Comments on: Watch: J.J. Abrams Counters Alice Eve Underwear Moment In ‘Star Trek 2’ With Deleted Benedict Cumberbatch Shower Scene

By: April

April — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

Boo on Lindelof, not because of the scene but because he apparently didn't know how to defend it. The scene WAS needed. In alternate timelines Marcus and Kirk had a sexual relationship, as evidenced by their son. Somewhere in the new timeline, there had to be a show of sexual chemistry between them. It was an important development between the two characters. Stop picking on Abrams, at least he knew what he was doing.

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

It was a little cheeky and short on taste… but I remember that more than most of the movie and I have that "God-like body" as you say to thank for that.

By: Linda

Linda — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

Yes, it's gratuitous, but unlike the author of the article, the scene I for which I remember her most strongly is where she refuses to abandon Scotty and saves the day at the last moment.

By: nightgoat72

nightgoat72 — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

God, as if the last Abrams movie hadn't already done enough to make Gene Roddenberry roll over in his grave…

By: tristan eldritch

tristan eldritch — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

I take this seriously if the Star Trek franchise was something I could take seriously. But these movies are only designed to produce an entertaining spectacle, and a beautiful body (male or female) is an entertaining spectacle, as you seem to acknowledge in your article and by the fact of reproducing said deplorable imagery under the headline. Might have been better if they'd evened it out with a beefcake shot of Kirk or whatever, but it's not something I'd get a complex about. Nobody really asks (too strenuously) why Kubrick put that shot of Nicole Kidman's ass at the beginning of Eyes Wide Shut, or why Sofia Coppola put that shot of Scarlett's ass at the beginning of Lost in Translation – those shots, however you want to justify them, are completely extraneous to the movies themselves. Art movies are allowed to enjoy the spectacle of aesthetically appealing bodies, but we're supposed to get a complex about it in popular films, which most of the time are there to sell the sizzle away. Check out the trailer for the Wolverine film – how often is Jackman shirtless or just wearing a vest?

By: Wash

Wash — Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

Mean time, Alice Eve is braless for the entire Sex and the City movie and even the characters in the film call out how gratuitous it is… yet where was the furor over the "sexism" in that film?

By: K

Fri, 13 May 2016 09:50:02 +0000

The main problem is not this really useless and dumb scene : it's the way the female characters are written. They're shallow, needy, none of them is heroic or funny or oustanding. The script is quite bad but Saldana and Eve are even worse than that…