As a trekkie, I felt completely let down by this movie being called a Star Trek movie. It should have just been made as the fifth sequence of Die Hard :)
Ofcourse, all this did'nt stop me from enjoying the movie. All I had to do was repeat 3 times:
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
Spolier Alert: Very Minor spoilers ahead but nothing that should change your movie experience
Not that I did not see this coming. I guess I need to brace for and face the fact that teenage humour sells mroe than middle aged honour. Take Stargate Atlantis for exmaple, a series that was doing so well and building up to be an eternal saga. The powers that be decided they could make more money getting kids to watch it, so they axed the show in the 5th season and are working on bringing up StarGate 90210, with the theme being a college in space with teenagers and their stargate adventures. Not that I mind this, infact I'll probably even watch it, I am simply furious that my show got axed to make way for this. The Star Trek that I grew up to had honour first, then adventure and as brief respites, peppered humour. This movie on the other hand was like a National Lampoon's Star Trek. Between Kal Pen joining Obama and John Cho manning the thrusters, I wonder if our world will soon be run by pot smoking, glue sniffing teenage hormones. It is unthinkable that an officer on the bridge will not be trained enough to not be able to take off because he forgot the inertial dampeners. Then there was that irritating Russian accent which was milked for eternity, seemingly because JJ thought it was humourous. I could go on and on, about obvious and tantalising deviances from set customs of Star Trek such as the kissing scene with Spock. I have'nt seen a more un-natural chemistry between two humans (well one half-human). And who promotes a suspended cadet to first officer in 5 minutes? The cast might as well have had Charlie Sheen as Kirk, Steve Martin as Capt. Pike and Vince Vaugh as Spock junior. At least I would'nt have had to assume it was a trekkie movie. My rants, I realize are a lost cause. The movie has one good aspect, it brought all non-trekkies together and made them watch it. They love it and are now walking around claiming themselves as trekkies. Market analysis and profit milking have taken over which is only natural for those investing in it, I can hardly blame them. All I can hope for now is that there are enough fuddy duddies like me that prefer old school enough to keep this slapstick movie seperate from the saga that we have always enjoyed.
Ofcourse, all this did'nt stop me from enjoying the movie. All I had to do was repeat 3 times:
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
"This is not Stark Trek, it is Die Hard: Space Walk"
Spolier Alert: Very Minor spoilers ahead but nothing that should change your movie experience
Not that I did not see this coming. I guess I need to brace for and face the fact that teenage humour sells mroe than middle aged honour. Take Stargate Atlantis for exmaple, a series that was doing so well and building up to be an eternal saga. The powers that be decided they could make more money getting kids to watch it, so they axed the show in the 5th season and are working on bringing up StarGate 90210, with the theme being a college in space with teenagers and their stargate adventures. Not that I mind this, infact I'll probably even watch it, I am simply furious that my show got axed to make way for this. The Star Trek that I grew up to had honour first, then adventure and as brief respites, peppered humour. This movie on the other hand was like a National Lampoon's Star Trek. Between Kal Pen joining Obama and John Cho manning the thrusters, I wonder if our world will soon be run by pot smoking, glue sniffing teenage hormones. It is unthinkable that an officer on the bridge will not be trained enough to not be able to take off because he forgot the inertial dampeners. Then there was that irritating Russian accent which was milked for eternity, seemingly because JJ thought it was humourous. I could go on and on, about obvious and tantalising deviances from set customs of Star Trek such as the kissing scene with Spock. I have'nt seen a more un-natural chemistry between two humans (well one half-human). And who promotes a suspended cadet to first officer in 5 minutes? The cast might as well have had Charlie Sheen as Kirk, Steve Martin as Capt. Pike and Vince Vaugh as Spock junior. At least I would'nt have had to assume it was a trekkie movie. My rants, I realize are a lost cause. The movie has one good aspect, it brought all non-trekkies together and made them watch it. They love it and are now walking around claiming themselves as trekkies. Market analysis and profit milking have taken over which is only natural for those investing in it, I can hardly blame them. All I can hope for now is that there are enough fuddy duddies like me that prefer old school enough to keep this slapstick movie seperate from the saga that we have always enjoyed.
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