Review: Star Trek
Star Trek is a spectacle of a movie. J.J. Abrams obviously comes from the school that bigger, faster and brighter is better. The story sprawls time and space. The ships are massive and beautifully animated. The cameras are constantly sweeping, weaving and zooming. The strikingly vivid colors cause lens flare to streak the camera. And extreme longs shots are employed just to show how incredibly fucking large everything within the Star Trek galaxy is. Is Star Trek sensory overload? Yes. Is it a pure, adrenaline-filled joyride? Hell yeah.
The film follows a young James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) and Spock (Zachary Quinto). Kirk is a highly intelligent, prodigious shitkicker that has lived under the shadow of his deceased, Starfleet captain dad. He is a heavy drinker and fighter whose behavior seems like an attempt to avoid continuing the legacy set by his heroic father. Spock, on the other hand, is a highly adept, logical-thinking lieutenant that has lived with shame and ostracization because of his mixed human/Vulcan heritage. Kirk and Spock’s fates converge in the Starfleet Academy when Kirk cheats on an impassable exam that Spock designed to teach the lesson that even captains cannot win all of the time. Animosity develops between the two, but the pair eventually need to put aside their personal differences and internal problems when the galaxy is threatened by a mining crew of malevolent Romulans. The crew of Romulans, who traveled back from the future through a black hole, are hell-bent on destroying the Federation’s nebula planet-by-planet because of their hatred of a perceived perpetrator that allowed their home-planet, Romulus, to be destroyed during a supernova.
While Star Trek does have its faults ( genre cliches, and as some people have complained, the one-dimensionality of the evil Romulans) Abram’s tight pacing quickly glosses over such issues. The viewers become so engrossed in the extravaganza that such minor points become mere minutiae. If you want a film that is unapologetically huge and spectacular, watch Star Trek. And if you want a movie that shows off the full capabilities of your new 50-inch HD television and Blu-ray player, definitely watch Star Trek.
- check out “Swimming Pool”. a 2003 cerebral british erotic thriller:
from wikipedia:
“Swimming Pool premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2003,[1] and was released in France a few days later. It was given a limited release in the United States that July, and was edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating due to its sexual content and nudity.
The film also ignited controversy with audiences over its ambiguous nature and unclear conclusion which can be interpreted and argued in various ways.”
as far as erotic thrillers go, this is much better than anything i’ve seen on cinemax after midnight.
My favorite erotic thriller is Star Trek.
can any of these reviews contribute to the ratings on rotten tomatoes?
here:
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/help_desk/critics.php
Kevin
That makes sense.
Tim
Is star trek another comic-book remake bearded by its genre?
In response to the last comment,
JJ actually created a comic book series to act as a premise to the movie witch take places in the next gen universe and explains the events that occur with the crew of the Enterprise E and “Ambassador” Picard during the crisis in which Romulus and the universe is threatened by a supernova. The series was an attempt to attract die hard fans to the restart by connecting it with the original story line and continuity like Star Trek Generations attempted to do when paramount transitioned from TOS too TNG in the mid 90′s.
steeno you just made my brain blow up