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To: lewisglad
Too much "Cloverfield." Not enough "Lost."

A constantly moving jittery camera does not help either the acting or the plot. Just hold the stupid thing still, so we can see what's going on!

43 posted on 05/09/2009 8:20:30 PM PDT by Dajjal (Obama is an Ericksonian NLP hypnotist.)
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To: Dajjal

Yeah, I didn’t like the camera work too much, but there were one or two moments where they did the ‘everyone leans over in their chairs and the camera shakes a bit’ thing that happened every time the Enterprise got hit by a phaser or whatever in TOS - to me, that was one of the little things that made this movie so awesome. Although, we didn’t need any more “Lost”, if the plot was any more complicated I think nobody would understand it.

And, I’ve got to admit, I was raised on the original series, and had very high expectations and, while I knew the movie would not entirely stick to canon, wanted it to be extremely close. And, I was satisfied - it wasn’t really about the plot, it was about the characters which were PERFECT (especially McCoy! I don’t have words for how amazed I am at Karl Urban’s performance here) and the explanation for the alternate timeline, including the references to the ‘other’ universe that was clearly the TOS one, was satisfactory for me.


64 posted on 05/11/2009 8:14:04 AM PDT by Hyzenthlay (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
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