![]() I don’t know why so many people online think that Star Trek 2 is the best movie. Looks more like a summer blockbuster than a story strong on ideas (which is what I love about Trek).Īs to your taste in Star Trek movies, I have to say I strongly disagree. I’ll probably see the new one (I’m a huge fan of Star Trek, particularly TOS), but I’m not in a hurry. Now this group is blowing up the Enterprise, AGAIN? Not very original and very predictable. Not this same tried crutch again… Hell, Abrams already used the destroy Vulcan crutch in place of good writing. When they got to the place where they were blowing up the Enterprise, it kind of turned me off. I haven’t seen the new film, but I did see the ads for it. My last hope for decent TREK is the new CBS streaming series in 2017. I’ll agree it’s better than the first two crappy Abrams films….but the most mediocre thid-season of the Original Series would still put this turkey to shame. That’s NOT my childhood hero James Kirk! ANd that’s the message about space exploration I want to hear from TREK!!! I couldn’t get past Pine’s Kirk actually being BORED with space exploration and wanting to QUIT as captain of the Enterprise. And we’ve seen the poor old Enterprise destroyed and re-built in these movies so many times it’s now become more of a joke than a shock or loss. i didn’t care about any of the characters and I didn’t get the villain’s motivation. “Zippy” action scenes (and there are plenty of such set pieces in this film) are only exciting if you care abut the context in which they are displayed. And this is coming from a life-long TREK fan, since discovering the series via daily re-runs in the early seventies. I just got back from the movie and thought it was dull as heck. Scalzi……but I have to strongly disagree with you here. I like this cast and I like this version of Trek. It also makes me excited that the next Star Trek film has already been greenlit. It’s not the best Star Trek film (still Wrath of Khan), but it is the best third Star Trek film, handily beating Search for Spock and Star Trek: Insurrection by a far stretch. But it is a zippy, fun time at a summer movie, competently and cleverly done, and in a summer of ponderous and ponderously long films, one that warps in, gets its business done in two hours and warps back out feels like a winner. This is not a great film, or one that will held up as a highwater mark of science fiction cinema. And for me it was the right amount - enough to know it’s there and important, not enough that you feel like you’re being lectured by a tiresome hippie uncle. The second is that as it happens Beyond is the Kelvin-era film that most overtly signals in the direction of that Trek ethos, both in what it says and what’s on screen. ![]() As a viewer I don’t actually want the Roddenberry Moral Sledgehammer. The first was that while that ethos was and is laudable, Roddenberry was as subtle about it as a sledgehammer, which is why TOS episodes sometimes now play like Very Special Episodes where learning happens (some TNG episodes play that way too, notably in the first couple of seasons). One complaint I do hear from longtime Trek fans is that the new Trek films don’t give enough lip service to Gene Roddenberry’s humanistic ethos, and I have a couple of thoughts on that. And it works - the movie zooms, the script is good, and the nods to the previous timeline are brief and fitting. They’ve written a new one for this film, gave Simon Pegg co-screenwriting duties and let Justin Lin (previously of the Fast and Furious franchise) do his thing. It was pretty decent! With the exit of Abrams, Kurtzman and Orci as director and screenwriters, respectively, the series appears to have made the executive decision that they don’t need to rehash previous plotlines.
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