popcorn

Rating: 2/10 (19 November 2009)

that's all this is...sadly. what makes me freeze in my sleep is the fact that more movies will come of this that in turn will have NOTHING to do with previous trek history. the board has been wiped clean... now you can write anything you want.nice trick...star trek died with generations and put six feet under with this movie. this is a heartless monstrosity put together by people intent on demolishing everything only to build sth to the Hollywood/studio standard. star trek should have followed the independent film paradigm and gone away from the studio formula. that chance passed after nemesis.that was the time to go rogue. you don't need 150 million to make star trek properly, you need a vision and ideas to move forward, the characters already exist. who cares how kirk, spock and bones met??? recast star trek OK but don't do it with the intent of producing sequel popcorn movies. thats all this is really...a money investment to milk the star trek name for years to come, and in that respect this is ingenious on the producing's staff part. sure shatner and nimoy are over 70 or so cast them like middle aged adults 35 or so and create a story for them. tos only had 79 eps, plenty of story to tell there, no need to cast them while in college, unless you are thinking money wise in the long run. anyway i could write entire pages on this and about numerous inconsistencies in the film but the truth is there is no one to defend the ideals of star trek anymore. did you get the feeling watching this that the future will be optimistic and hopeful etc or that the next film will bring on even more of the same mayhem and explosions like this one? roddenberry had the intgrity of a true artist,as did nick meyer and protected their vision in favor of that merit alone. they did not work the other way around. this was thoughtless throughout, but money talks so i guess star trek is gone for good. bring on popcorn muncher/ cash machine number 2. p.s i would love to see jj reboot the godfather trilogy, that would be a blast...