Star Trek Movie Comments

[AnnieBW]

Just got back and IT ROCKED MY SOCKS OFF!!! Everyone really nailed it. It's truly what Gene would have done, given today's special effects technology.

[Staph]

1. I saw it at the 7:00 PM show tonight.

As I walked out of the theatre, I asked my friends when we were going to see it again this weekend.

It totally rawked! I'm an old school Trek fan, going back to TOS. But I love the way they created the magic reset button that will allow them to start all over again. Zach Quinto is awesome as Spock, but I really loved Karl Urban as Bones. He doesn't look like DeForest Kelly, he doesn't have the twang of Kelly (though his speech cadences are perfect), but somehow he captured the essence of our favorite doctor.

[wyldwolf]

2. I saw it at 7PM last night. Here are my thoughts

Each and every actor hit a home run. Although Quinto makes an excellent Spock, Pine IS Kirk.

The special effects were top notch. The events of the opening scene genuinely effected me emotionally - my wife cried.

Perhaps a little too much humor - even though it all works. It was obvious to me JJ Abrams is a fan of Star Wars with the introduction of a new character (bad!) Someone on the film crew obviously was influenced by the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica (good!)

A couple of the plot devices were a little too convenient but forgivable considering the results they led to.

All in all, the best Trek ever.

I'll give a full review later.

[YankeyMCC]

3. It's good to hear so many positive comments

I got my tickets to see it tomorrow with my son at a local Imax theater. :)

[sonias]

4. I can't wait

I'm going to see it in IMAX tomorrow.

:woohoo:

Sonia

[Deja Q]

5. Gene's been dead for nearly 20 years. Sitting through that flick; he'd be spinning in his grave.

Well, his ashes are floating in space in a vial that's spinning. So now it's spinning 5 times as fast.

Gene was about ideas, concepts, and the human condition. Not a vapid wham-bam action movie that mocks the material it is borrowing.

Sci-fi is supposed to be complex. Any sci-fi storyline that "makes sense" to mass audiences has to be more vapid and brain-dead than Britney Simpson Duff Cyrus Hilton while drunk. Because sci-fi was never supposed to be simplstic or easy to understand.

:shrug:

[wyldwolf]

6. in other words, if the great unwashed likes it, it can't be any damn good.

:shrug:

[YankeyMCC]

7. IMHO Mr Roddenberry's vision was

to tell a good story.

Yes he recognized that a good story typically dealt with ideas and examining the human condition and how society and circumstances shape us and how we react to it but like all good authors/story tellers he just wanted to tell a good story.

I'm sure he could've tweaked this story a bit and maybe made it even better in my opinion but I enjoyed this story, the characters were very well done, perhaps better than Gene did, and I would be surprised if he would've objected very much about this incarnation.

[and-justice-for-all]

8. Saw it on IMAX....It was something the franchise needed...badly.

it was a breath of fresh air into an historic series; a film franchise that had gone stale. Being a fan of the films, I was quite happy with what Abrams had done with Star Trek and being that it was back story, it made it all the better.

Fantastic flick, extremely well done and very enjoyable. Looking forward to the next one, which they already booked the studio for before this one was released.

[scubadude]

9. Here are my feelings on this film, it stunk.

I saw this movie with my wife on the Imax.

This movie was just another weak, silly time travel story. It was utterly filled with plot holes and the special effect used to cover them up. I thought the characterizations were particularly bad. Spock as an overly emotional, sex ridden adolescent. Scotty as a weak always wise cracking caricature of the wry but respected Chief Engineer. Jim as a downright disrespectful brat who rises up because of it. Uhuru over sexed and not demure at all.

It seems like any film with incredible special effects is above scrutiny. It also seems that fans of the series loath criticism and cannot be objective.

I think the best character was Johnathan Pike, perhaps McCoy also.

No fanboy here, just my opinion as a fan of Science Fiction and Star Trek. Sorry, I thing it stunk.

I've been watching Star Trek since I was 6 years old and love science fiction.

Blade Runner is still the epitome of Science fiction for me. Tough and gritty, with no huge plot holes or reliance on time travel.


Scuba