And the music not only wasn't Star Trek, it made no impression on me at all, which is enough to kill half my chances of fangirling a movie right there.
It didn't make much of an impression on me the first time I saw the movie, but I blame that on the fact that instrumental music does nothing for me. I saw the soundtrack posted online a few days later, made a face, and wondered aloud, "Who would want that?" But then, when I saw the movie today, I was absolutely blown away by the music. I considered being That Girl and whipping out my cell phone to tweet about how amazing the music was as Daddy Kirk flew the collision course. During a fight scene later, the music sounded, to my untrained ears, just like a more modern version of the music from a fight scene in "Mirror, Mirror," which I had just rewatched Saturday night.
Cast that has one female character, you turn her from an independent, competent scientist into a clingy girlfriend...
I found the new Uhura pretty much unrecognizable, but for the opposite reason. I always found Uhura to be boring and useless, and when I saw this Uhura, my immediate reaction was, "Wait, what? Did J.J. Abrams run Uhura through the feminism machine? She's pretty kickass, but, damn, she is not Uhura at all. I might have actually liked the TOS version if she had been like this." Of course, then they effectively undid that with the odd Spock/Uhura gratuitous movie romance thing, which I still don't get at all, even after watching what were supposedly 'shippy Spock/Uhura scenes from the series. (And I'm still a little bit like, "They just paired the main black female character with the only main non-human character. What the hell is up with that?" For some reason, that pinged me the wrong way.)
wouldn't it be nice if they'd used some of their effects budget to show non-human people who didn't look like humans wearing latex protheses, even just in crowd scenes?
I saw several throughout the movie, one of whom was on the bridge of the Enterprise, I believe, and there may have been another on the bridge of the Kelvin. I even think I saw one or two in the crowd at the Academy hearing for Kirk. It was actually one of the first things I noticed at my first viewing of the movie -- "Hey, awesome, weird looking aliens! Their makeup goes beyond forehead ridges!"
Though, gah, I could not agree more about how uncool their treatment of Scotty's coworker was. I wanted to smack someone when Kirk helped him down off whatever he was sitting on in the shuttle craft. I also wanted to smack Scotty in particular for his treatment of him.
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It didn't make much of an impression on me the first time I saw the movie, but I blame that on the fact that instrumental music does nothing for me. I saw the soundtrack posted online a few days later, made a face, and wondered aloud, "Who would want that?" But then, when I saw the movie today, I was absolutely blown away by the music. I considered being That Girl and whipping out my cell phone to tweet about how amazing the music was as Daddy Kirk flew the collision course. During a fight scene later, the music sounded, to my untrained ears, just like a more modern version of the music from a fight scene in "Mirror, Mirror," which I had just rewatched Saturday night.
Cast that has one female character, you turn her from an independent, competent scientist into a clingy girlfriend...
I found the new Uhura pretty much unrecognizable, but for the opposite reason. I always found Uhura to be boring and useless, and when I saw this Uhura, my immediate reaction was, "Wait, what? Did J.J. Abrams run Uhura through the feminism machine? She's pretty kickass, but, damn, she is not Uhura at all. I might have actually liked the TOS version if she had been like this." Of course, then they effectively undid that with the odd Spock/Uhura gratuitous movie romance thing, which I still don't get at all, even after watching what were supposedly 'shippy Spock/Uhura scenes from the series. (And I'm still a little bit like, "They just paired the main black female character with the only main non-human character. What the hell is up with that?" For some reason, that pinged me the wrong way.)
wouldn't it be nice if they'd used some of their effects budget to show non-human people who didn't look like humans wearing latex protheses, even just in crowd scenes?
I saw several throughout the movie, one of whom was on the bridge of the Enterprise, I believe, and there may have been another on the bridge of the Kelvin. I even think I saw one or two in the crowd at the Academy hearing for Kirk. It was actually one of the first things I noticed at my first viewing of the movie -- "Hey, awesome, weird looking aliens! Their makeup goes beyond forehead ridges!"
Though, gah, I could not agree more about how uncool their treatment of Scotty's coworker was. I wanted to smack someone when Kirk helped him down off whatever he was sitting on in the shuttle craft. I also wanted to smack Scotty in particular for his treatment of him.