Okay -- a couple of new ideas materialized.
Pike tells Kirk "Your father was captain for 12 minutes and saved 800 people." Okay. I counted 22 shuttlecraft leaving the Kelvin in that one wide shot. Since they all seemed to be the same models and size (and the captain had already taken one to the Nerada, and one medical shuttle only had one passenger, two medicos, and a pilot), I have to wonder: HOW THE HELL DO YOU FIT 800 PEOPLE INTO 21 SHUTTLECRAFT?
Second point: Just how the hell large *is* the Kelvin? It seems to be smaller than the Big E (since it's just a primary hull as the secondary hull has to be nothing but one frikking huge hangar deck to fit the 115 seven-passenger shuttles that would be necessary to save 800 people). Given that the Kelvin had 800 in just a saucer, how the hell many ARE on the Big E, and how the hell big IS it, really?
Another point: JEEBUS could there be any more lens flare? They actually had dozens of shots where lights were actually pointed directly into the camera lens. Good cinematographers throw out shots that do that.
Another point: Loved the pace. A definite improvement over plodding around.
Another point: Loved the McCoy/Kirk hypodermic pas de deux. Some of the funniest Trek I've ever seen, but it wasn't STOOPID funny like Klingon pimples or Crusher and Troy talking about firmer boobs. It was a realistic funny, the kind of thing I can see happening in real life when a rushed and not too well thought-out plan starts to go suddenly pear-shaped and there is no time to address it more properly than trying one thing after another on te fly.
Another point: FECKING LENS FLARE! I really can't recall ever being more annoyed by such a stupid little thing in any movie I've ever seen.
Another point: Writers really do not understand military academies and how they work. I have to wonder if they really even went to college, judging by how they seem to think people can go from kid-hood to command and crew in just a year or so. It actually struck me as being no less egregious than the average Mary Sue story -- kid right out of school suddenly in command of the flagship! It boggles my mind that the writers thought people with only a high school education (e.g., Chekov, at 17) can actually operate, say, the Q.E.2 or the Pacific Princess without years of specialized training, or that doctors would attend the academy, or that people attending academies actually have officer-grade RANKS, or... Sigh.
Another point: There was not one misstep in the casting. Each one of the actors doing our usual gang was spot on. For my money, though, Karl Urban wins the "channeling the original" prize. He *was* a young De Kelly.
Last point: @*#^^#^!&() LENS FLARE!
Pike tells Kirk "Your father was captain for 12 minutes and saved 800 people." Okay. I counted 22 shuttlecraft leaving the Kelvin in that one wide shot. Since they all seemed to be the same models and size (and the captain had already taken one to the Nerada, and one medical shuttle only had one passenger, two medicos, and a pilot), I have to wonder: HOW THE HELL DO YOU FIT 800 PEOPLE INTO 21 SHUTTLECRAFT?
Second point: Just how the hell large *is* the Kelvin? It seems to be smaller than the Big E (since it's just a primary hull as the secondary hull has to be nothing but one frikking huge hangar deck to fit the 115 seven-passenger shuttles that would be necessary to save 800 people). Given that the Kelvin had 800 in just a saucer, how the hell many ARE on the Big E, and how the hell big IS it, really?
Another point: JEEBUS could there be any more lens flare? They actually had dozens of shots where lights were actually pointed directly into the camera lens. Good cinematographers throw out shots that do that.
Another point: Loved the pace. A definite improvement over plodding around.
Another point: Loved the McCoy/Kirk hypodermic pas de deux. Some of the funniest Trek I've ever seen, but it wasn't STOOPID funny like Klingon pimples or Crusher and Troy talking about firmer boobs. It was a realistic funny, the kind of thing I can see happening in real life when a rushed and not too well thought-out plan starts to go suddenly pear-shaped and there is no time to address it more properly than trying one thing after another on te fly.
Another point: FECKING LENS FLARE! I really can't recall ever being more annoyed by such a stupid little thing in any movie I've ever seen.
Another point: Writers really do not understand military academies and how they work. I have to wonder if they really even went to college, judging by how they seem to think people can go from kid-hood to command and crew in just a year or so. It actually struck me as being no less egregious than the average Mary Sue story -- kid right out of school suddenly in command of the flagship! It boggles my mind that the writers thought people with only a high school education (e.g., Chekov, at 17) can actually operate, say, the Q.E.2 or the Pacific Princess without years of specialized training, or that doctors would attend the academy, or that people attending academies actually have officer-grade RANKS, or... Sigh.
Another point: There was not one misstep in the casting. Each one of the actors doing our usual gang was spot on. For my money, though, Karl Urban wins the "channeling the original" prize. He *was* a young De Kelly.
Last point: @*#^^#^!&() LENS FLARE!
