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Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek
brumgrunt writes "JJ Abram's hugely successful — on many levels — reboot of Star Trek has, for Den Of Geek, brought to the fore a lesson about special effects that many movie makers have been missing. Surely it's time now that special effects were actually used properly?" (The new film is not without some goofs, though only a few of the ones listed by Movie Mistakes' nitpickers are sciency.)
It's Trekkie, asshole.
You went in looking for reasons to complain.
"oh, they created a separate time line that's different " waa waaa waa.
The ST universe is always doing things that wouldn't happen in a real military. I mean, if Kirk getting promoted through a series of odd happening bother you, then every time the captain goes to a planet, you should be digusted. In facvt, you should hate the entire series.
"(save the stupid water pipe scene) a"
true. Unneeded bit of silliness.
You didn't like it, fine. Your excuses are pretty pathetic.
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the destruction of Vulcan was a bold move, and demonstrated more clearly than anything else they could've done (including killing off some of the bridge crew) that this is a different universe and no one is safe. I think it was the right thing to do in this movie and made sure people knew they couldn't depend on the old canon to keep things straight.
That is exactly what's wrong with the movie. Decades of Star Fleet history are simply thrown away. Fuck that.
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Actually, they toyed with the idea of killing off Chekov. One of the latest rumors is that either he or Sulu die early on in the next sequel. If that happens, it'll be awesome. It'll be a finger in the eye of every fanboi out there who complained "this isn't the Trek I love!"
But they can all suck it because this is Abram's Trek, not Roddenberry's Trek, and that makes it OK.
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