STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS - Grading & Discussion [SPOILERS]

And that's just for a matinee where I am!

 

Such as a not-even-one term US Senator elected as POTUS?

 

I said before, initially I enjoyed ST 2009. But it wore off fast. They did not write a story with characters I could care about. Other movies have been able to that.

 

Big difference in winning a popularity contest and earning promotion in the military.

 

It wore off fast because you initially have monkeys in your back that prevent you from enjoying it fully. [sybok]That's why...you need to let go of your pain [/sybok]

 

Of course leading the free world and the most powerful military and economy ON EARTH is such a cake-walk right?

 

True. It's MUCH more difficult to become the US president.

 

The fact is that they both had to DO something to get the job.

(yes, I know, reality/fiction).

 

Trust me, there's no where to go but UP from this moment...

[yt]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhQA-06kSLU[/yt]

 

The Guardian, 4 out of 5:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2013/may/01/star-trek-into-darkness

 

Captain Kirk promoted to Admiral Kirk demoted to Captain Kirk promoted to Admiral Kirk demoted to Captain Kirk.

Real world militaries don't work like that either yet we've survived. Somehow...

 

That analogy is bad, and you should feel bad.


A three year cadet of the naval academy becoming commanding officer of an aircraft carrier after one mission, that's the better analogy.


There's a crisis in Japan, but the entire fleet is in the Mediterranean Sea. So they equip several cruisers and aircraft carriers with a bunch of cadets to rush to the emergency in Japan. A rogue cadet who has been suspended illegally boards one of the aircraft carriers, makes his way to the bridge and confronts the commanding officer. He gets promoted to first officer and leads a mission to stop a terrorist weapon. The commanding officer gets captured by the terrorists, the rescue fleet is completely destroyed, and Tokyo is nuked. The second in command exiles the rogue cadet on a deserted island just because they have a difference in opinion. The cadet meets an engineer who got exiled as well. They steal a helicopter and get back on the aircraft carrier. They are brought to the bridge, where the cadet annoys the XO so much that he suffers a major nervous breakdown. After that, everyone is totally perplexed, and the CADET has to take command.
They then proceed to stop the terrorists to nuke San Francisco. The cadet and the XO board the terrorist ship and destroy it.
And then, the cadet gets promoted to commanding officer of the aircraft carrier. Because in that one mission he proved his capability to manage an entire aircraft carrier, and because the fleet apparently ran out of ships and officers.


The story is beyond stupid.


What makes it even funnier is that Kirk gets demoted again after Pike realizes how stupid it was to put him into the Captain's chair so soon.

 

Fan since 1966 here.

Don't care.

Not even a tiny bit.

In fact, I decree that henceforth the acronym "IDIC" shall stand for I Don't Infinitesimally Care.

 

What's sad is this sends the wrong message to young people. We're already seeing people leaving college who think it's an automatic ticket into their career. Only they learn the hard way that,with very few exceptions, everyone starts at the bottom.

 

Heaven forbid.

Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, Turner, Lauren, Ellison, Geffen...

Yeah, yeah, all famous exceptions. Well, the most successful woman I know personally has a GED.

America, at least, has put such an exaggerated emphasis on educational credentialing that it's become counterproductive.

What's the "right message to send to young people:" spend four years piling up $100,000 worth of non-dischargable debt in exchange for an entry-level ticket to a desk in a cube farm?

It's a movie. IDIC.