fanboy2000
Adventurer
It opens worldwide tonight. I'll be seeing it at 7pm PDT. I'm excited.
Rate the new Star Trek Film
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fanboy2000
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I know and I'm still jealous.
Knightfall
World of Kulan DM
"One of the best Star Trek movies ever made. This is right up there with Khan!"
10 out of 10!
10 out of 10!
I'll let you know tomorrow. I'm seeing it again with some friends who couldn't make (read: didn't score tickets to) the sneak preview.
fanboy2000
Adventurer
I'll let you know to. I'm seeing it with a couple of my players tomorrow morning.
I saw it last night, and it was great. First, the writers did a good job of bringing-up Star Trek lore. Second, Zachary Quinto does a good job of playing Spock at the beginning of the first series, merged with how Nimoy played him later on. I was shocked at how consistent it was previously established continuity, even given what I already knew about the plot. Anymore and I'll need spoiler tags.
I really liked how Quinto's Spock was different from the Nimoy's, but in a way that was consistent with the original character's history. Quinto's Spock is very much the road not taken, the Spock that made some different choices.
I also liked how Pine's young Kirk is pretty much the a-hole that you always suspected a young James T. Kirk would be.
Ahnehnois
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The actors were excellent. I bought Spock, Kirk was entertaining, most of the other roles were well-done. I wish there had been more McCoy; I didn't really feel the Kirk-Spock-McCoy 'triangle' which so defined the original. Checkov seemed more like a parody and the silliness was a bit of a distraction.
I didn't quite understand the machinations that brought Leonard Nimoy into the plot, but the general idea of time travel and its consequences is hardly new to Star Trek and I could at least buy that he was there and accept his role, which he handled with an appropriate blend of eloquence and humor.
The villain never really registered, and some of the action was a bit silly and overdone. The effects I didn't much notice, which is a good thing (in the same sense that in a sporting contest, if you don't notice the officiating, that's good). It also seems like they tried to cram a lot in and I suspect quite a bit was left on the cutting room floor. It was not as cerebral as one might hope, and you miss not having at least one ethical debate in a Trek movie. The score was disappointingly pedestrian. Not that it needed to be a copy of the original, but I expected grander, more operatic music (the music for some of the trailers actually worked better).
Those weaknesses aside, I found it to have walked the line between reverence and originality. The worlds were entirely believable, the characters understandable, and I was entertained. I could certainly imagine a great movie series coming out of this and I think almost anyone who sees it can find something to like.
I didn't quite understand the machinations that brought Leonard Nimoy into the plot, but the general idea of time travel and its consequences is hardly new to Star Trek and I could at least buy that he was there and accept his role, which he handled with an appropriate blend of eloquence and humor.
The villain never really registered, and some of the action was a bit silly and overdone. The effects I didn't much notice, which is a good thing (in the same sense that in a sporting contest, if you don't notice the officiating, that's good). It also seems like they tried to cram a lot in and I suspect quite a bit was left on the cutting room floor. It was not as cerebral as one might hope, and you miss not having at least one ethical debate in a Trek movie. The score was disappointingly pedestrian. Not that it needed to be a copy of the original, but I expected grander, more operatic music (the music for some of the trailers actually worked better).
Those weaknesses aside, I found it to have walked the line between reverence and originality. The worlds were entirely believable, the characters understandable, and I was entertained. I could certainly imagine a great movie series coming out of this and I think almost anyone who sees it can find something to like.
