Star Trek Beyond

[Quiver he/him]

So... I'm going to go see Star Trek 3(D) in about an hour. Figured it'd be worth opening a topic about it.

I am... kind of awful, so far as Star Trek goes. The only ones I've really watched are DS9 and Enterprise. But I have been very much not a fan of the Abramsverse Kelvin timeline so far. I have had... issues with the previous films in the franchise so far. But, spoiler free reviews seem to be rather positive regarding Beyond, so... 

[Assassin in Burgundy he/him]

It's pretty good. I just saw It last night. The plot really isn't that hard to follow, even if you've never seen ST before. The action scenes are very rushed, so it can be sometimes hard to follow, but it can be pretty funny and definitely worth watching.

Enjoy!

[Khyrindor he/him]

I enjoyed it, but too me the way they solved problems (for the most part) were just coincidences, which bespoke bad writing. I was actually a little bit confused for a while as to what was happening, but by the end it was all cleared up. The humor was spot on, and I liked the action sequences. The problem left me unable to guess what was going to happen and I like that, but there were a few small things I found very predictable from the start. So I'd say 6/10. Good show. 

[Sunbird she/her]

I saw it tonight and thought it was excellent. Plenty of laughs (my favorite was the whole "You gave your girlfriend radioactive jewelry??" exchange), highly entertaining fight scenes, and a totally badchull new female character in Jaylah. I also loved Jaylah's loud music and how it played into the plot. A little far-fetched, maybe, but very satisfying.

I spent a large portion of the movie trying to figure out why Krall's voice sounded so familiar. (Because of his heavy makeup and whatnot to make him look alien, I didn't bother trying to place his face.) I was considering the possibility that he might have been played by James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus from The Matrix), or Michael Clarke Duncan (who I know best as Kingpin in the Ben Affleck Daredevil movie), but when Idris Elba came up in the credits, I and the friend I was with both went, "Ohhhhhhh!" because we both know him as Heimdall from the MCU.

[Khyrindor he/him]

On 7/24/2016 at 0:31 AM, Sunbird said:

I saw it tonight and thought it was excellent. Plenty of laughs (my favorite was the whole "You gave your girlfriend radioactive jewelry??" exchange), highly entertaining fight scenes, and a totally badchull new female character in Jaylah. I also loved Jaylah's loud music and how it played into the plot. A little far-fetched, maybe, but very satisfying.

I spent a large portion of the movie trying to figure out why Krall's voice sounded so familiar. (Because of his heavy makeup and whatnot to make him look alien, I didn't bother trying to place his face.) I was considering the possibility that he might have been played by James Earl Jones (the voice of Darth Vader), Laurence Fishburne (Morpheus from The Matrix), or Michael Clarke Duncan (who I know best as Kingpin in the Ben Affleck Daredevil movie), but when Idris Elba came up in the credits, I and the friend I was with both went, "Ohhhhhhh!" because we both know him as Heimdall from the MCU.

reKrall: Totally didn't catch that! lol I feel stupid now.

reJayla: Yes, she was great, really glad that she got into the academy.

[Quiver he/him]

On 7/23/2016 at 5:49 PM, Khyrindor said:

I enjoyed it, but too me the way they solved problems (for the most part) were just coincidences, which bespoke bad writing. I was actually a little bit confused for a while as to what was happening, but by the end it was all cleared up. The humor was spot on, and I liked the action sequences. The problem left me unable to guess what was going to happen and I like that, but there were a few small things I found very predictable from the start. So I'd say 6/10. Good show. 

Yeah, I agree. The writing felt... I don't know, very hard to follow? I basically ended up just sort of turning my brain off and enjoying the action scenes...

...Speaking of which, I do find this movie sort of hilarious. Yorktown is basically "DS9 with a decent budget" and Kirk's costume is very, very much in the style of the uniforms from Enterprise, with the shoulder stripes and blue.

Not to mention the shout-out to the Xindi and the Romulans, and the USS Franklin. Okay, it might not have been the NX-01, but I can pretend, right? I choose to view this as the

Enterprise film that never was.

 

[Left he/him]

So I just saw it. 

 

Wow, Worst Audience Ever. Seriously, the most obnoxious audience I've ever been in. Laughing at odd points, loud whispering, it was super distracting. 

I'm definitely going to have to watch it on dvd by myself in quiet before I make my final verdict, but right now...meh. 

I really liked the first film, and I loved Inti Darkness. I thought the trailers for this film looked awful, but the things that were bad weren't what I was expecting. 

The action scenes... They were just hard to watch. Shaky camera, too zoomed in, repetitive fist fights, they just disengaged me. 

Elba's villain and the fleet should've been terrifying in their power and destructive ability. They weren't. 

Like the previous two villains, Elba's characters development felt lacking. 

There didn't seem to be a lot of development among the good guys either. But I may have just not been able to pay enough attention due to annoying people. 

The humour was pretty great. I really thought it was spot on most of the time. 

Jaylah and Scotty were cool, I liked their time shining. Bones being more involved was good too. 

 

There were a Lot of hand waved solutions to problems..... Like... A LOT of Handwavium. 

 

I know im being overly critical, the people were really distracting and I just couldn't get into the movie so the negatives were what I could focus on. 

[+Slowswift]

On 7/25/2016 at 9:23 AM, Quiver said:

Yeah, I agree. The writing felt... I don't know, very hard to follow?

Yeah, this and the somewhat clunky dialog towards the beginning were some of the things that annoyed me the most.

That, and the "nebula".