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filmguy · May 26th, 2009, 07:07

Star Trek's really good if you're NOT a fanboy. I happen to love Star Trek, so some of it was hard for me to swallow. I didn't mind that they changed Canon, as they actually explained that they did change, but it sort of "mainstreamed" Star Trek and turned it more into a franchise about starship battles, which are fine but it's not what Trek was always about. Overall though, I enjoyed it as a summer popcorn flick, even if it felt a little watered down from other ST movies like Wrath of Khan or Undiscovered Country. I do think it'll end up being the best movie of the summer, so I'd recommend it over anything else.

Terminator was alright. Really, it did what it was supposed to do, which was pull off an exciting action movie. The action scenes are fun, the story is passable. The problem is, if you follow the Terminator series, you know what the big moments are in the future war. This being the first movie of a new trilogy, there's none of those moments, as they're being saved for later, so ultimately it felt like a semi-unimportant day in the life of Connor. We see how he gets his scars, in case you were really interested in that, but there's no time displacement field, Reese is just a kid and Connor isn't Connor yet. There're a few fun throwbacks to the first two movies, one sort of surprise semi-appearance. I could deal with it leading into other things down the road, but my biggest problem with it was the score, as Danny Elfman decided discard all of the previous movies music cues and bring in a really generic score. That actually seemed to make it seem like less of a Terminator flick and more of just some genetic sci-fi movie. We don't even get Fiedel's classic theme at the end. It could be worse, though, the original ending had Connor dying and having his skin put on a Terminator body to keep the illusion of him alive. Thankfully they changed it due to near riots at test screenings.

As far as the rest of the summer, I'm looking forward to UP and Public Enemies (The Johnny Depp-Christian Bale-Michael Mann Dillinger movie). Transformers 2 I'll probably pass on, as I hated the first one. I'll probably see GI Joe based purely on morbid curiosity, but I know that's gonna suck. I'm also curious about The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 as I love the original with Walter Matheau and Robert Shaw, but that most likely will be a $2 matinee down the line and not one I rush out to see.

May 26th, 2009, 07:07	#8
filmguy STANDARD Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 71 : 0 For This Post 57 Total	Star Trek's really good if you're NOT a fanboy. I happen to love Star Trek, so some of it was hard for me to swallow. I didn't mind that they changed Canon, as they actually explained that they did change, but it sort of "mainstreamed" Star Trek and turned it more into a franchise about starship battles, which are fine but it's not what Trek was always about. Overall though, I enjoyed it as a summer popcorn flick, even if it felt a little watered down from other ST movies like Wrath of Khan or Undiscovered Country. I do think it'll end up being the best movie of the summer, so I'd recommend it over anything else. Terminator was alright. Really, it did what it was supposed to do, which was pull off an exciting action movie. The action scenes are fun, the story is passable. The problem is, if you follow the Terminator series, you know what the big moments are in the future war. This being the first movie of a new trilogy, there's none of those moments, as they're being saved for later, so ultimately it felt like a semi-unimportant day in the life of Connor. We see how he gets his scars, in case you were really interested in that, but there's no time displacement field, Reese is just a kid and Connor isn't Connor yet. There're a few fun throwbacks to the first two movies, one sort of surprise semi-appearance. I could deal with it leading into other things down the road, but my biggest problem with it was the score, as Danny Elfman decided discard all of the previous movies music cues and bring in a really generic score. That actually seemed to make it seem like less of a Terminator flick and more of just some genetic sci-fi movie. We don't even get Fiedel's classic theme at the end. It could be worse, though, the original ending had Connor dying and having his skin put on a Terminator body to keep the illusion of him alive. Thankfully they changed it due to near riots at test screenings. As far as the rest of the summer, I'm looking forward to UP and Public Enemies (The Johnny Depp-Christian Bale-Michael Mann Dillinger movie). Transformers 2 I'll probably pass on, as I hated the first one. I'll probably see GI Joe based purely on morbid curiosity, but I know that's gonna suck. I'm also curious about The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3 as I love the original with Walter Matheau and Robert Shaw, but that most likely will be a $2 matinee down the line and not one I rush out to see. Last edited by filmguy; May 26th, 2009 at 07:12.