Star Trek Movie
Warning: You may consider this to contain spoilers. If you are really picky about that. Like I am.
We finally made time to go see the Star Trek movie. Actually, I kinda wanted fresh popped popcorn for dinner, and that theater makes good popcorn. And it was getting harder and harder to avoid spoilers.
People who had seen it had said mostly good things. One said that we would be blown away. My opinion: s'okay. I wasn't terribly impressed, but I wasn't disappointed either. I guess I was just whelmed.
Perhaps my unimpressedness is my own problem. Early in the movie, I got so stuck in the "that's not right" mindset that I had trouble getting involved. Continuity breaks with the original Star Trek universe. "That's not how that happened." "That time line is wrong for the ages to work." "That gizmo wasn't used then; they used this other gizmo instead." Geeky bits.
Of course there were explanations. The Star Trek universe -always- has explanations. Varieties of weneedium and curesitall abound. Little girl who remembers watching the original episodes was still bouncing in her seat, whining "that's not right". I am, after all, the idiot who notices when the hand placement of an actor doesn't match from master to close-up, or when an author changes a character's, um, anything.
Is it worth a trip to the theater? If you watched the first episodes of Next Generation with distain because it was not The Original, wait until the movie is on cable. If you can suspend your preconceptions and go along for the ride, get that fresh popped popcorn, lean back and enjoy.
We finally made time to go see the Star Trek movie. Actually, I kinda wanted fresh popped popcorn for dinner, and that theater makes good popcorn. And it was getting harder and harder to avoid spoilers.
People who had seen it had said mostly good things. One said that we would be blown away. My opinion: s'okay. I wasn't terribly impressed, but I wasn't disappointed either. I guess I was just whelmed.
Perhaps my unimpressedness is my own problem. Early in the movie, I got so stuck in the "that's not right" mindset that I had trouble getting involved. Continuity breaks with the original Star Trek universe. "That's not how that happened." "That time line is wrong for the ages to work." "That gizmo wasn't used then; they used this other gizmo instead." Geeky bits.
Of course there were explanations. The Star Trek universe -always- has explanations. Varieties of weneedium and curesitall abound. Little girl who remembers watching the original episodes was still bouncing in her seat, whining "that's not right". I am, after all, the idiot who notices when the hand placement of an actor doesn't match from master to close-up, or when an author changes a character's, um, anything.
Is it worth a trip to the theater? If you watched the first episodes of Next Generation with distain because it was not The Original, wait until the movie is on cable. If you can suspend your preconceptions and go along for the ride, get that fresh popped popcorn, lean back and enjoy.