The new Star Trek movie is...

[Mallus]

See to me Trek isn't big budget action movies.

This is only because ST:TMP was a commercial failure and the studio scaled back their plans for the franchise (until quite recently).

Trek has been about exploring human society and motivations.

True, but it's also about several winning sets of characters, none better than the original, who met the challenges of a dangerous universe with commingled optimism, humanism, smarts and chutzpah. The new film does this part well.

If people like big budget action movies there are plenty to choose from, why does Trek need to be one of them.

My feeling is so long as they get the characters right, by all means make an action-packed big-budget Trek film (hint: they just did!).

 

[Pbartender]

See to me Trek isn't big budget action movies. Trek has been about exploring human society and motivations.

Why can't it be both?

 

[Pbartender]

By the by...

J. J. Abrams was on the Colbert Report last night.

 

[Blastin]

Question for those who have seen it: The only way I will get to go this weekend is if I drag the younglings along (4yo and 6yo). Anything too horrid? They love all the star wars movies/superhero movies so big action is not a problem.

 

[Panthanas]

Question for those who have seen it: The only way I will get to go this weekend is if I drag the younglings along (4yo and 6yo). Anything too horrid? They love all the star wars movies/superhero movies so big action is not a problem.

I'm in the same boat, with about the same age range.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Mallus]

Question for those who have seen it: The only way I will get to go this weekend is if I drag the younglings along (4yo and 6yo). Anything too horrid?

It's a very tame PG-13. Fist fights, phaser shootouts, explosions, a (quick) stabbing or two. The 'brief sexual content' is a scene between Kirk and an Orion cadet, both in their underwear. Oh, and we get to see James T. Kirk being born, in a non-graphic but awesomely appropriate sequence.

Come to think of it, I can't believe this film got the same rating as The Dark Knight. Further evidence that the MPAA ratings board is staffed by crazy people...

 

[Jack7]

Me, personally, I've been a big fan of the original series since the first airing.
Probably one of the few television series I've ever been a fan of.

But I really could care less about the timelines and that kind of thing. I just want it to be like the original series in the depth of the storylines, and in the interesting character development.

I also don't want to see the original ship as far as how the bridge looked and that kind of thing. That was back in the sixties, it would look ridiculous nowadays. Yes, she was beautiful lady back then, and always has been, but hairstyles and dress modes change. Just make her long of leg, and give her a bright star to steer her by.

As for when Kirk did what or when Khan led the new eugenics movement, to me, well, hell, that's all just fiction anyways. It's not like it's a fact to argue over. It's just a fictional paradigm about a less than probable future. If something better comes along then I'm not married to it or nothing.

Better she be true to me than true to the past.

 

[Blastin]

mallus, thanks for the answer. Sounds like we should be fine.

 

[Thanee]

Awesome Movie!

Hopefully they will make a few sequels following up on the (slightly) new storyline.

Bye
Thanee

 

[DonTadow]

Eh, I've been waffling and after hearing Abrams last interview I've decided not to see it. I have no doubt it is going ot be anamazing movie, full of the stuff i like in summer movies. But, like he said, he didn't make a trek movie. He made a movie he would want to see. And I can't possibly support a movie that kills off every character I love about the current universe. (or i guess old universe now).

I'm with the person wh osaid startrek was always about good storyteling, and I've yet to hear anything that sounds like a new story. This sounds like a retred of First Contact with explosions.

Evel being goes back in time. Being has weaponry more powerful than the current time line. Enterprise crew beats them.