I went to see Star Trek last weekend. I have seen every Star Trek Movie released and seen at least several episodes of all the TV series. Let me make this clear, though, I have never been to a Trekkie convention. Anyway, after seeing the trailers and TV spots for the new movie for several months now and looking forward to learning the background of some of the main original characters, I was very excited to see this movie. I am also a huge LOST television show fan, which is directed by the same guy as did this movie, JJ Abrams. So another plus for the movie. After seeing the movie, my impression is this: It was a really good movie, not great, but really good. There are a few reasons for this, but I think to explain might spoil it for some of you, so stop reading if you are going to see the movie. SPOILER ALERT! While this movie is kind of billed as a "prequel" after seeing it, I'm not really sure if it really was a prequel. I don't know how else to explain except to say that the concept of this movie is that Spock has gone back in time and he and some Romulans have changed some things in the past. So what I thought was "prequel info" may not be really true to the story of Star Trek. You don't really find that out, though, until most of the way through the movie, so building up, all this info about the main characters, Kirk, Spock, Bones, Sulu, Checkov, Uhura, Scotty, seems so interesting and relevant and I had totally bought in and was captured by the story. Then they go and throw a major twist that I'm not sure they really had to into the plot. It was already a really good movie, even if they didn't go there. And now I'm wondering if things that happened in the movie ever "really" did, in a fictional sense. I loved the interaction between Kirk and Spock. It was fascinating. The character development was excellent considering they had so many characters to cover. The special effects were flawless. So I was slightly disappointed , but probably only because I had built the movie up so high in my head. Also because I kind of thought there might be some really inspiring theme behind the plot, and there really wasn't anything. But I hope they can keep this group together and make another film.
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I'm not sure if I'm going to go see it or not, but I still read the entire post, regardless. However, I very much appreicate the SPOILER ALERT. :)
Having never been to a trekkie convention, like yourself, I'm not sure how I'd feel about it. ;)
I'm with you. The movie almost lost me with the "Hoth"-like encounter, but it held together well enough. I'm not a huge Star Trek fan either, but I liked the idea of an alternate evolution of the storyline. Thought it was a clever way to produce something new from something so well established. Plus, it was plain entertaining; a good night at the movies.
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