Star Trek Beyond

Don't forget that medallion.

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like a crash-dieted welles

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like a crash-dieted welles

they never really got to finish that movie bcz of a Christmas '79 deadline

(ie cut the boring stuff out)

omg ledge that pic is rreally fucking with me

i like the boring stuff!

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new star trek! nice!

TMP def has its charms, most of which I can imagine are greatly amplified on the big screen (I haven't seen it in a theater since it came out, unfortunately)

TMP is really great to look at. It's definitely the weirdest of the films.

I'm half-convinced I never saw the reboots based on how completely forgettable they were. Like, I honestly remember almost nothing about the actual stories and only a smattering of small details beyond that.

i remember the attack on the starfleet HQ that was ripped off from Godfather 3 and a few others details but no scenes, exactly. from the first one, i got nothing beyond Sabotage.

Yeah, I joked somewhere the other day that all I could remember was Beastie Boys songs but it's actually not a joke. Something about Lin doubling down on the fact that a Beastie Boys song will again absolutely be featured in the new movie inpires zero confidence in me.

Like, make your dumb forgettable future space movies with anachronistic Beastie Boys lulz but maybe they don't have to be called Star Trek.

re: TMP - the effects stuff is all gorgeous, what doesn't work/is funny is all the cutting back to the crew on the bridge for their reaction shots. So many shots of the crew looking at stuff. Someone should do a re-edit where all the reaction shots are of the crew watching themselves watch the movie

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I like the first reboot plenty, apart from the dull as dishwater villain, which is a major failure.

xpost Would watch Star Trek version of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFE2CCfAP1o

hahahaha

Someone should do a re-edit where all the reaction shots are of the crew watching themselves watch the movie

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I like the first reboot plenty, apart from the dull as dishwater villain, which is a major failure.

I don't even remember who the villain was. Some time-traveling Romulan?

Like, I honestly remember almost nothing about the actual stories and only a smattering of small details beyond that.

Not even the gratuitous cheesecake shots of various actresses?

Good grief, what absolutely terrible news:

https://www.yahoo.com/movies/star-trek-actor-anton-yelchin-dies-car-crash-175216196.html

wtf

rip - really liked him in everything i saw him in, seemed like he had a promising career ahead

not even a conventional car crash either. grisly way to go out :/. just 27.

RIP

hey! this was way more enjoyable than i expected!

it's solidly in the action-adventure mode of the reboot and sequel, but much closer in quality to the first one than into darkness. the first 20 minutes or so seemed like it was going to be following the all-action all-the-time template of into darkness, but thankfully it calms down for a decent stretch afterwards. there's one scene near the end which seems custom-designed to troll people who disliked one particular part of the first movie, but it's so shamelessly ridiculous that it's hard not to laugh.

there's some solid character stuff in there, and the cast are as great as ever. my favourite thing about it is the production design, much of which seems inspired by the covers of 70s sci-fi novels - there are some genuinely super-cool looking vistas and space stations in there. the design of the enemies is pretty shit though.

really going to miss anton yelchin in future instalments :(

yeah this wasn't bad. ending felt a little "generic action film" but it had way more atmosphere than the last one.

for all the pre-release shenanigans about gay sulu, i was a little surprised it took up literally less than 30 seconds of screentime in total

i was more pleasantly surprised that they gave so much time to saying goodbye to leonard nimoy - three scenes and an 'in memoriam' at the end was a classy touch.

really enjoyed some of the character's moments, like Sulu being completely rigid and confident about being able to pilot the Franklin, pulling off the jumpstart-off-a-cliff maneuver, and then turning to Chekov and making this "yikes" face
the intro scene with Kirk trying his best to be a diplomat and then making this "what?" expression when the skeptical dudes yelp "they want to EAT us!" followed by the perspective shift showing their size

Was fun until I remembered it was supposed to be a Star Trek movie. It was good spectacle but totally soulless.

wait, this is out already?

yeah dogg

i saw this at an early thursday night screening and even w/the heavy trekkie presence i was surprised how enthusiastic the crowd was. it's not bad, though! so much better than 'into darkness'. it feels more like a trek movie, for one thing. they're moving into a comfort zone with the cast. i think that elba was kind of a non-entity as the villain until the very end, which isn't his fault at all. i liked his makeup, at least. i thought the presence of various new alien races was a good touch, i'd welcome more trek movies than are less reliant on klingons and romulans and vulcans. the two alien characters--the one whose ship they had to "rescue" and the ninja one who looked like she was in a fever ray video--were both fantastic in conception and performance.

this was a movie that "felt" more right than it was endlessly entertaining and propulsive, though. it's definitely oddly paced, despite being "fast moving".

i'm just getting tired of the flicks ending with generic action set pieces is all

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It's interesting in that it's kind of structurally the same movie as Into Darkness, but I agree it's very different (nearly all in good ways).

