Beam me back to Earth, young Scottie
Roc Belushi asked me to give some words on the new Star Trek movie. Unlike when the Matrix came out, I did not declare the day a national holiday, take off from work and go alone to preserve the holiness of the experience. I didn’t feel this way because of what I saw in the trailer. Because odysseys sometimes take us to outerspace, here’s what I gots to say about the new Star Trek movie. It was an enjoyable movie experience overall, but irritating nevertheless. I really think I am saying it was enjoyable because everyone who saw it says they loved it. Here was the most enjoyable moment for me, and it was over quick. I’m not sure if there are many girls that get aroused at the sound of the Enterprise’s distinguishable “pulse” chirp, that tell-tale sign that you’re on the original bridge of the Enterprise. I won’t take the puritan Trekkie route (Lord, they filled the theater Saturday night) in this critique, but my excitement ended there.This movie is a glorification of frat boys, but it does stay true to who Kirk is, so I guess mission accomplished. You learn how a a clean looking white boy with more arrogance than intelligence, and a bucketful of craft gets to be the boss of a ship with various species (ethnics). Some, like Spock, are way smarter than him. Brains aint everything, I guess is the message, and yes, there’s plenty of truth to that. There is the dreaded singularity plot which makes this an alternate Star Trek universe because history gets re-written in the future, assuring us of endless money making sequels. (It also implies the original Star Trek series never happened, because the timeline has been altered, but if you’re a Trekkie, you know not to spend too much time thinking about that stuff or you’ll wind up in Wonderland too). The situations young Kirk is placed are completely unbelievable , Vulcan and Earth somehow don’t have defensive systems for invading species, Star Fleet only has novice, reject cadets to run their biggest star ships, and these young kids stay in the same positions for the next forty something years. Oh and I think the laws of physics were broken when they escaped the pull of a black hole. Casting is superb though. This is Star Trek, Our Generation. That’s not necessarily a compliment. For non-Trekkies, that’s a play on the series, Star Trek, The Next Generation, which is by far my favorite.
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Never quite got into the series but I like the trailer so I am definitely going to see this movie. I will most likely think it doesn’t even compare to the newest addition to the X-Men saga which is one my favorites but I will be giving it a try.
Similar to what they did with Trans Formers “our generation” can’t handle complex movies so they have to dumb it down and make it appealing to the simp’s. They are also doing this with music, that’s why I don’t listen to anything much after the late 90’s music.
Here is a SNL clip that addresses some of the feelings expressed about the Star Trek film. I will give ‘em that at least they were able to make light of the fact that they did not do the series justice. It is worth a watch (sorry there is a one minute commercial first):
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/update-feature-star-trek/1099561/
ha, I watched it. I wasn’t looking for a replication and I do enjoy the different angle they took. Next Generation tried to do this too but failed, I think. Now that you make me think, it might be that all the characters are shallow, not fully explored. I’ll allow them two more.
good post