Just got back from seeing the new Star Trek. If you even mildly enjoy any of the Trek movies or series, you have to go see this movie. And I don't care how awesome your home theater is, don't wait for the DVD. See it in a theater. And that's from someone who's movie collection is about 75% movies I've never seen in a theater. This one needs the big screen and the skull-warping sound levels to really be enjoyed. Don't be a cheapskate; spend the $20.
And I can't tell you how sweet it is to have the inside of the original Enterprise actually look like something from the future instead of something built in some fan-boy's basement out of refrigerator boxes and stuff from the discount parts bin at Radio Shack (back when Radio Shack had a parts bin instead of just being a cellphone reseller). Some of those sets on the original series were painful even back when the series first aired.
And speaking of fan-boys, don't listen to the complainers. Of course the writers broke continuity. There wasn't a lot of continuity to begin with from movie-to-movie, series-to-series, or even season-to-season in the same series. Youtube is loaded with video montages that prove the point.
Repeat after me: It's a movie.
And yes, there are science problems as well. Show me one science fiction movie or book that doesn't play fast and loose with the physics if it makes the story better.
Repeat after me: It's a movie.
What was really cool was how well the actors that played the young versions of the main characters in the old series incorporated gestures and facial expressions that would become/were trademarks of the later/earlier characters, without over-doing it. Same with the dialog; hints and bits and pieces of the later/earlier cliches, but not campy. And speaking of campy, Galaxy Quest was re-released to coincide with the opening of the new Star Trek. Woohoo!
They even had a red-shirt get killed on an away team. Awesome! It ain't Trek unless a red-shirt dies.
Go. See. This.
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I strongly second the motion that you must go see this in theaters!
At the preview screening that I saw last week, the Paramount people who were there (yes, there were Paramount people there!) said that the idea behind those early, word-of-mouth, screenings was that if you liked the movie, you should tell 10 people. Well, this movie was so awesome that I have told everyone I know, and anyone else who will listen, to go see it. Yeah, it's just that awesome.
I don't think Paramount needs to worry about this movie. It's in an entirely new class of Trek movie. Not one speech about the prime directive....
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