Hello all,
If I got my facts right tomorrow Star Trek 11 will be premiered in the theaters.
Being, or used to be, a major Star Trek fan this really should hold my interest but it doesn't really.
I would like to know what other people think of the upcoming movie and which of you are planning to get to it.
Why am I so negative? Well it has to do with personal taste.
I am not irritated that a new director is handling this, or that they are trying to reinvent Classic Star Trek (re invention occasionally works even though often evidence is proof of the opposite), or the little changes they have done here and there, not its more in the spirit of which the movie is made.
Despite claiming to be fans of the classic series the producers have focused a lot on a movie that doesn't feel much Star Trek at all, yeah we have the Warp drive, the Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Commander Spock etc. but that is just name calling, everyone can do that.
The focus is mostly to tell an action packed story that has to appeal to as much people (read average mainstream) in order to get to their wallets.
I have nothing against an action packed Star Trek, I was one of the people who liked Star Trek First Contact.
Once in a while an action focused story between all of the science fiction and philosophy can be a fresh breath of air.
The thing is, 'Star Trek' seems to be an indication of the franchise turning into action based flicks with the space setting being used to provide for special effects such as space battles and energy weapons.
Things such as meaningful story telling and interesting character development has become secondary.
Take Kirk, while he has always been a bit of a renegade, he apparently has always been a little punk, from stealing a car and driving it into the grand canyon to starting fights in bars which result in a Starfleet captain saying that he should join Starfleet now. (Starfleet searches bars for hooligans to recruit? Getting into the academy is easier than I first thought).
Of course the character now has to play by a younger actor as Shatner would require extreme make over to ever pass as a thirty year old again. (plus the man really isn't that good of an actor)
Like many movie clichés before Kirk is a stubborn know it all prick who has to learn through argument and insult what it takes to become a Starfleet captain.
You would think that writers would be tired of this cliché by now.
I don't know much about the actor playing young Spock (I don't watch heroes) but he does look the part.
The story itself is also not that remarkable, it doesn't convey the human adventure in space at all, again I don't mind action Star Trek stories but if for all purposes you want to make a series of space war movies why not create your own franchise?
What I found the most insulting, and this really got to me, was the reaction of some of the people looking forwards to this movie.
A whole rant of why Star Trek was dead (he was right on some points) and how Star Trek was being reinvented for normal people, and that all science fiction nerds 'who have never kissed a girl' should go back to science fiction books and masturbation (he didn't say the last, but it is implied)
What the hell? Did you even give a damn about Star Trek to begin with?
All you want is some summer blockbuster with explosions and breasts to keep your little imagination occupied for one and a half hour before leaving the theater to find the nearest fast food restaurant to gorge yourself.
I can truly see why these kind of movie goers are ignored this day and age.
If I got my facts right tomorrow Star Trek 11 will be premiered in the theaters.
Being, or used to be, a major Star Trek fan this really should hold my interest but it doesn't really.
I would like to know what other people think of the upcoming movie and which of you are planning to get to it.
Why am I so negative? Well it has to do with personal taste.
I am not irritated that a new director is handling this, or that they are trying to reinvent Classic Star Trek (re invention occasionally works even though often evidence is proof of the opposite), or the little changes they have done here and there, not its more in the spirit of which the movie is made.
Despite claiming to be fans of the classic series the producers have focused a lot on a movie that doesn't feel much Star Trek at all, yeah we have the Warp drive, the Enterprise, Captain Kirk, Commander Spock etc. but that is just name calling, everyone can do that.
The focus is mostly to tell an action packed story that has to appeal to as much people (read average mainstream) in order to get to their wallets.
I have nothing against an action packed Star Trek, I was one of the people who liked Star Trek First Contact.
Once in a while an action focused story between all of the science fiction and philosophy can be a fresh breath of air.
The thing is, 'Star Trek' seems to be an indication of the franchise turning into action based flicks with the space setting being used to provide for special effects such as space battles and energy weapons.
Things such as meaningful story telling and interesting character development has become secondary.
Take Kirk, while he has always been a bit of a renegade, he apparently has always been a little punk, from stealing a car and driving it into the grand canyon to starting fights in bars which result in a Starfleet captain saying that he should join Starfleet now. (Starfleet searches bars for hooligans to recruit? Getting into the academy is easier than I first thought).
Of course the character now has to play by a younger actor as Shatner would require extreme make over to ever pass as a thirty year old again. (plus the man really isn't that good of an actor)
Like many movie clichés before Kirk is a stubborn know it all prick who has to learn through argument and insult what it takes to become a Starfleet captain.
You would think that writers would be tired of this cliché by now.
I don't know much about the actor playing young Spock (I don't watch heroes) but he does look the part.
The story itself is also not that remarkable, it doesn't convey the human adventure in space at all, again I don't mind action Star Trek stories but if for all purposes you want to make a series of space war movies why not create your own franchise?
What I found the most insulting, and this really got to me, was the reaction of some of the people looking forwards to this movie.
A whole rant of why Star Trek was dead (he was right on some points) and how Star Trek was being reinvented for normal people, and that all science fiction nerds 'who have never kissed a girl' should go back to science fiction books and masturbation (he didn't say the last, but it is implied)
What the hell? Did you even give a damn about Star Trek to begin with?
All you want is some summer blockbuster with explosions and breasts to keep your little imagination occupied for one and a half hour before leaving the theater to find the nearest fast food restaurant to gorge yourself.
I can truly see why these kind of movie goers are ignored this day and age.
No, it certainly isn't a show for geniuses but there is far dumber crap on TV.