[Movie] Star Trek (2009)

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See, my problem with DS9 is that it was pretty horrid to start with, and by the time someone told me it had actually become GOOD, I was too lost with the near constant continuing storyline to do anything more than "hey this is decent too bad I don't have a clue what the fuck's going on," and give back up on the show.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

The trick with DS9 is that all of the first season was "hard sci-fi" - all high concept stuff. There was an episode about people not being able to communicate and another one about endless war and so on. It was probably the closest to the original series as the spin-offs ever got.

Maybe I missed all that stuff, what with being 10 at the time of first season. I have never had an issue with "hard-sci" at all; I enjoy being thrown in to something and having little or no explanation of the technology that's being used. It's neat to see it implemented.

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Even though I'm going to see it Sunday as part of my mom's Mother's Day plans, I will say that the movie obviously needs moar John de Lancie.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Saw it today. Enjoyed it, but, much like LeHah, I found some of the camerawork absolutely fucking IRRITATING. I mean, seriously. Abrams, the shakeycam worked for Cloverfield because of the conceit. For this, it was nauseating at times. Also, that fucking zoom in on something from a wide shot to a shot that's . . . slightly less wide? Fuck you.

Spoiler:

The moment where they're plummeting towards Vulcan and this happens was probably the worst use of this.

On the other hand, there were things that had me giggling (in a good way):
- Spock doing the Picard Maneuver.
- The red shirt. Oh my god, the red shirt.
- The fact that Spock Prime was essentially piloting the USS Make Shit Up with the whole "let's use a black whole to stop a supernova." Then we should bounce the graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish.

I was also wondering at the beginning going "WHAT THE FUCK HUGE FUCKING RETCONS"; thankfully, they didn't go the standard "hey let's go through time and fix this" angle like I was expecting. Yeah, it negates pretty much everything that's come before, but that's sorta to be expected with a reboot.

Oh, and I haven't seen any comments about how Bones did a fantastic job with keeping DeForest Kelly's speech patterns and rhythms and it was great. None of the other actors really did that. I'm guessing that was intentional.

Finally: how does Uhura being in a relationship with Spock (oh yeah, also kissing him) make her a whore? Sure, she wasn't drawn as well as the others, but.

There. I give it 4 stars outta 5. It's easily the best of the odd numbered Trek films (not that that's hard, but still). I mean, 1's concept is OK, but then it goes HEY LET'S DO SPARKLIES FOR 10 MINUTES and shoots itself in the foot. 5's concept could have been fantastic, but it's saddled with retardedness. Meh.

Oh, and Brady, as far as not liking DS9 because of "NOT ENOUGH SPACE ANOMALIES" goes, I will say, in my defense, that Inner Light has been my favorite TNG episode since its original airing.

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