While I recommend the new Star Trek, I do not recommend seeing it in the frontish row of an IMAX theater. Just a tad too muchbigveryrightthere. Not as terrible as we feared, but still ... not recommended
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It was absolutely wonderful. Just ... every time I see it, I love it more. And it's the only movie I've ever been to, where the audience has clapped every time (3 times *ahem*). First showing, sure, but subsequent showings? Never.
There were some scenes where he was so Crichton as Kirk or Kirk as Crichton, it was almost funny, and not just where he was getting his ass kicked left and right. "I've got your gun", was so, so, so Crichton. But then, Crichton was always a little Kirk, so it makes sense, and feels quite right. Pine was great as Kirk, he really was.
1) Tracking the cornfield chase to "Sabotage," and making it diegetic, implying that Kirk is a fan of what must be classical music by now. Unabashed giant fanficcy moment, and it works, brilliantly
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3. OMG THEY TALK AMONGST THEMSELVES. DUDE! That was so fantastic. The whole scene where they're trying to figure out what Nero's after, and then the confab when they're trying to figure out what to do once Kirk's taken over as Captain. It's like it's a real ship, with real officers, communicating and doing their jobs.
4. Too right.
5. Total genius work. Awesome. And Quinto's delivery was excellent.
6. Greenwood was phenomenal as Pike.
7. Every time I see this, I love McCoy more, and I didn't know that that was possible. I'll quote Lilek's review of Urban, too : When he sat down in the shuttlecraft, hungover, unshaven, rattling off the possible disasters, the resemblance was uncanny, as if DeForrest Kelley had done a quick pre-death mind-transfer.8. That was almost a relief. The destruction of Vulcan was horrifying and after the first viewing, it was almost hard to wrap my head around a universe without Vulcan. And I was never that attached to Vulcan. But, that they didn
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I can sum up what I like about it in 1 word: time.
As a rule I *hate* the "time's broken; we have to fix it" plot. I really do. It's gimmicky and by nature it does a reset to approximately zero thus undoing any character development that has occurred over the course of the story. "Star Trek" doesn't do that. In fact, it goes out of its way several times to hammer home that it *won't* do that. That gives the whole reboot a plausible, with a bit of suspension of disbelief, reason for existing. Thus, it has the feel of Old Trek without wallowing in nostalgia.
As a rule I *hate* the "time's broken; we have to fix it" plot. I absolutely hate that as well. It's one of the things that really killed my Star Trek love. It was dying by pieces over time, but I remember particularly the "Year of Hell" storyline on Voyager, and how they made it magically all better at the end, and I've honestly never been angry at television in quite that way before. I felt so completely insulted. Why should I invest in these characters, and these events, if at the end they don't mean anything?
That they didn't save Vulcan, that actions actually had consequences that lasted beyond the credits, that some things cannot be saved, that the cost of a universe with Romulus, was a universe without Vulcan, was brutal but right. It felt like it was worth trusting the storytellers again.
t I remember particularly the "Year of Hell" storyline on Voyager, and how they made it magically all better at the end, and I've honestly never been angry at television in quite that way before. I felt so completely insulted. Why should I invest in these characters, and these events, if at the end they don't mean anything?
Yes. I mean, initially? I liked them well enough; heck, "Yesterday's Enterprise" (AKA the Tasha Yar alternate timeline story) is still in my top ten of favorite TNG stories. But by the time we got to "Year of Hell" it was overused and that damn reset button kept getting slapped. Annoying!
Over time the device became such a tiresome "hey, we want to do something big, but don't want to actually deal with the consequences" crutch for them. And, I agree with you, there were some that were well done, but man, overused to the nth degree. That and holodeck stories. Please, no more holodeck!
Well the first nine were easy, because it was just 'off the top of my head' stuff, first things that came to mind, but ten was a killer, because, how could I pick just one more? Brutal.
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So. Much. Love.
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OMG. YES. THIS.
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2. Absolutely, 100%, tru fax. Well said.
3. OMG THEY TALK AMONGST THEMSELVES. DUDE! That was so fantastic. The whole scene where they're trying to figure out what Nero's after, and then the confab when they're trying to figure out what to do once Kirk's taken over as Captain. It's like it's a real ship, with real officers, communicating and doing their jobs.
4. Too right.
5. Total genius work. Awesome. And Quinto's delivery was excellent.
6. Greenwood was phenomenal as Pike.
7. Every time I see this, I love McCoy more, and I didn't know that that was possible. I'll quote Lilek's review of Urban, too : When he sat down in the shuttlecraft, hungover, unshaven, rattling off the possible disasters, the resemblance was uncanny, as if DeForrest Kelley had done a quick pre-death mind-transfer.8. That was almost a relief. The destruction of Vulcan was horrifying and after the first viewing, it was almost hard to wrap my head around a universe without Vulcan. And I was never that attached to Vulcan. But, that they didn ( ... )
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As a rule I *hate* the "time's broken; we have to fix it" plot. I really do. It's gimmicky and by nature it does a reset to approximately zero thus undoing any character development that has occurred over the course of the story. "Star Trek" doesn't do that. In fact, it goes out of its way several times to hammer home that it *won't* do that. That gives the whole reboot a plausible, with a bit of suspension of disbelief, reason for existing. Thus, it has the feel of Old Trek without wallowing in nostalgia.
Two toes up.
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I absolutely hate that as well. It's one of the things that really killed my Star Trek love. It was dying by pieces over time, but I remember particularly the "Year of Hell" storyline on Voyager, and how they made it magically all better at the end, and I've honestly never been angry at television in quite that way before. I felt so completely insulted. Why should I invest in these characters, and these events, if at the end they don't mean anything?
That they didn't save Vulcan, that actions actually had consequences that lasted beyond the credits, that some things cannot be saved, that the cost of a universe with Romulus, was a universe without Vulcan, was brutal but right. It felt like it was worth trusting the storytellers again.
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Yes. I mean, initially? I liked them well enough; heck, "Yesterday's Enterprise" (AKA the Tasha Yar alternate timeline story) is still in my top ten of favorite TNG stories. But by the time we got to "Year of Hell" it was overused and that damn reset button kept getting slapped. Annoying!
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Always wanted to be Bones when I grew up.
Awww.
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