I believe it's a prequel to Star Wars.

Star Trek is, in my humble opinion, probably going to be the best movie of the summer. Maybe Public Enemies will top it, but for sheer entertainment and satisfaction my money would be on Trek.

A 2 hour joy-fest, Trek is a movie that likes you back. It gives you everything you could ask for in a sci-fi movie: Drama, huge action scenes, comedy and, most importantly, heart (Go Captain Planet). Every single actor, no matter how small the role, gives 110%. Even Tyler Perry (Yes, Tyler fucking Perry is in this movie) gives it his all. My only real acting complaint would lay on Eric Bana for being a bit too over-the-top in some scenes and never really seeming to have real justification for his actions. My favorite actor in the whole thing would have to be Karl Urban for his dead-on McCoy. It's almost scary.

The tone was light, breezy and fun. I found this very refreshing. Since the Dark Knight every movie thinks it needs to kill at least 3 main characters and depress the hell out of you. This movie, however, wants to excite you, create wonder and awe in you. I have to say it worked.

There are moments that I found out of place or strange but they are largely forgivable. There were times I felt a bit lost in the call backs to the original series (something I don't care for) but I mostly got the in-jokes.

I know a lot of trekkies don't really like this but, hey, part 5 is still a lot worse. Get over yourselves and your love for such a cheesy TV show. It is in my personal opinion that to fully embrace and love something you have to first admit, if this is true, that it sucks. Star Trek sucked, it was hokey and silly. I'm a huge Firefly fan and I know that makes me a huge outsider in a lot of nerd circles, but I'm fine with that.

Which brings me to a point I want to make, something I have against this movie. I think the main reason trekkies don't like this movie, besides undoing everything we already know: It doesn't really feel like a Trek movie. It feels more like something like Serenity. A free-floating movie in it's own mythos, unconnected to anything else. Hopefully, all of this will be fleshed out in the Trek films to come.

I do want to see this again, I probably will. It's great. See it.

There were Stars and they trekked...

So on Friday May 8th, Scott and I saw Star Trek.

It's an exciting movie. It ended up not being a simple retelling of the classic tale for a new generation (thank god, thats what next generation is for) but rather a storyline that you might find in an actual Star Trek episode; filled to the brim with time travel, laser beams, screaming aliens and some fighting. Writing-wise, the movie was a comfortable balance of serious, peace-loving anti-racism undertones and good old fashioned humor. Chris Pine did a great job at being a sarcastic asshole and Zachary Quinto was pretty much spot on as Spock. I can't think of a better actor to get that emotionless but still kind of creepy dead pan demeanor.

All in all, I would say it was two hours well spent. I came out of the film feeling excited about the quality of the picture and was really happy to tell other people. So go see it

I will be seeing Star Trek.

I know I just went all nerd-rage and blasted origin stories but I will be seeing Star Trek. I know: it's an origin story. Worse than that: it's a mother fucking prequel (I HATE THE WORD!). The simple fact of the matter is: It Looks Good.

I'm not a huge fan of J.J. Abrams - I lost interest in Fringe after about 3 weeks (I liked it better when it was called the X-Files). I've seen like 3 episodes of LOST, and I do like Alias but don't care for the over-arching mythos of the show. I LOVED Cloverfield. In short, the man has good ideas, he is interesting. But, the work he is producing has really generated any interest in me.

With that said, I will be seeing Star Trek.

Wonderful.

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