You don't just glue a horn on a white horse and make a unicorn......
I had low expectations going in ......it was Mother's Day and my mom is a Star Trek fan so I took her out to see the new movie that everybody seems to love--
I personally thought it was a complete bastardization of the original trek (which is still the best)
I have no complaints with the cast of the new film
I liked the cast (with the exception of the REIMAGINED Kirk) Bones was especially good...
It was The plot that I thought was just weak and had holes you could drive a truck through......I know they were trying desperately to make Star Trek hip and grab it from the hands of their dwindling nerd fan base......But what was killing Star Trek wasn't Trek itself---it was pumping out one poorly written movie after another.....Somehow Trek was surviving despite bad movies......
After I pointed out my disdain for the movie on a friends facebook status ----He pointed out that it was a reimaginging of Trek. And yes it was to a certain extent.......A REBOOT If you want to call it that.. But it really wasn't....The makers of the movie chickened out of actually doing a complete Reboot....and instead included Spock Time traveling.... from the original Star Trek universe ....It was an alternate universe.....that frankly sucks....and was a completely unoriginal concept compared to some of the Battlestar Gallactica quality social issues and Sci-Fi that the original Campy series tackled........Time Travel seriously ---That is all they could come up ... with....Time Travel.....They have only used that in about half of the crappy Star Trek flicks.......alternate universes ----I didn't know I was watching Stargate or Sliders or have a dozen Next Generation episodes that already covered that ground...
They should be able to come up with something more original then Time Travel......The original Series did ..The Original series despite its cheap sets and monsters was actually Relevant and had good quality Sci-Fi writers and story lines......Now all we get is Baby Kirk with missing his daddy issues and Spock being bullied as a child.....Now all we get is boring retread ideas and concepts and Star Trek Death Star Planet killing machines taking out plants like Alderan ...Come on--give me some new and original
Let's just leap through the completely unoriginal Time Travel concept once again we haven't done that before
I haven't left a Trek movie this ticked off since the Star Trek III the Search for Spock......"My dad tells me that we... were friends" indeed.......Tell the stupid Trek writers to start writing Sci-Fi like some of their good episodes and to stop being lazy and doing F---ing Time Travel flicks....This isn't called F---- Time Trek....Lazy bastards......Any 2 episodes of original Trek and or any Next Generation episodes with Q are better than this lame REBOOT....I'd like to Reboot JJ Abrams in the face.....This movie made me want to stop watching LOST as well....If this is his Trek movie than the LOST finale is probably going to be as Bad as Chris Carter's X-Files cock up ending
I had low expectations going in ......it was Mother's Day and my mom is a Star Trek fan so I took her out to see the new movie that everybody seems to love--
I personally thought it was a complete bastardization of the original trek (which is still the best)
I have no complaints with the cast of the new film
I liked the cast (with the exception of the REIMAGINED Kirk) Bones was especially good...
It was The plot that I thought was just weak and had holes you could drive a truck through......I know they were trying desperately to make Star Trek hip and grab it from the hands of their dwindling nerd fan base......But what was killing Star Trek wasn't Trek itself---it was pumping out one poorly written movie after another.....Somehow Trek was surviving despite bad movies......
After I pointed out my disdain for the movie on a friends facebook status ----He pointed out that it was a reimaginging of Trek. And yes it was to a certain extent.......A REBOOT If you want to call it that.. But it really wasn't....The makers of the movie chickened out of actually doing a complete Reboot....and instead included Spock Time traveling.... from the original Star Trek universe ....It was an alternate universe.....that frankly sucks....and was a completely unoriginal concept compared to some of the Battlestar Gallactica quality social issues and Sci-Fi that the original Campy series tackled........Time Travel seriously ---That is all they could come up ... with....Time Travel.....They have only used that in about half of the crappy Star Trek flicks.......alternate universes ----I didn't know I was watching Stargate or Sliders or have a dozen Next Generation episodes that already covered that ground...
They should be able to come up with something more original then Time Travel......The original Series did ..The Original series despite its cheap sets and monsters was actually Relevant and had good quality Sci-Fi writers and story lines......Now all we get is Baby Kirk with missing his daddy issues and Spock being bullied as a child.....Now all we get is boring retread ideas and concepts and Star Trek Death Star Planet killing machines taking out plants like Alderan ...Come on--give me some new and original
Let's just leap through the completely unoriginal Time Travel concept once again we haven't done that before
I haven't left a Trek movie this ticked off since the Star Trek III the Search for Spock......"My dad tells me that we... were friends" indeed.......Tell the stupid Trek writers to start writing Sci-Fi like some of their good episodes and to stop being lazy and doing F---ing Time Travel flicks....This isn't called F---- Time Trek....Lazy bastards......Any 2 episodes of original Trek and or any Next Generation episodes with Q are better than this lame REBOOT....I'd like to Reboot JJ Abrams in the face.....This movie made me want to stop watching LOST as well....If this is his Trek movie than the LOST finale is probably going to be as Bad as Chris Carter's X-Files cock up ending
It was like watching some body's lame alternate universe Fan fiction bullshit come to life.....I'm far from a Trekie ---but if it pissed me off this much some of those basement dwelling Star Trek pajama wearing geeks with the taped on ears must be crying and wetting themselves over this crap
I don't want to see 150 million dollars worth of fan fiction....I'd rather watch Galaxy Quest than this unoriginal premise......F----ing Trek Death Stars blowing up planets.
The script was just a mix of bad time travel, Alternate universes,,Homages to other Trek movies and Star Wars....There was absolutely nothing new or original about it
As I sit on the bridge Kirk must be rolling around in his grave on that lame Nexus planet from another crappy Trek movie Generations (that had Time Travel elements) Where he died so weakly fighting Malcolm Macdowell and falling on the rocks.....Oh Wait that Trek move sucked too....I'm actually missing the Borg..
Where is a good Gorn throwing fake rocks when you need him ???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z89OOUC9gRA&feature=related
If they just wanted to do a new cast so be it but don't bring back original Spock and try to explain it as a Time Travel Alternate universe.... ---Just reboot it --don't try to have it both ways
Movie Flaw: The original Spock came from the original time line where things had happened differently.....He wouldn't have known Kirk would end up on Hoth (i mean the Ice Planet) --because in his time line that hadn't happened......Just a flaw in the writing similar to some of the flawed time travel writing that made the end of Generations so lame....Then (Obi Wan) I mean Spock sends Kirk off on his own.
So basically there is Wrath of Khan and the movie with the Borg (First Contact) that were good the rest of the Trek films NOT SO MUCH --and don't give the one with the Whale Bullshit....
I'd rather watch any 2 random episodes of The New Battlestar or the original series then this Trek movie ever again...
Nero I know Khan and you sir are no Khan.
"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up! "
Beam me the F--- out of here
Nero I know Khan and you sir are no Khan.
"He tasks me. He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares Maelstrom and 'round Perdition's flames before I give him up! "
Beam me the F--- out of here
Here are my thoughts on all the Trek Films
http://bradgeekness.blogspot.com/2012/07/aside-from-wrath-of-khan-which-was.html
I was wondering where they keep all these old sets and memorabilia?
ReplyDeleteStar Trek the Exhibit was a traveling exhibit that I saw a couple of years ago in Long Beach.......that is where most of the sets and props were from.......The Gorn was from the Star Experience that used to be in Vegas
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