First 10 minutes
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I love it, it's brilliant!
It's Robauriffic.(TM)
It even appears to show the Narada firing disruptors at one point, which is nice... because it's hard to believe they wouldn't have that technology.
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I share the love for this sequence, but the only weapons I see are:
- Pules Phasers of some kind (those little white blobs from the Kelvin, presumably some kind of Point Defense system)
- Traditional Phasers (Long read streaks from the Kelvin's larger phaser emitters)
- Narada Missiles (The mass of green blobs with streaks behind them).
But it is an absolutely gut-wrenching beginning.
That always looked like a disruptor spread to me when I watched that scene in what the film site calls "Trailer 3", but I do see the streaks that would indicate they are missiles, even though the objects themselves seemed to look different from missiles in the trailer footage. At first I had thought they were something like this.
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I think you may be right! Imagine, a thread where those who usually go for the jugular can all agree! I may cry...
[we need a smiley with the Vulcan salute... it would look great here]
Withers
Captain
Seriously, somebody needs to alert somebody; this is something I have never seen happen before (here or anywhere else) where the biggest advocates and critics of a thing can unite without an unfortunate death or 9/11 somehow being involved. Who ever made this thread should be nominated for some sort of award.
-Withers-
If the rest of this movie had been as great as the scene of Kirk's birth, people would have had a big mess to gawk at when the lights came on after the movie's end...the remains of my head, which would have exploded from how blown away I'd just been. 
I was really shocked by how fantastic that scene was.
"Tell me about him"
"He's beautiful"
"I love you"
I heard all that and thought to myself, what the hell is going on here? We haven't even reached the opening credits and I'm on the verge of crying?
That's only happened in a movie theatre once before, and it was at the ending of a movie.
This movie probably has one of the best openings of any movie I've ever seen, not just of any Star Trek movie. I don't like where the story went from there and ended up half satisfied half disappointed mostly because of the story contrivances/weak writing and annoyingly frenetic special effects, but the opening sequence had me psyched for a masterpiece.
I was really shocked by how fantastic that scene was. "Tell me about him"
"He's beautiful"
"I love you"
I heard all that and thought to myself, what the hell is going on here? We haven't even reached the opening credits and I'm on the verge of crying?
That's only happened in a movie theatre once before, and it was at the ending of a movie. This movie probably has one of the best openings of any movie I've ever seen, not just of any Star Trek movie. I don't like where the story went from there and ended up half satisfied half disappointed mostly because of the story contrivances/weak writing and annoyingly frenetic special effects, but the opening sequence had me psyched for a masterpiece.
Withers
Captain
Oh god! The exact same thing happened to me! I had to actually tell myself to "Pull it together" because if I hadn't I would have openly produced tears. I agree with you- it isn't just the best opening of a Trek movie... it's the best opening of any movie I can think of off the top of my head. I would really have to strain to find anything that even comes close.
-Withers-
I may be on the verge of Trek blasphemy, but until now the most moving scenes in all of Trek- or movies period- were Spock's death and funeral. I had years of emotion invested in this character by the time TWOK hit the theaters, so it affected me deeply.
The difference with ST09's opening is- as many have posted- I did not know these characters before this movie, yet was emotionally affected by them in 10 minutes.
Unlike most in this thread, I like the new movie... alot. It is not perfect by any means, but I am still a fan. Even I can say the Kelvin scenes are a step above the rest of the movie, though. It is too bad just that section was not up for an Oscar... we could possibly have won Best Picture!
The difference with ST09's opening is- as many have posted- I did not know these characters before this movie, yet was emotionally affected by them in 10 minutes.
Unlike most in this thread, I like the new movie... alot. It is not perfect by any means, but I am still a fan. Even I can say the Kelvin scenes are a step above the rest of the movie, though. It is too bad just that section was not up for an Oscar... we could possibly have won Best Picture!
Yes, yes. This movie is not perfect. Let me try to be a little less vague than that. I don't like movie because we go from a cast of good quality characters that I do care about to a cast of selfish arrogant a**holes I do not care about.
I was surprised that although I didn't know the characters at all, I did feel sympathy for the crew of the Kelvin.
I feel sympathy for any innocent party who's thrown into that kind of no-win scenario.
I mean, one second they're out there exploring, the next their ship is getting torn to pieces by an enemy that they have no hope of defeating. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I mean, one second they're out there exploring, the next their ship is getting torn to pieces by an enemy that they have no hope of defeating. They were just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
I heard all that and thought to myself, what the hell is going on here? We haven't even reached the opening credits and I'm on the verge of crying?
Ditto, and I know it happened to several friends, too.
The other time the beginning of a movie affected me like that was Gandalf and Frodo greeting each other in the first "The Lord of the Rings" movie. It felt exactly like the book come to life.
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