Is Star Trek Tiki???? - Bilge

C Cammo Member San Diego Joined: May 18, 2006 Posts: 2041	C Cammo Posted posted on Wed, May 13, 2009 4:56 PM *** Spoilers! If you haven’t seen the movie, see it first before reading this! *** So the movie flat out ROCKS. It’s designed to rock, they hired the right guys to make it rock, and ROCK IT DOES. It rocks in the right places, It rocks with the right sound, If it rocked any harder They’d have to shoot it down. It’s full on giant scale hits you right off with a great nod to the son-of-a-gun naval tradition (look it up) of Kirk’s birth, lots of tattooed bad guys, heck they throw everything at you plus the kitchen sink and then go for more. It’s a BIG movie. I don’t know if I would have paid 17 clams for it, but 16-50 was a deal, bub. The best scene by far was right in the middle, usually where all the old Star Trek movies would slow down a bit and try to get philosophical. Instead, they just throw Kirk, Sulu and some red shirt out of a shuttle craft and tell them to go destroy the bad guys, cause the fate of the entire Galaxy hangs on them. That’s it. That’s about the whole plot. So in a scene ripped right out of Heinlein, they do a scream jump and for once you get a real taste of the silent emptiness of space as these guys drop head first to the planet below. They slowly fall, hit the atmosphere, and MAN you can feel the sweat as their suits heat up and the gravity kicks in and they try to keep cool before chuting out, getting yanked up out of control and trying to stay in formation, that drilling platform is coming up real fast and you get only one chance to be a hero and this is it, boys. Now if the fate of the entire Galaxy were hanging on my shoulders, I’d get a pulse rifle or two, then jump out of the shuttle. Actually, considering that the Enterprise seems willing to arm its crew, even the guys in the cafeteria to the teeth, I’d grab about 60 phasers, bombs, pulse disruptors, anti-grav decoys and 6 or 7 other redshirts to shove in front of me while I’m setting the fuses and lobbing them from about 50 feet in the rear. But Kirk just doesn’t think that way. He goes in UNARMED. He goes in with a pack of cigarettes and a slippery-handled phaser that keeps flying out of his hand with the slightest breeze. It’s good that Sulu came along, cause at least he brings a sword in his back pocket. Kirk would be Kentucky Fried Chicken without that sword. But that’s Kirk for ya, all balls, no brains, where’s da smokes? The whole scene goes on and on, to a final mid-air beam out that saves their lives JUST as they were about to make a big strawberry jam stain on the planet’s rocky hills. It’s pretty dang exciting, not the least of it all about being filmed by shaky hand held camera effects, and swirling crab shots that keep showing you the 3-mile cliff edge they’re fighting on. Industrial Light and Magic apparently did the harder effects shots, and they did such a good job Star Wars now looks as cheesy as the original Jaws shark. This may not have been such a good idea in retrospect, but George Lucas has been looking awfully confused in the media lately anyway. Here’s my only beef; I don’t like the beam-up effect. It looks like people are getting attacked by bees. They’re supposed to Beam Up, not Bee Up. With all those little effects dials and buttons and storyboarders and digital hi-resolution 3058807 terrabyte playback systems they have over at ILM, you’d think they’d come up with something a weedle bit better. Maybe they didn’t WANT to. Maybe it was a tiny bit of sabotage on ILM’s part, not to make the beam-up look very cool. It’s a mystery that may never be solved. Who cares anyway? The movie ROCKED. The other killer cool part of the film was the very simple scene of Spock declining to join the Vulcan Institute of Science. It was underplayed perfectly, as Spock realizes slowly but firmly (at the same time with the audience) that the Institute is just as prejudiced as the bullies he’s grown up with. It’s subtle, and goes right to the heart of anybody who’s been stiffed by a smirking snob, and that’s everybody in the room. I could feel the entire audience shifting in their seats, siding with Spock, getting drawn in. It’s a classic Star Trek moment, a scene Bob Justman would have been proud of. Who needs a plot without holes with scenes like that every once in a while?

