Star Trek

[Murphy'sBoy]

I was glad to see the return of James T Kirk, swashbuckler.

 

[mia1994]

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[The Eyes of Texas]

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[mandingo]

Mrs. Mandingo & I went to see it last night 'cause we heard how great it was.

It just wasn't all that good.

Kind of a letdown, really, after all the hype.

 

[RabidLonghorn]

I am a huge Star Trek fan all the way back to the 60's. Early Trek was campy and macho, the next generation was softer except for Worf, this new movie goes back to Kirk as a macho horndog which is great. I thought the new Star Trek was better than either of the new Batman movies except for Ledger.

 

[Hu_Fan]

Looks like I'll pick up the Blu-ray when it comes out.

I took my wife and daughter to Austin's Bob Bullock iMax, but they (as well as I) couldn't handle the 12,000 watt sound system cranked up to 10. We left after the 'Vette got trashed.

ps. I did not see "Dark Knight" in IMAX, but have the Blu-ray, plus one finely tuned plasma screen. The Blu-ray displays the IMAX portions of that film -- the detail and depth of the entire film is stunning on my set. After what I saw at the IMAX yesterday, I'm not sure any screens in America other than the Century Cinemas in San Jose, Calif can rival a good home theater.

 

[MaduroUTMB]

I hate the fact that the sheer power of some things gets pushed down the stairs for the sake of cool action sequences and effects. It was pretty clear that everyone involved either did not know or did not care about what gravity is or how it works. The time travel thing was a great plot device but made no sense when you think about it for more than 5 minutes.

In general, I hate the whole idea of warp drives and similar stuff. A light year is a long-*** way and you can't go anywhere near as fast as light does. A message would take years to get there. The vastness of space is a huge and seemingly insurmountable problem that is just glossed over with what amounts to magic, and it makes everything else seem silly to me.

A long time ago, a crummy Sci-Fi Channel movie, "The Cold Equations", struck me as one of the best science fiction shows around because it used science and future technology to make a drama come to life. Star Trek uses the future as an excuse to make glowing explosions and add a bunch of alien races that all manage to look almost exactly like humans.

 

[mia1994]

Maduro, the original Star Trek (as well as many of the spin offs), is basically a new skin on the old seafaring stories. It is essentially Horatio Hornblower with phasers. You are correct that in general its science is deplorable, but what are you going to do when you are replacing small islands/colonies with entire planets?

 

[Bill_McNeal]

Those of you who are bemoaning the dumping of canon in the Abramsverse seem to be forgetting a very important point:

In the new 'Verse, V'ger is probably just a chunk of anonymous debris floating around in the darkness.

Also, I think it's cool that the Enterprise was spared the fleet's destruction because the ship's voice recognition software couldn't understand a word of what Chekov was trying to say initially. And that Sulu forgot to take off the parking brake.

 

[general35]

i finally saw it, its great. i dont care about the science, its star trek.

 

[Statalyzer]

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[Joe Fan]