My thoughts exactly ...
PvP's Scott Kurtz wrote a blog entry about why he was moved by and enjoyed the new Star Trek movie so much ... and really, except for his specific memory, it's very much the same for me. My thoughts exactly, Mr. Kurtz.
For me, I always watched Star Trek with my mom. It would be on in the afternoons and she and I would watch Dr. Who and then it and then she'd make us dinner. When ST:TNG started up, we watched that together, too. When I broke my arm falling on the sidewalk out front trying to teach a friend how to rollerskate, I was told to put ice on it - if it still hurt after we had dinner and Star Trek was over, then we'd go to the hospital. Yeah, I had to wait and it still hurt, but at least I got to see the show before leaving to get a cast put on my arm.
Mom said that she really fell out of watching the 'newer' Star Trek series because they became too much about the technology and the jargon for her. I think in some ways what she meant is, after TNG, it had lost that comfortable feeling, something in the chemistry and the way it was constructed. Not just in having exciting adventures, but having a group of characters that you really cared about having those adventures.
This new Star Trek is a lot of things. It's different, there's a different chronology, things change as they must when you try to reinvent something, in my opinion. If you don't change something, then it turns out like when they remade Psycho ... Who decided that was a good idea? Seriously?? Shooting it exactly the same and I mean exactly the same, but since it wasn't the same actors and the same director, it just became a bland version of a masterpiece, like a watered-down copy of Starry Night. This isn't that. Not that it's a masterpiece, I'm just saying, it's not a recreation. It's ... something else.
I don't know, I suppose everyone will feel one way or another about it, but in my opinion, I loved it. It was quite apropos that I took my mom to see it on mother's day. I felt like a kid again, in a way, watching it with her next to me, whispering to each other excitedly throughout and probably bugging all the people around us. If they make another film, I'd watch it. If they made a series with the same cast, I'd probably be on cloud nine, not that that's going to happen. Even if they just leave it at this, I'm just pleased that they made it at all. Very pleased.
For me, I always watched Star Trek with my mom. It would be on in the afternoons and she and I would watch Dr. Who and then it and then she'd make us dinner. When ST:TNG started up, we watched that together, too. When I broke my arm falling on the sidewalk out front trying to teach a friend how to rollerskate, I was told to put ice on it - if it still hurt after we had dinner and Star Trek was over, then we'd go to the hospital. Yeah, I had to wait and it still hurt, but at least I got to see the show before leaving to get a cast put on my arm.
Mom said that she really fell out of watching the 'newer' Star Trek series because they became too much about the technology and the jargon for her. I think in some ways what she meant is, after TNG, it had lost that comfortable feeling, something in the chemistry and the way it was constructed. Not just in having exciting adventures, but having a group of characters that you really cared about having those adventures.
This new Star Trek is a lot of things. It's different, there's a different chronology, things change as they must when you try to reinvent something, in my opinion. If you don't change something, then it turns out like when they remade Psycho ... Who decided that was a good idea? Seriously?? Shooting it exactly the same and I mean exactly the same, but since it wasn't the same actors and the same director, it just became a bland version of a masterpiece, like a watered-down copy of Starry Night. This isn't that. Not that it's a masterpiece, I'm just saying, it's not a recreation. It's ... something else.
I don't know, I suppose everyone will feel one way or another about it, but in my opinion, I loved it. It was quite apropos that I took my mom to see it on mother's day. I felt like a kid again, in a way, watching it with her next to me, whispering to each other excitedly throughout and probably bugging all the people around us. If they make another film, I'd watch it. If they made a series with the same cast, I'd probably be on cloud nine, not that that's going to happen. Even if they just leave it at this, I'm just pleased that they made it at all. Very pleased.