One obvious change is that Krall is not a Cumberbatchian Renaissance Man, evolved over all of us - if anything he's gotten more brutal over time.

One thing in common tho is that a clash of ideas and armies ends up with two lads having a punch-up, though I suppose that is an artifact of the original series.

Apparently the woman-of-many-traps character is called Jailah as it's a shortening of the placeholder "Jennifer-Lawrence-In-Winters-Bone" that was used all the way through the writing of the script.

Ugh, this was lame.

SPOILERS...

There were just so many nitpicky details that I couldn't get past:
Who are the literally millions of bad guys that work for Krall? Did I miss that?

How did Krall lose track of his very own starship?

How do you "repair" a starship with basic tools after it has crashed into a bunch of mountains?

The broadcast-music-over-VHF-and-all-of-the-drones-explode was stupid.

And on and on.

I think the Star Trek movies, with their giant stakes and EEEEEEEEVIL bad guys are just not for me. Star Trek was always more about exploration and meeting/misunderstanding new creatures than just setting up a huge space battle. Clearly JJ Abrams thinks Star Trek is boring, and it shows.

schwantz otm. i knew this would be the case tho so i bought tickets for hunt for the wilderpeople and snuck into see trek instead, hehe.

another thing bothers me (SPOILER ALERT): how did krall turn from a human into the alien shapeshifting thing he became? and then how was he then able to become the king of that race of things (if he was the same as them, i'm not sure)? if that was explained in his captain's log or somewhere else, i missed it.

otoh Zoe Saldana is so gorgeous on screen and great as Uhura, and she and the cast did quite a bit to make up for the dumb things happening.

krall was a great soldier and leader as a human, and he used whatever age-extending technology they found to stay alive. the tech took energy from other lifeforms, but made him appear as an amalgamation of the beings he drained. thats why he looked human at the end -- they kind of left out that the remaining enterprise crew members were hiding somewhere else on the old ship (where were they during all that action?) but he drained all of em (mostly humans) so he appeared mostly human at the end

hunt for the wilderpeople

This was surprisingly dark, but still a lot cuter and less funny than I expected, based on "Shadows," at least.

I thought it was decent fun but I'd like to see one of these with a little less camera movement. also 3D sucks.

where were they during all that action?

They were rescued from Krall's base by Sulu and Uhura, and then Bones was patching them up.

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i'll be seeing hunt for the wilderpeople next for sure

they need some extended scenes where he absorbs those little dudes from the intro. I don't want harm to come to them, I just want to see him get all small and ridiculous

i enjoyed this: def more enjoyable than into darkness, but that's not saying much.

the dutch angles & rotating cameras got hella confusing in the final yorktown scene, i couldnt tell where anyone was!

loved that pine dropped into a classic jim kirk karate stance in the opening scene when the little guys started popping off

This was pretty generic, which for Trek is ... yeah, fine. I thought it had some really cool visual ideas, which is ironic, since as usual I had no idea what was going half the time, visually or otherwise. So the bad guy (spoilers?) is a former star fleet guy who was lost in space hundreds of years back, who somehow found some way to live forever, and then amassed a huge loyal army and unconquerable fleet and turned into an alien, and his ultimate plan was to patiently search for the missing component of some ancient bioweapon so that he could finally exact his revenge on the Federation by ... waiting for them to build a huge peace planet he had no idea they were going to build and then release the bioweapon there and kill everyone? I was totally lost. Why couldn't he just attack it with his unconquerable fleet after he lured away their defenses with the false beacon?

Anyway, lots of little things but they didn't seem to matter, not even the fact that the giant attack on the peace planet looked exactly like the end of Guardians of the Galaxy (maybe Zoe could have told them). I like the cast, and I liked all the character beats, the relationship stuff, and I liked the alien make-up.

this was ok, entertaining enough. going Mass Effect in the final sequence was good after half a film of poorly lit scenes on that planet.
big spoiler was RUINED for me because the reveal "video footage" was shown in some trailers/commercials. what a bunch of idiots.
fucking sabotage.

Apparently the woman-of-many-traps character is called Jailah as it's a shortening of the placeholder "Jennifer-Lawrence-In-Winters-Bone" that was used all the way through the writing of the script.

couldn't tell from the backwoods accent?

The lighting was very bad. Half the time I thought it was the 3D.