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Oh crap Scottie! Look before you leap!

Oh crap Scottie! Look before you leap!

I just witnessed something that will have grown men crying themselves to sleep at night.  And all because of one single movie… STAR TREK.   The first reason they will be crying:  Everything they thought they knew about Star Trek just got flushed into a proverbial black hole.  The second reason:  Its the most brilliant thing they have seen in a long time.

Look before you leap.
Look before you leap.

I am not a ‘trekkie’, but I can appreciate a flippin’ awesome movie when I see it.  I won’t go into spoilers or plot points.  I am not evil like that.   But I will say this… anyone can go to this movie and appreciate it.  Anyone.  From die hard trekkies to complete newbies like myself.  The movie is visually stunning and the plot is comical and gripping.

I know I am critiquing it based off of no prior knowledge of the franchise. But I did get the input of someone coming out of the theater.   She said it was amazing but at some moments it had her cringing.  She said she wasn’t a Trek Canonista Diehard (which I had to come home and research)… but I think the fact that she even knew what that was means she is hardcore about it.  In fact I know she was hardcore… because she parked next to me and she had a star fleet license plate… which she went and gave a thumbs up to before she hopped into her own personal Enterprise (A Honda CR-V).

So in my own humble opinion go see this movie.  I rate it a 9 out of 10.

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  • Maxll Eckler
    Now I have seen the movie through. It was a good movie. Tonnes of fun, but it lacks something major.

    Star Trek is now a mainstream scifi thrillride, and if you do not know, scifi is not science fiction (SF). There is a difference. The original series by Roddenberry was SF, though only mediocre in arguement, but still undeniably SF. This movie was not by any means.

    The SF has been slowly ripped out of star trek but within this final film they have achieved their task and mutilated that key purpose. I feel that it ruins an image Roddenberry shaped, and that many fans of the old series have had the veil pulled over their eyes with flashy effects and "tips of the hat" to their beloved past Star Trek through inside jokes.

    I am by no means a star trek fan. I am an SF fan. I enjoyed the movie from a "shoot-em-up" hollywood standpoint, and I can see why it appeals to trekkies and mainstream movie-goers so immensely, but people should not fool themselves.

    This is just another movie. We should not be so amazed when an adaption is successful simply because we have come to expect the opposite.
  • Maxll Eckler
    Many trekkies, like most fans of anything, are purists. For this reason, the same arguements between ST:TNG and the original ST will erupt since this too is a new generation. I have seen my fare share of star trek, and I actually hate the entire premise of the series, but I do respect the creativity and writing of the stories. I am sure this is a movie I will enjoy as it looks nothing like the original clean-cut tame version I have seen. Seriously, ST has always been so black and white with its heroes and villians I want to feel more extremes and questionable actions.

    Get Firefly on the fans asses, know what I'm saying? (fckin Whedon lol)
  • Chris Rambo
    I enjoy the majority of the Star Trek movies and really liked the new one... I hope they get to make a sequel (which seems likely due to the HUGE profits this weekend) that has a bit more of the famous Star Trek science and moralizing in it though..
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