Star Trek - saw it!

[Robyn the Ranger]

I will say without spoiling anything that it was amazing. If you weren't sure, it's a semi sequel / prequel / alternate reality of Star Trek, but it's a great adaptation.

The references to old Star Trek kept the older generation happy, the rockin' cast kept the younger ones happy. The graphics were pretty damn good, and there was surprisingly alot more humor than I expected. (Thanks Simon Pegg)

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The green chick wasn't really THAT hot..

Zachary Quinto did an amazing job portraying Spock. And as far as the character went, the fight with young Spock in the beginning was awesome.

The little bug creature thing they put in Capt. Pike made me cringe like hell.

I'll post more here later as it comes to me. For now I'm going to go digest the movie.

[Garrdor]

Went to the first/midnight showing here in Medford last night (err earlier this morning)

I give it a 7/10. Pretty solid. It's paced like Transformers or any other mindless action flick. I understand that it's a 'reboot' of the franchise. As I was telling a friend who went with me, they should've stayed away from using the pop-culture Star Trek quotes throughout the movie.

"Im a doctor, not a physicist!"

or

"I've given 'er all she's got, capin'!"

I mean, they might as well stop for a second and smile/eyebrow wave the audience.

My only other complaint was the T&A (doesn't belong in Star Trek IMO, I'm one of those 7of9 haters)

Positive notes:

The Enterprise looked amazing and still semi-retro at the same time.

Trekkies were fed enough little easter eggs to keep em happy.

Nero's ship was pretty awesome

Doc McCoy was amazing and pretty true to Kelly's original character.

The intro scene with Kirk's dad = one of the best intros I've ever seen to a movie.

[Ddrak]

My only other complaint was the T&A (doesn't belong in Star Trek IMO, I'm one of those 7of9 haters)

wtf?

The original series was so full of T&A that Kirk is famous for it...

Dd

[Garrdor]

I mean, like Uhura changing scene in general.

[Harlowe]

I keep reading Gar's posts as Klast's and it fucks with my head!

[Taxious]

I'll probably end up seeing Star Trek this weekend. I'm not into the series, but I've been reading good things about it all day. At least there is some eye candy if nothing else?

Terminator 4 wru??

[Alluveal]

I just noticed Garrdor's uber hot new avatar.

[Ariannda Kusanagi]

The geek in me went to see this tonight, i thought it was amazing. I am a freak when it comes to amazing effects (like as in scenery and explosions, not as in abs where none were) and i loved it ! I liked the original series as well tho

[Klast Brell]

It's called fan service Garrdor. And a hell of a lot of us nerds ate it up.

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Whoever came up with the "alternate time line" caveat was a genius. It pulled the rug out of under every little "hey it wasn't like that" nitpicking anyone might have had. And it gave the film makers license to make the changes needed to replace the 1962 sets and props. Seriously. Some of that stuff would be laughable to a modern audience. For example:

[Harlowe]

Okay I loved, loved McCoy, Karl Urban was awesome in this role. He was my favorite part of this movie. I enjoyed Quinto as younger Spock as well, but damn Karl was good.

What I didn't like..

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Though I think it was "genius" as Klast put it (in order to splain-away all the inconsistencies), I don't particularly like how this changes Star Trek into an alternate reality that virtually wipes out the Vulcans and my other nitpick was that Uhura was horribly cast. Like they just said "just find a really attractive black chick". She should have been a young Foxy Brown kind of woman, more sassy and voluptuous. The rest of the cast was pretty decent imo, though Scotty a bit more comical and over the top (he was being too Simon Pegg and not enough Scotty) but on it's own this movie was awesome. I would see it again.

[Jarochai Alabaster]

Saw it a couple hours ago, and the more I think on it the more I wish I hadn't wasted the time. I would have liked...I dunno...a halfway decent plot and perhaps a deviation from the usual nonsense Star Trek "physics." Like "Red Matter" (Whatever the fuck that's supposed to be). Like a supernova from another star system destroying Romulus. Like time traveling through a black hole.

And speaking of time travel, the time travel cop out was completely unnecessary for what I understood to be a reboot of the Star Trek concept. Nevermind that time travel has been done to fucking death in the franchise (And was the entire premise behind the Enterprise series) and we could use some fresh ideas. How about playing off the characters a little more? How about a villain who has more motivation than "Spock couldn't save Romulus in time."