***** Spoilers! If you haven’t seen the movie, see it first before reading this! *****

So the movie flat out ROCKS. It’s designed to rock, they hired the right guys to make it rock, and ROCK IT DOES.

It rocks in the right places,
It rocks with the right sound,
If it rocked any harder
They’d have to shoot it down.

It’s full on giant scale hits you right off with a great nod to the son-of-a-gun naval tradition (look it up) of Kirk’s birth, lots of tattooed bad guys, heck they throw everything at you plus the kitchen sink and then go for more. It’s a BIG movie. I don’t know if I would have paid 17 clams for it, but 16-50 was a deal, bub.

The best scene by far was right in the middle, usually where all the old Star Trek movies would slow down a bit and try to get philosophical. Instead, they just throw Kirk, Sulu and some red shirt out of a shuttle craft and tell them to go destroy the bad guys, cause the fate of the entire Galaxy hangs on them.

That’s it. That’s about the whole plot.

So in a scene ripped right out of Heinlein, they do a scream jump and for once you get a real taste of the silent emptiness of space as these guys drop head first to the planet below. They slowly fall, hit the atmosphere, and MAN you can feel the sweat as their suits heat up and the gravity kicks in and they try to keep cool before chuting out, getting yanked up out of control and trying to stay in formation, that drilling platform is coming up real fast and you get only one chance to be a hero and this is it, boys.

Now if the fate of the entire Galaxy were hanging on my shoulders, I’d get a pulse rifle or two, then jump out of the shuttle. Actually, considering that the Enterprise seems willing to arm its crew, even the guys in the cafeteria to the teeth, I’d grab about 60 phasers, bombs, pulse disruptors, anti-grav decoys and 6 or 7 other redshirts to shove in front of me while I’m setting the fuses and lobbing them from about 50 feet in the rear.

But Kirk just doesn’t think that way. He goes in UNARMED. He goes in with a pack of cigarettes and a slippery-handled phaser that keeps flying out of his hand with the slightest breeze. It’s good that Sulu came along, cause at least he brings a sword in his back pocket. Kirk would be Kentucky Fried Chicken without that sword. But that’s Kirk for ya, all balls, no brains, where’s da smokes?

The whole scene goes on and on, to a final mid-air beam out that saves their lives JUST as they were about to make a big strawberry jam stain on the planet’s rocky hills. It’s pretty dang exciting, not the least of it all about being filmed by shaky hand held camera effects, and swirling crab shots that keep showing you the 3-mile cliff edge they’re fighting on.

Industrial Light and Magic apparently did the harder effects shots, and they did such a good job Star Wars now looks as cheesy as the original Jaws shark. This may not have been such a good idea in retrospect, but George Lucas has been looking awfully confused in the media lately anyway.

Here’s my only beef; I don’t like the beam-up effect.

It looks like people are getting attacked by bees. They’re supposed to Beam Up, not Bee Up. With all those little effects dials and buttons and storyboarders and digital hi-resolution 3058807 terrabyte playback systems they have over at ILM, you’d think they’d come up with something a weedle bit better. Maybe they didn’t WANT to. Maybe it was a tiny bit of sabotage on ILM’s part, not to make the beam-up look very cool. It’s a mystery that may never be solved. Who cares anyway? The movie ROCKED.

The other killer cool part of the film was the very simple scene of Spock declining to join the Vulcan Institute of Science. It was underplayed perfectly, as Spock realizes slowly but firmly (at the same time with the audience) that the Institute is just as prejudiced as the bullies he’s grown up with. It’s subtle, and goes right to the heart of anybody who’s been stiffed by a smirking snob, and that’s everybody in the room. I could feel the entire audience shifting in their seats, siding with Spock, getting drawn in. It’s a classic Star Trek moment, a scene Bob Justman would have been proud of.

Who needs a plot without holes with scenes like that every once in a while?

Post #453722 by Cammo on Wed, May 13, 2009 4:56 PM