When I first took my sneak peaks at leaked online trailers, and heard the ominous, "This is not your fathers Trek" type lines, I was mad. I wanted to choke Quinto, Pine, and Abram. Then I went to see the film (well, duh I HAD to see how badly it sucked did I not??) although after Thai food and a glass of wine, so with a grain of salt my freinds. It was good!
I must say though that as soon as the fake Spock (Quinto or Sylar from Heroes) came on I wanted to bum rush the screen and choke the living daylights out of him (my my violent are we not?). He showed way to much emotion for a Vulcan, not to think of the fact he was portraying THE Vulcan. Though he did get better as time went by, I forgave him, and enjoyed the rest of the movie.
Chris Pine as Shatner (hehe, imagine him doing the next gen Priceline ads--can't be done), was fine, he can act, and had charisma and enough skills to pull off the comedy bits. Thumbs up.
The movie itself, the storyline was good. Not overly complex and not dumbed down for the dumb kids of today.
Is it me or is every beautiful 80's cartoon or show being DUMBED down so todays brainless kids can drool their spittle into a tub of mega-corn and laugh like retards? Hey the grownups of the world (as grown up as we sci-fi geeks can be), can dole out money for tickets to movies too. Although, many geekazoids do illegally dload. Is that why everything is dumbed down with Jar Jar Binks and the Will Ferrells (Land of the Lost) of the world?
