Star Trek -- the new movie

[daddytodd]

Well, as Big Dumb Summer Blockbusters go, the new Star Trek movie is pretty good.

As a Star Trek movie, I liked it better than all the Next Gen movies, and better than any TOS movie since The Voyage Home.

In absolute terms, I'd rate it about a 7 on a scale of 1-10. There was lots of fun stuff, the pacing was relentless (to the detriment of coherence, but I'm an old fart, so no surprises there) and the casting was pretty damn good. It looked great, except somebody needs to teach the cinematographer how to filter out the lens flare.

The plot was all over the map and didn't make a lot of sense, but we're not supposed to care about that any more.

I'll see it again in the theater a couple of times -- hopefully in IMAX, if it's still there when I have time to go again.

Comments

[altf4ljdrama.livejournal.com]

YAY, a review. :) I need to write my own. It'd be good practice.

[pandabuff.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed it enough to see it twice this weekend. I actually thought it was great and offered a perfect kick start to a new series of movies, while honoring TOS and TNG sets of movies.

As for the Lens Flare - I think it was intentional to give it almost a documentary like quality. Similar cinematography is used in Firefly, Serenity and Battlestar Galactica, including the use of manual focusing when in space and trying to catch up with the action.

Although I am a huge X-men fan, this is leaps and bounds over X-Men Origins: Wolverine (and I enjoyed that movie a lot).

[altf4ljdrama.livejournal.com]

Dang. I would've liked to have seen it with another fan a time this weekend.

Like your thoughts on the matter, as well.

[furr-a-bruin.livejournal.com]

...as Big Dumb Summer Blockbusters go...

Well, that's my problem. To me, Star Trek isn't supposed to be "dumb."

We'll see what I think after I see it on Tuesday.

Flares, kind.of.a.signature.you.know.what.i.mean

[retrocool.livejournal.com]

classic J.J. Abrams affect, you can even see it in cloverfield and serenity and many other tele shows/movies he has produced, written and or directed

[urbear]

In a recent interview Abrams admitted that he overdid the lens flares. He said they were there to suggest some sort of activity taking place out of camera range. Unfortunately they're real lens flares, created using a powerful light outside the camera frame, rather than CGI; it would be hard to remove them in a new cut.