well i've been holding off any spoilers for this movie or reviews because i wanted to make my own decision. I love trek, but trek died long ago. It burned itself out. Now i was looking forward to this movie and was going to go to the cinema to see it next week but tonight a friend of mine came around with a bootleg copy and i decided to watch it. And do you know what? I'm still going to pay to see it next week.
I loved it.
It's not the trek that we all know and love but thats why i loved it. How anyone can compare this movie to the crapfest that was the PT baffles me. sure it isn't the greatest movie of all time. sure it isn't the best ever written, directed or acted movie but who cares. it was pure entertainment. Why does everything nowadays have to be perfectly written and have some sort of deep meaning? have we all forgotten what the cinema was all about? Entertainment. It was supposed to be pure escapism. We have the arty and Oscar type of films if we want deep meaning and all that stuff. what has happened to us all? have we forgotten how to just sit back and soak in the entertainment. Sure there is a lot of crap thats just purely special effects and is easily forgotten once the movie is over, but this movie is far from that.
there is always going to be the division between trek fans regarding the different incarnations. i can remember al the same type of things being said about TNG when that was announced. "How dare they do star trek without the original crew.", "i refuse to watch this no matter how good people are saying it is because i know it will be crap", etc etc.
there was so much negativity before this film came out that people made their minds up and were slagging it off before they even saw it and there are those on the net ( i'm not talking about these boards by the way) that will still slag it off after seeing it , even though they may have enjoyed it more than they would like to admit, just to save face. there are those that genuinely don't like it but the majority seem to like it or love it.
now the so called dodgy accents. well chekov sounded just like walter koenig's dodgy accent that this was obviously intentional. if the new guy had done an authentic Russian accent he would have been slated for being nothing like the original. Simon peggs Scottish accent was fine and i'm a Brit. what's with people saying he's the jar jar of trek? i wanted to burn jar jar at the stake he was so annoying. Scotty's didn't annoy me at all.
Everyone has their own tastes and i respect that. i loved it.the only that started to annoy me was the flashy lights and lens flares and the shaky BSG style camera work. for god sake just keep the camera still. but that aside i watched a version that i couldn't really see how good the Fx were so i was able to enjoy it without the Fx being a factor in my enjoyment and i am really glad that this was the first way i got to see the movie. Did anyone else notice that in the last scene of the movie the characters became very original cast?
now this one post surprised me the most out of everyones...
AxiaEuxine said:I was soooo looking forward to this fil. I was BEYOND hyped to see it...now I have seen it.
This movie is crap. It doesnt feel like Trek in any way shape or form. With all the early reviews this film was getting I was expecting this big epic thing. It never happened. I was almost bored. Nero is our badguy? A ex miner who lost his wife and now he....whatever Im done. This movie was swill, its not Trek.
edit: Oh I almost forgot, the musical score is awful. It was distracting for both my wife and I. Product placement and the fucking Beastie Boys in a Trek film. Has the world simply gone mad? How the hell did this movie get such good reviews?
now aren't you the one that starts attacking members here that don't like the PT and think that those films are crap, which they are? This movie is far superior to the PT. The acting is 1000 times better and i didn't cringe once throughout the movie. i lost count how many times i cringed in AOTC alone. when we all say that the PT is not Star Wars and that we hate it you tell us that they are great films and that there is nothing wrong with them. now you are saying the same as we do about the PT about Trek.
you have come over to the dark side ;)
joking aside, no matter how good the film was ever going to be there would always be the people that hate it because its not the original trek.
now my wife absolutely hates Trek and, dare i say it.... she hates Star Wars. But she actually liked this movie and wants to come with me to see it again at the cinema. It appeals to a different audience and that is actually a good thing in my mind.