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Re: Reviews are in - UK critics love Star Trek [message #244919] Wed, 22 April 2009 16:56 Go to next message
Wouter Valentijn is currently offline  Wouter Valentijn
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Kweeg wrote:
> http://trekmovie.com/2009/04/20/exclusive-london-star-trek-g ala-press-conference-report-w-pictures-video-first-uk-review s/
>
> Reviews are in - UK critics love Star Trek
> The first wave of reviews have come in from the UK, and they are
> (almost entirely) positive about this new Star Trek. Here are some
> quotes: .if anyone could have a decent crack at resurrecting Star
> Trek - one of television and cinema's longest running franchises - it
> could be worse than self-confessed fan, Lost creator JJ Abrams.

JJ's a self-confessed Warsie when he started the project! :-)
Only later on he became a Trek-fan.

> But does he manage it?
> Well, the answer is a pretty simple one. Yes. Star Trek is a decent
> film that does exactly what it says on the tin. It's big, flashy and
> action packed with impressive special effects. Kids will enjoy it and
> the snappy dialogue provides enough laughs for mum and dad.
> BBC

I've seen clips and read the Orci interview. As a man who's been a Trekkie
for over 35 years I will want to buy the DVD later on.
But 'Kids will enjoy it' and 'enough laughs for mum and dad'.... In no way
the guy who wrote this has any clue about Star Trek. If I had to go on this
review alone... Way to superficial!

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Re: Reviews are in - UK critics love Star Trek [message #244922 is a reply to message #244919] Wed, 22 April 2009 22:28 Go to previous message
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Originally posted by: Legend11

"Wouter Valentijn" <liam@valentijn.nu> wrote in message
news:49ef8474$0$184$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl...
> Kweeg wrote:
>> http://trekmovie.com/2009/04/20/exclusive-london-star-trek-g ala-press-conference-report-w-pictures-video-first-uk-review s/
>>
>> Reviews are in - UK critics love Star Trek
>> The first wave of reviews have come in from the UK, and they are
>> (almost entirely) positive about this new Star Trek. Here are some
>> quotes: .if anyone could have a decent crack at resurrecting Star
>> Trek - one of television and cinema's longest running franchises - it
>> could be worse than self-confessed fan, Lost creator JJ Abrams.
>
> JJ's a self-confessed Warsie when he started the project! :-)
> Only later on he became a Trek-fan.
>
>> But does he manage it?
>> Well, the answer is a pretty simple one. Yes. Star Trek is a decent
>> film that does exactly what it says on the tin. It's big, flashy and
>> action packed with impressive special effects. Kids will enjoy it and
>> the snappy dialogue provides enough laughs for mum and dad.
>> BBC
>
> I've seen clips and read the Orci interview. As a man who's been a Trekkie
> for over 35 years I will want to buy the DVD later on.
> But 'Kids will enjoy it' and 'enough laughs for mum and dad'.... In no way
> the guy who wrote this has any clue about Star Trek. If I had to go on
> this review alone... Way to superficial!
>


Try the more intelligent reviewer Christopher Tookey, the Daily Mail's
reviewer....."It is one of the few movies I have seen in recent years which
has celebrated intellectual endeavour, the informed weighing up of risks,
the taking of responsibility. It is, well nigh uniquely in modern Hollywood,
grown-up."

Also, the same newspaper's Trek fan science editor wrote great things about
the movie in today's edition. Yet another fan.....yet another intelligent
take on it. Of course there will be those who don't know the show, and those
so dazzled by special effects and action that they choose to crow about them
in place of anything else, but why single out those comments? I can't
remember if you were one of the people being negative about every trailer or
bit of news coming off the set, or not, but if so.....it's perfectly OK to
have a change of heart.

Oh...and why wait for DVD? Why not pay your ticket and support the
franchise.....and just try to enjoy yourself. As let me remind you...that
was what got you into the show in the first place.....pure, innocent,
unashamed enjoyment. For my money, only a fool would put themselves in the
position of finding out "later on", on watching the DVD, that they've missed
the chance of seeing one of the better Trek movies on the big screen.

I know where my arse will be first chance it gets.....plonked squarely on
the first available Imax seat it can find. Wild horses won't keep me
away.....I've not forgot what attracted me to Star Trek in the first place,
and I plan to enjoy myself.
--
Legend11.
"Space is disease and danger wrapped in darkness and silence."
Karl Urban as Doctor Leonard 'Bones' McCoy - Star Trek (08/05/2009)
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