Favorite film

[Xanto]

posted on February 26th, 2010, 9:46 am

Last edited by Xanto on February 26th, 2010, 9:57 am, edited 1 time in total.

I kinda liked the introduction scene with the Kelvin. We didn't know then about the totally stupid motivations Nero had to destroy everything that reminds him of Starfleet or Vulcans, so it was a good setup to learn what's actually going on there.

If they had managed to make some things more believable and not just "Nero? Oh. You mean that crazy guy who kills and destroys everything around him because he's pissed off now and searches for someone to punish without reason because Romulus is an asteroid field in his time." the movie would have been quite okay. On it's actual basis it's just a stupid action-movie set up in a resetted Star Trek universe.


Except for the names and some races and the general shipshapes there is no Star Trek in it and nothing Star Trek actually stands for.

Liking it is okay, considering it a good film makes me wonder why people even watched Star Trek without getting the essence of it.

Dude, if your wife was just killed, and your planet had been destroyed and the one person who was suppose to stop it from occurring didn't, your telling me you wouldn't want revenge. I think the the character Nero made perfect since, and if your really think about it there showing you that humanity does reckless and idiotic things when there blinded by rage. I think many people are too quick to judge. Sure many of things in the movie were not discussed in great detail like it would have been in old Star Trek movies or episodes. But if you look at it long enough, the movie has plenty of meaning and has greater issues than blowing things up. You can only do so much is two hours... I was ready for something new. If that means more action and a faster pace movie then so be it...

I was one of the ones who actually liked ENT and the only other Star Trek I watched was TNG. I'm not a big Star Trek fan... maybe that's why it doesn't bother me as much. I think people are taking it to serious. If you look at it long enough, it has most of the things you would find in Star Trek. It's just more condensed and more faster paced...

posted on February 26th, 2010, 10:00 am

My top 5 is:

#1 "KHAAAAAAAAN!"
#2 "Fly her apart then!"
#3 "Studying, my ass!"
#4 "The Line must be drawn here!"
#5 "Double dumbass on you!"

;D

posted on April 19th, 2010, 1:41 am

Saving the whales (and earth) of course!

posted on April 19th, 2010, 2:14 pm

idk why the poll is closed but Final Frontier and Search for Spock need more love. 

posted on April 20th, 2010, 9:08 am

I watched a clip from XI the other day, and you know, I really like that theme music, whenever they showed the ship.  (clip was from it rising out of the planet/dust cloud)

Incidentally, JJ Abrams takes a lot of heat for this movie, but he didn't have his grubby little hands on two aspects of it that I didn't like, namely, the screenplay, or the ship model, which looks... chubby.  Swap out those two, and it might have been something.  Ah well... just like Lucas. 

posted on April 20th, 2010, 1:53 pm

idk why the poll is closed but Final Frontier and Search for Spock need more love. 

no they don't, they were crap 

posted on April 20th, 2010, 4:17 pm

I'm sure it comes as no surprise to anyone that I chose First contact?

posted on April 20th, 2010, 6:17 pm

nope because a whole bunch of us choose it too.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 12:37 pm

Personally I would've preferred a longer Borg Battle scene than the original in FC, and was also wondered wth was the Spacedock all that time...

posted on April 25th, 2010, 2:02 pm

Spacedock either orbits the planet or sits next to it. Either way, it's likely massive weapons array could be negated by simply attacking from the other side of Earth.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 2:27 pm

for that reason that spacedock could easily be avoided, i think it would be unlikely they would put massive weapons on the station. they would use the mobile fleet for that.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 3:09 pm

What's far more unlikely is that a station with about 300 decks and a crew of at least many thousands with shipbuilding facilities would be left defenceless. Having both armed is better than only arming the weaker one.

Starfleet is too smart to put all there protection in the hands of ships, which are fragile and capable of being lured away from their post, making mobility exploitable. Don't put all your eggs in one basket, they say.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 3:11 pm

i never said unarmed, i said massively armed. i would expect some phasers and maybe a few photon torpedo launchers, enough to handle about what ds9 took. but no more.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 3:14 pm

Somewhat more than DS9 (Terok Nor specs, maybe not the fully upgraded version), unlike DS9 the Spacedock orbits the capital planet (and a founding member) of its empire. It is Earth it oversees, after all.

posted on April 25th, 2010, 3:24 pm

i meant the upgraded specs, from the two battles of DS9. i think the level of weapons that starfleet fitted within a year to a alien tech station paints a reasonable picture of what such a large station in "paradise" might have.