New Star Trek Trailer

I just ordered my ticket for an advance screening on the 6th of May, 7pm GMT! ;)
 
Film is opening here this weekend, but the popular ratings site rotten tomatoes.com has already 40 reviews posted up, all of them positive (probably due to early advance screenings and confidence from the movie producers) giving it so far a 100% fresh rating

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/star_trek_11/

and unofficial review from someone who saw it last night (no spoilers)

Gcbinc said:
went last night: Here are my thoughts -

1st - got there @ 6:30 for a 7:30 show - got in, no issue - sent center middle, prime viewing.
2nd - def geek fest, but only one set of spock ears on a woman so ugly, they may have been real.

Review - no spoilers:

THEY GET THIS RIGHT - they really, really nailed it - it lives up to expectations, the one-liners from spock, bones and scotty are there, Kirk actor is great, and they even got Capt Pike in there.

They do a great, great job or resetting the franchise - they don't ignore it like the new Bond franchise it, the do a Back to the Future 2 - Alternate Universe thing with it that ensures that we aren't going to see more whales in space, but also means we won't see a Wrath of Khan again (I think)

That's all I'll say unless someone wants to know specifics.

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booked my ticket for this Friday at 1415 and cannot wait for it to get here. I've made a point of not seeing any clips or reading any plot reviews about the film. All i've seen about the film is the 2 trailers (i've got the soundtrack but haven't even listen to that yet).
Really, really looking forward to seeing the film, this is very likely going to be film of the year for me. I'm looking forward to seeing GI Joe and Transformers: ROTF but neither their trailers seemed to generate the kind of kick ass action that Star Trek delivers.
Plus also i noticed the other day a Star Trek TV spot and i never thought i'd see the words "contains violence and language" connected with something like Star Trek.
 
nate_bartlet said:
booked my ticket for this Friday at 1415 and cannot wait for it to get here. I've made a point of not seeing any clips or reading any plot reviews about the film. All i've seen about the film is the 2 trailers (i've got the soundtrack but haven't even listen to that yet).
Really, really looking forward to seeing the film, this is very likely going to be film of the year for me. I'm looking forward to seeing GI Joe and Transformers: ROTF but neither their trailers seemed to generate the kind of kick ass action that Star Trek delivers.
Plus also i noticed the other day a Star Trek TV spot and i never thought i'd see the words "contains violence and language" connected with something like Star Trek.
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I think the most interesting thing is that this movie...NOT being a remake, is part of a writer-created branching point in Star Trek history basically leaving the franchise completely free and open to start fresh new series of films and undoing the last 40 years of Star Trek continuity history. Pretty exciting if this continues to go in the right direction.
 
Just watched it (german Pre-Premiere) and loved it...
 
Watched it last night. Quite good. Too much lens flare, a bit too much hack-and-slash editing, constant handheld camera, which is not what Star Trek should look like, it looked more Firefly-y than "Serenity", some scenes that were awfully overdone dramatically in an almost soap-opera like way and most of all, it felt too much like real people in space and had nothing of this utopian Star Trek where everyone gets along fine and problems are solved together. - Had no technobabble either, on the other hand, BRILLIANT casting, brilliant character moments, diverse moments of "Trek pride" that would be lost on the casual viewer, great SFX and set design, i even liked the "iBridge"...

...and even shorter skirts on female crewmembers! Yay for 60's sexism being back on the big screen! Now i want Craig's Bond to talk to women like Connery's did!

Tiger Tanaka: You know what it is about you that fascinates them, don't you? It's the hair on your chest. Japanese men all have beautiful bare skin.
James Bond: Japanese proverb say, "Bird never make nest in bare tree."
 
I saw it a few hours ago. I thought it was great.

And a lot funnier than I was expecting it to be.
 
Dr_Grip said:
Watched it last night. Quite good. Too much lens flare, a bit too much hack-and-slash editing, constant handheld camera, which is not what Star Trek should look like,
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Remember, shaky docu-cam style is the trend these days in film-making, esp made popular with the new Battlestar Galactica, also some of it may be owed to director JJ Abrams style (i dont know if he did this with Alias but he has with his other works) so part of what youre seeing is the directors signature style.
 
edkwon said:
Remember, shaky docu-cam style is the trend these days in film-making, esp made popular with the new Battlestar Galactica, also some of it may be owed to director JJ Abrams style (i dont know if he did this with Alias but he has with his other works) so part of what youre seeing is the directors signature style.
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I know... he even put it to the maximum (for mainstream films, nothing can top the seasickness-inducing cinematography of Irr?versible) in the rightly-already-forgotten "Cloverfield". Still, i don't like it. There are few places where it worked, Firefly being one of them, mostly it's annoying (see: the latest "Bourne" installment) and for Star Trek, it seems like a completely wrong choice.

stiggie said:
And a lot funnier than I was expecting it to be.
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Too funny, i my book. It almost had more comedy than Star Trek IV, which i think quite nicely tested out the boundaries of how funny Trek can get while still working as Trek...
 
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It was pretty good, surprisingly funny and not very nerdy. Nice effects & that Sylar dude as Spock is perfect, and it also has a fucking scene with a frikking green chick, what else do you want? :D
 
Going with my dad to an advance screening at the Odeon in Leicester Square at 6:15pm on 13th May. Don't know whether we'll be in the huge cinema though - probably a smaller side one. Free tickets aswell!
 
OMG i want to see this movie. i might have to hitchhike to get to the damn theater tonight. GAH. ive ben geeking out all day about this movie.
 
D-Fence said:
it also has a fucking scene with a frikking green chick, what else do you want? :D
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No it doesn't. They barely managed to start kissing before being interupted.

I liked the movie, but I want to take an sledge-hammer to whoever decided to let Nokia and Budweiser advertise in a Star Trek movie.:mad:
 
MadCat360 said:
What? Is the ship computer built by Nokia or something?
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No... the hands-free phone in the Corvette (from the trailers) is a Nokia unit.
Actually, i like product placement like that, it adds a sense of realism to the "future". Even if most featured brands, like Pan Am, are long-defunct by now, the use of real-world companys adds to the realism of 2001, for example.

On the other hand, "old" Trek was a socialist hippie society without money and without commercial companys, so the usage of commercial brands once again sets aside "new" Trek from the utopian future that pretty much defined Trek.
 
I saw it last night with Mrs Cobol74 (Romantic huh?).

Dr_Grip has it right in his review - (yep, too much lens flare for me) - not quite enough relationship stuff, it was all a bit forced introducing all the original characters in one go - and Spock + Uhuru, naw come off it. ... (Er just in-case people mis-understand, nothing to do with the characters race; just that these people would not have had that sort of relationship, IMHO).

The special effects were not quite what I would like and the baddies were just too bad. Dialogue at times was a bit crap - I like Simon Pegg's 'Scotty', best bit as he was a bit funny actually. The doctor tried too hard.
 
Saw the movie last night, brilliant. There have been so many franchise reboots lately which haven't been perfect or flaw filled, either trying too hard to reproduce the original, or deviate way too far from the original source.

Somehow JJ Abrams and the writers have managed to create a movie that is not only inspired from and deeply reverential to the original classic series, yet is also completely fresh and new and now opens up the whole star trek universe to reinterpretation again. I've watched all the movies and all the series and frankly, like many have said, the franchise was getting too bogged down by the weight of itself. This movie has successfully made everything new and more importantly 'fun' again.

Agreed that lens flaring and shaky docu-cam could have been toned down, but honestly these are the biggest complaints i can think of in a movie that is shot/directed/acted and written very well.
 
I saw it tonight and it was alright. It was far from great but not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
 
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