Star Trek: The Other Motion Picture
Amy Austin | May 8, 2009
Also saw it a few hours ago -- and totally thought it lived up to the hype.
Justin Woods | May 8, 2009
I agree With you both, Very well balanced.
Lori Lancaster | May 11, 2009
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Scott Hardie | May 13, 2009
The science in the movie was pretty silly, but within its framework, I liked how they fit this into the existing Star Trek mythology without completely starting over or saying this was the same as what we saw earlier. I like how that gives them license to play with this world, such as changes to Vulcan. I still don't get how the Romulans are bald, tattooed space pirates now, if they came from the original timeline, but at least they're more interesting than the original Romulans. I think the Klingons will be the focus of the next movie, and even though Kirk's crew never met them, I'd love to see how the Borg are transformed in the new series.
Erik Bates | May 15, 2009
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Scott Hardie | May 16, 2009
That's what I thought about the Romulans too, but I read some article that mentioned how the art director re-envisioned the race as "space pirates," how they wore stolen mismatched outfits and tattooed their bodies and flaunted their scars and so on. Good choice for reinventing the look of the series Batman Begins style, but bad choice for continuity.
After the reinvented Romulans, and all of the CGI-assisted aliens in the early scenes like the big-eyed OB delivering baby Kirk and the long face at the Iowa bar, I couldn't help but think: Why do the Vulcans still just look like humans with fake ears?
Kelly just found this:
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Erik Bates | May 17, 2009
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Ryan Dunn | May 18, 2009
Just saw it. Hokey, but fun.
Richard Slominsky | May 21, 2009
Good Movie
Ryan Dunn | May 21, 2009
SPOILER!!!
I was mildy annoyed that they intrroduced ALL the characters and had them immediately and conveniently placed in all the positions they would find themselves in for the next 40 years.
Really? Did Kirk really have to meet everyone at Starfleet? Couldn't they have saved a few character reveals for future sequals? Wouldn't that have been more interesting?
Really? Uhuru, Sulu, Chekov etc never aspire to be more than what they are assigned directly out of The Academy?
The more I think about it the more annoyed I get.
Now where they got it right was with young Kirk. I like the hellraiser tween Kirk driving his stepfathers car off a cliff. This, IMO, is where George Lucas got it wrong with young Anakin. Young Anakin should have been a little tough sonofabitch all grit no nonsense gambling punk kid, not the little sweet petunia Lucas ended up creating.
I digress.
Kris Weberg | July 18, 2009
In fairness, the film's Romulans are a) coming from even further into the timeline than the Next Generation/DS9 era and b) are a mining ship that survived the destruction of Romulus itself. (According to material that never made it into the film, they also ended up in a Klingon prison camp for years after traversing the black hole.)
Amy Austin | August 30, 2010
I can get behind that.
Tony Peters | August 30, 2010
still haven't seen it..............
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Scott Hardie | May 8, 2009
Anybody like it? Dislike it? Staying away? This is the funniest thing I've seen about it so far.
Kelly and I saw it a few hours ago. It's as good as the reviews say: Smart, stylish, exciting, free of moralizing, and above all, FUN. As much as I enjoyed TNG and DS9, they were awfully serious affairs, and this feels like a breath of fresh air about a decade or two late. More, please!