STAR TREK BEYOND (7/22/16) 0

[Bosco685]

BOX OFFICE: STAR TREK BEYOND Beamed Up To #1 With $56 Million Opening Weekend

 

 

The latest instalment of the Star Trek franchise isn't doing quite as well as the previous two movies, but Beyond earned a solid $22 million yesterday for a predicted opening weekend of $56 million. Some analysts believe that it could go as high as $60 million, but we'll have to wait and see how it does today and tomorrow to be sure. Like a lot of other 2016 releases, how it performs overseas could prove to be what really helps the movie, though a fourth chapter has of course already been confirmed.

 

Star Trek Into Darkness opened with $70.2 million while the 2009 reboot made $75.2 million, so this is quite a drop. Star Trek Beyond also opened in the UK, Australia, and Russia this weekend, but it won't reach China until September 2nd. Regardless, the movie has easily taken the top spot in America.

[aardvark88]

I give it the same 7/10 rating. The 1 sheet movie poster design is too bland also. Jason Bourne movie will hopefully be better.

 

In ST Beyond, about 6 major and 1 minor scenes were extra wide onto all 3 2-D screens. The most impressive I found was an overhead shot of the Enterprise saucer section outer hull.

[devilsrain]

6/10 Too much Pegg Too little Boutella

[Fan Boy]

 

I would say it is the weakest of the 3 ST reboots. Bit too much Simon Pegg and his one liners in ST Beyond. Skip the $17 2D triple (3) screen, as the movie loses momentum when you pan left or scan right with your eyes to view the extra WIDE spcl fx. Decent ending plot wise.

 

I give it the same 7/10 rating. The 1 sheet movie poster design is too bland also. Jason Bourne movie will hopefully be better.

 

In ST Beyond, about 6 major and 1 minor scenes were extra wide onto all 3 2-D screens. The most impressive I found was an overhead shot of the Enterprise saucer section outer hull.

 

Friends and me are going see that today in the afternoon. We opt for the regular version as we decided not go for 3D or the 3 screen thing. Felt had enough but saving the option for better movies later (hoping for Doctor Strange )

 

Will see what I think of the new ST frick...

[fmaz]

Me, the wife, and our teenage son all enjoyed it very much. I'm not sure if it has any staying power as a "memorable" movie... but it was good. I think the three movies are all pretty similar in quality but my preference is still for the 1st at this point.

[Fan Boy]

Had watched it today and I thought it was a good enjoyable movie. Gave it a 7 out of 10. Not as great as the first reboot movie, so that stays in top. The current movie is a second and third is the ST: Darkness movie.

 

The new Enterprise at the ending was a nice touch with the classic lines mixed in.

[Bosco685]

Sounds like reviewers are really enjoying this film.

 

 

[gadzukes]

Anyone catch the "Green Hand of Adonais" easter egg in the final credits? It happened fast, but I know I saw the green hand (was referenced earlier in the movie too).

[PsylockeSmythe]

I saw it Saturday with the wife and we both enjoyed it. She is a big Trek fan and she was very pleased. She has it ranked 2nd behind the Star Trek reboot as to which of the 3 reboot movies she enjoyed the best.

 

Psy

[media_junkie]

I saw it last night, I thought it was a very good movie.

[Comicopolis]

Saw it tonight wife the wife and we both really enjoyed it.

[Comicshrine]

Utterly predictable, heavy handed, and a nonsensical plot. Easily the worst of the three. The cast is the only thing that saves it (a little).

 

Best part is the Enterprise FINALLY has the correct nacelle design.

 

This

[Hawkman]

caught the 10:25

 

 

ST: Beyond was VERY good and it will be a shame if it goes unnoticed.

there is no way that a Star Trek movie will ever go unnoticed.

[The Black Hand ®]

I saw it yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. I love Karl Urban's McCoy and his interactions with Spock and Kirk. I loved Jaylah, played by Sofia Boutella and the relationship with her and Scotty. Naturally I found portions of the film to be bittersweet due to Anton Yelchin's tragic death. The first film is still my favorite but this comes in second. Go see it if you haven't.

