Just watched latest STAR TREK film

Deep · 20 Nov 2009 at 23:07

Fishfingers said:
Am gong to be watching Terminator: Salvation over the weekend at some point, seeing as I love I & II but was physically sick when watching that pap of a film number III, will I be in for tears of joy or jeers of hate?

Hate, oh so much hate

memyselfandi · 20 Nov 2009 at 23:10

I liked it when I saw it in the cinema ... and I suspect I'll be given the blu-ray for Christmas.

I would consider myself as a casual fan of the previous films/series ... I've seen the films, some a few times, and some of the series but I don't know things in enough detail to comment on the cannon-ness of the film.

I would say that if you don't know Star Trek then it's a pretty good sci-fi film and you'll just miss a few of the "in" jokes but still enjoy it.

sunama · 21 Nov 2009 at 00:16

I quite enjoyed this movie. It had me on the edge of my seat.

I've watched quite a few films this year.
Top3:
Star Trek
District 9
Drag Me To Hell.

Bottom3 have to be:
Funny People
Transformers2 (worst film this year, by quite some margin)
GI Joe

I don't like the shaky cam at all, however, I felt the film kept moving along at a nice pace without slowing down.

Flibbles · 21 Nov 2009 at 00:19

Shakey cam was tolerable but jesus wept, lens flare city or what! :<

I'm a die-hard trekkie so I went to see it on the big screen on the first day of release; certainly a film you want to watch at the cinema or failing that, a frickin huge TV.

sunama · 21 Nov 2009 at 00:22

Flibbles said:
I'm a die-hard trekkie so I went to see it on the big screen on the first day of release; certainly a film you want to watch at the cinema or failing that, a frickin huge TV.

Or a home cinema front projection system

Splewis · 21 Nov 2009 at 00:29

You could tell the director was the same guy who did lost because of the shaky camera hollywood style of filming. Loved all the ship interiors and the CGI, the story wasn't that strong and it wasn't true at all to Star Trek style but overall it was enjoyable.

8/10.

Eddie · 21 Nov 2009 at 02:36

I've just finished watching it myself and thoroughly enjoyed it.

It was good to get a sort of insight into how they all got together prior to the very first series.

I quite liked their choice of actors too; I thought they got Kirk spot on. The only one I wasn't 100% happy with was Scottie, but that'll be due to knowing him from all sorts of other things I suppose. I wonder why they didn't get a Scot to play it though.

MarcLister · 21 Nov 2009 at 11:52

Robbie G said:
Not sure about the LN cameo though.

Just be thankful we didn't get a WS cameo as well! LD

Dano said:
The only part I disliked in any great measure was the kid Kirk and the whole car sequence, the rest was pretty darn good.

Yeah. That was utter rubbish. Couldn't understand it. Got this on Bluray so as mentioned there's probably the cut out scenes which would explain this more but as it was in the film that car scene is just utter rubbish and doesn't add anything to the storyline for me. They could have completely removed that and extended the bedroom scene by another minute or two.

sunama · 21 Nov 2009 at 12:38

MarcLister said:
...that car scene is just utter rubbish and doesn't add anything to the storyline for me.

I think what they wanted to show is right from a very young age, James Kirk was a naughty, unruly boy who never followed the rules. As he grew older (the bar fight scene), his attitude never changed. They wanted to show this.

The car scene was a little boring, however, it was so short, it's no biggy.

MarcLister said:
They could have completely removed that and extended the bedroom scene by another minute or two.

I'm totally against showing sex scenes in movies. They bore me. If I want to be titilated, then I can download hardcore porn from the internet, where the women are beautiful and they go "all the way". When I watch a movie, I want to be entertained, not titilated.

MarcLister · 21 Nov 2009 at 13:31

sunama said:
I think what they wanted to show is right from a very young age, James Kirk was a naughty, unruly boy who never followed the rules. As he grew older (the bar fight scene), his attitude never changed. They wanted to show this.

It was obvious what they were trying to do there. I just don't think they did it very well. I thought they only did that scene so that some good luck colleague of J J Abrams could be in the film.

(He was the stepfather young Kirk nicked the car from.)

sunama said:
The car scene was a little boring, however, it was so short, it's no biggy.

