She did not like the movie because she did not like one of the plot points. Fair enough.
Star Trek Rotten Tomatoes Rating
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Actually reading her review, though, shows it to be overwhelmingly positive. She does like the movie, she just isn't as enthralled by it as some.
Ebert reviews on a sliding scale - he's willing to acknowledge a run-and-shoot as an "excellent" movie within the scope of run-and-shoots without considering it "excellent" alongside his very favorite films of all time. Whether Lemire does the same thing or simply reserves four stars for films she considers excellent on an absolute scale of some kind is something I couldn't say without having read a whole lot of her reviews.
What's your secret? Everything plot-wise, has had the opposite effect on me... and I've generally avoided total spoilage, just the unavoidable facts.
One article mentioned a sour grapes Trek fan over at some site called Trekspace.org, which I had never heard of before. So I went there and saw someone's post with the following highlights:
And I'm just thankful I'm not him. What a sad, pathetic way to go through life.
And sad and pathetic at the same time...
He also gets a great deal of things wrong and has a ridiculous sense of entitlement. "By one man, not a committee"? Who is this guy, Richard Arnold?
JJ obviously came to this guys house, took all of his DVD's, models, toys, posters and books, put them in to one big pile and shat upon them.
Why would they hold back negative reviews until release ?
That defeats the whole purpose of the site.
According to a post by Dennis on page 7 of this thread, Wolverine was down to 53% positive when it had only 17 reviews.
Drama queens are so entertaining!
"And one day, the Trek Rapture will come, and The Great Bird will sweep in with his mighty starship and take all of The True Faithful away with him where we will watch "The Alternative Factor" until the end of days!"
Sixty percent. Why not fifty percent? Dunno.
Anyway, if anyone would like a link to the drama queen's full article, it is at:
http://www.trekspace.org/profiles/blogs/sickeningfans-left-for-dead
Yeah, this is better than Wolverine!
Looking at the snippits of "fresh" reviews of Wolverine, it makes you wonder how brutal the "rotten" reviews must be
Examples of Fresh Wolverine:
"This movie follows the pattern of most summer blockbusters there's a strong first act that sucks you in, a 2nd act where things get a little shaky and a last act that's awful."
"Wastes a lot of time weaving an unnecessarily-complicated premise given that it leads to a fairly simplistic showdown of good versus evil."
"The latest edition of the X-Men franchise is easily the least, with a convoluted storyline, poorly defined characters and a dark one-note tone that lacks the humor and light touches of the earlier three installments."
Christy Lemire certainly isn't a fan. she doesn't seemed to have watched TOS at all. not that there's anything wrong with that but anybody who's watched Where No Man Has Gone Before with even half a mind would know that the fact that Kirk and Spock weren't always chummy is NOT revisionist history.
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