AlexWinter said:
WE GET IT!!! ABRAMS USED A LENS FLARE EFFECT IN STAR TREK.
Jesus, do you guys genuinely not have anything constructive to say or are you just too cowardly to voice an opinion that wasn't handed to you?
OT: I liked the Star Trek film. I hardly watched the original Star Trek series though, so my opinion is invalid. Oh well. I'm sure Abrams will produce something decent.
Here's another opinion on why Abrams' Star Trek was bad:
It failed in nearly every attempt it made to be a coherent movie.
The plot was bananas. Nothing about it made sense and it was dumb. And stupid. Certainly there have been more nonsensical and more stupid plots in a few episodes of Star Trek, but not in any of the movies (yes, even ST:V made more sense than XI).
The breaches of canon are inexcusable. I get that this is a reboot of sorts, and tried to connect the new timeline to the old one to appease the trekkies like me, but this just made it worse. What the hell is "Red Matter" and why was it invented for this movie? Why the fuck is Spock taking this mission with the """Red Matter""" alone? How the bloody shit does Romulus' star suddenly go supernova in the 7 years between ST:X and Spock's continuity of ST:XI? Why in God's sweet name do the Romulans barely even look like Romulans anymore? Why in bleeding Christ does a black hole suddenly send you back in time instead of shredding you into molecules like every other black hole we've ever seen in Trek? How the fulminating fustigating flatulence does Scotty transport three people outside of a star system, light years across empty space, onto a ship traveling away from him at high warp, when the limitations of transporter technology even 80 YEARS LATER does not in any way come remotely close to allowing any of those things to be done? NONE OF THIS MAKES ANY SENSE REGARDING TREK LOGIC OR ANY OTHER KIND OF LOGIC YOU CAN NAME.
How about the redesigned look of Trek? Again, I get it, reboot, but why does the 23rd century make the 24th century ships look like a bunch of leaky wooden tugboats? How the fuck does the sudden death of Kirk's father cause Starfleet to redesign everything to look like the Apple Store? Why do phasers look and act like every other laser pistol ever seen on film, instead of the perhaps silly but at least distinctive flashing rainbow beam?
And how about the simple errors in basic storytelling that any competent writer in any genre should have been able to avoid? Where did Nero and his crew go for 25 years between blowing up Kirk's dad and trying to blow up the Enterprise? Dairy Queen? How about why in the bloody fuck-crumpets was Spock waiting on the very same planet Kirk got stranded on? Looking for the Dairy Queen? How about Spock turning on Kirk like that when the entire structure of The Original Series was predicated on their unshakeable friendship. That was a spit in the eye of any classic Trek fan, and certainly did not help sell the story to them, i.e., me. And what the bloody bouncing bajeezus are they gonna do about the MOTHERFUCKING BLACK HOLE that ate Nero's ship, RIGHT THERE IN ORBIT AROUND THE PLANET EARTH. Good God, that is ludicrously stupid. Also, why in the Cavernous Burning Hells of Diablo's Endless Terror Reign was Kirk being promoted from CADET to CAPTAIN OF THE FUCKMOTHERING FLAGSHIP at the end of the movie? TELL ME HOW THIS MAKES SENSE! DO IT, I DARE YOU!!
Jesus. I have never really managed to purge these feelings, excuse me. I understand that not all this was Abrams' fault or even his problem. But he really did nothing to address the vast, gaping holes in the plot that turned it into more blank staring space than actual continuity. So I don't trust him to give a fracking fuck about the Star Wars universe or the millions of fans that give it meaning.
And yeah, the lens flare was stupid too.
