My employer paid us all to go see Star Trek on the opening Friday afternoon - it wasn't on my must see list, but hell, how often do I get to see movies these days?
The plot and cinematography is Transformers quality, which is to say, the people responsible should be flogged. Imagine Blair Witch shakiness with Michael Bay style circular pans for the most common camera movements in the movie. Which had the positive side effect of hiding the poor fight choreography.
In other words, it would have been absolute trash except for the sheer fun of seeing the young versions of the old characters. The actors all played up the old stereotypes perfectly, and made it entertaining to watch 2 hours of random nonsense.
So I'm glad I went, but if offered the chance to work or be paid to see the sequel on Monday, I would choose work.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
Star Trek is Better Than a Fork in the Eye
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I haven't seen Transformers, but I can get some sort of idea of the camera work by looking at the Star Trek trailer.
I was trying to figure out if the impassioned defense of the Transformers movie in your other post by a commenter was satire or not ... read as satire it's quite funny. Read as unintentional satire it's even more funny.
My Transformers review reviewer showed up one day and critiqued every movie review I had written.
Hilarious stuff, but I don't think intentionally.
Where Star Trek really went off the rails was the application of the traditional Trek story arc ("plucky crew with no backup creatively solves seemingly insurmountable problems") to a location where backup should have been the rule rather than the exception. Every Captain memorizes the codes to completely deactivate Earth's defenses? And all other ships are off in the "Laurentian System"? Sheesh.
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