Hunter6 said:.
Listen man, it's blatantly obvious you were predisposed to dislike this movie with a passion regardless of the final product, that post right there is the equivalent of the new Chekov's ridiculously over-exaggerated accent - awkward and hard to understand.
Anyway, I just saw it tonight at a 12:30am showing. First of all, it's nowhere near the level of terrible achieved by the Star Wars prequels - those were genuinely bad, borderline unwatchable movies. Also, it's miles better than the previous few Star Trek movies; though, that's not exactly high praise seeing as those were terrible movies as well.
That being said to be completely honest I thought it was underwhelming (especially given the amount of critical praise being shoveled onto the film.) It wasn't a bad movie per se, it was just "OK" (especially given the pedigree.) An alright summer popcorn movie, though not nearly the "classic" I was hoping for (or even truly great.) As summer blockbusters go it's above average but it's far removed from being a masterpiece.
There were also a couple of parts I would've removed altogether - there wasn't anything positive about them being in the movie. The fucking ultra cheesy part in the beginning with young Kirk taking his step dad's "antique" car for a joy ride while blasting Beastie Boys, only to drive it off of a cliff Dukes of Hazard style while evading a poorly-done super cyborg robocop..... only to leap from the car at the last minute (in slow motion no less) while it sails over the edge of the cliff was just fucking asinine. It set a terrible tone, it was something that wouldn't be out of place in one of those [horrible] new Transformers movies.
Chekov's absurdly over-the-top cringe-worthy accent was also hard to stomach. They cast the wrong kid ("kid" being the operative word) for that role.
A few of the aliens seemed... out of place (like that one making lame ass faces while sitting in between Kirk and Uhura at the bar.) Not a big gripe necessarily - they just looked like they belonged in Mos Eisley, not the Enterprise. Giving Sulu a stereotypical Smurai sword (how was that "fencing?") was also pretty lame. Again, not a big deal or anything but what made that old episode so unique (and the reason Takei insisted on doing it the way it was done) was that the Asian guy was given a fencing foil rather than the boringly predictable samurai sword. A western style sword and combat technique would've been better than the karate and samurai sword - more original, more unique (an more in-line with what made the character cool in the first place.)
In the end it was worth seeing, just nothing to write home about. A watchable 7/10.