Saw it yesterday. Very good! I’d heard people complaining that it differs from the original canon, but it actually sidesteps that issue in a very Star Trek way.
I'd heard people complaining that it differs from the original canon, but it actually sidesteps that issue in a very Star Trek way.
You have to love the way they went so far to keep the diehards happy, and yet many of them still complained :) Yet if they simply rehashed the same old material, they would get slated for being uninventive.
Saw it twice last weekend (once with my wife for a date, and the other time with the eldest). Enjoyed it immensely - the acting was good, the special effects were excellent, and the writing was well done.
I classify this as a good movie - not just as a Star Trek movie.
I actually did really enjoy it, though I found the time travel a little frustrating, and also felt that a certain ‘prime’ character managed to remove self-discovery from many of the individuals, i.e. Scotty, etc. it took away from their character and self development, but, meh, it was still good.
The actors were well chosen, though Uhura’s character was a little thin on development… they could’ve made her a much better role, but instead she was sorta there just because she’s female. which is too bad.
Saw it tonight. Overall, I don’t get it bits of it. The alternate history thing really fell flat IMO and while everything was exciting and entertaining, overall it did little to reboot anything. Its basically back to being the way it was before. Maybe someone can point out what I’m missing.
It met my expectations - large on action, low on science fiction; which doesn’t make it Star Trek IMO. I felt that a lot of the writing was really weak and very amateurish. Like Nero talking to his first mate about how they’ve been waiting for revenge for 25 years… As his first mate has been with Nero for 25 years also awaiting revenge, he already knows that, so that exposition is purely for the audience. Tsk tsk…
Production design was cool though. Everything looked slick.
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Productin was excellent, and the the characters were similar enough to how we remember them from the orginals for the old fogies and interesting enough for those that haven’t seen them.
to be honest I really wasn’t that impressed. The plot had a LOT of holes and contrivances.
For example, magic planet where coincidentially Scotty, Kirk and Old Spock all end up…and it’s within visual distance of Vulcan?
Also, using a brewery for engineering looked real unbelievable. The set design on the Romulan ship was bad too…
I do give high marks to Karl Urban for doing a great job channeling Deforest. And Quinto was good too. Didn’t really care for the punk-acting Kirk though…
Magic planet? Spock was put there because it was in visual distance of it being destroyed, Kirk was sent there because it was the closest place to where they were (next to Vulcan, to which they went to stop being destroyed). Scotty was the only coincidence. And the ending was very convenient.
Brewery? Big pipes and things are very engineering. Plus, where would they make the synthahol?