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Spoilers STAR TREK BEYOND

It's back "down" to 88 percent at Rotten Tomatoes, for what that's worth (63 to 9, positive). I really wonder how some critics cash a paycheck, however. I'm looking at you, Kyle Smith. OK, you didn't like it, fine, but a flippant diatribe is not a review. Not a professional review, anyway.

I also honestly believe that some folks must believe a "Star Trek" story should be tantamount to listening to a pastor's sermon. They couldn't just sit back and enjoy it if they had to. Don't ever ask those types if they want to play fizzbin with you, or take care of your tribble over a weekend. They won't "reach."
 
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Franklin said:
It's back "down" to 88 percent at Rotten Tomatoes, for what that's worth (63 to 9, positive). I really wonder how some critics cash a paycheck however. I'm looking at you, Kyle Smith. OK, you didn't like it, fine, but a flippant diatribe is not a review. Not a professional review, anyway.

I also honestly believe that some folks must believe a "Star Trek" story should be tantamount to listening to a pastor's sermon. They couldn't just sit back and enjoy it if they had to.
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oh my..
For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies :guffaw:
the title already was a hint before I even read but the review, man, what a gem
'Fifty years on, the “Star Trek” franchise is still fresh: It keeps coming up with new ways to suck.'

honestly, if I were the creative team I'd totally love this kind of review, too. :lol:
 
Malaika said:
oh my..
For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies :guffaw:
the title already was a hint before I even read but the review, man, what a gem
'Fifty years on, the “Star Trek” franchise is still fresh: It keeps coming up with new ways to suck.'

honestly, if I were the creative team I'd totally love this kind of review, too. :lol:
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I'd frame it.
 
Franklin said:
It's back "down" to 88 percent at Rotten Tomatoes, for what that's worth (63 to 9, positive). I really wonder how some critics cash a paycheck, however. I'm looking at you, Kyle Smith. OK, you didn't like it, fine, but a flippant diatribe is not a review. Not a professional review, anyway.

I also honestly believe that some folks must believe a "Star Trek" story should be tantamount to listening to a pastor's sermon. They couldn't just sit back and enjoy it if they had to. Don't ever ask those types if they want to play fizzbin with you, or take care of your tribble over a weekend. They won't "reach."
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Good grief! It really sounds like this reviewer has a personal vendetta against Trek for some reason. He is free to dislike the movie of course, but that review is incredibly unprofessional.
 
Starbase Yorktown is freaking amazing. I wish there would be some kind of book about it.
I certainly hope the bluray extras have some relevant featurettes.
 
Not sure I've seen this review posted yet:

Star Trek Beyond movie review: future positive (but it won’t come easily)

This new Trek series, with its first two installments, seemed to have been finding a middle ground between us warmongering apes of the 21st century and the near-utopian idealism and peacefulness of the 24th-century-set The Next Generation, and here it is ultimately all about acknowledging that even getting to its more plausible but still very optimistic version of the 23rd century is going to leave behind lots of people and lots of philosophies that many today would consider not only useful but noble.

None of that heady stuff gets in the way of Beyond’s very intense, often literally breathtaking action-packed story. Kalara (Lydia Wilson: About Time, Never Let Me Go), escape-podded survivor of a lost survey ship from a previously unencountered alien species, shows up at Yorktown — the starbase is at the very edge of Federation space — and the Enterprise takes on a rescue mission to find the rest of her crew, presumed to have crash-landed on a planet inside an uncharted nebula. The mission goes south very fast, and Kirk (Chris Pine: The Finest Hours, Horrible Bosses 2) and Co. find themselves dealing with baddie Krall (Idris Elba: Bastille Day, The Jungle Book), of yet another previously unencountered species. He’s sort of lizardy, with technology that is sort of insectile, all of which plugs into our human hindbrains to say “scary”… but the fact that he is an entirely new kind of villain for Star Trek — he’s not a reboot of any bad guy we’ve seen before across the franchise — means we have no idea what to expect from him. Which is also terrifically scary and suspenseful.

What’s the beyond of the title refer to? There’s the uncharted nebula, of course, and also how multi-Fast & Furious director Justin Lin navigates action when he is actively engaging the reality of no-up-or-down. It’s sometimes confusing and doesn’t always work — ironically, more when Lin tries to apply his space-based visual dynamic in a gravity field — but forgivable: the filmic language of this is still being developed. Mostly, though, beyond has meta meanings. This Enterprise is, Kirk informs us, three years into its five-year mission, which means it’s starting to move into a realm that the original Enterprise crew never got to (their show was canceled three years in; their movies picked up many years later). There’s tons of Trek-style humor here, stuff that could have been plucked from the 1960s show as well as riffs on its beloved tropes — it’s smart, funny acknowledgement of Trek’s roots while moving Trek in a new direction.
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Okay, it's going to be a week or so before I can see it--might have to catch it on DVD (To much real world shit going on). Simple question: Enterprise-A at the end, new class or a repaint of the 1701?
 
SeerSGB said:
Simple question: Enterprise-A at the end, new class or a repaint of the 1701?
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First of all, even the 1701 has differences in Beyond compared to the previous two films.
As for the 1701-A it looks different yet still similar to the 1701. We don't get to see it enough to say for sure, we're going to need bluray screenshots.
And who knows if they're not going to tweak it again for ST4.
 
I decided to scroll right down to the bottom of this page as I have not yet seen the film and have so far managed to avoid spoilers up until this point, but from reading reviews and hearing what people are saying about Beyond, I really think it'll be this year's next Guardians of the Galaxy, and I mean that in the best way possible.

Hopefully word of mouth will get around and positive vibes will make it the large success that GotG was.
 
I had wanted to see it tomorrow, but I have to work. I most likely won't be able to see it until Mon. So I'm going to try to stay away from spoilers.
Yes I will always be a fan of the original series, but I think of the aos as a new direction that I can get on board with. I wasn't one of those who assumed that Lin couldn't deliver a good movie, I wanted to wait to see it with my own eyes before I judged it.

I'll say more after I do
 
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