JJ Abrams VS Star Trek
All right guys, this wanna-be Trekki's back from the newest Star Trek movie.
Directed by JJ Abrams.
Featuring "Heroes"'s mass murder psychopath.
Yeah.
The bad stuff:
- Kirk: Overdrawn, terribly bad written character. You cannot tell to me that Starfleet as it was established in 5 TV series and 10 movies would ever reward a character like that, leave alone let him command one of their finest vessels. This young version of James T. Kirk was a mass-conglomeration of cliché-work and exaggerated rebellion that went beyond what the Star Trek universe can accept as their Captains.
- Kirk, again: Chris Whats-his-name was not the actor to be casted as young Kirk. He has a face that I, personally, could watch on cinema screens 10 hours+ and would still not be able to remember afterwards. The actor had none of William Shatners character and presence. Okay, this was about the young Kirk who would yet have to grow up and develop a certain "aura" if you will, but there was still so much lacking. JJ worked with so many brilliant, young, talented, yet widely unknown actors in his TV shows - why didn't he bring in one of them?
- JJ vs. Science. Communication before black holes. 80mph car races and certain stunts afterwards. JJ versus time traveling! ARGH!. There were so many mistakes in this movie ... And the ones I listed here are the ones an average girl with a fashion design education could spot. Now let my brother who studies Space and Aircraft Science see this movie ...I don't wanna begin to imagine what list he'll bring on.
- Uniform. First: the colors. Science and medical is blue! All right? Not: "all guys on bridge are blue". And then red. Or black. Or blue again. Ugh! Zero points for whoever came up with that. Be it a bunch of Starfleet recruits or not, there's gotta be a color scheme to this, at least after they changed clothes when they were ordered to the Enterprise.
Second: The design. Dear people, please! those are Starfleet Official Uniforms. Not your academy homewear department. Thin raglan shirts with pipings as the sole decoration in microfiber sportswear style (in blue! XD)? Oh dear Goddess of all that's design...
- Romulans. With tribal tattoos. And this is all I have to say to that.
- Haha, funny -,-*. Mostly horrible attempts of comic relieve. Spock says "fascinating" when a chair turns 'round automatically? Yes. Sure.
- Where did Canon go? - Blew up Vulcan. Killed Spock's mom. Oh, and blew up Romulus too. All this puts the existing canon into the trash can. But then again, there will be a sequel, so that matter's still open to discussion I guess. (what with JJ and his obsessions with time traveling lately ...)
The good stuff:
+ Spock: Fantastic casting for the young Spock. Zachary played brilliantly. Also very well written character. Very canon, very credible also in favor of his later actions and behavior.
+ Leonard Nimoy. ♥ ♥ ♥
+ Core crew. Bones, Sulu, Chekov were really very much OK too. Scotty ... was a border case.
+ Vessel design: Veeeeery nice design, IMHO. They managed to melt the original 60s design with the new, 21st century design to a credible display of the Enterprise.
+ Tech. Technical and other Trek-specific terms and their use thereof was OK as far as I can tell. Good work on the translation [into German], too.
+ Vulcan... ...and her inhabitants were nicely done. The landscape, the people, the outfit designs; especially the school and other architecture shown in the movie.
The can't-decide-stuff:
-/+ Uhura. First, I thought she was too pretty for that role. Then she gradually grew in my favor and I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to think about her and Spock (the fangirl in me goes one way, the Trekki and canon-bitch the other way).
-/+ Cpt. Pine. Only character worthy to be called a Starfleet vessel captain in this movie. But then again, he probably was the only character with a mental age over 20. And then again that wasn't probably what it was all about, now was it.
Summa summarum? - It was a movie for the masses. Not for Trekkis. But we saw that coming, didn't we.
Directed by JJ Abrams.
Featuring "Heroes"'s mass murder psychopath.
Yeah.
The bad stuff:
- Kirk: Overdrawn, terribly bad written character. You cannot tell to me that Starfleet as it was established in 5 TV series and 10 movies would ever reward a character like that, leave alone let him command one of their finest vessels. This young version of James T. Kirk was a mass-conglomeration of cliché-work and exaggerated rebellion that went beyond what the Star Trek universe can accept as their Captains.
- Kirk, again: Chris Whats-his-name was not the actor to be casted as young Kirk. He has a face that I, personally, could watch on cinema screens 10 hours+ and would still not be able to remember afterwards. The actor had none of William Shatners character and presence. Okay, this was about the young Kirk who would yet have to grow up and develop a certain "aura" if you will, but there was still so much lacking. JJ worked with so many brilliant, young, talented, yet widely unknown actors in his TV shows - why didn't he bring in one of them?
- JJ vs. Science. Communication before black holes. 80mph car races and certain stunts afterwards. JJ versus time traveling! ARGH!. There were so many mistakes in this movie ... And the ones I listed here are the ones an average girl with a fashion design education could spot. Now let my brother who studies Space and Aircraft Science see this movie ...I don't wanna begin to imagine what list he'll bring on.
- Uniform. First: the colors. Science and medical is blue! All right? Not: "all guys on bridge are blue". And then red. Or black. Or blue again. Ugh! Zero points for whoever came up with that. Be it a bunch of Starfleet recruits or not, there's gotta be a color scheme to this, at least after they changed clothes when they were ordered to the Enterprise.
Second: The design. Dear people, please! those are Starfleet Official Uniforms. Not your academy homewear department. Thin raglan shirts with pipings as the sole decoration in microfiber sportswear style (in blue! XD)? Oh dear Goddess of all that's design...
- Romulans. With tribal tattoos. And this is all I have to say to that.
- Haha, funny -,-*. Mostly horrible attempts of comic relieve. Spock says "fascinating" when a chair turns 'round automatically? Yes. Sure.
- Where did Canon go? - Blew up Vulcan. Killed Spock's mom. Oh, and blew up Romulus too. All this puts the existing canon into the trash can. But then again, there will be a sequel, so that matter's still open to discussion I guess. (what with JJ and his obsessions with time traveling lately ...)
The good stuff:
+ Spock: Fantastic casting for the young Spock. Zachary played brilliantly. Also very well written character. Very canon, very credible also in favor of his later actions and behavior.
+ Leonard Nimoy. ♥ ♥ ♥
+ Core crew. Bones, Sulu, Chekov were really very much OK too. Scotty ... was a border case.
+ Vessel design: Veeeeery nice design, IMHO. They managed to melt the original 60s design with the new, 21st century design to a credible display of the Enterprise.
+ Tech. Technical and other Trek-specific terms and their use thereof was OK as far as I can tell. Good work on the translation [into German], too.
+ Vulcan... ...and her inhabitants were nicely done. The landscape, the people, the outfit designs; especially the school and other architecture shown in the movie.
The can't-decide-stuff:
-/+ Uhura. First, I thought she was too pretty for that role. Then she gradually grew in my favor and I don't exactly know what I'm supposed to think about her and Spock (the fangirl in me goes one way, the Trekki and canon-bitch the other way).
-/+ Cpt. Pine. Only character worthy to be called a Starfleet vessel captain in this movie. But then again, he probably was the only character with a mental age over 20. And then again that wasn't probably what it was all about, now was it.
Summa summarum? - It was a movie for the masses. Not for Trekkis. But we saw that coming, didn't we.