they nailed?

[RobertScorpio]

What, more than anything, did they get absolutely right. The pace of the movie? A casting choice? FX? MUSIC?....even you folks who didn't like it, there has to be SOMETHING you like about this movie..

Even I, NEMESIS hater #1, can find a couple bits I liked about that movie.(loved the romulan ship)....

So...what did JJ nail???

Rob

 

[Tom]

Re: they NAILED ????

"So...what did JJ nail???"

Jennifer Morrison and Winona Rider at a pre-production party.....

 

[Ptrope]

Re: they NAILED ????

I thought the main title of the Russian version, with Star Trek (or the equivalent translation) in a Cyrillic version of the same typeface used for the English-language versions, looked pretty cool.

 

[Starbreaker]

Re: they NAILED ????

The cinematography. Wow.

 

[perigee]

Re: they NAILED ????

More than anything else, a new chance at life for the franchise. If they had screwed that pooch, we'd all be S.O.L. for at least another decade.

 

[Mr. B]

Re: they NAILED ????

My childhood... in the ass.

 

[Star Treks]

Re: they NAILED ????

For me, pretty much all of the space shots, including the use of camera angles and movements, model design, special effects, and so forth. Everything from the appearance of warp to the various angles we see the Enterprise to the thrilling battle sequences... say what you want about lens flares or plot holes, the outer space sequences in this movie were perfect.

I'll give an example: at one point we see the Narada warping (with much a similar effect as earlier when we see Starfleet ships popping to warp). As it disappears, the camera momentarily shakes in a somewhat circular fashion, which gives for all the world the impression that there actually was a camera there, affected by the raw power of the ship as it went to warp. It's an artificial concept, of course, but it works in conveying the unbelievable speed of warp better than all the light flashes and streaking stars of earlier Trek.

Or one scene after the Enterprise appears at Vulcan, where we see a long shot of it ascending vertically through the debris field - just beautiful.

 

[gastrof]

Re: they NAILED ????

My childhood... in the ass.

The two tips of your delta badge avatar seem to be even at the bottom.

CANON VIOLATION!!!

 

[RobertScorpio]

Re: they NAILED ????

For me, pretty much all of the space shots, including the use of camera angels and movements, model design, special effects, and so forth. Everything from the appearance of warp to the various angles we see the Enterprise to the thrilling battle sequences... say what you want about lens flares or plot holes, the outer space sequences in this movie were perfect.

Great choice..I have a DLP 1080p projector and I can't wait for this movie to come out on DVD so I can watch it on my 106inch screen..UP REAL CLOSE...some of those space shots made me feel queeze

Rob

 

[indranee]

Re: they NAILED ????

My childhood... in the ass.

The two tips of your delta badge avatar seem to be even at the bottom.

CANON VIOLATION!!!

I think... the casting -- gold; the "brand-new-yet-essentially-the-same" feel; and the emotions.

oh, and the intro on the Kelvin segueing into the fantastic Star Trek logo coming out of the dark.

oh, and the music. I loved it.

 

[VulcanJedi]

Re: they NAILED ????

What, more than anything, did they get absolutely right. The pace of the movie? A casting choice? FX? MUSIC?....even you folks who didn't like it, there has to be SOMETHING you like about this movie..

Even I, NEMESIS hater #1, can find a couple bits I liked about that movie.(loved the romulan ship)....

So...what did JJ nail???

Rob

Abram's nailed it! Fantastic film. Writing, humor, casting.

I thought some choices were a little different, but still WELL DONE, so it doesn't matter if they were different.

The music was beautiful; but I expected it to be more like the old show--but it was good music --that's all that matters. (same guy who did Incredibles music; very good)

I wanted to see more aliens--but the ones we saw were good, or funny or at least whetted the palette for next time.

Sort of like Green Goblin's new costume design in Spider-Man I. Willem Defoe/Sam Raimi nailed it--so the costume was cool. As Shat stated, the ship was "ship-shape." I like the ship more now--after seeing the movie. Cause the movie was very good.

 

[Franklin]

Re: they NAILED ????

-- The main cast. All seven. Pegg and Yelchin included.
-- Greenwood as Pike.
-- The lack of opening credits and jumping right into the movie combined with how the opening scene ended by going to the title card with the very short score. That score fit the emotion of the moment perfectly.
-- The short scenes establishing the childhoods of Kirk and Spock fit and foretold the future in the movie (that Kirk would do a lot of hanging around, and Spock would fight over his mother).
-- The little reactions Kirk would have to things. Like McCoy in the shuttle. Or Sulu saying his combat training was in fencing.
-- The last scene of the movie where Kirk enters the bridge. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
-- As Uhura pointed out, Kirk was a mouthbreather. He did a lot of that in the movie, too. Probably an unintentional joke, but who knows?

That's all I can think of right now.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

Re: they NAILED ????

The going to warp effect and the new spacedock.

 

[Chess Piece Face]

Re: they NAILED ????

I can't put it into words but it just felt like TOS. The way that some of the eps of TOS feel, and some of the movies. Kind of the opposite feeling that I get from Generations, Nemesis and Insurrection. I get a kind of slightly embarrassing feeling from those movies, like I only want to watch them when I am alone. But that serious, kick ass feeling I get from something like Corbomite Maneuver or Menagerie...like this is real Star Trek.

I don't know, they nailed that TOS feeling. This feels like a prequel, in exactly the way that Enterprise did not.

 

[Franklin]

Re: they NAILED ????

The going to warp effect and the new spacedock.

I knew I left something off my list. The going out of warp effect, too.

 

[indranee]

Re: they NAILED ????

I also loved the scene where Spock and the Vulcans materialized on the Enterprise platform without his mother. the look on his face! Quinto is a powerful actor.

 

[NCC-1701-B]

Re: they NAILED ????

Everything

 

[RobertScorpio]

Re: they NAILED ????

-- The main cast. All seven. Pegg and Yelchin included.
-- Greenwood as Pike.
-- The lack of opening credits and jumping right into the movie combined with how the opening scene ended by going to the title card with the very short score. That score fit the emotion of the moment perfectly.
-- The short scenes establishing the childhoods of Kirk and Spock fit and foretold the future in the movie (that Kirk would do a lot of hanging around, and Spock would fight over his mother).
-- The little reactions Kirk would have to things. Like McCoy in the shuttle. Or Sulu saying his combat training was in fencing.
-- The last scene of the movie where Kirk enters the bridge. Perfect. Absolutely perfect.
-- As Uhura pointed out, Kirk was a mouthbreather. He did a lot of that in the movie, too. Probably an unintentional joke, but who knows?

That's all I can think of right now.

Great list..and I so agree on PINE's facial expressions...he studied shatner more than he is letting on I think!!!

Rob

 

[section9]

Re: they NAILED ????

Spock nailed Uhura, and Kirk nailed Gaila.

So far, that's two nailings in this film.

 

[Cakes488]

Re: they NAILED ????

Sountrack is pretty much flawless.