I went with some friends to see the new Star Trek movie. Going in, I was intensely skeptical but also excited. I mean, new Trek! But new Trek directed by JJ Abrams, whose work I generally detest, and who has asserted his lack of Trekkie-ness with a consistent and disappointing fervor that reminded me of Evan Lysacek's consistent and disappointing
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And I need more Sulu.
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They wasted John Cho almost as much as the old show wasted George Takei.
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...If that guy had those ideas about a show now, he'd just put them on the internet.
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How was the music? I lurved Michael Giacchino's score for The Incredibles.
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I don't really pay attention to movie scores, so I'm the wrong person to ask about that.
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Wish I'd seen it with a bigger crowd - all 10 of us were Trekkies, I could tell by the muted applause through the movie - but I hate crowds.
I'll have to see it again on a big screen and then buy the DVD. The score was so good, I stuck around through the end credits. I'm too much of a musical snob to buy soundtracks, but I would like to have this movie on DVD (partly for the score).
S/U, I still don't like it, but meh, okay. Wildcat was right all along.
Trek lives. Although they did their best, those bastards Berman and Braga couldn't kill it after all. Hooray for everyone!
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They did have to reboot it into an AU to save it from Berman and Braga. But it survived.
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I might see it a third time, in IMAX.
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