[Comicopolis]

I saw it yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. I love Karl Urban's McCoy and his interactions with Spock and Kirk. I loved Jaylah, played by Sofia Boutella and the relationship with her and Scotty. Naturally I found portions of the film to be bittersweet due to Anton Yelchin's tragic death. The first film is still my favorite but this comes in second. Go see it if you haven't.

 

This.

[Hulksdaddy1]

Friend of mine wrote this review of it, and why it's not a good movie.

 

Spot on, all counts.

 

 

So they go to some space station outpost place (Yorktown) which seems to be near the edge of known space(?). For some reason it is built on an unimaginable scale, so that starships like the Enterprise don’t dock with it, like in current reality or Deep Space 9, but go inside it. That just seems like an unnecessarily complicated and dangerous design.

When they arrive at Yorktown, Sulu is greeted by his husband and daughter. Fine, I don’t care about that, except, what the **** were they doing there? Where is Yorktown in relation to Earth? Does Sulu’s family live out there on Yorktown? Did they come out to Yorktown just to meet up with Sulu? Whatever.

 

They are betrayed and the ship is destroyed, as it always is, getting a little old there guys. Given the Enterprise’s casualty rate, they should rename it, sailors (of the stars) are a superstitious lot and that name is clearly bad luck. At the very least, how do they keep getting staff? Who the hell would willingly serve on the Enterprise at this point?

Anyway, Scotty escapes by putting himself in a photon torpedo and remote controlling himself to the planet. Now, we saw in the last one that Kahn had modified the torpedoes to hide his crew, but now all torpedoes have a human sized compartment inside? Get the **** out of here with that.

 

Kirk and Chekov go back to the crashed saucer section of the Enterprise to get some stuff. Through some wildly_fanciful_statement they get the engines to fire so that it is taking off, they are sliding down the surface of the saucer to escape the bad guys and somehow survive that, because that’s how physics works. P.S. prior to that, they were running around inside the saucer and it was dark and the camera kept doing weird stuff so there’s no way to tell what is going on at all.

On the planet Scotty finds the helpful concentration camp escapee that will help them. Turns out she’s been living in a Federation ship (the Franklin) that crashed there 100 years ago. Here’s where the ******** really picks up speed; she has repaired this 100 year old crashed ship to the point were it’s almost ready to go. She’s clearly some kind of super engineer. With Scotty they get the ship up and running, with functioning transporters and weapons. According to Scotty, these older generation transporters were meant for cargo and not people, but with a modification they’re transporting prisoners out of the camp 20 at a time.

 

Did I mention that their helpful alien friend has some hologram technology that is a) portable, b) capable of making multiple hologram duplicates, c) also able to camouflage a whole starship. That’s pretty ******* handy.

 

Anyway, I will give Justin Lin credit for the scene with the motorcycle jump transporter trick, I found myself excited, despite thinking it was stupid.

So the ship works, but they can’t take off, because these old ships were built in space and don’t have the engines (or something?) to take off from a planet. But, BUT, they can jump start it if they drive it off a cliff and reach terminal velocity because somehow that will allow the engines to work. WHAT?!

 

So the bad guy has this fleet of thousands (possibly 10s of thousands?) of little ships that act like a swarm. They say in the initial attack that their shields have no effect on them. Sounds like he could probably just take over the universe with that, but that’s not good enough, he’s after some super biological weapon that ties back into the plot in stupid ways I’m not going to get into.

 

The crew observe that the ships are like ‘bees’ and they must use some sort of signal to coordinate. They decide if they play Beastie Boys on that frequency they can disrupt the signal and beat them. Technically, that’s not even the stupid part, that’s just Hollywood cliche. However, I assumed what they were talking about is the the ships would be come disorganized, crash into each other a lot and become easy pickings for a divide and conquer strategy; but what actually happens is Beastie Boys music causes all the bad guy ships (except the one with the big bad guy in it of course) to immediately and simultaneously explode, because reasons.

