I haven't seen the new movie yet, but I'm also not sure I'm going to be seeing it at all, so I went ahead and browsed your post. I agree with everything you said about what made the first Wrath of Khan a decent film -- the fact that Kirk is wrong and has to pay for it. (It's what I liked about The Search for Spock, too. Yeah, Kirk does get Spock back. But he has to give up his rank, become a criminal, and even sacrifice the Enterprise to do it.) I'm not surprised to hear that the new movie fails to make Kirk really face any consequences. That sort of thing is just the reason I couldn't stand the first reboot: they've gone and made Kirk even more of an arrogant asshole than in the original series, and then tried to make him even more infallibly awesome at the same time. The result, at least from my point of view, is a character who is not even remotely likable
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The not-smart-ness was pretty evident in the first reboot film, so that doesn't surprise me, though it continues to disappoint me. Not that the original series was all that smart, but the episodes/movies were at least generally trying to say something. My impression of the reboot films is that they're really nothing but flashy colors and action sequences.
Yeah, that's really all they are. Action films set in space. They're perfectly watchable if you turn your brain off, but they don't have anything to say or any reason to exist beyond capitalising on people's nostalgia. It's kind of weird, really. I think Star Trek produced some good stories, but if anything it could be over-earnest - sometimes preachy. They smack you in the face with their themes, and then just in case you missed the point they shout them in your ear as well. These movies reuse old lines, images and sometimes whole scenes ... which make no sense when lifted out of their thematic structure. I didn't think it was possible to miss the point in a Star Trek story, but
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Yeah, that's really all they are. Action films set in space. They're perfectly watchable if you turn your brain off, but they don't have anything to say or any reason to exist beyond capitalising on people's nostalgia. It's kind of weird, really. I think Star Trek produced some good stories, but if anything it could be over-earnest - sometimes preachy. They smack you in the face with their themes, and then just in case you missed the point they shout them in your ear as well. These movies reuse old lines, images and sometimes whole scenes ... which make no sense when lifted out of their thematic structure. I didn't think it was possible to miss the point in a Star Trek story, but ( ... )
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