tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post7366784054611636182..comments2024-03-27T10:27:59.266-04:00Comments on John Kenneth Muir's Reflections on Cult Movies and Classic TV: "Galloping Around the Cosmos is a Game for the Young..."John Kenneth Muirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-25344781951715387372008-11-20T14:37:00.000-05:002008-11-20T14:37:00.000-05:00Good comment, Nate. If Abrams gets us involved in...Good comment, Nate. <BR/><BR/>If Abrams gets us involved in the story and characters, the bells and whistles will work all the better. If not, it'll all be empty sound and fury...like Transformers.John Kenneth Muirhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15629979615332893780noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12380553.post-15306558969744155772008-11-20T13:07:00.000-05:002008-11-20T13:07:00.000-05:00I feel much the same, John. I recognize that the f...I feel much the same, John. I recognize that the franchise has to keep moving forward, keep moving up, if it wants to remain relevant (although one does have to ask why it's necessary for Trek to stay relevant -- many great things have existed in their time and then stayed there). <BR/><BR/>I'm not as sold on Kirk. For one thing, while I appreciate the Iowa license plate on the car in the intro, where the hell was he driving that had a giant canyon? I'm from Iowa and we have *nothing* like that. Chris Pine might be able to pull off adult Kirk, but he hasn't shown me much more than a steely gaze and a challenging stance. <BR/><BR/>As for Pegg, I think he's brilliant and Hot Fuzz is one of my favorite movies that came out in the last five years. He also has a talent for underplaying and dry humor that will benefit Scotty immensely, especially when giving those repair estimates.<BR/><BR/>I have no idea what they're doing with that shot of McCoy doing a crazy bibble about disease and darkness in space. That's not the Bones I know. He might have said those words, but he would have been much more cantakerous, less freaked.<BR/><BR/>The main thing I'm trying to reconcile is the dynamics of ship combat. In all the Treks thus far, ships have been like submarines, taking potshots at each other from afar, plotting strategies over the course of minutes. It has its limitations, of course, but even those have been used to Trek's advantage (remember that great moment in Wrath of Khan where they reminded us all that space is three-dimensional?).<BR/><BR/>Here it looks like Abrams is going for more of a fighter jet approach. The brief flashes of space battle that we got reminded me quite a bit of the chaotic Reavers vs. Alliance space throwdown in Serenity. It's not a <I>bad</I> thing, per se. Abrams has stated he wants to make a Star Trek as exciting for today's audiences as Star Wars was for him, and space combat in Star Wars was very much about the three-dimensional flight groups and barrel rolls. It's exciting and it's dynamic and it'll probably look amazing on screen. But it'll be an adjustment for the rest of us.<BR/><BR/>I just hope Abrams manages to get a good story in there and that he doesn't short-shrift it in favor of shinies.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01954838068836802591noreply@blogger.com