Let’s talk about the bad guy fleet for a minute. It turns out the big bad buy is actually the former captain of the Franklin who was a soldier back when Star Fleet was military, he’s mad at Star Fleet because they never came to rescue him when he crashed on the planet. The planet was basically an uninhabited mining planet. However, some alien race was mining it with robo drone things. These are the bad guys foot soldiers and pilots?? 1) I don’t get why the mining setup would have all these flying ships, seems like those wouldn’t be great for mining. 2) The foot soldiers all have blasters of some sort, again, I wonder about the mining thing. Now the mining thing seems very reminicient of Nero from the 1st movie, maybe mining equipment is a lot more weapon-y than I give it credit for. And the warrior guy from another era seems a lot like Kahn. I guess they really are out of ideas.

 

So now the fleet is gone but they’re chasing the big bad guy and his two escort ships, a la Vader in the the trench run, inside Yorktown. The big bad guy is trying to get the biological weapon into the ventilation system. Kirk is trying to stop him. Of course there’s some kind of out-venting option inside the system that will purge everything into space, but you have to pull a lot of levers at the same time and risk getting suck out yourself, because that’s how those things always work. Did I mention there’s no gravity in the ventilation system either? Yeah, so add some anti-gravity ******** flying and fighting to the mix too.

 

That about covers it. They must have mentioned unity, or some variation of teamwork about 1000 times. Subtle. If it was a drinking for every time they mentioned it you’d be dead from alcohol poisoning.

 

[Bosco685]

Saw this movie late last night. The theater was 2/3 packed at a 10 PM showing. I liked it!

 

Justin Lin approaching this as an extended Star Trek Original Series episode was a really nice touch. And I can see why people pointed out the Leonard Nimoy tribute, along with the original crew scene. The focus on the individual crew members versus all of them combined fighting a common enemy allowed for further character development and main character interaction that added to the experience. A nice touch!

 

My Star Trek modern list:

- Star Trek (2009): 4/5 stars

- Star Trek Into Darkness: 3.75/5 stars

- Star Trek Beyond: 3.5/5 stars

[piper]

I enjoyed this film very much! A nice addition to the Star Trek Mythos. I think I need to go back and watch some of the old TV series and movies.

 

It was certainly better than S vs.B...

[Artboy99]

Friend of mine wrote this review of it, and why it's not a good movie.

 

Spot on, all counts.

 

 

So they go to some space station outpost place (Yorktown) which seems to be near the edge of known space(?). For some reason it is built on an unimaginable scale, so that starships like the Enterprise don’t dock with it, like in current reality or Deep Space 9, but go inside it. That just seems like an unnecessarily complicated and dangerous design.

When they arrive at Yorktown, Sulu is greeted by his husband and daughter. Fine, I don’t care about that, except, what the **** were they doing there? Where is Yorktown in relation to Earth? Does Sulu’s family live out there on Yorktown? Did they come out to Yorktown just to meet up with Sulu? Whatever.

 

They are betrayed and the ship is destroyed, as it always is, getting a little old there guys. Given the Enterprise’s casualty rate, they should rename it, sailors (of the stars) are a superstitious lot and that name is clearly bad luck. At the very least, how do they keep getting staff? Who the hell would willingly serve on the Enterprise at this point?

Anyway, Scotty escapes by putting himself in a photon torpedo and remote controlling himself to the planet. Now, we saw in the last one that Kahn had modified the torpedoes to hide his crew, but now all torpedoes have a human sized compartment inside? Get the **** out of here with that.

 

Kirk and Chekov go back to the crashed saucer section of the Enterprise to get some stuff. Through some wildly_fanciful_statement they get the engines to fire so that it is taking off, they are sliding down the surface of the saucer to escape the bad guys and somehow survive that, because that’s how physics works. P.S. prior to that, they were running around inside the saucer and it was dark and the camera kept doing weird stuff so there’s no way to tell what is going on at all.

On the planet Scotty finds the helpful concentration camp escapee that will help them. Turns out she’s been living in a Federation ship (the Franklin) that crashed there 100 years ago. Here’s where the ******** really picks up speed; she has repaired this 100 year old crashed ship to the point were it’s almost ready to go. She’s clearly some kind of super engineer. With Scotty they get the ship up and running, with functioning transporters and weapons. According to Scotty, these older generation transporters were meant for cargo and not people, but with a modification they’re transporting prisoners out of the camp 20 at a time.

