Re-Kirkenized
Posted on | September 8, 2008 at 9:11 pm | 1 Comment
Movie Review Sunday Monday!
The only movie I saw during the past week was Blind Dating. This may’ve been a direct-to-DVD only release, but I’m not sure. I don’t remember it ever being in the theaters. My girlfriend saw a trailer for it on another DVD and thought it looked amusing or interesting, so she got it from the library. Once I saw that it starred the Dude Who Is Playing Captain Kirk In The New Star Trek Rebooted Movie (Chris Pine), I said I wanted to see it too. Gotta check that dude out, since I’ve never seen him in anything else.
The movie is about a good-looking guy who’s been blind since birth and who is just trying to get laid. His brother, a limo driver, tries to set him up with a number of freakish women, with the expected comical results. Hilarity ensues. But our hero dude Danny only has “eyes” for the Indian receptionist at his doctor’s office. And of course, she’s about to enter into an arranged marriage with an Indian dude, played by the scientist guy who’s the only person without superpowers on Heroes. So there are lots of barriers to their love that must be overcome. No phasers or transporter accidents though. The movie takes kind of a weird, dark turn when Danny gets a chip implanted into his head which allows him to see in black & white with these weird glasses that have a camera hooked up to them. (The glasses are hooked up to a machine that connects to the chip in his brain via the 802.11b wireless standard.) This experiment goes predictably wrong and almost kills him. And all he wanted to do was see what his girl looks like! (Digression: If you’ve been blind your whole life and you suddenly gain sight, would your brain actually know how to process the images?)
The movie had its poignant and funny scenes, though it was all extremely predictable. It would’ve played much better as a raunchy R-rated flick in the manner of The 40-Year Old Virgin and other flix from the Judd Apatow Arrested Development Production Factory. It certainly could’ve used something. It was just way too tame. But the important question is of course: Can this Chris Pine dude pull off Captain Kirk? Based on this one part, I think he can. He’s got the look and the arrogance down, he’s got the cocky charm, and I can definitely see him spewing Shatnerian dialog. I think the alien princesses will be dying to check out his photon torpedo, if you know what I mean and I think that you do. He does seem to have some acting chops, which I guess would help, but some of his instances of sudden temper/aggression in the movie played false. Come to think of it, that couldn’t hurt.
Latre.
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “iphone in microwave”.
Videogame(s) Played Yesterday: Heavenly Sword (PS3)
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One Response to “Re-Kirkenized”
September 8th, 2008 @ 10:25 pm
There’s no reason to wonder about the acting on the next Trek film – just four words sold me: “Simon Pegg as Scotty”