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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Peregrinus: [QB] I'm personally a little chagrined and astonished to see how many people like this movie. Forgetting its Star Trek aspirations (which I can eviscerate at length, if asked), from a simple movie-making/storytelling standpoint, it sucks. Too much lens flare, exceedingly rapid editing. It seems to rely on dazzling the audience and throwing stuff at them too fast to process. The "score" is a series of short cues, mainly brassy flares. It became apparant very quickly that the composer didn't know what do do after thirty seconds of that and it just sort of trailed off until the next brassy blare. I forgot anything original that score might have contained as soon as I was out of the theatre. Nothing whistlable, as with Goldsmith or Horner. The villain was too undeveloped, in character and motivation. A moviegoer shouldn't have to rely on a tie-in comic prequel to explain who one of the main characters is. An entire necessary sequence around him was cut, and I don't know why. I won't give spoilers, but it leaves it to the audience to fill in that gap in the story. That's sloppy storytelling. The main character has no real arc or evolution. He starts callow and arrogant, and ends callow and arrogant and gets rewarded for it. There's no revelation, no maturation, no price paid for his reward. Time travel is a weak mechanic in any story, at best. When it's presence is a surprise, as in Lost In Space, it works for story reasons. When it's the main mechanic for everything that happens during the movie, it's too easy for it to break down -- especially when the wrong model of temporal/quantum mechanics is used. And they should have gne to the trouble to build an actual set for Main Engineering, instead of using a brewery with a couple of strategically-placed touchscreens and a big water pipe. That's hopefully not a spoiler, Masao. We see Engineering in trailers. My take on this film was that it was a tremendously fun roller-coaster ride, as long as one left their brain at home. I plan to see it again, if I get the chance, but I won't be too upset if I miss it before it leaves theatres. --Jonah [/QB][/QUOTE]
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