. Action, drama, humour, angst. Wonderful experience.

I think I'd really like to see it again soon... but maybe at a more respectable time.

And now that I see 3am fast approaching, it's time for bed. *yawn*

If the information doesn't fall out of my brain while I'm asleep, I'll try to make a better post tomorrow. And to those of you who are about to see it, enjoy! I did. \o/

1. Having said that, there were NO Starfleet uniforms, pointy ears or Klingons in the audience.

Midnight screening. Wooooooooot.

My next post will have Actual Content™ (maybe even icons) - I promise!

In the meantime, the vid-spamming continues. Quinto, Cho and Pine on C4's Vodafone Select Live show. Links again, because I can't embed.

[1] An interview in which the guys get, um, close.

[2] An illogical, but entertaining, game show (of sorts).

Okay, I know this is getting kind of spammy now. My only excuse is that I've got caught up in the snowballing hysteria now that we're less than a month out from the movie's release. *shrug*

TV3 did an interview with Zachary Quinto and Chris Pine which you can see here. Watch it. It's funny. And 20 minutes long. Huzzah.

They also did one with John Cho and Karl Urban here. Also funny.

Hopefully, the videos should play outside of NZ. I heard that the TVNZ ones I linked to yesterday might not play overseas, so I edited the post with YouTube links.

I really need to make some Trek movie icons.

After the premiere in Sydney a couple of nights ago, the Trek cast have beamed down to Kiwiland to repeat the whole red carpet gig in Auckland (still too far away for me... *cries*). The local media are all over it because of Kiwi!McCoy... and probably because NZ doesn't get a lot of glitzy Hollywood-type events with Real Hollywood Stars™!

Here's a couple of interviews from TVNZ (links because I can't seem to embed them):

Karl Urban and John Cho on Breakfast
Watch it on YouTube

Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto on One News
Watch it on YouTube

What they haven't included in the second clip is the two newsreaders Vulcan-saluting back to the reporter interviewing Karl and Zach. A shame, really; it was kind of cute (I think Simon and Wendy are kind of cute anyway, but we don't need to go there).

EDIT: Added links to YouTube for anyone who can't see the videos on the TVNZ site.

All that chatter in my last post about creating your own movies with CGI reminded me of this site. It's obviously pretty cartoonish - and potentially objectionable material (sex/nudity/violence/etc) isn't allowed - but it still looks like a heap of fun. And for extra fun, there's already a Star Trek channel. Awesome.

So, about that new Star Trek movie they're bringing out next month...

I'm especially curious about the reactions of Pine, Quinto, et al. to the last sentence.

WARNING: Arachnophobics, look away. Look away now!

Imagine, if you will, it's around 2am, you're lying in bed caught somewhere between sleep and wakefulness - that place where you're not really awake, but you're peripherally aware of some external stimuli... like the fact it feels like your hair is moving. That's strange, your sleepy brain thinks... and then dismisses, 'cause you're asleep, right? The moving hair persists a little longer. You decide to move your head to see if it will go away. It does. Right across your pillow and down onto your sheets.

You are more than a little alarmed.

You throw the covers off and switch the light on. You and The Spider stare each other down until you decide you aren't willing to share your bedspace with a total stranger (one with far too many limbs for your liking). You swat madly at The Spider until you're fairly sure it's GONE.

Somewhat less sleepy now, you turn out the light, yank the covers back up and try to pretend you and The Spider didn't just meet. You turn over, find a nice comfy position on you side and slowly close your eyes. The almost-conscious part of your brain wonders what that dark spot was...

You think it's time for a colourful metaphor. You decide on one and express it. Colourfully.

Lights on; covers off. Again. So this is Round 2 with The Spider. Or Round 1 with The Spider's BFF. You start with the swatting. Again. By the time you're convinced it's GONE (again) you're completely, totally, incontrovertibly awake. Again.

Guess who doesn't want to go to bed tonight.

On a totally unrelated note: Leonard Nimoy is on Twitter? Almost makes me want to start using my never-used account.

Clearly, I fail at keeping resolutions (especially that one about more fandom participation *koff*) - but I couldn't let Mr Spock's Nimoy's birthday go by without mention.

Happy Birthday, Leonard Nimoy! You may not have Spock's ears ('cause he's, y'know, Vulcan and you're only, y'know, human), but you certainly have the same, very lovely um... package ... well, everything other than the ears. And the eyebrows. And the lack of smiling ('cept when he was being illogical). And all that other Vulcan stuff.

If you need help blowing out those 78 candles, give me a call.

ONE: For the Star Trek artists (and fans of Star Trek art), there's a new community for people to share all kinds of Trek fanart. ⇒ startrekart

TWO: For the busy, the lazy, and the logical people who like stuff to be organised, eponymous_rose has the perfect way to keep up with all the Trek happenings on LJ. ⇒ trek_news, a fandom newsletter.

THREE: For the lovers of good TOS genfic, eponymous_rose (two pimps for you in one post!) has written a Kirk-Spock-McCoy banter!fic full of all the things that make the triumvirate so awesome. Click, read, enjoy. ⇒ Daybreak