Unless someone in my family begs me to go see this with them. I am not going to pollute my vision of star trek with this crap.
I can wait for the dvd and a free rental at my public library. Just another glitzy big budget summer sci fi actioner but star trek is supposed to at least when it was at its best be more than that.
Star Trek is not Star Wars, and it should not try and fit the Starship Troopers type movie either.
What made Trek interesting was that is was risky and not main stream and it made you think. God Forbid a movie actually engages you thoughtfully at an intellectual level. Lowest common denominator to make money was Paramount's aim. For over forty years they have milked this franchise and time and time again proved it was nothing to them except a cash cow. They did not dig up and reanimate treks corpse for anything other than a lucrative franchise in which to replace the real star trek and bury it forever.
But they have already made it clear that this is an alternate universe and that the true fans need not come along for the ride. It is for the brain addled youth of today. How sad they don't make movies for me anymore. Well at least i have my dvd library at home in which to relive the classic greatness of the old trek and old star wars, and old indiana jones. These new films won't even get a permanent place in my shelf much less become a favorite i cherish.
To me most of the great films were made in the seventies and eighties. There are some exceptions in the 1990's like star trek 6. And in the 2000's like the lord of the rings trilogy. Other than That nothing has been made i will go back and see multiple times. Even the better films of the decade i've only seen once or twice. Nolan's Batman films for instance.
As a true literary science fiction fan i can be nothing less than dissapointed in the newest Trek. It is not science fiction. It needs more than aliens, ray guns and spaceships to be so. This is space fantasy just like star wars. But not as imaginative or exciting and i could care less for Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto. They are no Shatner and Nimoy. Any More than Hayden was a Mark Hamiill caliber, or Ewan a guiness or Ford level character in the star wars prequels.
I sometimes wonder if i would appreciate these modern dumb entertainments were I a teenager instead of being nearly 31 years of age.
To me its really sad that another one of my childhood favorites has been destroyed. But nothing lasts forever. I mean Star Wars was ruined. Transformers was ruined. Indiana Jones was ruined. Star Trek ruined. James Bond ruined. The only franchise left unruined is Batman.
I have yet to see if they also destroyed another favorite of mine Wolverine but based on the reviews i have to say just like X3 they ruined it. They ruined the Hulk twice. They ruined spiderman in spiderman 3.
Iron man they somewhat got right. And the Fantastic 4 was just a bad joke and nothing like Jack Kirby.