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Saw it tonight. The best moment was an in joke. Remember Young Frankenstein? Remember the bookcase scene? Remember the way Teri Garr said "Put zee candle BECK!"? Scotty channeled that.
Okay, the story itself is nothing earthshattering. But I liked this installment a helluva lot more than Into Darkness, which had an even more "stock" feeling plot.
And I didn't mind the Krall twist at all.
What I liked about Star Trek Beyond were the CGI (Yorktown), the villain (Idris Elba as Krall), the ships, the sets (which were vastly better this time around), and Sofia Boutella's Jaylah. Also, a satisfying resolution. The Star Wars-isms were still there, but this time the Trek-isms weighed in more heavily.
What I didn't like was the obligatory inclusion of 20-century music AGAIN. One of the two songs was the same one AGAIN. And the other one was a complete WTF moment. But whatever.
But Beyond is oodles better than the last one, which proved one extremely popular actor cannot save a movie.
And yes, that closing time-lapse moment was superb. Please make another Trek movie and drop all the Star Wars-isms.
I try to almost ignore the ratings of the critics....I should anyway. Sometimes they like really painful movies. Sometimes they reject really fun movies. I mostly want quality entertainment.
The Bourne series is not made of the stuff that critics tend to like. Looking forward to the audience ratings here.
I just can't see them turning out crap for a series that makes so much money. Of course....it would not be the first time that a series did a face plant.
I think they paid very serious big bucks to bring Damon back....just a hunch.
You know....this is one movie that Damon does not get rescued in. In fact...the opposite is the goal. One may start to wonder if Damon prefers movies that focus on Damon? Is that a possibility?
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Well played, sir.
Bourne is sitting at a %57 on Rotten right now. Not at all what i was expecting. I'm still going to see it, though. Because Damon.
There were two things I did like about that, though. One, they showed those ships to be amazingly tough birds, even the old ones.
Two, they showed automation used to build new ones very quickly (I don't think that was intended to be all time-lapse photography).
BTW, I noted the reference to "Enterprise"--Krall mentioned that he'd fought the Xindi. There was also a passing reference to "Who Mourns for Adonis."
Throughout Trek, especially the Dominion War you had the feeling that starships had to go up like Liberty Ships, volunteers to crew them must be the only limiting factor as this Kirk was pulled from the academy for an earlier mobilization.
Also the Enterprise reference that Krall was a M.A.C.O. and while Enterprise series didn't get to it the Romulan War before Starfleet absorbed the soldiers into their ranks in the prime and now this Trekverse.
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I'm still going to see it, though. Because Damon.
