Movie Review: Star Trek - Page 2

The other "famous face," so to speak, in Star Trek is the Enterprise itself. She looks spectacular here, sleek and virginal. When she drops out of warp with all weapons bearing down on the Romulan ship - oh, that was a beautiful, triumphant Trek moment. Inside, the ship looked ... white. It seemed to be only missing the padding on the walls to make it a passable loony bin. But, the new warp speed sound effect — awesome. The new transporter effect — awesome. I even liked the new phasers.

The special effects were impressive and certainly made this look both like and unlike any other Trek film or series. At the same time, it felt sterile, austere, distant. But maybe that was just my resentment.

I keep coming back to the "reboot." I just don't get it. I would say this rebooting thing is just an excuse for plagiarizers to play around in someone else's world. They're imposing their own parameters on another's creativity, not honoring or paying tribute to it. I can't classify people who do it as creative.

Abrams paid tribute to the Godzilla universe, for example, with the mediocre Cloverfield. But at least there he didn't piddle in the established Godzilla world like a mischievous toddler. I have to wonder what Gene Roddenberry would think about the puddle Abrams left in his world. He literally destroyed some important elements of the Trekverse - no, really, he did, on screen. It was difficult to watch.

So, he made a fair to middling sci-fi movie ... but it's no Star Trek. Well, not completely. Oh, and I know some people are going to say things like, "he made an alternate reality, retard." All I can say is, I'm not the retard (that's Eric Bana's "disturbed" Romulan). He didn't make an alternate reality; an alternate reality would co-exist with the present reality and you can go back and forth. No, Abrams mishandled an easy time travel story and re-wrote an established reality and I just don't know if I'll forgive him for that.

Like he cares; he's made good money off this flick already.

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