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It's a fun movie if you ignore all the nonsense but it's a terrible version of Star Trek.
My feelings exactly. It's a fun, kinda dumb SF movie. It is not Star Trek. It's acceptable as an alternate universe very very far removed from the original timeline, only because the names are the same and I really like this version of McCoy.
JJA should've done Star Wars instead. He didn't grok Trek even a little bit.
JJA should've done Star Wars instead.
Did he do Rise of Skywalker? I honestly can't even remember.
He did Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker.
And those proved he grokked star wars about as much.
And those proved he grokked star wars about as much
As disappointed as I was in those movies, I felt less offended by them, because Star Wars never really tried to be real science fiction. But Trek is SF: the original series hired honest science fiction writers, both for the episodes and the tie-in novels. Yes, it had its howlers (there's a barrier around the galaxy! Spock's brain has been stolen!), but they did try.
Abrams can't be bothered to even try. It's not like they couldn't have come up with some other reason the ship was in danger, that didn't require them outrunning a black hole.
I've come to the conclusion the JJ is excellent at casting (Alias, Lost, New Trek and Episodes 7-9 of Star Wars have fantastic casts) good at directing and absolutely terrible at writing plots.
What Consuela said.
I'd actually forgotten JJA did the Star Wars . But I don't honestly care much about the Star Wars franchise.
I really like this version of McCoy.
I think I've said this before, but Karl Urban is easily one of my favorite genre actors right now. I pretty much love him in everything he's in (though I haven't watched The Boys yet because I'm not sure it's really my style).
There's rumors that Paramount wants to do another Star Trek movie with the current cast but without JJ. I'd love to see what a director that actually understands Star Trek could do with these people.
There's rumors that Paramount wants to do another Star Trek movie with the current cast but without JJ. I'd love to see what a director that actually understands Star Trek could do with these people.
Good grief, I'd love to see that. It's the right CAST, for sure, it was just the wrong story.
I won't even mention Beyond.
...JJAbrams...Force Awakens and Rise of Skywalker.
I kept expecting Clifford the Big Red Ball to show up.