TOP 11 DUMBEST things about this sad excuse for a movie
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tb-sch — 9 years ago(September 09, 2016 03:07 AM)
#14 - Getting a theory how to destroy all enemies within seconds out of nowhere after fighting them coneventionally for a whole movie.
#13 - Revealing how the McGuffin weapon which apparently is the reason the Enterprise was lured on the planet is pretty insignificant next to the fleet Krall already commands.
#12 - Krall forgetting where he parked his own apparently hardly damaged ship. -
dreamstate123 — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 06:10 AM)
The blatant Star Wars ship sound effects used for the enemy ships. Was It that hard for the sound engineers to come up with something original? Guess not. Almost none of the dialogue between the characters was satisfying. Someone said It seemed like a TV episode, and not a very good one. True. The only difference was the movie special effects. The story wasn't very complicated or interesting. Very tacky and stupid In a number of scenes. Nothing really moving, even the time given to Spock's death. Overall, meh. I was expecting way, way more on every level except the CGI. Also, way too many damn explosions. I also love new thought provoking technology. Wasn't really enough in this to interest me.
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jeklor — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 02:28 PM)
It really was dreadful. I like Simon Pegg but he just doesn't know Star Trek. Adding a few lines that reference the original series isn't enough to make a good film. The characters in these reboots have 0 chemistry and even less substance.
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umme4uke — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 03:17 PM)
The Beastie Boys moment was totally cringe worthy, I agree.
I thought Bone's fell flat some of the time - but not all of the time.
I don't think Pegg is any good outside of contemporary comedy and pushes himself (and his ideas) into modern Sci FI reboots more because he likes the originals than actually having any additive skills toward them. I appreciate he really enjoys the sources and that his heart is in the right place but when is his brain going to kick in and make him realise he's not very good in serious roles or at storytelling?
Some of the other points you note (superglue bike, Enterprise destruction and Franklin jump starting) were indeed silly when you think about them in isolation but I didn't find them deal breakers in the moment. -
thefinalword — 9 years ago(September 29, 2016 10:11 PM)
BRUTALLY HONEST.
This movie is precisely what is wrong with storytelling theese days
What is worse, the kids are gonna love it!!!!
I turned it off after the Beastie Boys scene. I mean Abrams took care of Star Trek. These guys are beep making a mockery of it. -
bellapeligrosa — 9 years ago(October 09, 2016 12:28 PM)
Agree with everything you said. It's a shame as I loved Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, Run Fat Boy and Hot Fuzz - wish Simon would go back to his roots and start writing some good old British comedy again.
It's too cerebral! We're trying to make a movie here, not a film! -
thebullmccabe — 9 years ago(October 10, 2016 02:52 PM)
The goddam motorbike
Chris Pine still looks too young to play the part, the poster picture alone looks like some throw back to BMX bandits. Why the need to even have this stupid scene, could they not come up with something remotely to do with Star Trek like, I don't know, a battle in space.
Didn't they do something similar in Resurrection with Worf and Picard on a jeep.
Why introduce another new alien. So far with the reboots we've only had a few minutes of Klingons, Romulans and Vulcan's. I would nearly put up with some Bajoran's if meant they paid some proper homage to the previous shows and not this all action and special effects muck. -
HannahLee_3 — 9 years ago(October 11, 2016 10:21 AM)
Starting the film with the Enterprise crew already burnt out from their mission.
Everyone I know was looking forward to the next installment actually being about the Enterprise being on its mission: adventure, exploration, boldly going, seeking out new lives and new civilizations, etc. etc. But Pegg and Co skipped all that and jumped forward to "Yawn" "tedious" "ugh space exploration is so dull it's driving me to drink". Kirk and Spock are all " I
guess
I'll go on this one
last
mission if you
really
think I
have
to, but I'm
really
not feeling it. I'd
really
rather just hang out on Earth/nuVulcan. zzzzzz"
Way to ride the wave of any audience excitement about space exploration, folks
Also, shredding the Enterprise, again. And doing it before we've seen her actually be on her mission for more than the 60 seconds she was underwater in STiD.
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Kent_Kainer — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 01:23 PM)
But even after those three years they were still in Federation sector.
