Star Trek (The Movie)

[windemere]

Now that I firmly have all your attention, I'm serious. Carson Bloody Beckett. Except without the accent. ::sighs::

I was determined to hate this movie. I don't hate it. I am kind of approaching worryingly close to loving it. I suck as a Trekkie. I should be banned from conventions forevermore.

I liked the music (all dramatic and theme!), I loved the special effects, I liked that the ensign in red died, I loved the dialogue (Bones and Scottie especially), I loved Karl Urban (who seems to be getting younger), I loved when Leonard Nemoy showed up even though I knew it was coming, I even liked Sylar (honestly, even with pointy ears he's still Sylar) because he did it well, I liked the massive lack of sex (oh irony), I loved Pike, I loved the ship, I liked how the costumes were all 1960s inspired, I loved the shiny ship (it needed repeating), I even kind of was okay with who they cast as Kirk but that might be because he's pretty, I liked that Eric Bana can not look like Eric Bana, I loved when random characters showed up in the most ingenious ways (Scottie), I loved the entire 30 seconds that Paul McGillion was on screen and not just because Carson was on screen in the movie which was Star Trek (beat that every other SG actor!), and I adored the ship. :)

I disliked some of the casting (::cough::Sylar::cough::), I hated that the villian was one-dimensional and had the oldest reason in the book for commiting genocide, I hated the Time Continuum because really, I hated how the end didn't rewind itself but left everything screwed up (for the franchise), and I found the slow motion shots didn't always work as well as someone thought they would.

Balancing wise...well, you can add that up yourself. Honestly, if this is the future (the recent past being Enterprise after all) I can live with it. But see it on the big screen, because it's going to suck on a TV.

Comments

My spoilers here.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I am in love with Simon Pegg now. That accent always manages to make me weak in the knees.
Karl was, in my opinion the one that did the best job of re-creating the his character. I think he must have locked himself in a tiny room and watched OT episodes for about a month or something. Dr. McCoy was my favorite character in OT and so I was expecting to hate what was done with him but I didn't. Great job, Karl!
I thought the cast did really well in most respects. The actress playing Uhura was good but they gave her very out-of-character things to do. If any of it bothered me, character-wise, it was that performance. She was very out-of-character for me. You do not get all touchy and kissy with the Vulcans! (You may want to, but you don't.)
While I know every Sci Fi sooner or later goes with the time-travel thing and Star Trek has done in many, many, uncountable times, I think JJ Abrams did a Kobayashi Maru on all of us. He reprogramed ST so he could win!

I liked the film but I do have issues with his complete changing of history and blowing up Vulcan! Still, maybe he plans to fix that in the next film. I just know he's going there.

Re: My spoilers here.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's definitely going there; we shall have to wait and see!

Yes, Uhura bothered me too. And Karl did not. :D

I kept waiting for time to reverse itself at the end (yeah, okay, too much DW for me!), and was disappointed when it didn't. But it means more movies, so maybe it's a draw.

Re: My spoilers here.

[grey-wonderer.livejournal.com]

I just hope he doesn't blow up a planet with each new film.

The other films just kept blowing up the Enterprise which was bad enough, now we have whole worlds going up.


Love you icon by the way.

Re: My spoilers here.

[eldanna.livejournal.com]

I just hope he doesn't blow up a planet with each new film.

Well, at least it's different. ;)