I Don't like Star Trek (spoilers)

[Infern0]

Well maybe you are ok with it, but when a guy off a tv show with the production values and acting qualities of my playgroup nativity play shows up in a movie like this it really breaks the fourth wall for me, im lik "what is this goof doing in this movie lmao, has no-one seen him on home and away!"

seriously, if i could change one thing about this film it'd be him! and to think matt damon wanted in on this film, HE could of been george kirk, but instead we got that guy. oh man..............

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Well maybe you are ok with it...

Sure am - he did a great job. I don't give a fuck where you know him from.

 

[Gepard]

Only if you take off your pants, and put on a sombrero so you don't go walking around naked.

J.

But I'm not wearing a sombrero anymore.

 

[Infern0]

He did a terrible job, worst part of the film in my opinion. his doofus face showing up, i was like "Oh Man!"

 

[Orac Zen]

Look the point is random soap actors from australia

Surely it's not the fact he's from Australia you have an issue with?

And no, as I mentioned I hadn't seen him on Home and Away. I daresay the overwhelming majority of people who've seen the movie hadn't either. As a reason for disliking the movie goes, it doesn't carry a lot of weight, really, but to each their own.

 

[Cyg]

that one "Romulan" mining vessel could decimate an entire Starfleet armada.

You do realise it's from 100+ years in the future right?

129 or so years, I believe, which just can't far enough into the future to produce the scenario depicted. and I don't care if it was 500 years - it's a MINING vessel!
Also, I need to clarify that I liked the performances - I thought the characters were captured mostly very well, and I enjoyed seeing them as "youngsters", though Scotty's "situation" was depressingly silly (and he's s'posed to "discover" a theory that Spock "prime" just hands him?!?)
However, it just isn't enough to rise above the story, which would have gotten an 'F' from my tenth grade English teacher. Virtually all the "science" was just laughable children's fare - one drop of Red Matter collapses a black hole?!? might just as well have had someone stick their thumb up their arse and blow on it. then mr "Prime" says this one event threatened to obliterate the entire universe, but proceeds NOT to explain just how that might come about - as if it were just a throwaway comment. bad, Bad BAD writing!
But, hey - the sets were cool looking, and lots of things blew up spectacularly - so it was just awesome, dude... I guess.

 

[Infern0]

I dont hate the film at all, i don't like it that much.

Of course I don't care that he is from Australia lol, I thought Nero was the best character in the film and he was an aussie, same with Urban, he was awesome too.

But that guy man, I just can't get over that guy.

 

[S'kai]

Excellent

469 65.87% Above Average

131 18.40% Average

53 7.44% Below Average

17 2.39% Poor

42 5.90%

With 712 TrekBBS'rs voting. You're not alone, but in a very slim minority.

Me I agree with many of the criticisms of the film. It has taken me a long time to accept the idea of a "reboot," a new timeline where much is different. It's Star Trek, only not as we know it.

Most important however, IT HAS REVIVED STAR TREK, regardless of whether you or I liked the film. There are possibilities that it will survive the mediocrity it has suffered the past several years. The public has taken an interest. It is cool to be a Trekkie.

Sitting outside the theater in the Zhang Heng, I had been transformed from an oddity to a cultural hero. You can too.