I will say most of the actors did well enough. While there's virtually no character development, they did pretty good at staying true to the people they were supposed to be. Bones and Scotty's characters were more cute than anything else, and entirely because they played up the established character quirks. I could have done without Chekov's voice recognition error the first time we see him, but whatever. Didn't seem to be much point to that other than to go over the top with the character quirks, but I'd say it's the only time the film went too far in that regard.

Overall? 5/10, maybe 6. I just hoped for a decent story that happens to be set in space, and what I got was a shitload of pretty explosions and a half-assed story written around them. Such is the case these days, I suppose. If this hadn't had the title Star Trek applied to it, it wouldn't get more than a blip on the radar and would likely be forgotten before next weekend.

In other news, I saw the T4 trailer and while my hopes for it aren't all that high I'm sure I'll go see it, too. Here's hoping it ignores T3's established "continuity." Oh who the hell am I kidding. That series ended with T2.

Yes, I'm a bitter old man who thinks everything new is terrible.

[Harlowe]

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Oh another gripe - the green chick was ridiculously fake looking.Worst. Make-up. Job. Ever. The green woman from the 1960's series looked less fake, hell Teen Wolf looks less fake.

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Boyfriend said and I agree: Green Chick was probably tongue in cheek.

I've never watched the other movies or really the series (I've caught 10 minutes of random episodes here and there), but I enjoyed the movie a lot. I picked up on the fan service, but the lines were nerdy pop culture, so it's not too obscure.

[Harlowe]

For anyone who hasn't seen it, Rotten Tomatoes has it at 96% fresh, which is pretty amazing. Critics and fans alike are loving this film.

Consensus: Star Trek reignites a classic franchise with action, humor, a strong story, and brilliant visuals, and will please traditional Trekkies and new fans alike.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_11/

[Ddrak]

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

[Kulaf]

Saw it a couple hours ago, and the more I think on it the more I wish I hadn't wasted the time. I would have liked...I dunno...a halfway decent plot and perhaps a deviation from the usual nonsense Star Trek "physics." Like "Red Matter" (Whatever the fuck that's supposed to be). Like a supernova from another star system destroying Romulus. Like time traveling through a black hole.

And speaking of time travel, the time travel cop out was completely unnecessary for what I understood to be a reboot of the Star Trek concept. Nevermind that time travel has been done to fucking death in the franchise (And was the entire premise behind the Enterprise series) and we could use some fresh ideas. How about playing off the characters a little more? How about a villain who has more motivation than "Spock couldn't save Romulus in time."

Ok let's correct one glaring misconception you have......there was no time travel!

The black hole poped them into another REALITY! That's why this movie and any subsequent movies can do whatever they want because this doesn't change anything that has or will occur in the original Star Trek universe.

So stop being so grumpy and enjoy what I thought was a splendid way to recapture some older Trek fans and generate new ones without pissing anyone off......well except those that didn't understand what was going on aparently.

[Kulaf]

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That said......man this could be a very interesting time for a new alternate reality Star Trek. Vulcan is gone....but in this reality Romulus is still there. Which means the Federation is going to be a lot weaker or another member is going to have to step forward and take the place of the Vulcans.

[Jarochai Alabaster]

Kulaf, there most certainly was time travel. They even said they were now in an alternate reality because of the fact that history had been changed. The black hole didn't "pop them into an alternate reality," the alternate reality was the product of the black hole sending the mining ship and Spock back through time roughly 150 years and corrupting history.

Not that it matters much either way, except that I was apparently paying closer attention that you were. Regardless, a black hole doing anything other than crushing any matter it captures is such nonsense that to call it junk science isn't even applicable.

Plain and simple, this is a bad movie. Granted, I knew the rest of the world was going to love it when I saw it and realized it made about as much sense as the fucking Transformers movie, but the rest of the world tends to have retarded tastes in film.

At least one man saw it through similar eyes.

[Bastards Last Stand]

That said......man this could be a very interesting time for a new alternate reality Star Trek. Vulcan is gone....but in this reality Romulus is still there. Which means the Federation is going to be a lot weaker or another member is going to have to step forward and take the place of the Vulcans.

Wait a minute . . . Is Romulus still there? I thought the whole impetus for destroying Vulcan was the fact that Romulus was no longer there? I must have missed something.

[Harlowe]

Plain and simple, this is a bad movie. Granted, I knew the rest of the world was going to love it when I saw it and realized it made about as much sense as the fucking Transformers movie, but the rest of the world tends to have retarded tastes in film.