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Saw Star Trek: All the Characters Cry Into Darkness last night with a group of local fangirls plus a bonus group ditto who'd picked the same showing. That was a nice follow-up experience to the 2009 Reboot, which I first saw in Boston with my grad school class + significant others + our program administrator. In an attempt to buoy my low expectations, last night I wore my ThinkGeek TOS dress and boots, which ended up garnering a few comments from theater staff and passersby and conveniently indicated that we were the line for the movie. It felt a little silly, especially since there were only two other people in the theater with Trekwear (one of them being ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ellen_fremedon), but there are only so many times a year that you can go out in public in costume and I'm glad I did it. The only other time I've dressed up for a movie was Prisoner of Azkaban when the NYC Potter fans bought out an IMAX theater.
Anyway, the movie. It was okay. I am having a complicated reaction to it. I didn't hate it as much as giandujakiss did nor love it like pun did. I don't understand the media outlets that call it an excellent movie and I think it had a little more to offer than those who're spilling vitriol all over it allow. I enjoyed it more than Reboot, which I disliked intensely. (I know that puts me in the minority; so many Trek fans cheered the new look and the refreshed cast and storyline in 2009, and so many mainstream viewers appreciated that it worked as an accessible action movie. I thought it failed all over the place on pretty much every level and I generally don't like prequels that de-age characters nor adaptations that replace intellectual dialogue [even if cheesy] with explosions. Grump.) So. Measured against that low bar, I thought Into Darkness delivered a few good things.
Spoilers ahead.
( The good, the bad, some laughs, the villain, general thoughts )
( Quotes I agree with from other people's reviews )
Please feel free to counterargue, echo, link, whatever!
ellen_fremedon), but there are only so many times a year that you can go out in public in costume and I'm glad I did it. The only other time I've dressed up for a movie was Prisoner of Azkaban when the NYC Potter fans bought out an IMAX theater.Anyway, the movie. It was okay. I am having a complicated reaction to it. I didn't hate it as much as giandujakiss did nor love it like pun did. I don't understand the media outlets that call it an excellent movie and I think it had a little more to offer than those who're spilling vitriol all over it allow. I enjoyed it more than Reboot, which I disliked intensely. (I know that puts me in the minority; so many Trek fans cheered the new look and the refreshed cast and storyline in 2009, and so many mainstream viewers appreciated that it worked as an accessible action movie. I thought it failed all over the place on pretty much every level and I generally don't like prequels that de-age characters nor adaptations that replace intellectual dialogue [even if cheesy] with explosions. Grump.) So. Measured against that low bar, I thought Into Darkness delivered a few good things.
Spoilers ahead.
( The good, the bad, some laughs, the villain, general thoughts )
( Quotes I agree with from other people's reviews )
Please feel free to counterargue, echo, link, whatever!
