I'm not as impressed as I might be. The footage from both is incredible. But ST:ID seems too ridden with... I don't want to say "cliches", but maybe "tropes" is the word. There are a few running around in the THG:CF trailer as well. I'm gonna trust that the directing for both is good, because they certainly look good; but if they're not careful, the scripts could kill 'em.
Remember when Star Trek was about ideas, ethics, dreaming of the future, moral dilemmas, and above all, the characters, instead of just "heroes / special effects / space battle / boom explosions / press emotional buttons with bigass stuff"?
It seems to me that you could substitute this same script with any random band of heroes and any random antagonist and it wouldn't be any different. Ditto the last movie, really. I find this true of an awful lot of modern films.
I've probably mentioned it before, but for any old Trekkies, make sure you look up "Of Gods and Men," a fan-made movie that came out before the last Star Trek reboot. It was so good that (I think) the reboot borrowed a plot twist from it.
It suffers from too many explosions towards the end as well, and its quality is definitely that of a high-quality fan-made video rather than a studio-produced film. Yet it's classic Trek, with concepts and beliefs and the characters' unique understanding of one another driving the story. It's a sequel to original-Trek Charlie X -- which is worth re-watching on Netflix before seeing OGAM -- and also Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Chekov and Uhura are the lead characters, with Tuvok in a supporting role and a whole mess of minor Star Trek characters and actors from TOS through Voyager making cameos.
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And Now, My Take
Date: 2013-04-16 05:03 pm (UTC)Re: And Now, My Take
Date: 2013-04-17 04:09 am (UTC)It seems to me that you could substitute this same script with any random band of heroes and any random antagonist and it wouldn't be any different. Ditto the last movie, really. I find this true of an awful lot of modern films.
I've probably mentioned it before, but for any old Trekkies, make sure you look up "Of Gods and Men," a fan-made movie that came out before the last Star Trek reboot. It was so good that (I think) the reboot borrowed a plot twist from it.
It suffers from too many explosions towards the end as well, and its quality is definitely that of a high-quality fan-made video rather than a studio-produced film. Yet it's classic Trek, with concepts and beliefs and the characters' unique understanding of one another driving the story. It's a sequel to original-Trek Charlie X -- which is worth re-watching on Netflix before seeing OGAM -- and also Where No Man Has Gone Before.
Chekov and Uhura are the lead characters, with Tuvok in a supporting role and a whole mess of minor Star Trek characters and actors from TOS through Voyager making cameos.