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It's an amusing diversion filled with performances that range from satisfactory to excellent.
Most Satisfying: the rowdy, pulp action. Swordfights! Gun battles! Perilous Footchases!
Most Suprising: that the space battles didn't really engage me.
Biggest Regret: reading ANYTHING about the film before I saw it.
Biggest Failing (*) : that quite a bit of the storytelling felt functional rather than gripping; that the outcomes of conflicts seemed inevitable.
* I'm going to have to see it again (probably on DVD) before making final judgments about this, but there were moments and conflicts between core characters that just felt bland to me. I mean, there's basically a scene where a character says "This is what you need to do," followed by a scene of it happening. I haven't seen writing like that since the end of Bonfire of the Vanities.
Kirk: Is hilarious. For the first half of the movie, Ed and I were sniggering in our seats every couple of minutes at how outrageous he was being. Top marks.
All in all, a reasonably fun way to reintroduce the franchise to a new generation of fans so that Paramount can suck money out of them for the next 20 years. It's a sexy, rowdy, funny Trek that's gotten better in my memory.
And here's the thing: the original actors played these roles into their 60s and 70s. Given that, and given a movie every two or three years, that means we could expect another 12 to 15 films from this iteration of Trek (**).
** Given that sort of timeframe, I'd prefer it if the Kirk-Spock relationship had been developed a little slower - across multiple movies.
I have no idea what that means for the future of the Trek franchise. No more stories in the original TV universe? A reboot of The Next Generation? Star Trek movies shot back to back, Pirates of the Caribbean styles?
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Perilous footchases?
Nice.
I also like the fact that there is absolutely no need for sword fights anymore but they're so cool writers look for ways to sneak them in to anything.
Yeah, I was pretty ecstatic when I realised that one of the reference points for new Trek is Raiders of the Lost Ark.
The main difference between the 2 films is that nothing ever goes right for Indie, while Kirk is too awesome for much to ever go wrong (Kirk's main dramatic problem in the film is that most people aren't as awesome as Kirk) ...
I also have this problem.
Me and Jesus.
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