LivingMetal said:
Veknoid_Outcast said:
I'm with shika on this, although I do generally trust movie critics. I think Metacritic is a better judge of the critical consensus than RT. In that case Beyond is sitting on a 71.
This review from EW sums up everything wrong with Abrams' alternaverse: "Beyond is more fun than deep. It’s lightweight, zero-gravity Trek that is, for the most part, devoid of the sort of Big Ideas and knotty existential questions that creator Gene Roddenberry specialized in."
Looks like Beyond continues the trend.
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1) It is not 1966 anymore.
2) Roddenberry was kicked off of the Star Trek Next Gen writing team because he was his own asshole that he was stuck in. The series finally took off when he was relieved of his iron fist closed minded rule.
3) He's passe. You can recognized this past acheivements and influences, but those who cannot move such as these critics really need to get a life.
4) "He's dead, Jim."
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Dude, not cool. I don't like the new Star Trek movies so I need to get a life?
I know it's not 1966 anymore. It's 2016. In September it will be Trek's 50th anniversary and all we have to show for it is a complete bastardization of what made the series great in the first place. Yes, Roddenberry's conservatism hurt The Next Generation, and the show become much better after his departure. But what he created is magnificent: a bold, creative vision of the future rich in heady ideas about identity, multiculturalism, exploration, time travel, alien worlds and civilizations, and, most importantly, what it means to be human.
His legacy continued throughout the 80s and 90s and finally hit a dead end with Enterprise and Nemesis. The franchise was in need of a renaissance, yes, but what it got was a black eye. Abrams et al. transformed a contemplative series about science and big deas into an action movie about plot holes and lens flares.
For the record, if Abrams had made good movies, I'd be willing to forgive his thorough dismantling of everything that defined Star Trek for over 40 years. But they're not good movies. They're populated by callow and unconvincing acting; contrivances and shaky logic; numbing and hollow special effects; and convoluted, murky storylines.