 

Did I mention that their helpful alien friend has some hologram technology that is a) portable, b) capable of making multiple hologram duplicates, c) also able to camouflage a whole starship. That’s pretty ******* handy.

 

Anyway, I will give Justin Lin credit for the scene with the motorcycle jump transporter trick, I found myself excited, despite thinking it was stupid.

So the ship works, but they can’t take off, because these old ships were built in space and don’t have the engines (or something?) to take off from a planet. But, BUT, they can jump start it if they drive it off a cliff and reach terminal velocity because somehow that will allow the engines to work. WHAT?!

 

So the bad guy has this fleet of thousands (possibly 10s of thousands?) of little ships that act like a swarm. They say in the initial attack that their shields have no effect on them. Sounds like he could probably just take over the universe with that, but that’s not good enough, he’s after some super biological weapon that ties back into the plot in stupid ways I’m not going to get into.

 

The crew observe that the ships are like ‘bees’ and they must use some sort of signal to coordinate. They decide if they play Beastie Boys on that frequency they can disrupt the signal and beat them. Technically, that’s not even the stupid part, that’s just Hollywood cliche. However, I assumed what they were talking about is the the ships would be come disorganized, crash into each other a lot and become easy pickings for a divide and conquer strategy; but what actually happens is Beastie Boys music causes all the bad guy ships (except the one with the big bad guy in it of course) to immediately and simultaneously explode, because reasons.

Let’s talk about the bad guy fleet for a minute. It turns out the big bad buy is actually the former captain of the Franklin who was a soldier back when Star Fleet was military, he’s mad at Star Fleet because they never came to rescue him when he crashed on the planet. The planet was basically an uninhabited mining planet. However, some alien race was mining it with robo drone things. These are the bad guys foot soldiers and pilots?? 1) I don’t get why the mining setup would have all these flying ships, seems like those wouldn’t be great for mining. 2) The foot soldiers all have blasters of some sort, again, I wonder about the mining thing. Now the mining thing seems very reminicient of Nero from the 1st movie, maybe mining equipment is a lot more weapon-y than I give it credit for. And the warrior guy from another era seems a lot like Kahn. I guess they really are out of ideas.

 

So now the fleet is gone but they’re chasing the big bad guy and his two escort ships, a la Vader in the the trench run, inside Yorktown. The big bad guy is trying to get the biological weapon into the ventilation system. Kirk is trying to stop him. Of course there’s some kind of out-venting option inside the system that will purge everything into space, but you have to pull a lot of levers at the same time and risk getting suck out yourself, because that’s how those things always work. Did I mention there’s no gravity in the ventilation system either? Yeah, so add some anti-gravity ******** flying and fighting to the mix too.

 

That about covers it. They must have mentioned unity, or some variation of teamwork about 1000 times. Subtle. If it was a drinking for every time they mentioned it you’d be dead from alcohol poisoning.

 

Your friend keys on all of the things I didn't like about this new Star Trek film, but in the end I was entertained. I give it a 6 out of 10.

[Hawkman]

Friend of mine wrote this review of it, and why it's not a good movie.

 

Spot on, all counts.

 

 

So they go to some space station outpost place (Yorktown) which seems to be near the edge of known space(?). For some reason it is built on an unimaginable scale, so that starships like the Enterprise don’t dock with it, like in current reality or Deep Space 9, but go inside it. That just seems like an unnecessarily complicated and dangerous design.

When they arrive at Yorktown, Sulu is greeted by his husband and daughter. Fine, I don’t care about that, except, what the **** were they doing there? Where is Yorktown in relation to Earth? Does Sulu’s family live out there on Yorktown? Did they come out to Yorktown just to meet up with Sulu? Whatever.

 

They are betrayed and the ship is destroyed, as it always is, getting a little old there guys. Given the Enterprise’s casualty rate, they should rename it, sailors (of the stars) are a superstitious lot and that name is clearly bad luck. At the very least, how do they keep getting staff? Who the hell would willingly serve on the Enterprise at this point?

