Star Trek Beyond
Is there a colon in the name? Is there not a colon? Whatever.
I think basically my favorite thing about this is that Sulu was gay now.
Okay, I'm not being fair. It was better than Into Darkness. But that's not really hard. And the various tributes to TOS and Spock were sweet. And there were some great character moments (Spock & McCoy especially, and Scotty because I think Simon Pegg tried to give himself some good lines, and I really liked Jaylah and am very sorry they broke her house) and I appreciated how pretty much everyone had something to do in the plot. That was nice.
But the action scenes were really not my thing. I felt they were paced badly and went on too long (especially the initial Enterprise crash on the planet), and I just... I don't really like when Star Trek is about shooting things. I mean, my favorite Star Trek movie is the one where no one shoots anyone! At all! And I get that they kept insisting that Starfleet was not a military organization but I buy this a lot more in the main universe, and not in this universe where they really seem to keep having massive fights. I see that they were trying for the spirit of optimism and hope nonetheless, and I like that, but maybe they could also have a movie with more diplomacy and less shooting. Maybe? Fine, no.
Also I could not understand a single word out of Idris Elba's mouth. I could mostly piece together what he must have said by the responses he was getting but whatever weird echoey filter they had on him was really not working for me.
Though, hey, points for defeating the enemy with "Sabotage," I guess -- I didn't even remember it had been used in the first Reboot movie until Kirk's line.
Now I just kind of want to watch the TOS movies. And, uh, work on my Cap-IM Big Bang which is a TOS fusion. (I was considering reboot but I like the original universe better, clearly. So I might as well write my fave, right?)
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I think basically my favorite thing about this is that Sulu was gay now.
Okay, I'm not being fair. It was better than Into Darkness. But that's not really hard. And the various tributes to TOS and Spock were sweet. And there were some great character moments (Spock & McCoy especially, and Scotty because I think Simon Pegg tried to give himself some good lines, and I really liked Jaylah and am very sorry they broke her house) and I appreciated how pretty much everyone had something to do in the plot. That was nice.
But the action scenes were really not my thing. I felt they were paced badly and went on too long (especially the initial Enterprise crash on the planet), and I just... I don't really like when Star Trek is about shooting things. I mean, my favorite Star Trek movie is the one where no one shoots anyone! At all! And I get that they kept insisting that Starfleet was not a military organization but I buy this a lot more in the main universe, and not in this universe where they really seem to keep having massive fights. I see that they were trying for the spirit of optimism and hope nonetheless, and I like that, but maybe they could also have a movie with more diplomacy and less shooting. Maybe? Fine, no.
Also I could not understand a single word out of Idris Elba's mouth. I could mostly piece together what he must have said by the responses he was getting but whatever weird echoey filter they had on him was really not working for me.
Though, hey, points for defeating the enemy with "Sabotage," I guess -- I didn't even remember it had been used in the first Reboot movie until Kirk's line.
Now I just kind of want to watch the TOS movies. And, uh, work on my Cap-IM Big Bang which is a TOS fusion. (I was considering reboot but I like the original universe better, clearly. So I might as well write my fave, right?)
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