It might have been a short sequence but it was the part of the film I really didn't like. Either expand on it a bit more to make it more part of the film or remove it totally.

sunama said:
I'm totally against showing sex scenes in movies. They bore me. If I want to be titilated, then I can download hardcore porn from the internet, where the women are beautiful and they go "all the way". When I watch a movie, I want to be entertained, not titilated.

Well it wasn't really a sex scene was it? I think that bedroom scene was similar in intention to the stolen car scene; to show Kirk's attitudes and behaviours.

Gadge · 21 Nov 2009 at 13:36

loved it. loved shaky cam. loved extreme motion blur. 5/5!

Dano · 21 Nov 2009 at 22:42

sunama said:
I think what they wanted to show is right from a very young age, James Kirk was a naughty, unruly boy who never followed the rules. As he grew older (the bar fight scene), his attitude never changed. They wanted to show this.

The car scene was a little boring, however, it was so short, it's no biggy.

That much was obvious, it was the way it was filmed that was so poor, there are things in films that we are expected to believe could happen without knowing any better and I'm fine with that but I did not for one second beleive that a kid of that size would have been able to drive that car in such a manner, it stunk of over the top action stunts which in the context failed utterly for me and just made me want to rip the entire scene to shreds.

Curunen · 21 Nov 2009 at 23:20

I finally watched it a few days ago.
I quite enjoyed it, but as others have said in this thread - as a standalone film, not putting it together with past star trek films. The guy who played Kirk did it nicely IMO. He had that mix of being a little full of himself, charm, and brains.
Chekov was a little overdone, the guy could have toned it down a bit, but funny nonetheless.
Yeah the only question mark really is Scot. When I saw the name in the credits, for a fleeting moment I thought it was a comedy.

.:MBK:. · 22 Nov 2009 at 04:05

didnt seem too bad a film in its own right, and ILMs cheeky little R2 cameo gave me a smirk, im easily amused i guess

Mr.Fantastic · 22 Nov 2009 at 05:10

Watched is afew weeks ago when i had a free night, thought is was an excellent film to watch from start to beginning.

I really felt that Zachary Quinto (Sylar from heroes) was the best actor during the hole film, it was a really big step up from a tv actor to fill in the shoes of a big name character like Spook but he did not put one step wrong in my eyes.

9/10

Calabi · 22 Nov 2009 at 12:23

Thought it was rubbish throughout. Its rewritten the history of star trek so much it hardly bares any resemblance to the original.

Its has all the hallmarks of lots of action films now where its so over the top and so sustained that none of it stands out, I doubt people will remember much of it later on.

The story is so over the top, that where do they go from there. You would have thought after Enterprise they would have given up with the time travel rubbish. The technology is so perfect and flawless. There was about a hundred million coincidences. The plot was childish, as if they had to fit all these things/markers in and it doesnt matter if it doesnt make any sense or hold together, the audience wont care.

Mark0 · 22 Nov 2009 at 14:49

I used to watch Star Trek when I was a kid. The movie is very different from the series which was not "action packed". The series was much more intellectual and philosophical. But I loved this recent movie. It was fun to see how they all might have landed in Star Fleet. I want to see it again.

Liquidfox · 22 Nov 2009 at 16:21

Calabi said:
Thought it was rubbish throughout. Its rewritten the history of star trek so much it hardly bares any resemblance to the original.

Its has all the hallmarks of lots of action films now where its so over the top and so sustained that none of it stands out, I doubt people will remember much of it later on.

The story is so over the top, that where do they go from there. You would have thought after Enterprise they would have given up with the time travel rubbish. The technology is so perfect and flawless. There was about a hundred million coincidences. The plot was childish, as if they had to fit all these things/markers in and it doesnt matter if it doesnt make any sense or hold together, the audience wont care.

Like many people have said, this wasn't meant to be for the fans, it was meant to appeal to the people who'd never seen it before. Which i think it did a good job of doing.

dante6491 · 22 Nov 2009 at 16:31

The deleted scenes on the Blu Ray edition expand both the car scenes and the the bedroom scene. If they had been included it would have been a lot better.

sunama · 22 Nov 2009 at 17:08

Liquidfox said:
Like many people have said, this wasn't meant to be for the fans, ...

I've noticed that the hardcore fans can never be satisfied and they will always find fault. I actually can't remember any film where the hardcore fans were satisfied.