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| The least spoiler-y promo picture I could find. |
How do I start this? Last Saturday night was the night for reconnecting with old friends plus two. After all the 'meaty churro' jokes had been had, we walked off into the sunset like a group of high schools headed for the movie theater. Last week in my sad, event-less life I caught the first new Star Trek movie between obsessive facebooking and being generally unproductive. As for the first movie, it was actually pretty good and I'm not sure why it took me so long to watch, but that is another review for another time. We say Star Trek Into the Darkness:
Oh, and I've kept it as spoiler free as possible even though you can just look it up on the net now.
Tagline: "Beyond the darkness, lies greatness."
"In our darkest hours, when our leaders have fallen, a hero will rise."
"They have one change to save us all."
"Earth will fall."
Their synopses: "When the crew of the Enterprise is called back home, they find an unstoppable force of terror from within their own organization has detonated the fleet and everything it stands for, leaving our world in a state of crisis. With a personal score to settle, Captain Kirk leads a manhunt to a war-zone world to capture a one man weapon of mass destruction. As our heroes are propelled into an epic chess game of life and death, love will be challenged, friendships will be torn apart, and sacrifices must be made for the only family Kirk has left: his crew."
So as I mentioned earlier the people I watched it movie with are good friends which can make or break a movie. But this one stood on its own really. There were plenty of jokes and incredible opportunities to make comments through out the movie. Keep in mind I don't remember the original movies. I know it's a sin and I should have watched them, in fact I should be rewatching the entire series, ALL OF THE SERIES.
I thought the CG was fantastic and hard to specifically spot. One "special" actor I really enjoyed seeing in the movie played a pretty large role and I was incredibly thrilled to see he/she in the movie. At one point I said, "See, (he/she) can't really be the bad guy, (he/she) does it so poorly when put into practice." I really enjoyed all of the characters, moreso than the first movie. The story was great. At first when I saw the trailer I thought it was all based on planets which made me sad because Star Trek is about space afterall! But There was plenty of space and at one point I was thinking there would be some cyborgs in the movie (which would have just been insanity). The dynamics of the relationship between Spock and Kirk were explored to depths that really made me feel their connection unlike I had noticed before in the original series. I'm really lad they did that, it really added to the overall feeling for the movie.
I will spoil this one part though, when Kirk was relieving his crew from their duty in order to save their lives Mr. Sulu said, "With all due respect, we aren't going anywhere." And I did say "Awwwwwww yeah," pretty loudly in the theater. It was a perfectly placed, bad-ass awwwwwww yeah. I'm just saying I'm proud of myself. Also, guys, keep in mind I wrote this whole review only half paying attention.
Best Quote: "Damn it Jim, I'm a doctor, not a torpedo technician!" -Bones
And also "Mr Sulu, remind me never to piss you off." -Bones
Overall review: If you heard bad reviews, I have no reason why. I thought it was better than the first new Star Trek movie. If you loved the old movies there are enough references to entice the old fans (see here for those references).
WATCH for sure
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| My sorry for forgetting to add pictures in the beginning. WAPS. |
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