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Star Trek (2009)
Bad Reboot by Bad Robot.
It was OK. Chris Pine was NOT Kirk. that dragged the movie down for me a bit. everyone else seemed to be in character. no it isn't a shallow "he isn't shatner" complaint. He just wasn't Kirk. effects were great, story was great, rest of the characters were great.
the thing i hate though. and please please forgive me for this, but why the F* do we have to overwrite the whole 40 years of Trek that have already been around. why a reboot? It is SO not necessary.
Now what a SMART writer / team would have done was what they attempted and failed to do with Voyager - Start the movie franchise about a whole new ship and crew.
Sadly, Star Trek will always be the Porshe that Paramount shows off, while it is parked in the garage.
IMHO - What they should have done, was taken Alan Ruck, placed him as Captain Harriman on the bridge of the Enterprise-B, created a WHOLE NEW CREW for us, and started working on that 80+/- year gap between the time that Kirk was lost to the nexis, and the start of The Next Generation. There is so much time to play with, and ALWAYS new characters to bring into the fold (Demora Sulu too.)
I wish someone would steal the Porsche and show Paramount what it can REALLY do.
Star Trek: Of Gods and Men (2007)
oh my god.
Robert Walker Jr could not be brought on to reprise his role as Charlie Evans. Gary Lockwood was not brought back to reprise his role as Gary Mitchell. Why is that? They probably read the script. I realize I was thinking this was NOT going to be another Cawley production like New Voyages, and I was wrong. It used the same sets, and I guess that is all the sets they had. Cawley's sets and an Amiga Video Toaster right out of 1985 for those graphics. WOW. OMG. The story was so jilted. You get Captain Harriman, the captain who 'lost' Kirk, Charlie-X AND Gary Mitchell together in 1 film, and that was it? I mean seriously? And you people who give it high praise - did you actually watch THE WHOLE THING? I only give it a 1 because I cannot add a NEGATIVE. I apologize, I read reviews and I was expecting greatness. Instead I get something on par with made-for-science class drizzle that I watched thinking it was going to get better, and ended up feeling like I might get quizzed on it later. DRIZZLE.