Good there was this convenient unknown nebula close to the glass snow ball space station that no one explored so far. (Yeah why check the neighbourhood where you want to build such a huge space station with lots of civilians)
So they had something to boldly go where no one went before except for the other crew.
Lincoln Lee: I lost a partner.
Peter Bishop: I lost a universe! -
MikeyLikesIt_357 — 9 years ago(January 12, 2017 12:17 PM)
Yeah this really irked me. We have this giant mysterious nebula which was literally next door to the giant Perplexus Maze (Google it for a laugh), but no one has been able to properly explore it until now. Yet when Kirk and Co. do it, they get through with ease.
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VirtualMark — 9 years ago(October 12, 2016 04:49 AM)
#1 - Defeating the Swarm with Beastie Boys (blaring out of what looks to be a Betamax)
For me, this was the biggest sin of the movie. It wasn't the music that annoyed me, it was the fact that some radio waves wiped out the entire fleet except for the two ships piloted by Bones and the bad guy.
I was expecting the UHF signal to wreck their coordination and make them easy to take out, but when that signal hit them they instantly exploded. It was pretty dumb to say the least.
Plus I'm pretty sure that any space faring vessel would have protection against the electromagnetic spectrum, seeing as how space is full of a range of different signals.
Still, overall I was entertained by this movie wouldn't call it Trek though lol.
You think that's air you're breathing now? -
MetaHooman — 9 years ago(October 18, 2016 04:45 AM)
How about going into uncharted space and landing on the only planet around that just happens to have perfect atmosphere, gravity etc so the crew can go around riding bikes and kicking ass haha
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AlienFanatic — 9 years ago(November 01, 2016 05:52 PM)
I'm pretty sure that any space faring vessel would have protection against the electromagnetic spectrum, seeing as how space is full of a range of different signals.
EXACTLY!
I was going to start (yet) another thread to cover my thoughts on the movie but this point was going to be the basis for it so I'm glad I didn't. Space is FILLED with VHF, UHF, and every other possible form of radio wave known to man. That the advanced alien species that Krall (merged with?) got his technology from wouldn't be hardened against a simple VHF frequency, no matter what it was blaring, was ridiculous. This isn't something I thought of after the fact, either, but rather it pulled me out of the movie in real-time.
I've been a very long-time Star Trek fan, since the 70's, and I was musing about what makes the great Trek movies==of which I'd argue there are only twoso special is that they don't rely on some nonsensical "IWIN" button for the crew to succeed. In Wrath of Khan, Kirk simply outsmarts the villain with a superior strategy borne of his years as a captain in space. In Voyage Home there IS no "bad guy," except man himself, and the crew is tasked with repairing the damage mankind has done to his own environment. Each of these themes represented the essence of CLASSIC Star Trek, where the "sci-fi" portion was merely an excuse to mount a morality play in space. (Trek had plenty of silly episodes too, but you take the bad with the good.)
This movie was somewhat interesting up until Scotty joins Jaylah in her cave and she blasts her boombox. After shoehorning in popular musicwell, from Pegg's and my youththe movie devolved into an action flick that was indistinguishable from most of the pablum in theaters from May through August. Frankly, after they blasted the enemy fleet with VHF I felt the movie could have just ended right there, but then we trudged on through yet another fistfight between Kirk and the baddie-of-the-week.
I like the cast very much, perhaps with the exception of Spock. (I only say this because J.J. Abrams has turned him into a weepy, brooding romantic which is so opposite what Nimoy created.) I do hope that f they continue they stop giving only lip-service to what Trek used to mean. Action is fine and dandy, but when the rest of the film is nothing more than generic set-piece after generic set-piece, it's hard not to walk away unsatisfied. After the poor boxoffice on this one, I think the public is tired of the franchise already and it would be a miracle for a fourth movieif it's greenlitto even approach the poor numbers of this film.
I don't hold out much hope for the TV series next year.
In space, no one can hear you scream. On IMDB, we can hear you but we just don't give a crap. -
Conan-1982 — 9 years ago(October 19, 2016 03:37 AM)
I didn't even notice that Kirk went through an personal crisis and a change of heart. Now that I think about it, I don't remember anything about this movie and I saw it just 2 days ago: that's how much of an impression it left on me.