By: Trace Furniss

Trace Furniss — Sat, 23 May 2009 04:12:57 +0000

Alright, Cooper…while I agree with some of your ‘nitpicking’, I think there’s a little too much ripping going on. I’ve heard the line about this one deviating too much from the other movies and such, BUT…I don’t see it that way. Putting myself in the ‘Trekkie’ mindset…J.J. didn’t change history, the ROMULANS changed history! I thought this was a terrific way to open up a whole new direction for Star Trek! If you’ve followed some of J.J.’s other creations (LOST, Fringe), which I’m sure you have, you’ll notice that he’s deeply into the ideas of time travel & alternate realities. Well, for me, this one showed how the Romulans time traveling adventure changed the reality as we knew it…just as one example, putting Spock in the limelight instead of Kirk (Spock owned this movie!). But like all J.J. shows, particuarly LOST, no matter how much rearranging of the past/present/future is done, destiny still brings the same people together…thus the same Enterprise crew that would have come together if circumstances hadn’t change, remain the same. And backing up a little bit, just when everything seemed to be spinning outta control, the elder Spock puts Kirk (and us!) back on the path…although, I could have done without the giant CG creatures on the ice planet (liked the dog/wolf creature, but the other was a bit much). Yeah, it was a bit convenient for Spock to do that, but…I think it works. Anyway, as you can see, I’m a HUGE J.J. fan…and I’m not sure anyone else could have successfully pulled it off without such vision. But back to Star Trek…my honest opinion is that after it’s all said & done, this will be the best action/sci-fi film of the year…YES, better than Terminator Salvation (which I just saw), and ‘easily’ better than the soon to be released Transformers 2 (can you believe I just said that?!). And I’ll wrap this up by saying, I better see Klingons in the next movie!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 06:04:14 +0000

That’s funny cause the more I started writing about it the more I found things to nitpick. Like Tim Burton’s “Sweeny Todd,” I’m going to have to put some distance between this one and myself so I can let the things I don’t like go and see it fresh. The upside is that I love “Sweeny Todd” now and I have a feeling the same thing will happen with this one.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 12 May 2009 05:13:09 +0000

Great review! Nice objective approach. I have to say though, after mulling it over a bit, that this is one of my favorite Star Treks ever. It reinvents everything that Trek has ever had going for it in a manner that doesn’t just not insult old fans, but honors them.
Also, I have to say, William Shatner will always be Kirk, but Christopher Pine really made a mark in my book. I look foward to the future of this franchise.

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