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Just watched Star Trek... very long, detailed critique follows...

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the_Greatest

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Kirk's Origin = AWESOME

 

The way we think of Kirk, is pretty much due to the way Shatner developed the character in the original series. I've always been a fan of William Shatner and of his Captain Kirk. What made the movie for me was the same thing that made the series for me, the relationship between Kirk, Spock and Bones as well as the supporting color of Scotty and Checkov, Sulu and Uhuru. I was especially pleased to see Karl Urban's homage to DeForest Kelly's McCoy. There seems to be a reservoir of good will toward that Character.

 

Many times it's difficult to keep a character consistent, even over the course of a long running TV series. I think they did a great job of transferring the character traits over to these new actors.

One of my problems with the movie was that it wasn't quite cerebral enough for a Star Trek movie.

Example: The giant "space ship drill".

Was there an intended practical use for that, or was that really their best technology in planet destruction? lol

 

Nero said his ship was a mining vessel before his planet was destroyed. It was being "repurposed". (thumbs u

 

I've already been properly chastised for missing that. :(

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gaz973

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Eye candy CGI ... AWESOME

Music ... AWESOME

Actors/casting... AWESOME

Battle scenes... AWESOME

Spock 1/Spock 2... AWESOME

Phaser battle... AWESOME

Big frigin' bad-dude Romulan ship... AWESOME

Space/Time continuum storyline... AWESOME (but my head hurts... no seriously, it hurts!)

"So, should I go see it?"... AWESOME

"So, that's a yes?"... AWESOME

"I think your hair is on fire!"... AWESOME

"...damn fan-boy..." ............ AWESOME!!!

 

 

But did you like it or not? (shrug)

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Lego

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Wow ! Never thought that I would ever need to see another Star Trek movie again , but you pack of geeks have definitely convinced me. (thumbs u

 

 

 

 

:baiting:

 

I did forget to mention in my previous post that it was a CRAZY good movie. See it in IMAX if you can!

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devilsrain

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Eye candy CGI ... AWESOME

Music ... AWESOME

Actors/casting... AWESOME

Battle scenes... AWESOME

Spock 1/Spock 2... AWESOME

Phaser battle... AWESOME

Big frigin' bad-dude Romulan ship... AWESOME

Space/Time continuum storyline... AWESOME (but my head hurts... no seriously, it hurts!)

"So, should I go see it?"... AWESOME

"So, that's a yes?"... AWESOME

"I think your hair is on fire!"... AWESOME

"...damn fan-boy..." ............ AWESOME!!!

 

 

I have to keep commenting on this movie!! I freakin loved it too. My only question was why drill to the planets core to drop the red matter. lol just create the singularity close to the planet.

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gpanalysis

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Nothing. It's life-like.

 

 

What's so bad about it?

 

Agreed. I've never been involved in a fight in all my life, but if I was, this is exactly how I would imagine myself moving... slow, predictable and ridiculous looking lol

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MagnetoWasRight

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Just got back from seeing Star Trek and I was blown away. I'm not much into the Star Trek movies/tv shows/etc...so I had little expectations going in. I was throughly impressed...forget the fact that "trekkies" will be happy...it was just a good movie overall...I give it four stars. Probably going to see it again tomorrow...

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Kirk's Origin = AWESOME

 

The way we think of Kirk, is pretty much due to the way Shatner developed the character in the original series. I've always been a fan of William Shatner and of his Captain Kirk. What made the movie for me was the same thing that made the series for me, the relationship between Kirk, Spock and Bones as well as the supporting color of Scotty and Checkov, Sulu and Uhuru. I was especially pleased to see Karl Urban's homage to DeForest Kelly's McCoy. There seems to be a reservoir of good will toward that Character.

 

Many times it's difficult to keep a character consistent, even over the course of a long running TV series. I think they did a great job of transferring the character traits over to these new actors.

One of my problems with the movie was that it wasn't quite cerebral enough for a Star Trek movie.

Example: The giant "space ship drill".

Was there an intended practical use for that, or was that really their best technology in planet destruction? lol

 

Nero said his ship was a mining vessel before his planet was destroyed. It was being "repurposed". (thumbs u

 

That and the ship was still 200 years more advanced than anything else out there. A comparable analogy would be that I could take a regular Hummer and outfit it with a .50 cal back to the alamo invasion and wipe out Santa Anna's army.

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Eye candy CGI ... AWESOME

Music ... AWESOME

Actors/casting... AWESOME

Battle scenes... AWESOME

Spock 1/Spock 2... AWESOME

Phaser battle... AWESOME

Big frigin' bad-dude Romulan ship... AWESOME

Space/Time continuum storyline... AWESOME (but my head hurts... no seriously, it hurts!)

"So, should I go see it?"... AWESOME

"So, that's a yes?"... AWESOME

"I think your hair is on fire!"... AWESOME

"...damn fan-boy..." ............ AWESOME!!!

 

 

I have to keep commenting on this movie!! I freakin loved it too. My only question was why drill to the planets core to drop the red matter. lol just create the singularity close to the planet.

 

doh!

 

Loved the movie, and I was highly skeptical going into it. I was afraid the characters would be pale shadows of the originals (see Star Wars), but the acting was great and they were all believable, and even likable, as younger versions.

 

The movie went to great pains to connect to the original Star Trek characters we know and love. My favorite touch (*tiny spoiler alert*) was when McCoy kept "treating" Kirk by shooting him in the neck with various medicines. Classic! There must have been a hundred similar inside jokes for Trekkies.

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Great movie with homages to Star Wars episode 4. Kirk constantly leaping and grasping the ledge while in darth-Nero's planet destroying space cruiser. Ice planet like Hoth from Star Wars episode 5: Empire Strikes Back with nasty man-eating predators. Scotty's engineering sidekick dwarf like Yoda.

Winona Ryder was in the credits, but was she under Romulan make-up? :whistle:

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Great movie with homages to Star Wars episode 4. Kirk constantly leaping and grasping the ledge while in darth-Nero's planet destroying space cruiser. Ice planet like Hoth from Star Wars episode 5: Empire Strikes Back with nasty man-eating predators. Scotty's engineering sidekick dwarf like Yoda.

Winona Ryder was in the credits, but was she under Romulan make-up? :whistle:

 

She was Spock's mother

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Just got back as well. I don't think it's a great movie, but it's a superb crowd-pleaser. At times the film seemed too self-aware of how cute it was, how much it was feeding tidbits to the fans, as if the film itself was tossing out a bit and then *wink wink!* at the audience.

 

The villain is totally forgettable. Log him in with most of the other movie villains, because he's only in there as an obligation.

 

I like the mellowed old-age Spock: "Give yourself a break! Do what FEELS right!" (twinkle in his eyes)

 

Why thank you, hippie Spock, and could pass the chronic when you're done?

 

I liked the film, and will probably see it again.

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