Orci and J.J. Abrams plunges the genre back into darkness

Rating: 2/10 (5 September 2013)

I recently read that screenwriter Bob Orci has lashed out against fans who gave their honest opinions of this movie. To wit, he said, "As I love to say, there is a reason why I get to write the movies, and you don't." He claimed that the most recent addition to the Star Trek genre was "infinetly more social commentary than Raiders of the Lost Ark in every Universe."
I am SO glad Orci managed to best (in his own mind, anyway) a thirty- year-old film. In our minds, however, the correct answer is, "NOT!" I don't know know which audience he thinks he's writing for, but it certainly isn't the average moviegoer, much less the Trekkies. His is a clear failure of lesson number one: Consider the audience. Even though I've seen every movie and show from all five of the TV series, I don't consider myself a Trekkie. Just a well-versed aficionado of the genre.
Additionally, the screen direction managed to do what Cameron's Avatar succeeded in avoiding: Making the audience ill. Seriously, the in- your-face closeups combined with whatever degenerative neural disease on the part of those working the camera made for an extremely unpleasant theater experience. Excessive closeups and spastic camera work utterly destroyed what might have been some very good visuals, acting, and possibly an otherwise decent script.
So, FAIL.