Mosaic

That’s hypnotic.

For Julia:
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My own preferences tend towards the classics;
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They also work well here I see.
Of course, like any tool this one adds neither artistry, importance nor quality to the raw materials the artist starts out with.
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-S

“How was the film?”
Surprisingly good. Eric Bana gets short-changed in the rush to re-establish the franchise and there are a couple of rough edges story-wise for much the same reason; but it’s mostly successful (no small feat) – and fun. It’s certainly the most entertaining Star Trek film in a long, long time.

Julia,
In small doses, it’s funny watching reviewers shoehorning their own political preferences into a film with no discernible party political subtext. Unless heroism and daring are now exclusive properties of registered Democrats. One Channel 4 review rambled on about how “Star Trek has re-emerged to make the galaxy safe for liberals.” In large doses – and there’s quite a bit of it about – it gets slightly nauseating.
Prattling aside, the film’s worth seeing. The final showdown never quite packs the emotional impact that’s expected and Eric Bana doesn’t have much to do, despite being the villain of the piece. But the film does manage to reboot an exhausted franchise in an entertaining way, which is no small accomplishment.

The furry ewok thing was a bit naff and Simon Pegg does the worst Scottish accent ever. The rest was pretty good I thought, but the most exciting bit is definitely the fight at the start.

“and there are a couple of rough edges story-wise for much the same reason.”
Like how Old Spock happens to be exactly where Kirk gets ditched. And where Scotty is. With his ewok.

“I think the idea is that Nero dumps Old Spock on a planet from which he will see the destruction of Vulcan.”
This part I just can’t reconcile – I’m no great Trek fan, but I thought the film was pretty enjoyable (very fast moving, the cast were pretty good too – Karl Urban in particular) so why the need to shoehorn in one of the Old Crew? It would have been better if they’d just let the rebooted cast get on with it. It wasn’t really necessary.

“Hopefully, the next one will feature Scotty’s furry companion falling out of an airlock or being horribly disintegrated.”
Two words: Transporter malfunction. 🙂

AC1,
See, if something along those lines had been muttered in the film, that would have been… well, something. But I fear we’re heading perilously close to discussing how “red matter” works and exactly how much of it you need to create singularities that threaten to gobble starships. Which is a bit like asking how Superman can see while using his heat vision.
And no good can come of that.

I didn’t care for it. It seemed stitched together from other Star Treks, coupled with too many absurdities, e.g., why supply Spock’s star collapsing mission with barrels of “red matter” when only a couple of drops sufficed to put the nova toothpaste back in the tube? how could the nova destroy Romulus by surprise (haven’t the physics of sub-light motion been discovered in the future)? if Nero’s ship was an ordinary mining ship until Romulus was destroyed, where did all the weapons come from and why was his crew so loyal? I could go on, but why bother? It was an okay movie, better than ST:TMP and ST:Insurrection, but not as good as ST:TWOK or ST:FC.