Posted on 05/10/2009 12:14:38 PM PDT by pabianice
Edited on 05/10/2009 3:43:21 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
I went to see it in IMAX today. My brother and I (51 and 52) and three guys I work with (27, 26 and 23)
We all thought it was great fun, and a welcome change. Mind you, I have not gone to a theater in...well, I simply cannot remember. But I enjoyed it immensely.
I know there were probably people walking out of the theater arguing “No way he could have done that, if they (INSERT SCENE FROM MOVIE HERE)...”
It was fluff and entertainment. I want something that is more real, I will watch “Band of Brothers” or something like that. And people will nitpick that.
I though McCoy was perfect...Sulu, was, well...NOT Sulu (THANK GOD) and Spock was well done.
I DO NOT watch television, cannot stomach it, and haven’t watched in years, and am a moviephile (Favorite Movie: “The Best Years of Our Lives”) so does my review help?
Go ahead...it was fun!
Custer had a highly successful 15 year career before making a number of mistakes that led to his destruction at LBH.
My point was that some men have been promoted to very high rank at a young age and been quite successful, not that any such man never lost a battle.
A lot of conservatives think I'm beyond it because I quit watching the X-Men series because I believed they turned into an endless series of "coming out of the closet" sequences.
Probably the only thing remotely liberal was the "youth in rebellion" meme attached to Kirk. I saw the movie as being a little disjointed, and relying a little too much on coincidences (particularly ****SPOILER**** select the following to read it!!!!when Spock gets hacked at Kirk and has him shot off the ship and he ends up on a planet about a quarter mile from the Spock that went back in time.) Aside from that, the characterizations are good, and there are quite a few references back to TOS, without the show being a parody of the series.
The show is extremely apolitical. I think this was a conscious decision, as they desperately wanted a successful reboot. Patrick Stewart showed his remarkable sexual prowess by screwing the entire franchise in Nemesis (more suckage than any movie should be allowed to have) and they dumped most of the new age, a woman can be a starship captain, Ferangi (loosely based on the Jewish stereotype) are the EVIL capitalists, etc., etc.
It's fun, it's loud, the chicks are in short skirts again, there's no cursing or blatant nudity, Sulu comes across as straight.
Enjoy it and have fun.
If you want an example of a very young man promoted to the highest possible rank who never lost a battle, try Alexander the Great. To be frank, he promoted himself, but then he also never lost a battle and conquered just about the entire known world of the time.
Another example is Charles XII of Sweden, who had a highly successful military career for 8 years, starting at the age of 18. He conquered and damn near destroyed Poland and a good bit of Russia before being clobbered by Peter the Great at Poltava.
Scipio Africanus started his highly successful career in supreme command at the age of 25, his great opponent Hannibal assumed supreme command at 27. Scipio never lost a battle, and Hannibal lost only one.
The guy that plays McCoy nailed it.
As for the volume — I always bring ear plugs to the cinema.
Thanks. Star Trek was my favorite TV show during its first run, but I’m not much on ‘canon’.
However, I suspect the ‘misfit is a hero’ plot will drive me nuts, since Capt Kirk was NOT a misfit. He merely believed what I was taught in OTS: Regulations are made for the guidance of the wise, and strict adherence of fools.
That is sound advice...:)
Thanks for your service!
Yeah..., my only clue that it was from a Russian showing was some Russian lettering at the beginning and end... LOL...
I agree with every word of this review. The human equation has been lost. It’s Lost Trek now.
No sorry the best shows on television are now Burn Notice followed by Chuck. Lost is just a poor attempt at trying to be clever, but ultimately fails to entertain.
Excellent review. I agree.
The complete destruction of the Trek universe timeline was cheap and disgusting.
In the original “real” world of Star Trek, Kirk was the youngest man to ever make Captain - in his mid 30s! Now in La La Land of 2009, it is as a brawling 20-something punk.
It does not mess with the original time line. The original time line is eviscerated. Everything you have seen for the past 40 years... all the shows, movies, books... GONE. ALL GONE. Poof, like that.
Not totally, Spock prime is still alive, and Kirk prime could be in the Nexus, waiting to make a difference again.
Richard, that’s COOL! How did you do that little piece of fancy formatting that makes you “select to read the following”?
Regards,
It’s no big trick. Just do a command font color=”white” The font becomes invisible because the background’s white.
Neat! Thanks for the info.
Regards,
Or no backdrop screens at all ("The Empath"). Talk about minimalist...
I haven't seen this movie yet, but plan to.
I loved the old Star Trek, and the Next Generation. Voyager left me cold. But....
I'll duck because I know that what I am going to say next will get me flak:
The whole Star Trek premise, from its beginnings until now, was built on the idea a Socialist Utopia. Forget "one world government" -- this is "one universe government"!
The Federation is an intergalactic multi-world UN with military "teeth". No one in the Federation every talks about money, except the Ferengi and they are "greedy capitalists". No one comes from "a country", although main characters clearly had accents. Spock's "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few --or the one" is the antithesis of individual rights.
I've always been able to enjoy Star Trek purely as fantasy, because the life that they describe could never be -- it is a utopia. But I am not so sure that other people (especially kids) raised on it have been so unaffected.
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