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I will begin with the caveat that I have been a Star Trek fan since birth.
I thought the movie was awesome. For me, it totally blew away all the new Star Wars movies. I wasn’t sure what to expect going in, but the story had depth and complexity. Everything fit together really well. And the way they did it, it leaves the door open for a lot more stories. Because of the way they handled it, it takes Star Trek to a new place and makes everything new again.
Just Thursday night and Friday combined, it’s already made around $31 million dollars. That’s in just one day, plus the few preview showings Thursday night. It’s projected to be the most successful Star Trek movie ever. This is one I could definitely watch again, and will be buying.
Yeah, I’ll watch it again for sure, and I liked it better than the Star Wars prequels even though I’ve never been any more than a casual Star Trek fan. The main factor that lifts it above those Star Wars prequels is the characters, the four main guys Pine, Quinto, Urban and Pegg are head and shoulders above anyone except Palpatine. Even the lesser supports like Saldana, Cho and Yelchin were fine (although Chekov got a little too Borat at times).
The downsides to the new Trek are the Greengrassy Action/Fight Scene Cinematography disease and the underwritten villain of Nero but they weren’t enough to be big detracting factors. I had a blast with it and I’m already amped for a sequel.
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I think another thing that made it better than the three Star Wars prequels was it simply had a better story. Of course as I’ve already said I’m a Star Trek fan, but I did enjoy the story more.
It’s a different kind of story, much smaller than Big George tried to tell with the prequels. Abrams’ Star Trek is an action flick wrapped around the coming together of the original Enterprise crew, it’s necessarily less epic than the birth of an Empire, the fall of the jedi order and the rise of most famous villain in cinema history. But I do agree, Star Trek does a better job of telling that story, although if the characters weren’t so damn likeable and fun to watch I wouldn’t care about the story.
- Women sense my power and they seek the life essence.
rob wrote:I thought the movie was good. It indeed blew my tits off.Did anyone at the cineplex survive?
Bucho wrote:It’s a different kind of story, much smaller than Big George tried to tell with the prequels. Abrams’ Star Trek is an action flick wrapped around the coming together of the original Enterprise crew, it’s necessarily less epic than the birth of an Empire, the fall of the jedi order and the rise of most famous villain in cinema history. But I do agree, Star Trek does a better job of telling that story, although if the characters weren’t so damn likeable and fun to watch I wouldn’t care about the story.One thing to keep in mind, I’m not sure if this is what you were thinking or not but my sister was a little confused about it because she doesn’t know the history of Star Trek, this actually isn’t the way the original crew originally came together. But once that ship went back in time, it changed everything, so everything happened in new ways.
The people directly in front of me were in intensive care, but they were released thirteen minutes later with a lollipop.
That movie was so awesome…still wanna watch it again.
digitaltopia wrote:One thing to keep in mind, I’m not sure if this is what you were thinking or not but my sister was a little confused about it because she doesn’t know the history of Star Trek, this actually isn’t the way the original crew originally came together. But once that ship went back in time, it changed everything, so everything happened in new ways.I can see how my post could have confused you a little bit. What I was saying was the story is about the original crew coming together and they put that in the context of a fairly standard action story. I thought they did a good job in the film of explaining how Nero’s actions had changed things so that while it’s still the original crew, it’s not the original story of their meetings, so even only casual fans like ol’ Bucho could follow it.
And I thought they totally pulled it off too, to the point that when old Spock tells young Spock not to worry too much about that age-old, “You must never under any circumstances meet yourself in another timeline,” bit, I thought, yeah fuck it, I’m having too much fun to worry about the logic and science of this stuff, I’m gonna listen to old Spock on this one, he must know his shit.
One of the other great things about the film is now you dang foreigners finally get to see a Karl Urban role where you can see what us kiwis already knew from Out Of The Blue and The Price Of Milk, he’s not just dumb B-grade viking action movie beefcake, motherfucker can actually act.
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I went and saw it again. It was great, again.
After seeing the G.I. Joe and Transformers trailers again, I think I’m a little more excited for G.I. Joe than Transformers.
@digitaltopia 39562 wrote:
I went and saw it again. It was great, again.
After seeing the G.I. Joe and Transformers trailers again, I think I’m a little more excited for G.I. Joe than Transformers.
I am going again tomorrow night.
I dug the movie. I’m sure they couldn’t have left any of the characters out, but I found it pretty ironic that Kirk somehow stumbled across Scotty on a desolate planet. I can’t wait for the next one. Zachary Quinto played an outstanding Spock and rightfully so, seeing as how he plays a conflicted character in Heroes. I’d say 5 out of 5 stars. Not only one of the best scifi movies in recent history, but probably one of the best movies I’ve seen in the last 5 years.
The only thing i thought was a real problem was how Nero said that they were the Last Romulans, because Romulus got blow’d up. But to my understanding they still had Remus, right? and a bunch of colonies. And how his mining ship was already jacked up with all the weapons and such.
There are many explanations for those things, but overall i think the movie kicked ass. And all the people who bitch about blowing anti-matter up in a black hole need to shut up.
I’m not sure what the state of the other Romulan colonies was at the time Spock came from, but I’d say the unusual missiles, especially with their expendable casings, were probably used for mining. All ships in the setting, even shuttlecraft, have minimal weapons, then adding mining missiles on top of that, a ship of that size could be formidable.
I’m sure somewhere all the reasons and specs for things are written down, but that’s my best guess.
God, I am such a geek
Remus should have been destroyed along with Romulus since I think it was a moon or someshit. My problem was how did Spock ON HIS WAY to this supernova (which would have been spherical and not “Praxis-like”) arrive BEFORE the destruction? I got the idea that he was leaving from Romulus. Perhaps he left from NZ but who knows?
And for the love of all nongay chocolate fingers what the fuck is RED MATTER?!
Oh, and I’d totally do Uhura
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