Star Trek: Into Darkness
So, I watched Star Trek: Into Darkness. A review is in order, of course. I've never watched the original series nor read the novels. I didn't even watch the first movie (I was planning to, but I got ill in the middle of it because of my surgery and all). Nevertheless I read up a bit on Star Trek before the movie just to be fair, so I know the essentials.
This movie is clearly meant to be watched in 3D. I didn't choose 3D because I am a stingy frugal person but damn, the amount of debris and stuff flying around in the movie is almost ridiculous. So 3D would be really cool. Unless you're the kind that cannot stand such effects (then you'd probably walk away with a huge headache).
Unfortunately the plot was fairly underwhelming. It was rather predictable. The whole thing could actually have been made a little more suspenseful and less typical with a few changes and deleted scenes here and there, but sadly it was the way it was.
The whole thing about reviving Kirk from the dead with Khan's blood was painfully obvious. From the very moment when Bones took a blood sample from Khan to research his regenerative capabilities I smelled the possibility of a miraculous comeback from the afterlife. (In fact, some of you more astute viewers would probably have realised that from the moment Khan's blood cured the ill little girl in the beginning.) Then when Kirk went to expose himself to the radiation I immediately knew that he wasn't going to die because of Khan's blood. That took away a bit of the emotional impact of the Kirk dying scene. It still got me though, with the whole "Spock, I'm scared" and the emotions and feels and stuff, but I didn't cry. I would have if I didn't know Kirk was going to be okay, I know I would. It would have been a much more powerful scene then. Compared to this, the scene in the first movie where Spock's mother and the entire planet Vulcan died was much more tear-jerking (I managed to watch till there until I got ill).
*Backseat directing commences* They really could have improved the movie by cutting away a few scenes that made the whole Khan blood revival thing less obvious. For one, they could have cut away the bit where Khan draws blood from himself for the little girl. They should have just shown her dad adding a mysterious vial of red liquid to her drip without showing us that it was Khan's blood, making it more mysterious. And they shouldn't have Bones talking about investigating Khan's blood. It would have been better if the blood sample scene was a rushed, kinda procedural one, as if it is just common protocol for samples to be taken from prisoners, without any mention of regeneration at all. To subtly allude to the amazing powers of Khan's blood (because a good mystery must have clues) they could have shown a Tribble randomly running around (maybe tripping somebody up for comic effect?) after a very short scene of it randomly lying dead on a desk in the background, with Bones injecting a mysterious red liquid into it. Just like that, plain and simple. And maybe !flashback to the Tribble scenes when it finally strikes everyone that there is a way to revive Kirk. (Tribbles are cute by the way. I need one to be my pet. I totally approve of the inclusion of more Tribble scenes.)
Then again, I liked this movie because it was funny and the characters are just adorable. Witty one-liners? Check. Endearing characters? Check. SCOTTY <33333 SPOCK <33333 CHEKOV <33333 (These are my three favourites because they are the funniest.) I really like Spock though, funniness aside. He strives for logicality and the eradication of emotions but you can see that he really cares about his friends. He's not some uncaring robot and he is really heroic. Yes, from now on I'm going to delve into the Star Trek world because of pointy-ears. ;u;
I love Bennybatch, but for this movie he's like a Sherlock gone wrong. A deranged, mad Sherlock. Extremely intelligent and with an air of superiority but unfortunately unhinged, homicidal and very violent. I like Sherlock-like characters (of course, as a Sherlock fan) and I empathise with his anger but it's hard to believe that someone can be so crazy. EEEE but his voice <3 is unbelievably deep. (*slaps inner fangirl and shoves into nearby cupboard*)
Ah and the underwear scene. Goddammit why. It's not that I'm against the showing of nudity or fanservicing. (If so, I wouldn't be a fan of Game of Thrones). But such things have to make sense. Why on earth would an intelligent female weapons expert change in front of a man without telling him so and therefore running the very high risk of being exposed like that? Don't tell me there aren't any toilets on the USS Enterprise. This scene completely destroyed her character. She went from intelligent and possibly badass to a piece of female flesh on display. Besides the damage done to the character and the plot it also goes against feminism. Women are not dumb and not meant to be stupid displays for men!
If they really wanted to have fanservice they could have done it more logically, I'm sure. Take the Kirk bed scene. It was both logical and fanservice-y (ok maybe not fanservice-y enough cos it was damn short and almost nothing was on display and besides there were two naked cat alien ladies with tails so JJ Abrams don't bullshit us about it being a tradeoff for the underwear scene goddammit). It established that Kirk is a Casanova (which is logical because that is how his character is supposed to be), while at the same time showing some nakedness for the Kirk fans.
If there is going to be any real tradeoff for the underwear scene, I demand that all of Khan's clothes randomly fly off (cuz of space gravitational pulls or some bullshit, I don't care). The shower scene isn't a real tradeoff either because it makes sense for Khan to take a shower, he was totally covered in grime before that. It wasn't gratuitous, or at least not on the same level as the underwear scene. Besides, it was cut off at chest-level. Weak. Anyway it wasn't even in the movie (NOOOOO).
