Post by Atoz 77 on Dec 18, 2017 9:16:29 GMT -6
I wanted to post my thoughts on this movie, but then I remembered that a long time ago I promised to try not to make negative comments about the Abrams movies. So I'll just make a list of everything I enjoyed about it.
Jaylah was a very likeable character. I was surprised.
(crickets chirping)
That's about it, really. I was going to say that the uniforms were pretty good, but they kept covering them up with those jackets with holes cut in the shoulders (for what reason your guess is as good as mine), so overall the uniforms weren't that great.
Karl Urban continues to do his spot-on impersonation of Deforest Kelley, which is all to his credit of course. But if the other actors aren't going to play along, it just makes him stand out, like he wandered into the wrong soundstage or something.
It was a good movie if you like snarky references to the Original series, hordes of CGI spaceships blowing things up, people hanging from high places, silly jokes, people sliding along floors suspended over high places, impossible twists of the laws of physics, people falling from high places, and people falling from yet higher places. Of course it has plot holes big enough to drive a fleet of starships through, but that's not a criticism of Abrams personally. A lot of movie-makers seem to believe that if they throw in enough special effects, viewers will not notice the holes in the plot. I would say that the movie was more like Galaxy Quest than Star Trek, except that would slander Galaxy Quest, which was both brilliant and funny.
The whole feel of it was just slightly off. The opening scene in any movie is vitally important. It sets the tone for everything that follows. The first scene in this movie clearly said to me that the producers thought the whole thing was a big laugh and didn't take it at all seriously. It was a lot of little things. All along I kept getting this nagging feeling that I could have enjoyed the movie if only they hadn't gone quite so far with the CGI here, or if they had just tweaked the set design or the costumes a little bit there, or just smoothed out this plot hole here. It was like a pretty piece of music that's played in the wrong key, or played on a bugle instead of a piano, if you see what I mean. During some of the exchanges between McCoy and Spock, midway through the movie, I felt like I might have enjoyed them if only the whole movie up until that point hadn't bored me stupid.
Jaylah was a very likeable character. I was surprised.
(crickets chirping)
That's about it, really. I was going to say that the uniforms were pretty good, but they kept covering them up with those jackets with holes cut in the shoulders (for what reason your guess is as good as mine), so overall the uniforms weren't that great.
Karl Urban continues to do his spot-on impersonation of Deforest Kelley, which is all to his credit of course. But if the other actors aren't going to play along, it just makes him stand out, like he wandered into the wrong soundstage or something.
It was a good movie if you like snarky references to the Original series, hordes of CGI spaceships blowing things up, people hanging from high places, silly jokes, people sliding along floors suspended over high places, impossible twists of the laws of physics, people falling from high places, and people falling from yet higher places. Of course it has plot holes big enough to drive a fleet of starships through, but that's not a criticism of Abrams personally. A lot of movie-makers seem to believe that if they throw in enough special effects, viewers will not notice the holes in the plot. I would say that the movie was more like Galaxy Quest than Star Trek, except that would slander Galaxy Quest, which was both brilliant and funny.
The whole feel of it was just slightly off. The opening scene in any movie is vitally important. It sets the tone for everything that follows. The first scene in this movie clearly said to me that the producers thought the whole thing was a big laugh and didn't take it at all seriously. It was a lot of little things. All along I kept getting this nagging feeling that I could have enjoyed the movie if only they hadn't gone quite so far with the CGI here, or if they had just tweaked the set design or the costumes a little bit there, or just smoothed out this plot hole here. It was like a pretty piece of music that's played in the wrong key, or played on a bugle instead of a piano, if you see what I mean. During some of the exchanges between McCoy and Spock, midway through the movie, I felt like I might have enjoyed them if only the whole movie up until that point hadn't bored me stupid.