TM2YC said:
Oooohhhh, you're just joking. Never mind.
Would that I were. Both
Genysis and
Beyond are worthless dreck, with one-dimensional characters and action sequences so overblown that nothing has any impact. (I refuse to believe that Scotty or Simon Pegg, whichever, have the strength to pull themselves up from a cliff like that. If our main cast can survive anything, than they're never in any danger, and we're just watching space battle porn.) But at least
Genysis wasn't full of gratuitous Dutch angles and McG-style cutting. True,
Genysis had the worse, completely unredeemable script, whereas
Beyond's script (all forty pages of it),
could have, with calmer, more old-school direction, made a passable popcorn flick. Instead, Lin delivered an all-out attack on the senses.
bionicbob said:
The entire movie was about acceptance, unity and culture. I am confused?
Respectfully, hombre... yes, I think you're confused, in that you don't seem to understand my perspective one bit. As the late, great Roger Ebert (who I'm certain would have hated this movie) liked to say, in a phrase he called
Ebert's Law, "A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it." And as I said, yeah,
Beyond pays
lip service to all that humanist
Trek stuff in about two total minutes of dialogue - but the
how of the movie is an agonizing, narratively vapid succession of explosions, horrible deaths, laser fights, more explosions, more horrible deaths, more laser fights, shouting and psychotic small furry creatures, shouting and psychotic aliens, a shouting and angry ally, people getting the life horribly sucked out of them onscreen, a woman getting disintegrated as Uhura cries and begs for mercy, a monster getting up in Uhura's personal space as she whimpers in mortal fear, laser battles, explosions, driving a ship off a cliff, more explosions, fistfights, attempted mass murder, the villain getting disintegrated, and our crew celebrating how "fun" and awesome space travel is just days after dozens of their comrades were slaughtered.
So, yeah, this movie is about deafening violence, rage, fear, and hatred. I honestly bet Biff Trumpen would love it. :s
Star Trek movie recap time!
Generations: a human wants to destroy a solar system because he's an addict looking for a fix. After a fistfight, he dies a fairly quick explosion death. (I actually really like this one.)
First Contact: a gooey humanoid wants to assimilate the Federation and maybe bone Data. After a struggle, she dies a horrible, screaming disintegration death.
Insurrection: a disfigured humanoid with a massive ship wants to destroy a planet with space radiation because
REVENGE! After a fistfight, he dies horribly in fire.
Nemesis: an increasingly disfigured human clone with a massive ship wants to destroy the Federation with space radiation because
REVENGE! After a fistfight, he's impaled and dies horribly.
'09: a tatted humanoid with a massive ship wants to destroy the Federation with space radiation because
REVENGE! After a fistfight, he dies horribly in a black hole disintegration.
Into Darkness: a humanoid with a massive ship wants to start a massive war and then smash up San Francisco because
REVENGE! After a fistfight, he's indefinitely frozen by our heroes, which is tantamount to execution.
Beyond: a disfigured humanoid with a massive swarm of ships wants to destory the Federation with space goo because
REVENGE! After a fistfight, he's ejected into face, and dies horribly from disintegration.
Conclusion: this film franchise is broken. Time to put it down and return to TV indefinitely, if -
if - the series must continue at all. After the last four movies, I'm far from sure of that.