Star Trek (2009)
Didn’t really intend to watch it, but thought it would be fun to do so and picked it up out of impulse. Didn’t expect it to be good because modern adaptations of anything are rarely much good nowadays, but it would be good time for me to finally watch something that was remotely related to the Star Trek franchise.
The movie ended up being an entertaining and exciting ride, especially during the action scenes, but the story and characters were quite subpar. Spock with a shallow love interest? Really? Was quite uncomfortable to see him with a girl like that, and it felt very, very out of character (although I wouldn’t know if it really is, since I haven’t watched the true Star Trek yet. He seems like a very detached and logical character who would not go for girl, though). The story was the generic good guys vs. bad guy, and it was woefully shallow like the love interest.
Kind of regret watching this as my first foray into the franchise, but at least it showed enough of the appeal of Star Trek to make me really want to throw everything down and start watching the series, and when I refer to appeal, I meant the showcasing of the grand space theme with all the wonderfully designed and modeled machinery. Super ultra beautiful and detailed, and man, Spock’s little whirring ship is awwwwwwwwwwwwesome. It is quite cute for some reason. As well, it made me wonder how much better the characters are in the True Star Trek. I’m guessing that they’re infinite times better, and that when I get to watching the series, I will go in with extremely high expectations.
Similar to Tron: Legacy, Star Trek (2009) is a good piece of eye candy (even if it has too many trendy and unnecessary light flares), but alas, it falls short and becomes just another addition to the “generic Hollywood-ized adaptation” pile due to trying too hard to be “modern”. That is, forcing some kind of love interest in there and shoving in “scenes with sexy women who do not belong”.
Star Trek does not need that kind of sexy, it only needs its sensually curved starcrafts. 55/100
