Star Trek XI

[King of Snake]

gonna see it in IMAX next wednesday! \o/

[Jafs]

Even if I've not seen the film yet, I can already say the soundtrack is pretty good. Giacchino's work is full of respect regards the previous scores by Goldsmith, Horner,...

Nice artwork too !

[King of Snake]

nice, I didn't know Giacchino was doing the soundtrack. I Love the soundtrack he did for The Incredibles

[Jafs]

I remember digging Allied Assault a lot when I was still a gamer and I loved the music for the main menu

[King of Snake]

so, anyone else seen it yet?

I found it to be pretty good. Good points: casting, effects, action and humour. Not so good points: story seemed to be a bit all over the place. Time travel is used again as an easy cop out for some of the incredibly improbable things happening. The bad guy didn't really have much of a story, background or relation to anything.

But hey this movie is about the crew of the enterprise and how they met. The rest is just there to keep things exciting. Kirk, Spock, Uhura, Chekov, Bones, Scotty, all are present and played convincingly and with a nice dose of humour without becoming parodies of themselves.
Nice to see a small part for Leonard Nimoy as old Spock too. Sadly no Shatner though...

[Dunwho]

Originally Posted by King of Snake

But hey this movie is about the crew of the enterprise and how they met..

NOT REALLY A SPOILER BUT TALKING BOUT THE MOVIE SO IF YOU HAVNT SEEN IT DONT READ ON!


I really enjoyed it and love all the little qualities that have been reborn in the new actors... the way kirk is and all. But i dont agree with what you sed above... because like you said the time travel thing is a bit of a cop out, and as a result this movie is infact a movie about how the crew never met... because of the whole alternate reality thing...im no big fan and maybe the series from way back did refer to this story bout time travel etc... but doesnt this pretty much disqualify anything that may have happened in the original series and allow for a completely new series of star trek movies where the writers are able to kill of anyone and do anything they like because this is an "alternate reality" from whats been established in the series?

So this cop out is indeed a exactly that, but an ingenius one which opens up a whole new series of possiblities. thus lots of money.

Very good movie..and lots of wow shots i especially love how you are given a very real space quality...like seing people and debris and all that..floating around during a battle

[Jafs]

Of course I've seen it. I'm not totally satisfied with this. The movie is well produced and directed, actors are good, and there's a lot of humor going on, I enjoyed this. But I thought this was badly written, and there are some incohences than even the alternate time cannot explain (scientific matters,...). I'm not a trekkie, so I don't know every episode of the ST series.




SPOILERS


And why the fuck Nero's ship manage to cross the black hole one day, and not the other ? Why Abrams doesn't "let time" to some parts of his movie to evolve and impress us in another way than by a rythm inherited from movie clips ? (technical and director sensibility question, I admit). Did you people notice that this film has a lot of action, but how JJ manage to avoid some bigger scenes (budget question ?), like when the Enterprise didn't go distortion in the same time than the others, and when he arrives all the other Federation ships are destroyed ? I thought this was pretty clever.

I've heard recently than a removed scene from the film explained where Nero was during those 25 years. (God, all this time in the same ship with all those guys ? Argh !). This is a shame because this is one of the main questions I was wondering about when going out from the theater...

I'm also wondering what was this gaz place from where the Enterprise comes out aside Saturn. And don't say these are the rings, we can see them at the other side, in another axe.

If some astrodirties have some answers...

[Eikman]

how to make the old star trek look like the new one

[Jafs]

ahahah excellent !

[IsiliRunite]

The 'beam-me-up' effects were whack!