pasnat54
05-08-2009, 05:20 AM
It's TERRIFIC!
I was going to wait, but this afternoon I was at my sister's for a swim, and as I was leaving, she asked if I was going to see the 7 pm showing of Star Trek in Monrovia.
There was a 7 pm showing? It was 6:40 already, but I figured I'd drive by and if there wasn't too big a crowd, I'd watch it.
I know, I was predisposed to dislike it, and there were a couple things I did not enjoy: the James Dean-ish, rebel-without-a-cause depiction of Capt. Kirk for one thing.
But as long as you remember that this is a re-imagining and things are going to change, you'll enjoy it! I mean, Starbuck and Boomer had gender changes and Battlestar Galactica was the better for it.
There's non-stop action, and if you're with a good crowd, there'll be spontaneous applause when the characters first appear on screen.
The fx are great and the Enterprise interiors look retro but also futuristic; they did a much better job of capturing this conundrum than ST: Enterprise did.
Karl Urban is great as McCoy, Simon Pegg (who must play Wee Hughie if they ever make The Boys into a movie) steals the scene when he's on screen, and Zoe Saldana is gorgeous. Nichelle Nichols was certainly beautiful, but her 1950's hairstyle always turned me off. This was no problem with Saldana.
One minor point that's really not a complaint; the movie did play to a Trekkie audience. Every five minutes there was an homage to the original series. McCoy saying, "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!", Scotty saying, "I'm giving her all she's got", etc. It draws such a positive response from those of us who get the in-jokes that I wonder if maybe the movie's familiarity was one of the reasons I enjoyed it.
I don't think so though; it was a good, fun movie, a well-realized reboot that'll inject life into the moribund franchise.
I was going to wait, but this afternoon I was at my sister's for a swim, and as I was leaving, she asked if I was going to see the 7 pm showing of Star Trek in Monrovia.
There was a 7 pm showing? It was 6:40 already, but I figured I'd drive by and if there wasn't too big a crowd, I'd watch it.
I know, I was predisposed to dislike it, and there were a couple things I did not enjoy: the James Dean-ish, rebel-without-a-cause depiction of Capt. Kirk for one thing.
But as long as you remember that this is a re-imagining and things are going to change, you'll enjoy it! I mean, Starbuck and Boomer had gender changes and Battlestar Galactica was the better for it.
There's non-stop action, and if you're with a good crowd, there'll be spontaneous applause when the characters first appear on screen.
The fx are great and the Enterprise interiors look retro but also futuristic; they did a much better job of capturing this conundrum than ST: Enterprise did.
Karl Urban is great as McCoy, Simon Pegg (who must play Wee Hughie if they ever make The Boys into a movie) steals the scene when he's on screen, and Zoe Saldana is gorgeous. Nichelle Nichols was certainly beautiful, but her 1950's hairstyle always turned me off. This was no problem with Saldana.
One minor point that's really not a complaint; the movie did play to a Trekkie audience. Every five minutes there was an homage to the original series. McCoy saying, "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!", Scotty saying, "I'm giving her all she's got", etc. It draws such a positive response from those of us who get the in-jokes that I wonder if maybe the movie's familiarity was one of the reasons I enjoyed it.
I don't think so though; it was a good, fun movie, a well-realized reboot that'll inject life into the moribund franchise.