New Trek Film

[Del Lardo]

Originally Posted by Pumpkinstew

The script lurches from giddy strokes of genius to awkwardly contrived plot device.

I think you've just put your finger on what bothered me about the film. Quite simply the story line isn't good enough for the cast, special effects and cinematography which are brilliant. Still for a first attempt it is still damn fine and leaves the door open for a fantastic sequel.

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I couldn't help feeling that the whole time travel thing was just an excuse to get Leonard Nimoy into the film.


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[Mondo]

Thin plot but very entertaining experience. I judge by how good a movie is from how often and how long before i start looking at my watch. I didn't look at it once during this movie, says it all really, it captivated my attention through out, and that's what movies are supposed to do. I don't care if it's not a Oscar winner, 2 hours flew by and that's all it matters.

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that red ball thing looks just like the one in Alias ! Also a J J Abram project !

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Forgot to add, it was BEAUTIFULLY shot !

[Pumpkinstew]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

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I couldn't help feeling that the whole time travel thing was just an excuse to get Leonard Nimoy into the film.


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I think it was mostly a bloody clever way of hitting the reset switch and the Nimoy bit just dropped out of that. It was chucking Kirk off the ship that things started to unravel for me.



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[Garp]

Originally Posted by Del Lardo

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I couldn't help feeling that the whole time travel thing was just an excuse to get Leonard Nimoy into the film.


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It's a whole massive "Everything Has Changed! We can do what we like" thing. That's part of why the discussion about how Kirk was born came into the conversation with Spock. Not only have they rebooted the franchise, they've rebooted the universe pretty much from the moment Nemo's ship arrived in their time stream, onwards. All canon stuff from that moment on goes out of the window, only Star Trek: Enterprise stuff counts.


Even then, there were a few daft things. e.g. the reference to Admiral Archer and his dog. Kirk was born nearly 80 years after the date of the last episode of Enterprise, so it's not the Archer we know, nor the dog we know. Unless he's stupidly old. Makes it a pointless reference then, would have been better to chose another random name instead.

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I loved the film, great fun, Spoiler Alert! - Highlight below to read!

but time travel, again? Seriously? It's getting to be a really, really old and tired plot device

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[Toby]

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Yes but it's served them so well in the past, i.e. Trek IV and VIII

I did also think the way they rebooted the whole universe was epic. You start off wondering how they're going to "undo" the destruction of Vulcan and then slowly start to realise that they're NOT! Brilliant!


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[Mark]

Watching Star Trek from space. Who'd have thunk it...

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/st...star_trek.html

I still haven't seen it.

[Mark]

I have seen it now.

Realised I'd better JFDI before it disappears off the screens, so I took the afternoon off, abused the free bus pass and went to see it.

I think I was a bit overwhelmed. As someone who has been a fan of the Trek universe for nearly 20 years now there were enough differences (intentional, of course) to confuse me. I think it'll take a second viewing to get my head around it properly.

Still enjoyable though.