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

[celebros.livejournal.com]

Yes and Yes.

So the fandom seems to be totally split on the whole Spock/Uhura thing; what was your take?

[matt_doyle]

Cautiously optimistic? I will admit, it's hard to give the communications officer all that much to do, and they seemed to do what they could - the romance subplot, while sorta sexist, is still a sensible way to keep her important. Also, the original series hinted at the same relationship once or twice.

http://community.livejournal.com/starbase_idic/4477.html?#cutid2

In other news, KARL URBAN.

"Are you out of your Vulcan mind?!"

[celebros.livejournal.com]

Fortotally. I'm glad, because I at the least didn't hate it - especially because of Kirk's reaction, of course - and then I came on the internet and found my few Trekkie friends in an uproar about how awful it was.

I adored those throwbacks to TOS. I couldn't see Scotty as Scotty, which was sad since I loved him so much when I was little, but that's not such a great loss in the face of the rest of the wonderfulness.

I was at first interested by the camerawork, but when the dramatic-lighting-things kept happening every minute, I got very tired of it. So very JJ Abrams.

Sequel anticipated Summer '11.

[matt_doyle]

Summer 11, HEL:L YES.