sort of a similar type situation
L and I went to see Star Trek Beyond yesterday afternoon and I enjoyed it immensely. Not just because it was about EIGHT MILLION TIMES better than Into Darkness (the awfulness of which I recently had reconfirmed as my dad watched it while I was with him on vacation; what an absolute clusterfuck of a movie), but also because BONES. *hearteyes* McCoy was always my favorite and Karl Urban is great at playing him, but he really hasn't had much to do, until this movie, so that was good for me. And also JAYLAH. I would watch a trilogy of movies about her at Starfleet Academy, no lie.
I'm not sure Idris Elba's motivations made any sense, but afterwards, L and I decided that he'd just gone space-crazy from being abandoned, watching his crew die, and pumping himself up with alien steroids/the life force of other sentient beings etc. so we could handwave it.
I also couldn't understand one word in three that Scotty said, but I think that might still be my left ear not being up to snuff, because I heard everything else fine. *hands*
I liked that it was a movie about Kirk and Spock both grappling with their place on the Enterprise/with Starfleet/in the universe - they're not hotshot young kids anymore and I like that it was addressed. Also the specter of their various losses - George Kirk and the whole of Vulcan (and Spock Prime) (though I thought their moms could have gotten a little more attention. I'm just saying.). I did like that as a result of the Kelvin-Narada disaster, there are now escape pods for the bridge crew right up on the bridge. Such a thoughtful, subtle bit of worldbuilding.
I liked that we finally got some McCoy-Spock interaction and as I said, that McCoy finally got to do stuff (though apparently at the expense of Uhura, who was much less prominent this time around), and also that it played into all my Kirk/McCoy SPACE BOYFRIENDS feels: having drinks alone together in Kirk's quarters, wearing matching outfits at the end, when McCoy throws Kirk the surprise birthday party, McCoy reaching out to Spock not only for himself but on Kirk's behalf, McCoy flying that ship to Kirk's rescue at the end. ♥BONES♥
And also as much as I adore "Sabotage" as a song, it felt ridiculous in the first movie, but here it was BRILLIANT. SO GREAT. Way to take a wtf moment from earlier and turn it into a FUCK YEAH moment down the line.
I loved that picture of the original TOS crew in Spock Prime's things. Oh heart.
You couldn't pay me to live on that space station though. I want a nice solid planet beneath my feet when alien ships start strafing the place. *shudders*
Lastly, so now are Grunberg and Pegg the only two actors who've been in both Star Trek and Star Wars (live action; I know George Takei and Brent Spiner did voice work on the Star Wars cartoons)?
So that was a fun summer movie. I mean, I always fall on the Wars rather than the Trek side of Star things, though having grown up with it, I'm familiar enough with Trek, but you know, for what it's worth, I enjoyed it a lot. The trailers were SO DIRE though. All these manly white* men doing manly man things. Not even Cobie Smulders could get me to sit through that Jack Reacher movie, and everything else they advertised looked just as terrible.
*Even the trailer for the movie about Roberto Duran was from the POV of the Robert DeNiro character!
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I'm not sure Idris Elba's motivations made any sense, but afterwards, L and I decided that he'd just gone space-crazy from being abandoned, watching his crew die, and pumping himself up with alien steroids/the life force of other sentient beings etc. so we could handwave it.
I also couldn't understand one word in three that Scotty said, but I think that might still be my left ear not being up to snuff, because I heard everything else fine. *hands*
I liked that it was a movie about Kirk and Spock both grappling with their place on the Enterprise/with Starfleet/in the universe - they're not hotshot young kids anymore and I like that it was addressed. Also the specter of their various losses - George Kirk and the whole of Vulcan (and Spock Prime) (though I thought their moms could have gotten a little more attention. I'm just saying.). I did like that as a result of the Kelvin-Narada disaster, there are now escape pods for the bridge crew right up on the bridge. Such a thoughtful, subtle bit of worldbuilding.
I liked that we finally got some McCoy-Spock interaction and as I said, that McCoy finally got to do stuff (though apparently at the expense of Uhura, who was much less prominent this time around), and also that it played into all my Kirk/McCoy SPACE BOYFRIENDS feels: having drinks alone together in Kirk's quarters, wearing matching outfits at the end, when McCoy throws Kirk the surprise birthday party, McCoy reaching out to Spock not only for himself but on Kirk's behalf, McCoy flying that ship to Kirk's rescue at the end. ♥BONES♥
And also as much as I adore "Sabotage" as a song, it felt ridiculous in the first movie, but here it was BRILLIANT. SO GREAT. Way to take a wtf moment from earlier and turn it into a FUCK YEAH moment down the line.
I loved that picture of the original TOS crew in Spock Prime's things. Oh heart.
You couldn't pay me to live on that space station though. I want a nice solid planet beneath my feet when alien ships start strafing the place. *shudders*
Lastly, so now are Grunberg and Pegg the only two actors who've been in both Star Trek and Star Wars (live action; I know George Takei and Brent Spiner did voice work on the Star Wars cartoons)?
So that was a fun summer movie. I mean, I always fall on the Wars rather than the Trek side of Star things, though having grown up with it, I'm familiar enough with Trek, but you know, for what it's worth, I enjoyed it a lot. The trailers were SO DIRE though. All these manly white* men doing manly man things. Not even Cobie Smulders could get me to sit through that Jack Reacher movie, and everything else they advertised looked just as terrible.
*Even the trailer for the movie about Roberto Duran was from the POV of the Robert DeNiro character!
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