Star Trek Movie Not To Be Missed

Sonarman · 05-13-09, 09:24 AM

I quite liked the film, I can see the western "wagon train to the stars" aspect noted by Goldorak but Star Trek was also inspired by the Horatio Hornblower series of novels who would always use cleverness, guile and bluff to win his way through situations, there wasn't much of that in evidence here.

I think they did a good job on the effects and introducing the characters with some funny lines, but the core story was rather poor and unmemorable. The expositional voice over by Nimoy in the middle of the film is characteristic of the poor writing normally seen in bad TV detective series it's always better to show not just tell.

However it is a good beginning with hopefully better to come, if I was CBS/Paramount I'd get a "real" SF writer to write the plot and let Orci/Kurtzman write the character's dialogue in the screenplay.

To me the real genius of the series is the openness of the format encompassing everything from comedy, courtroom drama, naval style space battles, morality tales etc, hopefully they will not let it become a "one-note" non-stop action piece, bring on the sequels and a new TV series asap.

05-13-09, 09:24 AM	#23
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,392 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	The expositional voiceover I quite liked the film, I can see the western "wagon train to the stars" aspect noted by Goldorak but Star Trek was also inspired by the Horatio Hornblower series of novels who would always use cleverness, guile and bluff to win his way through situations, there wasn't much of that in evidence here. I think they did a good job on the effects and introducing the characters with some funny lines, but the core story was rather poor and unmemorable. The expositional voice over by Nimoy in the middle of the film is characteristic of the poor writing normally seen in bad TV detective series it's always better to show not just tell. However it is a good beginning with hopefully better to come, if I was CBS/Paramount I'd get a "real" SF writer to write the plot and let Orci/Kurtzman write the character's dialogue in the screenplay. To me the real genius of the series is the openness of the format encompassing everything from comedy, courtroom drama, naval style space battles, morality tales etc, hopefully they will not let it become a "one-note" non-stop action piece, bring on the sequels and a new TV series asap. __________________ "The action is simulated...the excitement is real!" Microprose Simulation Software.