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I held off coming here to see reactions because I know this is probably the most anal Trek board I visit (not a bad thing in itself, guys). If anyone was going to be sensetive to the minutiae without a thought for the overall experience it was going to be people here. And yet, overall, the reaction is positive! Wonders never cease, JJ must have done something right after all.
Overall I liked the movie, very entertaining with enough nods to the fans without it becoming distracting to non-fans and without Kirk turning into Zapp Brannigan. My likes and dislikes, in no particular order...
Liked McCoy, overall CGI effects, the revamped designs of old favourites, 2 x Spock, hot Uhura & green chick, red shirt bites it on away mission, Kirk slouching in chair, alternate timeline get-out clause, classic music at end.
Disliked Kirk starts and ends an arrogant dick and least resembles the original, reliance on coincidence of cosmic proportions, standard Romulan mining vessels are humungous nightmarish ships with incredible armament.
Honorable mention has to go to Pegg as Scotty, for not making a complete hash of the accent. As a Scotsman, hearing a fake Scots accent does my head in and stands out a mile. Pegg wasn't half bad, although he'd get a kicking in a pub if he tried it here.
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quote:Originally posted by Axeman 3D: I held off coming here to see reactions because I know this is probably the most anal Trek board I visit (not a bad thing in itself, guys).
Really? I find this board to be a lot nicer than Trekbbs.
Of course, that doesn't keep me from going to Trekbbs.
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I really didn't like Engineering on the Enteprise.
All those industrial vats... full of what?
The Star Trek Engineering sets have always been fantastic sets - I think the pinnacle may have been in First Contact... but the Engineering set or lack of one in Star Trek XI was a disappointment.
I also really liked Karl Urban's work as McCoy. It was just... right!
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@ HerbShrump - I didn't mean the people on the board were assholes, the TrekBBS could win there, but that more minute nitpicking/disecting/categorising goes on here.
The engineering set was a bit of a shocker, particularly if you've ever seen the awful film Space Mutiny (MST3K'd a while back) which appeared to be filmed entirely in a brewery too.
I think they were trying to go more retro than the last films, but swung a little too far south of the TNG style sets which were basically computer centers with a nice lava lamp in the middle. A middle ground between the two would have been more believable, with lots of computers controlling lots of reactants and liquid stores, etc. I'm also not a fan of huge open spaces in spacecraft, where space and weight would no doubt be at a premium. It's good to build in room for new tech and some growth, but not by leaving massive gaps.
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In a word, the movie sucked. I'm still shocked with how many fans are duped into liking it, or thinking that it was a Star Trek movie.
Apparently the reboot is todays Hollywood, and apparently dropping random references to popular elements of Star Trek was enough to appease "fans". sad.
quote:In a word, the movie sucked. I'm still shocked with how many fans are duped into liking it, or thinking that it was a Star Trek movie.
Apparently the reboot is todays Hollywood, and apparently dropping random references to popular elements of Star Trek was enough to appease "fans". sad.
Poop on Abrams.
Q.E.D, Axeman 3D.
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quote:In a word, the movie sucked. I'm still shocked with how many fans are duped into liking it, or thinking that it was a Star Trek movie.
When people make extremely general, usually baseless comments like this, without any sort of argument to back it up, the post is usually ignored, or at best ridiculed. Welcome to Flare. Now, if you want to give specific, well-thought-out reasons why you feel this way, like Mighty Monkey of Mim did, we'd pay more attention to you.
quote:Apparently the reboot is todays Hollywood, and apparently dropping random references to popular elements of Star Trek was enough to appease "fans". sad.
Apparently you know nothing of how Hollywood works. Hollywood "reboots" things all the time, and they've been doing it ever since they came into existence. And there were hardly "random references" dropped in this movie. If you want random references, go watch the first three seasons of ENTERPRISE.
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Back to engineering sets: The problem is they built such a lovely bridge set - the engineering set - the second most important set just came up as... well... crap.
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Yes everyone says so, then again you can look at it from a producer's point of view: how many scenes and total stagetime was spent in engineering? Compared to the bridge (with Kelvin bridge scenes added, as they probably used the same one)?
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