Despite my love for sci-fi, I’m not much of a Trekkie. My knowledge in the Trek universe is minuscule, especially in comparison to Star Wars or Battlestar Galactica. I have barely seen any Star Trek series, needless to say to their entireties and have not seen ANY of the movies at all. Not even one bit. Ironically enough, I have a “Next Generations” movie poster hanging in my room, although that will be covered up with a Transformers poster soon. When the J.J. Abram’s first teaser came out after Cloverfield, I was not that impressed. Of course, I believe that it was meant to appeal more to Trekkies. But with more teasers and trailers following behind, I have been more and more excited for the movie. I did have my problems with them at first, but now I am genuinely excited to watch Star Trek this weekend.
There are many reasons for my excitement. To begin with, I can watch this movie without having to know anything about the series at all. According to Abrams, this movie was meant not only for the hardcore fans, but the casual movie goer as well. Granted, I probably won’t be able to understand some of the underlying trekkie jokes, and probably many hardcore fans will be upset, but for me this is bliss. It’s a movie based on a popular set of series that I can walk into without having to know a thing about the backstory, especially with such an expansive one. Secondly, this movie doesn’t look boring.
One of the main reasons that the other Star Trek hasn’t appealed to me is cause they just don’t look that cool, fun or exciting. The stories and settings seem way too peaceful. The anti-Star Wars and BSG to me. It always looked boring and dry to me. There’s not enough happening to keep my attention! Furthermore, whereabouts members of Star Fleet are using “phasers” as what seems to be a last resort, Jedi are swing their lightsabers, and pilots in BSG are flying in machines that arebuilt to kill and destroy. Though the Star Trek maybe the same thing with their “phasers”, all the explodies make things seem more exciting to me.
Another reason, but probably and surely not the last, is the feel of the movie. The other movies and series have an extremely artificial and dated feel to it. This can probably be attributed to cheap TV styled cinematography, poor special effects and the like. However, Abram’s version seems more natural and fluid, if that makes sense. Of course, this is all just how I personally feel.
Anyway, I don’t know if my self hype will pay off or not til this weekend. But to kinda sum up my feelings is the following:
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