Star Trek, the movie
May. 23rd, 2009 10:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatI went and saw Star Trek today...
On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 is Stardust and 10 is Fast and Furious, this was an 8. Definitely better than Wolverine but not as exciting and blood-pumping as Fnf.
I loved the special effects. And the music. And the action. And the humor, especially the humor - McCoy following Kirk through the ship, pumping him full of medicine was incredibly funny!
What didn't really click for me were the relationships: between Spock and Kirk and between Spock and Uhura:
* I mean, with Kirk and McCoy, you felt their chemistry. With Spock and Kirk... I didn't really feel it, I was missing a deeper bond. It just felt like for Spock Kirk was barely worth his attention - and the same goes for Kirk and his attitude towards Spock. Like "blah, blah, blah, huge, epic troubles - oh yeah, and that guy is there too". I thought that this should have been a movie about how Kirk and Spock met and became friends. But that felt a bit like a "back-burner" material, an afterthought, like two storylines running alongside but never meshing properly...
* And Spock and Uhura. Urgh. I thought that they barely knew each other at the beginning of the main part of the movie, it really felt that way. And suddenly, she steps with him into the elevator and starts climbing him like a tree. Wasn't he a sort of her teacher/councilor/whatever at the academy, designing the Kobayashi Maru and knowing all her notes etc.? Because a teacher-student relationship is just creepy. I would have preferred a strong woman that wasn't a love interest.
Oh, and I loved the older Kirk. That man was gorgeous! Just like the captain of the USS Kelvin! And Chekov was so funny! And Sulu too! I loved the scene where he couldn't get the Enterprise to move XD
So yeah, maybe I need to rewatch it to get a better feel for Spock and Kirk - or maybe read the book and get into the characters' heads - but if I hadn't known and wasn't told by the old Spock that they would become best friends, I wouldn't have seen a hint of that in the movie itself. Weird.
I'm a slasher at heart, as you know, and I thought that I would come out of the theater being a Spock/Kirk fan but I ended up being first and foremost a McCoy!fan - and a Kirk/McCoy fan, of course!
On a scale from 1 to 10 where 1 is Stardust and 10 is Fast and Furious, this was an 8. Definitely better than Wolverine but not as exciting and blood-pumping as Fnf.
I loved the special effects. And the music. And the action. And the humor, especially the humor - McCoy following Kirk through the ship, pumping him full of medicine was incredibly funny!
What didn't really click for me were the relationships: between Spock and Kirk and between Spock and Uhura:
* I mean, with Kirk and McCoy, you felt their chemistry. With Spock and Kirk... I didn't really feel it, I was missing a deeper bond. It just felt like for Spock Kirk was barely worth his attention - and the same goes for Kirk and his attitude towards Spock. Like "blah, blah, blah, huge, epic troubles - oh yeah, and that guy is there too". I thought that this should have been a movie about how Kirk and Spock met and became friends. But that felt a bit like a "back-burner" material, an afterthought, like two storylines running alongside but never meshing properly...
* And Spock and Uhura. Urgh. I thought that they barely knew each other at the beginning of the main part of the movie, it really felt that way. And suddenly, she steps with him into the elevator and starts climbing him like a tree. Wasn't he a sort of her teacher/councilor/whatever at the academy, designing the Kobayashi Maru and knowing all her notes etc.? Because a teacher-student relationship is just creepy. I would have preferred a strong woman that wasn't a love interest.
Oh, and I loved the older Kirk. That man was gorgeous! Just like the captain of the USS Kelvin! And Chekov was so funny! And Sulu too! I loved the scene where he couldn't get the Enterprise to move XD
So yeah, maybe I need to rewatch it to get a better feel for Spock and Kirk - or maybe read the book and get into the characters' heads - but if I hadn't known and wasn't told by the old Spock that they would become best friends, I wouldn't have seen a hint of that in the movie itself. Weird.
I'm a slasher at heart, as you know, and I thought that I would come out of the theater being a Spock/Kirk fan but I ended up being first and foremost a McCoy!fan - and a Kirk/McCoy fan, of course!
