Star Trek.

[matt_doyle]

Bad things:

The camera work was queasy-making.

The science was a little more awful than usual (but I didn't care).

Good things:

EVERYTHING ELSE.

The cast was pitch-perfect, most especially Karl Urban and Zachary Quinto. The rest did a little more branching out in new directions and delving into their characters more deeply than the original series, which was good. I can definitely handle a competent Chekov. While the exposition was a little too much, the concept worked for me, and the execution was stylish and dramatic.

Although I still think that the scriptwriters started out by adapting the novel Best Destiny into a movie, and the rest came about as the result of making it AU.

So. When are they starting filming on the next one?



Discuss.

Comments

[handgun.livejournal.com]

the cinemaphotography was AMAZING. I want to find a cap of the Kelvin exploding and the little lights of the escape pods flying away for an lj icon.

[matt_doyle]

That, yes: but for a lot of it they did artistic things with lighting and aiming the camera that made it impossible to see what was going on.