I am not sure if it was the company I had or the more than half empty movie theater, but I just loved the whole movie experience. I had gone with a few seniors of mine from school one of whom I was meeting directly after school. Both of us had a lady interest back then and so, obviously we were so busy talking about her that I hardly realized when the movie started. But, when it did, it made sure everybody who was sitting there was hooked to the screen. One of the very few decent movies to be released in recent times, everything about this movie is good. The story is woven seamlessly with absolutely zero loose ends and the direction is brilliant making sure there is not a single dull moment in the two hour ride.
The movie starts abruptly with an intergalactic fight in one of the far ends of space between a Federation vessel USS Kelvin and a Romulan ship captained by our Romulan of focus Nero who is in pursuit of a certain Vulcan called Spock. In the middle of all this, on one of the escape pods is born our man of focus, James Tibirius Kirk. The movie then suddenly jumps to Vulcan and introduces us to our Vulcan of focus, Spock. The movie then goes on to trace Kirk's and Spock's journey onto the USS Enterprise and how the so popular crew of the USS Enterprise came together amidst the feuding between the logically driven Spock and instinct following Kirk. The movie has plenty of action (the best part is none of it goes overboard even by Sci-Fi movie standards) and lucid humour sprinkled to good taste.
To be very honest, I was never really a fan of Sci-Fi movies set in space plainly because I really can't stand all the terrible looking aliens which all those animators create with their crooked imagination. And I was completely ignorant of Star Trek before this movie. So I was pleasantly surprised that almost all aliens, at least the Vulcans and Romulans who are the only ones we get to see in the movie were merely humans with really stupid haircuts and few tattoos on their faces. So, why watch it if what we get is a flick with human earthlings and human aliens? Well, watch it for the wonderfully woven storyline; watch it for that nostalgic feeling (This one is for all those old timers) and watch it because it is good cinema at its best and manages to pull it off without a single big name in the cast.
The movie starts abruptly with an intergalactic fight in one of the far ends of space between a Federation vessel USS Kelvin and a Romulan ship captained by our Romulan of focus Nero who is in pursuit of a certain Vulcan called Spock. In the middle of all this, on one of the escape pods is born our man of focus, James Tibirius Kirk. The movie then suddenly jumps to Vulcan and introduces us to our Vulcan of focus, Spock. The movie then goes on to trace Kirk's and Spock's journey onto the USS Enterprise and how the so popular crew of the USS Enterprise came together amidst the feuding between the logically driven Spock and instinct following Kirk. The movie has plenty of action (the best part is none of it goes overboard even by Sci-Fi movie standards) and lucid humour sprinkled to good taste.
To be very honest, I was never really a fan of Sci-Fi movies set in space plainly because I really can't stand all the terrible looking aliens which all those animators create with their crooked imagination. And I was completely ignorant of Star Trek before this movie. So I was pleasantly surprised that almost all aliens, at least the Vulcans and Romulans who are the only ones we get to see in the movie were merely humans with really stupid haircuts and few tattoos on their faces. So, why watch it if what we get is a flick with human earthlings and human aliens? Well, watch it for the wonderfully woven storyline; watch it for that nostalgic feeling (This one is for all those old timers) and watch it because it is good cinema at its best and manages to pull it off without a single big name in the cast.
3 comments:
bemused as to how a near half empty theatre contributed to improving the experience
the bemusement is the intention.....
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