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Terry Hooper-Scharf
Monday, 14 December 2015
Star Trek Beyond
I thought Urban as McCoy was good in the first but it never did a thing for me. Second one I never saw. But talk about trying to kill a film in the press and by "fans"! Wowchers!
The first trailer for Star Trek Beyond, the third in the current series, has landed, and it's very silly.
While fans still crave a more cerebral film a la the
Picard/Sisco golden years, Paramount looks to be going further in the
other direction - the emphasis in the trailer being on comedy and
action.
It begins by shamelessly cribbing from Guardians of the Galaxy,
with the crew enjoying anachronistic music, before rifling through
one-liners, lurching spaceships and hand-to-hand combat with aliens.
"Haha no but seriously where's the real Star Trek trailer?" the top
YouTube comment currently reads, with another user adding: "'From Justin
Lin, director of Fast and Furious' Everything makes sense now."
With trailers for X-Men: Apocalypse and Independence Day: Resurgence already
having already made digital waves in the laast few days, it looks as if
all the major studios are keen to get their previews circulating before
the big sci-fi beast, Star Wars: The Force Awakens, lands on 17 December.
As with the new Star Wars sequel, there's been next to no
information on what this upcoming film might hold for the Enterprise
gang, which makes the trailer a particularly fascinating watch. What's
immediately apparent is the drastic switch-up in tone from the sober
utterances of Into Darkness' Benedict Cumberbatch.
Also noticeable is the fact that, unlike the first two films, the focus
doesn't appear to be around Kirk and Spock's relationship; indeed,
Quinto revealed to the Telegraph that his character shares most of his scenes in the film with Bones
(Karl Urban). Beyond that, it looks as if Kingsman's Sofia Boutella
will doing a lot of spinning and kicking as a militant, white-as-snow
alien, and we get a glimpse of the film's villain, played by Idris Elba -
a snarling, demonic-looking alien. Star Trek Into Darkness was voted the worst Star Trek film of all time by Trekkies, though many are hoping amends will be made with the upcoming new TV show.
As usual, critics paint a better portrait of their own shortcomings/intolerances than anything else when they mouth off negatively at anything. For what Star Trek is, I found the films enjoyable enough, had noticed Zach Quinto's resemblance to Leonard Nimoy whilst he was on Heroes and was fascinated to see the resulting face to face moment on film. I've kept up since Monday evenings on BBC 1, good grief, forty five years ago!, and have no problem with the reboot. I think the hate squad just get off on being the hate squad, the same as the anti-Moffat crowd and I just find the whole lot of them tedious.
Moffat sucks eggs through a biro. I still think Urban steals most scenes -he is the re-incarnation (if temporally impossible) of DeForrest Kelly! WHY is all this text so small?????
Well, I am afraid with Steven Moffat, we will just have to disagree, but agree that Karl Urban is brilliant as the old country doctor. I especially liked the introductory scene aboard the shuttle and the continual jabbing of Kirk until finally the use of a sedative knocks him out.
The Independent: 
As usual, critics paint a better portrait of their own shortcomings/intolerances than anything else when they mouth off negatively at anything. For what Star Trek is, I found the films enjoyable enough, had noticed Zach Quinto's resemblance to Leonard Nimoy whilst he was on Heroes and was fascinated to see the resulting face to face moment on film. I've kept up since Monday evenings on BBC 1, good grief, forty five years ago!, and have no problem with the reboot. I think the hate squad just get off on being the hate squad, the same as the anti-Moffat crowd and I just find the whole lot of them tedious.
ReplyDeleteMoffat sucks eggs through a biro. I still think Urban steals most scenes -he is the re-incarnation (if temporally impossible) of DeForrest Kelly! WHY is all this text so small?????
ReplyDeleteWell, I am afraid with Steven Moffat, we will just have to disagree, but agree that Karl Urban is brilliant as the old country doctor. I especially liked the introductory scene aboard the shuttle and the continual jabbing of Kirk until finally the use of a sedative knocks him out.
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