08-10-2016, 10:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-10-2016, 10:24 PM by Drunk Monk.)
I thought surely one of u would beat me to the punch on this one.
ST B (3) is ok. Not as awesome as the 1st J.J. Not as rehash/mishmash as J.J. 2 (still don't but the Mr. Roarke/Sherlock swap but liked the big spaceship battles and the attempt at recursiveness). The latest installment feels like an episode, not quite as epic as the others. It needed more callbacks to the original - there were some but not enough. I think Justin Lin got his franchises confused. It leans more towards Wars than Trek. There's too many new aliens like the SW cantina, and the finale is akin to destroying the Death Star but instead saving Yorktown. The characters are all still pretty solid especially Quinto, and Pine continues to stray from Shatner but not too much. It's a bit Scotty heavy, given he wrote it. The passing of Nimoy and Yelchin is logged. I kept thinking Krall was Krull (he did have a chakra like weapon). Jada delivered an ok fight - will she replace Chekov if there's another? As an Asian male, I'm a little bummed about the gay Sulu, but I get that. There's some decent big screen ship explosions and a lot of crooked sets - the ending was predictable, inexplicable, and illogical, but I'll still see the next one if they can reassemble this cast again.
ST B (3) is ok. Not as awesome as the 1st J.J. Not as rehash/mishmash as J.J. 2 (still don't but the Mr. Roarke/Sherlock swap but liked the big spaceship battles and the attempt at recursiveness). The latest installment feels like an episode, not quite as epic as the others. It needed more callbacks to the original - there were some but not enough. I think Justin Lin got his franchises confused. It leans more towards Wars than Trek. There's too many new aliens like the SW cantina, and the finale is akin to destroying the Death Star but instead saving Yorktown. The characters are all still pretty solid especially Quinto, and Pine continues to stray from Shatner but not too much. It's a bit Scotty heavy, given he wrote it. The passing of Nimoy and Yelchin is logged. I kept thinking Krall was Krull (he did have a chakra like weapon). Jada delivered an ok fight - will she replace Chekov if there's another? As an Asian male, I'm a little bummed about the gay Sulu, but I get that. There's some decent big screen ship explosions and a lot of crooked sets - the ending was predictable, inexplicable, and illogical, but I'll still see the next one if they can reassemble this cast again.
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