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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nim: [QB] Well, I've finally seen it and have had a lot of catching up to do in these threads. My major impressions: the tempo of the whole feature was incredible, I haven't felt this pumped when leaving a theater in a long time. I actually liked Giacchino's music, it wasn't as Horn-section patriotic as Hans "one-trick pony" Zimmer, and yet not as syrupy-sweet or chirpy as Danny Elfman. Overall the soundtrack was pretty intense, conveying the desperation and soberness of the plot events for most of the time. It felt consistent with the music quality of LOST (which I think is above-average for a TV show). The composer also exercised self-restraint regarding the many humurous scenes of the movie, not ruining them with silly-tunes or a trumpet going wah-wah-waah ("my ass functions like a floatation device"), again just like "LOST", where humor segments are allowed to stand on their legs and work on their own merit without being played off. Nod to Psyliam: I was very thankful for the solemn grounding the movie got from the opening scene, I got a lot out of it. The very fine line mommy Kirk was balancing on, trying to work with that unbearable acceptance and letting go, it was tough there. George's "Tiberius" gag was funny and at the same time made it all feel worse, since he wanted to distract her and make her feel better. I knew the special effects would be ice cream, but the new, crisp take on Warp entry was unexpected, and nice. Some might dislike the brevity of the sequence, but I appreciated the angle that if you go ftl you go [i]FTL[/i]. To the person who disliked the new ship phasers, I agree somewhat but at the same time it seemed to me like the beams behaved differently in different parts of the film, in accordance with variable charge, yield and spread that was probably available to the federation ships, and I thought some of the phaser volleys from the Kelvin were impressive. Also, I've long ago accepted that every Trek movie so far changes the phaser/torpedo effects from that of its predecessor, which is nice. The new photon-launcher sound was fresh, and accurately enough it didn't feel nearly as powerful as the Ent-E's quantum torpedo action, just as it should be. Also, the torpedoes themselves seemed to be the same kind of blue-white as the one the Enterprise used against that asteroid in TMP. I enjoyed the slow, battleship-like maneuvering of the Enterprise through the debris field of Vulcan, reminded me of her handling in the TWOK nebula, elegant and purposeful. Also, the USS Roger Young + asteroid in "Starship Troopers". What also reminded me of TWOK was when the Enterprise micro-jumped into the fluffy rings of Saturn or Titan or whatever, and then broke cover slowly, very much like the moments before the endgame-volley in the nebula of TWOK. Was there anyone more than me here that at first thought the red ice monster was the Clover-species from "Cloverfield"? Obviously it had a different face and was 20 times smaller than Clover, but there was a part of me that wanted it to be the real deal, like the Alien-skull in "Predator 2". I liked what they did with the Brainbug ([i]Speculum Montalbanus[/i]), they should've done that mode of insertion in TWOK too, imo. Scared the crap out of some of the girls in the audience, they even stopped texting. If there is a weak point in the movie it's the speedy "future-events" exposition by Spock, I wish we'd been shown the future events as they happened, with Year 2387 starships thrown in, but at the same time I recognize what twenty minutes of that (instead of two) would've done to the budget. From one thing to another, the sheer amount of punishment Kirk got in this movie was staggering. Like some director said in Empire magazine (paraphrased), "We must remember that actors take the job to receive attention, and for that they must be forever punished". Kirk suffered more than in any other movie, and he wasn't even the kind of kickboxer he is in TSFS or TFF. It was good for the balance in the movie. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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