Sunday, May 10, 2009 |
21:09 - Spock Prime
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Boy. It isn't every day you see a franchise reboot movie that completely changes the historical events in the writers' bible and simultaneously leaves them all intact.
I don't know if I expected Star Trek to be some kind of elaborate re-enactment of the founding events in the original series or what, like Peter Jackson remaking The Hobbit into a dark, brooding, mucus-covered duology just to keep in stylistic line with the LotR movies. But this... this was something else again. A side-door escape route from the original storyline that gives everybody a fresh new backstory, yet still ends up with Pike in a wheelchair.
Nicely done, J.J. Abrams.
UPDATE: Entertainingly unfair plot summary by dorkafork over in the comments on VodkaPundit's spoileriffic post.
Incidentally, one thing that bugged me was Chekov. They actually went out of their way to get a Russian actor this time, and then proceeded to play up the ridiculous hammy accent. What, did they have to coach Anton Yelchin on how to do a "Star Trek Russian" accent? It's not like actual Russians have difficulty pronouncing "V", like in, um, Pavel...
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