Amazing movie, loved it, really hope it's the number 1 movie this year.

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I loved how they made it a new movie in the series even keeping all the past movies and series as canon and not casting them off like many series reboots.  Future Spock was awesome, explaining things to people that they shouldn't know which in most storylines like that they're like NOOO I shouldn't mess with the past.

Spock knew the past was screwed so why change it, if he was still the same after Nero messed things up then he realized it was an alternate reality in a different time. All very cool. 

My favorite things are how they kept to the original style with a lot of action and fist fights but still made it awesome and epic for non fans.  And the George Kirk death scene has to be one of the most awesome openings in a movie ever!

i might have to see it again. In theatres this time

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I have never seen Star Trek before, but I loved that film. I kind of knew enough to know that there were in-jokes, even if I did not quite get them all, but I just love the mix of action and comedy, it reminded me of Mass Effect in some ways, and reminded me I need to get back to that game.

One thing I still don't get is why there are fires on the outside of ships, as there is no air, what is being blown up? And also, when shots don't penetrate the hulls, but still cause explosions and people to run around and jump on the inside?

Still those are problems with nearly all things set in space, and I did really enjoy it, J.J. Abrams is just a genius

Abrams has to walk the fine line of introducing the series to new "casual" fans who aren't familiar with all the technobabble, and not pissing off the hardcore fans who like dress up to conventions and stuff.


I hope the next upcoming star trek project, if there is one, includes some sort of social commentary of some sort; as that was pretty much the original purpose of the original star trek series. Though corny, but the original series had episodes where like the crew would visit a planet where the half white, half black guy, hated the half black, half white guy. Under the guise of a cheesy sci fi show, they got away with a lot of political commentary sometimes.

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I saw the movie yesterday and I must say it was AMAZING! I wasn't really looking forward to seeing it in the first place since I'm not a fan of the series I just brushed it aside. But I went ahead and watched it and I loved it. The characters are great, they have so many good actors and recognizable faces. The story is really good and it is pretty funny. One of the better movies I have seen in a while.

That crossed my mind too...Everytime the horizontal solar flare effect popped up I thought of Mass Effect...

I watched it today on IMAX and it was so impressive in that format. I have never seen a queue that snaked around the interior and exterior of the IMAX theatre.

So according to most comments here this is a movie for the people who where not really interested in Star Trek before. Hm...

I'm not a die-hard fan, never been to a convention or so, but I love TOS, TNG and DS9 (don't really like VOY and ENT). I think the responsible guys gradually destroyed what the fans liked the most (i.e. the Roddenberry style) with movies ranging from "lowest level fan-service" to absolutely terrible (Nemesis) and the Enterprise series.

I'll watch the new movie some day on DVD, but what does the success of this movie mean for the ST universe? It might lead to another prequel TV series like Enterprise, which is not the worst idea (if better done than ENT), but a prequel series is the possibility that interests me the least.

I wished Paramount would have continued the timeline after DS9 & VOY, but I think they are happy now that they "revived" a universe, which was actually never dead, with a prequel movie that adds nothing important to the ST universe, but probably brings in more money than all its predecessors.

To make it short: Good to see that Star Trek gets some new fans, but at the moment it doesn't take place in my Quadrant. So many possibilities to boldly go where no man has gone before, so few ideas...

Star Trek first weekend US: 76.5 mio

Box office history of previous Star Trek movies

Within a few weeks, US gross of the new movie alone will surpass the highest worldwide gross of the most successful previous ST movie (First Contact, 150 mio).

eh, it has cost 150 million to make.. So it needs to make about 200 million to be a good success.
How the f**k did wolverine make almost twice as much in it's first week? It's bullcrap.

I think JJ Abrams "wii-ified" the Star Trek Franchise, basically.

Had it continued on the way it was before, the current "hardcore" star trek base would have shrunk, and there were hardly any new "casual" star trek fans jumping on board.

I dare you to find a person who became a Star Trek fan from watching Enterprise, or even Voyager. Most likely, the people who watched Enterprise/Voyager/DS9 are the same people who watched TNG.

So the new Star Trek catered more to "casuals" but also managed to pay homage to the original continuity.