"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."
So anyone who knows me, knows it takes forever for me to get around to seeing a movie. The hearing problem means I don't go to movie theaters much -- the last movie I saw in an actual theater was Plan Nine From Outer Space (courtesy of Rifftrax) and before that? Superman Returns. And I dunno, I never seem to get around to Netflixing movies very often.
What I'm saying is, I just (finally) watched the Abrams Star Trek movie.
I'm too tired to do a detailed writeup but I will say I liked it. Good job from the cast, filling roles almost impossible to fill. Good job from effects, showing us the Star Trek world in a way they've never been able to before. Good job from the writers, giving just enough shoutouts without being a hailstorm of constant references. Good job from the director, though a little over-reliant on shakycam. And good job from the entire huge horde of people that make a movie possible.
My nerd cred was in full evidence, the kind of references I picked up on. [Uh ... mild spoilers ahoy?] I disapproved of the way Kirk defeated the Kobayashi Maru test, because I know the way he originally beat it -- a much more Kirklike way. I noticed one of the songs was credited to "Cyrano Jones". I noticed the warp core ejection looked totally different. And I chuckled when I saw they picked the most common of Uhura's first names. Fuck yeah, I'm a nerd.
Okay, since someone's gonna bring it up anyway -- yeah, the previously non-canon pairing did seem pretty tacked-on, and not something you'd really get away with on the bridge of a military vessel. I can see why they put it in, but I think the character points could have been handled differently.
What I'm saying is, I just (finally) watched the Abrams Star Trek movie.
I'm too tired to do a detailed writeup but I will say I liked it. Good job from the cast, filling roles almost impossible to fill. Good job from effects, showing us the Star Trek world in a way they've never been able to before. Good job from the writers, giving just enough shoutouts without being a hailstorm of constant references. Good job from the director, though a little over-reliant on shakycam. And good job from the entire huge horde of people that make a movie possible.
My nerd cred was in full evidence, the kind of references I picked up on. [Uh ... mild spoilers ahoy?] I disapproved of the way Kirk defeated the Kobayashi Maru test, because I know the way he originally beat it -- a much more Kirklike way. I noticed one of the songs was credited to "Cyrano Jones". I noticed the warp core ejection looked totally different. And I chuckled when I saw they picked the most common of Uhura's first names. Fuck yeah, I'm a nerd.
Okay, since someone's gonna bring it up anyway -- yeah, the previously non-canon pairing did seem pretty tacked-on, and not something you'd really get away with on the bridge of a military vessel. I can see why they put it in, but I think the character points could have been handled differently.