Overall it was a fun movie though. I might possibly watch it again, in 3D.
/wheee.
This movie is clearly meant to be watched in 3D. I didn't choose 3D because I am a stingy frugal person but damn, the amount of debris and stuff flying around in the movie is almost ridiculous. So 3D would be really cool. Unless you're the kind that cannot stand such effects (then you'd probably walk away with a huge headache).
Unfortunately the plot was fairly underwhelming. It was rather predictable. The whole thing could actually have been made a little more suspenseful and less typical with a few changes and deleted scenes here and there, but sadly it was the way it was.
The whole thing about reviving Kirk from the dead with Khan's blood was painfully obvious. From the very moment when Bones took a blood sample from Khan to research his regenerative capabilities I smelled the possibility of a miraculous comeback from the afterlife. (In fact, some of you more astute viewers would probably have realised that from the moment Khan's blood cured the ill little girl in the beginning.) Then when Kirk went to expose himself to the radiation I immediately knew that he wasn't going to die because of Khan's blood. That took away a bit of the emotional impact of the Kirk dying scene. It still got me though, with the whole "Spock, I'm scared" and the emotions and feels and stuff, but I didn't cry. I would have if I didn't know Kirk was going to be okay, I know I would. It would have been a much more powerful scene then. Compared to this, the scene in the first movie where Spock's mother and the entire planet Vulcan died was much more tear-jerking (I managed to watch till there until I got ill).
*Backseat directing commences* They really could have improved the movie by cutting away a few scenes that made the whole Khan blood revival thing less obvious. For one, they could have cut away the bit where Khan draws blood from himself for the little girl. They should have just shown her dad adding a mysterious vial of red liquid to her drip without showing us that it was Khan's blood, making it more mysterious. And they shouldn't have Bones talking about investigating Khan's blood. It would have been better if the blood sample scene was a rushed, kinda procedural one, as if it is just common protocol for samples to be taken from prisoners, without any mention of regeneration at all. To subtly allude to the amazing powers of Khan's blood (because a good mystery must have clues) they could have shown a Tribble randomly running around (maybe tripping somebody up for comic effect?) after a very short scene of it randomly lying dead on a desk in the background, with Bones injecting a mysterious red liquid into it. Just like that, plain and simple. And maybe !flashback to the Tribble scenes when it finally strikes everyone that there is a way to revive Kirk. (Tribbles are cute by the way. I need one to be my pet. I totally approve of the inclusion of more Tribble scenes.)
Then again, I liked this movie because it was funny and the characters are just adorable. Witty one-liners? Check. Endearing characters? Check. SCOTTY <33333 SPOCK <33333 CHEKOV <33333 (These are my three favourites because they are the funniest.) I really like Spock though, funniness aside. He strives for logicality and the eradication of emotions but you can see that he really cares about his friends. He's not some uncaring robot and he is really heroic. Yes, from now on I'm going to delve into the Star Trek world because of pointy-ears. ;u;
I love Bennybatch, but for this movie he's like a Sherlock gone wrong. A deranged, mad Sherlock. Extremely intelligent and with an air of superiority but unfortunately unhinged, homicidal and very violent. I like Sherlock-like characters (of course, as a Sherlock fan) and I empathise with his anger but it's hard to believe that someone can be so crazy. EEEE but his voice <3 is unbelievably deep. (*slaps inner fangirl and shoves into nearby cupboard*)
Ah and the underwear scene. Goddammit why. It's not that I'm against the showing of nudity or fanservicing. (If so, I wouldn't be a fan of Game of Thrones). But such things have to make sense. Why on earth would an intelligent female weapons expert change in front of a man without telling him so and therefore running the very high risk of being exposed like that? Don't tell me there aren't any toilets on the USS Enterprise. This scene completely destroyed her character. She went from intelligent and possibly badass to a piece of female flesh on display. Besides the damage done to the character and the plot it also goes against feminism. Women are not dumb and not meant to be stupid displays for men!
If they really wanted to have fanservice they could have done it more logically, I'm sure. Take the Kirk bed scene. It was both logical and fanservice-y (ok maybe not fanservice-y enough cos it was damn short and almost nothing was on display and besides there were two naked cat alien ladies with tails so JJ Abrams don't bullshit us about it being a tradeoff for the underwear scene goddammit). It established that Kirk is a Casanova (which is logical because that is how his character is supposed to be), while at the same time showing some nakedness for the Kirk fans.
If there is going to be any real tradeoff for the underwear scene, I demand that all of Khan's clothes randomly fly off (cuz of space gravitational pulls or some bullshit, I don't care). The shower scene isn't a real tradeoff either because it makes sense for Khan to take a shower, he was totally covered in grime before that. It wasn't gratuitous, or at least not on the same level as the underwear scene. Besides, it was cut off at chest-level. Weak. Anyway it wasn't even in the movie (NOOOOO).
Overall it was a fun movie though. I might possibly watch it again, in 3D.
/wheee.