Caporegime
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Surprised so many liked it, I thought pretty much the entire cast was ****, both in acting quality and presence, the "are you kidding" from the captain made me laugh in how woefully it was delivered.
None of the characters were good, they were all basically unprofessional and rubbish at their jobs. Captain decides to send two whole people into a Klingon ship, it's such predictable twaddle.
The thing that most peeved me off was the JJ Abrams camera work, the first scene on the planet seemed relatively normal until the utterly stupid 'signal' but 15 seconds after being on the bridge we were already on cut 38, of 642, for just that 2 minute scene. Also, for absolutely no reason, half of the shots were at an angle for absolutely no reason. I despise directors who randomly decide shooting things from an angle is 'cool', or that cutting 14 times in 2 seconds is good work somehow.
I thought the space battle was actually thoroughly disappointing, it had very little outside action, there was a flurry of them pretty much just standing opposite but then it was all one ship shots, very little movement and, meh.
Yeoh.... has always been basically a terrible actress, she's just an action star in films that never required good acting but casting her in a world where she has to speak english and it makes zero sense she wouldn't be able to speak perfect english is crazy. You've got the girl who grew up on Vulcan and the actual alien who both speak better english than the captain who lives in a future in a federation where she's spoken English her whole life.
Things that really grated were things like "retreat is not an option now", of course it is. If backing off stops a war from killing billions, of course it damn well is. There was no sense in the story, it was just poorly written throughout, poorly acted by most of the federation crew, speaking a fake language made the Klingons seem comparatively good in that sense.
Production values, great, the actual quality of shots, the bridge, the ships, all fantastic, it's about time we had a star trek series properly make a modern looking Star Trek..... but how they showed it was a joke, awful camera work, awful direction, awful jump cutting. That first bit on the bridge was so bad I instantly compared it to Taken 3 and Catwoman.
I'm two episodes in to a new Star Trek series, having been a star trek fan for life, and I'm hoping none of the crew are in any future episodes.... that isn't a good start to any show.
None of the characters were good, they were all basically unprofessional and rubbish at their jobs. Captain decides to send two whole people into a Klingon ship, it's such predictable twaddle.
The thing that most peeved me off was the JJ Abrams camera work, the first scene on the planet seemed relatively normal until the utterly stupid 'signal' but 15 seconds after being on the bridge we were already on cut 38, of 642, for just that 2 minute scene. Also, for absolutely no reason, half of the shots were at an angle for absolutely no reason. I despise directors who randomly decide shooting things from an angle is 'cool', or that cutting 14 times in 2 seconds is good work somehow.
I thought the space battle was actually thoroughly disappointing, it had very little outside action, there was a flurry of them pretty much just standing opposite but then it was all one ship shots, very little movement and, meh.
Yeoh.... has always been basically a terrible actress, she's just an action star in films that never required good acting but casting her in a world where she has to speak english and it makes zero sense she wouldn't be able to speak perfect english is crazy. You've got the girl who grew up on Vulcan and the actual alien who both speak better english than the captain who lives in a future in a federation where she's spoken English her whole life.
Things that really grated were things like "retreat is not an option now", of course it is. If backing off stops a war from killing billions, of course it damn well is. There was no sense in the story, it was just poorly written throughout, poorly acted by most of the federation crew, speaking a fake language made the Klingons seem comparatively good in that sense.
Production values, great, the actual quality of shots, the bridge, the ships, all fantastic, it's about time we had a star trek series properly make a modern looking Star Trek..... but how they showed it was a joke, awful camera work, awful direction, awful jump cutting. That first bit on the bridge was so bad I instantly compared it to Taken 3 and Catwoman.
I'm two episodes in to a new Star Trek series, having been a star trek fan for life, and I'm hoping none of the crew are in any future episodes.... that isn't a good start to any show.
