Well, that's spoiled my cinema-going experience for life...
I saw Star Trek in 3D IMAX down in London this morning, and...wow. It was amazing. I mean, the movie itself, yes, but seeing it in IMAX was really something. I've never actually seen anything in IMAX before - it's so huge and loud and crystal-clear. I usually don't like 3D - I think it's a bit of a gimmick and I find it's hard to focus on action scenes, everything tends to blur - but 3D in IMAX really showcases the movie.
They killed Pike! *sobs* I had no idea that was coming - I was spoiled for the fact that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan after all (and how amazing and intense was his performance?), but that was about all I knew. So Pike's death was a real shock for me. I mean, I can understand why, in narrative terms - Kirk needed a personal loss to propel him; it's part of his journey to outgrow his mentor and really step up to the plate; and they couldn't very well take the Enterprise back off Pike if he was alive. But...
They killed Pike.
So, the Khan angle. I've said all along I didn't want them to do the Khan storyline, not because I'm so old-school or because I don't want them to tamper with the perfection of Wrath of Khan - I just feel that with this 'new' Kirk/Spock franchise they should tell new stories, not rehash old ones and inevitably raise comparisons with Shatner/Nimoy. So I was wary of the Khan thing.
And when I realised they were doing the ending of Khan, with the warp-core and the radiation and the glass chamber, when even the dialogue was the same in parts, it really raised my hackles. At first. But then, I don't know, I actually loved it, the way they acknowledged the links, they acknowledged Wrath of Khan, but they played with it, they flipped it. With Kirk admitting that he was doing what Spock would have done, what Spock did do once. I ended up loving what they did.
And Leonard Nimoy! Oh, how did they keep that quiet? I had no idea, and I did actually flail quietly in my seat when he appeared onscreen.
Watching this movie, it really brought home to me that I have been and always shall be a Trekkie. My heart just swelled about ten sizes at the scene when the Enterprise emerges from the water, with the music booming, all the epicness and grandeur. I love that ship, goddammit. I just beamed.
They should have had a scene after the credits, for the old-school fans. I mean, Bones' tribble was alive, and tribbles are born pregnant. They should have had a scene with sickbay just covered in tribbles and Bones being all, 'Jim? We have a problem here...' For me that would have been a perfect way to end the movie.
I'm going again tomorrow.
They killed Pike! *sobs* I had no idea that was coming - I was spoiled for the fact that Benedict Cumberbatch was playing Khan after all (and how amazing and intense was his performance?), but that was about all I knew. So Pike's death was a real shock for me. I mean, I can understand why, in narrative terms - Kirk needed a personal loss to propel him; it's part of his journey to outgrow his mentor and really step up to the plate; and they couldn't very well take the Enterprise back off Pike if he was alive. But...
They killed Pike.
So, the Khan angle. I've said all along I didn't want them to do the Khan storyline, not because I'm so old-school or because I don't want them to tamper with the perfection of Wrath of Khan - I just feel that with this 'new' Kirk/Spock franchise they should tell new stories, not rehash old ones and inevitably raise comparisons with Shatner/Nimoy. So I was wary of the Khan thing.
And when I realised they were doing the ending of Khan, with the warp-core and the radiation and the glass chamber, when even the dialogue was the same in parts, it really raised my hackles. At first. But then, I don't know, I actually loved it, the way they acknowledged the links, they acknowledged Wrath of Khan, but they played with it, they flipped it. With Kirk admitting that he was doing what Spock would have done, what Spock did do once. I ended up loving what they did.
And Leonard Nimoy! Oh, how did they keep that quiet? I had no idea, and I did actually flail quietly in my seat when he appeared onscreen.
Watching this movie, it really brought home to me that I have been and always shall be a Trekkie. My heart just swelled about ten sizes at the scene when the Enterprise emerges from the water, with the music booming, all the epicness and grandeur. I love that ship, goddammit. I just beamed.
They should have had a scene after the credits, for the old-school fans. I mean, Bones' tribble was alive, and tribbles are born pregnant. They should have had a scene with sickbay just covered in tribbles and Bones being all, 'Jim? We have a problem here...' For me that would have been a perfect way to end the movie.
I'm going again tomorrow.