Some rich person bought my way into a screening of Star Trek, today: For a movie I had no intention of seeing 'first run', this one delivered.Some minor quibbles aside (including a barely serviceable score... until Alexander Courage's magnificent "Enterprise" and original series themes fire up), Star Trek was simply outstanding. Director J.J. Abrams (sounds like a Starfleet Commander's name) should be given a medal for reinvigorating a franchise which was so, so very tired... and, in the last few (many) years and movies, so, so lame. This Trek, at times, is surprisingly touching.
(Lest you think a "medal" is making too much of the situation and which might sound overwrought in needless ceremony, do not forget that it's really about money; and Abrams has opened the bank door -- not the back, the front -- to bags and bags of cash for, in all probability, some time to come.)
And, Mr. Lucas, this is how it is done! Observe.
I could have written this review...
http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/review/2009/05/08/star_trek/index.html?CP=IMD
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Yes, eventually the Trekkies will wake up and realize it's all about money. One can only anticipate that Toronto Trek VXIIII will have seminars on "ROI: Which Episode Excelled?" (Spectre of the Gun, natch) and a Powerpoint presentation by GoH Harv Bennet on how STII bought him a vacation home in the Bahamas, with slides of the infinity pool that Spock's death paid for. Or they could all go make porn and make some *real* money to buy oxygen masks when everything falls apart...
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