This is not TOS. This is a whole new experience.There certainly was less action spectacle than the first two. All I recall was the attack on the Enterprise, that skirmish on the saucer, the rescue of the crew and finall
My point was that he hasn't finished his five year mission and a promotion to Vice Admiral is already in the cards. TOS Kirk only got it when he finished his.
How is it that Jaylah was able to hide the Franklin just by using the "holographic switcheroo" technology? Wouldn't Krall have known its location?
Yeah. That and he didn't see her as a threat. She was really afraid of him. She was probably cloaking it from the other aliens.Might have been that he simply didn't care about the Franklin once he found the alien tech.
Might have been that he simply didn't care about the Franklin once he found the alien tech.
I agree completely. And theoretically, every time a character is not completely immobile is doing an actionIt is interesting how different people perceive the same things. For me, it seemed like there is far less action than in the prior two movies (I could definitely be wrong). It would be interesting for someone to define what constitutes an "action scene" (so all three movies are held to the same standard), then time out the amount of action.
In terms of the Spock/Uhura dynamic - I am actually really glad they "ended things' early in the movie, and the little tracking device joke played its part, and got the requisite laughs. But, unlike some friends, I don't think it's really "over" at the end of the movie. Rather, it's changed dynamics and gotten an upgrade. Pegg is a very canny writer when it comes to male-female relationships on-screen and he knows romance in Trek has its own pitfalls (traditionally), esp when it comes to a longer-running romance between crew-members. On top of which you have Spock -- SPOCK!! -- in an ongoing, long-term romance. It would take very skilled scripting and directing to make this believable AND palatable, and I would actually prefer the kind of dynamic between Spock and Uhura that results from THIS "breakup" than the whole lovey-dovey thing they had going earlier. That took away from both characters and was just not conducive to building an ensemble piece IF they wanted to keep both characters true to their core traits. I actually don't mind if they get them back together, but the path should be bumpy and unpredictable, not cloying and humdrum. These two are extraordinary characters. Please keep them that way even in their interactions with each other.
On top of which you have Spock -- SPOCK!! -- in an ongoing, long-term romance. It would take very skilled scripting and directing to make this believable AND palatable
There certainly was less action spectacle than the first two. All I recall was the attack on the Enterprise, that skirmish on the saucer, the rescue of the crew and finall
I tried my best to get what's some trek fans problem with the romance is but years later it still seems to me that most of it comes down to a fixation some people have that these characters (Spock especially) should be asexuate beings, in spite of canon never supporting that idea to begin with (even if the cultural mindset of the 60s no doubt makes original trek come across as very conservative in some aspects compared to nowadays standards..)
In reality people have friendships and people have romantic relationships. It's life. You give relationships, of any kind, to your characters to make them more real and relatable and show different layers of them. If you don't have a problem with Spock (and Uhura) and the other characters in the first scenario (thus them being affected by platonic relationships), you shouldn't have a problem with the second.
I saw Beyond on at midnight opening day and pretty much everything has already been said by other people so all I'm going to add is my experience - I watched it with a good friend at my local cinema which had set up a marathon of all three JJ-verse films and there were two things about Beyond that stood out to me compared to the first two.
The Pacing: waaay different to the first two. It really threw me actually, and it took the first act of the film for me to get my head to slow down with it. I will definitely be watching it again soon because while I thoroughly enjoyed the character moments and dialogue at the start, it was difficult to appreciate because my head was screaming "This isn't right!!! It's too slow!!" after the lightning pace I was used to.
The Music: I am so jealous of everyone who got to see it with a live orchestra because holy crap the score is great. But all three films with all their incredible pieces? Brilliant. In Dolby X-Plus sound with a music student friend was a fantastic choice on my part because it was incredible to hear. Those familiar notes had my heart soaring every time.
Star Trek Beyond dropped a brutal 69% on its second Friday, earning $6.75 million yesterday to bring its eight-day cume to $88.5m. Believe it or not, that’s not the worst Friday-to-Friday drop for a Star Trek film, as Star Trek: Nemesis plunged an insane 83% on its second Friday due to terrible word-of-mouth and brutal competition from The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. Of course, that film’s reception killed the Next Generation film franchise. Star Trek dropped 56% on its first Friday while Star Trek into Darkness fell 53%. Chalk it up to general audience disinterest the third time out and not too much buzz from a relatively solid debut last week.
Yeah. That and he didn't see her as a threat. She was really afraid of him. She was probably cloaking it from the other aliens.
are you saying that they can be a couple but they should never show them being a couple?
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