A dramatic space-opera and prelude to the Star Trek continuity, this recent Trek film doesn’t pay homage, like the series of predecessors, to the original show, but completely embodies the series of characters and the universe in which they live without wasting time away from the plot, which weaves very finely between campy and complex… as I watch the years wind into another age for my own generation to dominate, I can see that film has once again entered a status of quality and appreciation that was almost completely lost in the Star Wars prequels and Tim Burton’s Batman.
MUSIC: Nothing to rave about, but very moving at times.
ACTING: Spot-on, without a cinch of wasted potential. The characters were fully realized and used apropriately, as most expected them to be abused and sodomized.
SPEC-FX: Amazing. I’ve seen some big-ship effects, but this movie really does it for me the way The Motion Picture did when I first saw it. And the no-pitstop-for-you attitude on alien species who appeared whenever made the feeling of the atmosphere seem natural to the actors, if you understand what I mean.
Right now, I’m knee deep in my own sweat and snot, shirtless and senseless, so whatever trash comes out of this is… trash… I guess.
SCRIPT: A thoroughly compelling story WITHOUT plotholes! Holy Hell, I expected something borderline magic-god-machine to fly out of Kirk’s ass the way it did in Wrath of Khan, and I am far more eager to follow this new Romulan villain rather than a fully developed (and slightly interesting) one from the original series.
To think of how great a Khan movie could have been… had it not been made until… well, it’s not like we can go back in time.
What was also great about the plot of the script is that it doesn’t RELY on what people got from the show, like Khan does. An audience can go right into the film head-first, and understand everything, because it’s a fresh start for all of these characters.
Watchoo say 'bout mah mama?
I certainly hope that… well… it’s been a long time waiting for a science-fiction film like this to come along, for me, and I have the deepest and sincerest hopes that my generation can develop a greater sense of understanding to the appeal of the genre. Sci-Fi doesn’t have to have a community anymore, does it? With the information age just beginning, aren’t we all a step closer to understanding that the scientific elements of the fictional stories are just… excuses for getting the idea across? Maybe this and other exemplary films in the future can encourage a revival of Sci-Fi youth enthusiasm that came with Star Wars and got fat watching the same damn movies over and over again until they miraculously bred a generation of wise-ass little shits who “rebel” by refusing to watch anything with “star” in the title.
Watch the fucking movie.
