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Ballyorn		#41	[-]
Posts: 8566 (28/04/2009 23:39:22) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Review: J.J. Abrams brings the fun back to Star Trek "Urban nails McCoy from his first utterance, and his performance is one of the delights of the film." ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
Ballyorn		#42	[-]
Posts: 8566 (29/04/2009 11:19:40) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Loved this!! The man who steals Star Trek--Karl Urban as "Bones" McCoy "New Zealand actor Karl Urban, of Lord of the Rings and Pathfinder and one of the Bourne movies, figured that there had to be something "bourbony" about the Southern fried country doctor Bones McCoy in Star Trek. So that's how he played the guy when he auditioned for the part. He hits the drawl just lightly enough to work. Something must've gone right. He landed the role and is already winning plaudits for being one of the best things about it. But to win the part, he had to overcome a certain prejudice from director J.J. Abrams. "I heard that this hunky guy from Lord of the Rings, Karl Urban, was going to come in for Bones. And quite frankly, you know...Ok, I thought it was going to be a COMPLETE waste of time," Abrams admits. "'The stud from Lord of the Rings? The killer from the Bourne films? From NEW ZEALAND? HE wants to play McCoy?' "But actors are actors and when they're good, they can do anything. My mind was open. A little bit. But he came in and was so funny and so good that it reminded me that you never know with actors. He came in and channeled this divorced, drinking Southern doctor and I was just blown away. Taught me a lesson, too. Never underestimate what a good actor can do."" ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
Necromancer1000		#43	[-]
Posts: 18011 (29/04/2009 15:14:10) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Love that last review you posted, Deb, especially the last line, "Never underestimate what a good actor can do.".
leah		#44	[-]
Posts: 235 (29/04/2009 22:01:38) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	very cool
Ballyorn		#45	[-]
Posts: 8566 (01/05/2009 11:52:38) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Review from the LA Times Seven things I love about the new 'Star Trek' 2. KARL URBAN IS THE REAL McCOY: There are plenty of great performances in this movie. Chris Pine is charismatic and cocky and just right as a young Kirk (and thank goodness he didn't slip into a William Shatner imitation, that would have been death for the film) and Zachary Quinto is pitch-perfect as the smoldering Spock, who is just barely keeping a clamp on those emotions. But I have to say the great revelation was New Zealand native Karl Urban who, more than the two main stars, does a full-on vocal imitation of his predecessor, DeForest Kelley, who was such an eccentric Southern sourpuss. I sat down with Pine for a pleasant lunch a few weeks and he gushed about Urban's hilarious turn. "When people see what Karl Urban did with Dr. McCoy, they are going to freak out. It is DeForest Kelley, but it's not. With my performance I had to go at it with a scalpel because Shatner's work was unique and locked into memory. But, man, what Karl pulled off ... " I'm guessing that in the next film we see a lot more of Urban and his laughter-is-the-best-medicine approach to "Trek." ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
Necromancer1000		#46	[-]
Posts: 18011 (01/05/2009 12:26:56) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	That's a glowing review from both Geoff Boucher and Chris Pine.
leah		#47	[-]
Posts: 235 (01/05/2009 16:40:33) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	chris LUUUURVES karl! chris LUUUUUURVES karl! (i think bromances are so precious, i wish more straight guys were secure enough in their sexuality to admit when they have a man-crush on a great guy; we girls don't seem to have so much of an issue with it but men...they are so often hung up on their staunchness and machismo! to their credit, those trek guys seem really open and funny and willing to take the mickey out of themselves, good on them!)
Ballyorn		#48	[-]
Posts: 8566 (02/05/2009 23:10:15) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Leah!!! And AMEN to your comments about bromances!! Now here's a review that possibly matters above all others - ROD RODDENBERRY, the son of Gene Roddenbery ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
leah		#49	[-]
Posts: 235 (03/05/2009 08:31:54) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	(whispers) chris lurves karl... ;-D cool clip of rod roddenberry, bally, kudos for posting! (i just wrote this in another thread but i'm so excited to see trek, 4 DAYS AND COUNTING! woohoo!)
Ballyorn		#50	[-]
Posts: 8566 (04/05/2009 23:08:47) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	JoBlo Star Trek Review "Karl Urban is fantastic as the put upon doctor who is not a magician, or whatever position he is asked to take on. He plays the character with sincerity and charm, giving an exciting and very funny performance. He did DeForest Kelley proud." ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
Necromancer1000		#51	[-]
Posts: 18011 (05/05/2009 11:20:26) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Awww, that's a nice review.
Ballyorn		#52	[-]
Posts: 8566 (05/05/2009 23:22:16) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	New 'Trek' Should Live Long and Prosper "Of particular note is Karl Urban. About a billion light years from Middle Earth (where he was Eomer), his McCoy is so delicious dead-on, so absolutely channeling the spirit and spunk of DeForest Kelly that he almost steals the film from everyone else." ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils
Necromancer1000		#53	[-]
Posts: 18011 (06/05/2009 08:34:19) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	^^ Wow, that review's a thumbs up.
linda		#54	[-]
Posts: 106 (06/05/2009 16:11:48) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Just 1 1/2 days left til I get to go see Star Trek and I am soooooo excited...Thursday 5/7 7:00p.m. could not come fast enough....
Ballyorn		#55	[-]
Posts: 8566 (07/05/2009 17:41:18) Sweet Innocent Sparkly Poo POO Angelic Princess!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Over at Rotten Tomatoes, Star Trek is currently sitting on 95% with 70 fresh reviews and 4 rotten (and the rotten ones are not even "rotten" ones!) And I was just reading viewer reviews over at AICN and I have to post this one comment said about Karl because it was so KEWL!!! "Major respect to Urban for nailing with a fucking huge nail gun Bones" Excuse me whilst I reply - "FUCK YEAH!!" ~ Bally ~ Urbanite #6 - Keeper of Karl's perfect little nose and Eomer's flared nostrils Last Edited By: Ballyorn 07/05/2009 17:43:26. Edited 1 times.
flybaby014563		#56	[-]
Posts: 1572 (07/05/2009 17:49:32) Keeper Of Every Karl Pic Ever Taken Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Yahoo and Entertainment Weekly have both given the movie an A-!
leah		#57	[-]
Posts: 235 (07/05/2009 20:45:59) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	yeah, baby!
Necromancer1000		#58	[-]
Posts: 18011 (08/05/2009 11:06:56) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I haven't cheed the reviews in our papers. Maybe I should.
Necromancer1000		#59	[-]
Posts: 18011 (08/05/2009 11:19:08) Cold-Hearted Commie Pinko Cynical Bitch!! URBAN ADMIN Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	BTW, Deb, one "negative" review I read on Rotten Tomatoes was by a guy who is known to dislike Sci-fi. C'mon, that's like me writing a review for a reality TV show - you just know it's going to be a bad review. He didn't hate the movie, but gave it the thumbs down anyway.
leah		#60	[-]
Posts: 235 (08/05/2009 13:33:44) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	it's rather amazing how few negative reviews there are on 'RT', i would have expected more than 7 - the last i looked it was 122 positive, 7 negative - simply from critics who are hard-core trekkies that couldn't get over a reboot of their beloved 'trek' world...but it would appear our karl has won them over! (ok, maybe more than just karl, but still, who could resist karl as 'bones mccoy', NO SANE PERSON i tell you! :-D )

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