Anyway, Scotty escapes by putting himself in a photon torpedo and remote controlling himself to the planet. Now, we saw in the last one that Kahn had modified the torpedoes to hide his crew, but now all torpedoes have a human sized compartment inside? Get the **** out of here with that.

 

Kirk and Chekov go back to the crashed saucer section of the Enterprise to get some stuff. Through some wildly_fanciful_statement they get the engines to fire so that it is taking off, they are sliding down the surface of the saucer to escape the bad guys and somehow survive that, because that’s how physics works. P.S. prior to that, they were running around inside the saucer and it was dark and the camera kept doing weird stuff so there’s no way to tell what is going on at all.

On the planet Scotty finds the helpful concentration camp escapee that will help them. Turns out she’s been living in a Federation ship (the Franklin) that crashed there 100 years ago. Here’s where the ******** really picks up speed; she has repaired this 100 year old crashed ship to the point were it’s almost ready to go. She’s clearly some kind of super engineer. With Scotty they get the ship up and running, with functioning transporters and weapons. According to Scotty, these older generation transporters were meant for cargo and not people, but with a modification they’re transporting prisoners out of the camp 20 at a time.

 

Did I mention that their helpful alien friend has some hologram technology that is a) portable, b) capable of making multiple hologram duplicates, c) also able to camouflage a whole starship. That’s pretty ******* handy.

 

Anyway, I will give Justin Lin credit for the scene with the motorcycle jump transporter trick, I found myself excited, despite thinking it was stupid.

So the ship works, but they can’t take off, because these old ships were built in space and don’t have the engines (or something?) to take off from a planet. But, BUT, they can jump start it if they drive it off a cliff and reach terminal velocity because somehow that will allow the engines to work. WHAT?!

 

So the bad guy has this fleet of thousands (possibly 10s of thousands?) of little ships that act like a swarm. They say in the initial attack that their shields have no effect on them. Sounds like he could probably just take over the universe with that, but that’s not good enough, he’s after some super biological weapon that ties back into the plot in stupid ways I’m not going to get into.

 

The crew observe that the ships are like ‘bees’ and they must use some sort of signal to coordinate. They decide if they play Beastie Boys on that frequency they can disrupt the signal and beat them. Technically, that’s not even the stupid part, that’s just Hollywood cliche. However, I assumed what they were talking about is the the ships would be come disorganized, crash into each other a lot and become easy pickings for a divide and conquer strategy; but what actually happens is Beastie Boys music causes all the bad guy ships (except the one with the big bad guy in it of course) to immediately and simultaneously explode, because reasons.

Let’s talk about the bad guy fleet for a minute. It turns out the big bad buy is actually the former captain of the Franklin who was a soldier back when Star Fleet was military, he’s mad at Star Fleet because they never came to rescue him when he crashed on the planet. The planet was basically an uninhabited mining planet. However, some alien race was mining it with robo drone things. These are the bad guys foot soldiers and pilots?? 1) I don’t get why the mining setup would have all these flying ships, seems like those wouldn’t be great for mining. 2) The foot soldiers all have blasters of some sort, again, I wonder about the mining thing. Now the mining thing seems very reminicient of Nero from the 1st movie, maybe mining equipment is a lot more weapon-y than I give it credit for. And the warrior guy from another era seems a lot like Kahn. I guess they really are out of ideas.

 

So now the fleet is gone but they’re chasing the big bad guy and his two escort ships, a la Vader in the the trench run, inside Yorktown. The big bad guy is trying to get the biological weapon into the ventilation system. Kirk is trying to stop him. Of course there’s some kind of out-venting option inside the system that will purge everything into space, but you have to pull a lot of levers at the same time and risk getting suck out yourself, because that’s how those things always work. Did I mention there’s no gravity in the ventilation system either? Yeah, so add some anti-gravity ******** flying and fighting to the mix too.

 

That about covers it. They must have mentioned unity, or some variation of teamwork about 1000 times. Subtle. If it was a drinking for every time they mentioned it you’d be dead from alcohol poisoning.

Your friend makes a few good points, but mostly just overanalyzes the movie.