Sofia Boutella became known as a dancer before she started in acting roles. She has amazing flexibility, and she can do her own stunt work, which is extremely important in movies today.
They haven’t made a good Star Trek movie yet. That includes Khan which was a little better than most.
I watched an episode last night, “The Menagerie” which was remarkable considering they rehashed it from the original pilot.
Never trust a Vulcan.
Saw “Mad Max: Fury Road” again on TV the other day.
Watch that and cleanse your pallet. Lots of practical effect and very little CGI.
(Not to mention the beautiful Charlize Theron.)
Did a little googling and found out that there was a black and white (called “Black and Chrome”) silent edition released but only on Blu-Ray. Sounds intriguing.
In the meantime, this fan video will have to do:
Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition (Re-Edit)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpeLsI7yJVA
Was it good? I don’t know. I fell asleep.
It was truly terrible, and I do like the new cast, but after #2, it really went downhill.
The blatant homosexual “marriage” stuff also was not needed.
Pine does a good job on Kirk.
Karl Urban has McCoy down.
Simon Pegg is pretty good as Scotty.
Zoe Saldana makes Uhura a b***ch. She’s hot, but that’s it.
Lastly, Quinto as Spock is AWFUL.
Sofia Boutella became known as a dancer before she started in acting roles. She has amazing flexibility, and she can do her own stunt work, which is extremely important in movies today.
It really was bad. The first two were pretty good in the reboot. But #3 was just dumb. Instead of exploring the reboot potential and showing how things could be different in an alternate universe they wasted the movie with a stupid plot. And Kirk driving that motorcycle around for what seemed like hours was super stupid. It’s like they said...we have to have extreme sports in here to appeal to the young crowd....
It began the long lingering slide into terminal obsolescence when the proto-social justice warriors of the late Eighties and early Nineties made The Next Generation a vehicle for political correctness. And then Bergman and Bragga got hold of the franchise. The only reason Deep Space Nine was remarkable was because it was competing with Babylon 5 for best current sci-fi series and for once Trek embraced capitalism and became better for it. But after that, it was downhill. Enterprise began with a load of promise but Bergman and Bragga dropped that ball.
Then came the 2009 Star Trek helmed by JJ Abrams. And it made Trek AWESOME again. But then came Star Trek Into Darkness: a film so rife with problems that it makes Insurrection and Nemesis downright brilliant.
I didn't see Beyond. The marketing made too big a deal of the gay marriage. Apparently many others were put off by it also.
It's dead, Jim. Star Trek had fifty years and for the most part it was good. Time to let it go. Let it be an artifact of its time, just as previous eras had Roy Rogers and Flash Gordon serials.
Methinks the “reboot” should get the boot.
There have been so many Star Trek films that they’re starting to rip themselves off. But in ‘Beyond’ they managed to rip off Star Wars (A New Hope) as well.
Kirk and crew suddenly want to go out and intercept a mysterious threat. Where have we seen that before?
The finale - combat/race in tight spaces - is a shameless lift of the original Star Wars Death Star battle.
It’s a shame because the actors typically sign 3-picture deals and Paramount et al have squandered the entire cast (not all of them are good however) and three whole films.
I’ve read several sources who note that films cannot be made profitable without sales in Russia, China and elsewhere therefore big dumb loud noisy whiz-bang nothingness is the order of the day since dialogue and plot-heavy films don’t translate idiomatically.
On the other hand, the producers and studios all claim that audiences have ADD and won’t pay attention to nuance but I believe it is the filmmakers who suffer the ADD. The sausage-factory scriptwriting process in Hollyweird is also abysmal.
Now there will be a tiresome reboot of a franchise that only rebooted in 2009.
I swear, I think part of the reason that CBS halted the Axanar fan film project is because it had more potential and an actual story line.
I’m a huge Star Trek fan and I hated this film as well.
they saved the universe from the shakespeare-black by blasting rap music -— true story
Didn’t know that Nancy Pelosi’s face had stripes but after all the plastic surgery she had had, I suspect that the cracks got dirt in them.
Re the two creatures with the “rubber masks”. Look like a character from “The Outer Limits”, the original show, or Michael Moore and Oliver Stoned.
Chris Pine - re being half Jewish. I’d like to know which half (or is this a Solomonic question about a split personality).
As for the unity “We” factor. Can we ask, “If anyone we-we’s in space, do we really care”?
As for one poster saying you can’t trust a Vulcan, wrong. There was a Vulcan artillery unit in the U.S. Army, So. Vietnam, about 1967. I think the guys who got fire support didn’t give a damn if it came from Vulcans, Klingons, or Romulans, only that it was effective and killed the commie bastards.
The original Star Trek series and some of the movies had great intertwining themes in them that were way ahead of Hollywood’s moralizing but in an intelligent and entertaining way.
Gene Roddenberry, we salute you and miss your genius.
Live Long and Prosper in heaven!
When i saw the trailer my first thought was they made star trek into fast and furious, which i never liked.
Later i found the director of the movie directed fast and the furious movies.
The initial movie reboot was good, but the second (Into Darkness) was a remake of Wrath of Khan with Kirk dying instead of Spock. With all the great stories in the Star Trek Universe why remake an earlier movie? The last movie (Beyond) was horrible. Remember the shock of the first time the Enterprise was destroyed? Now it has become routine. In Beyond, the Enterprise lasts about 10 minutes before its shredded and the rest of the movie takes place on a planet. Typically not good. The rest of the film quickly degenerates into a stunt and CGI fest like the awful Guardians of the Galaxy films. No thought, just endless chases and fight scenes. Too bad they have chosen to go down this path.