Re: Star Trek: The Movie
Star Wars the new trilogy is garbage. I pretend they never happened. And if someone wants to argue that that's the reason Star Wars sucks, please look back at half of the 10 Star Trek movies that were released. Everyone is batting .500 here.
Man, you call that him being a teenager? I guess a young one, but when I think teenager I think a kid in high school. He couldn't be more than 12 or 13, right?
Anyway, I was actually thinking about that after the movie. I think the problem the reviewer has with it is it's relevance. There doesn't seem to be one because every other scene in that film is about space.
However, my thoughts are this: if you don't like that scene then you can't like Spock's young childhood "oh, he's half human" scene. Because they are one in the same. They are character scenes.
Kirk's young scene was trying to show us that he was 1. A rebel in some ways and 2. Disinterested with authority.
Both of those characteristics play a large role in his being named Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Perhaps at the moment, the scene seemed irrelevant. And maybe the reviewer dislikes it because we already know that Kirk is a rebel and disinterested in authority. But, the point is that the film was taking us through time and the past must explain something or it's out of place.
Yes, that scene was different (again, no space here). But, it's important to help viewers understand Kirk. Without that scene, we don't know that he's always been considered an intelligent human with a tendency to act against authority - something that Cpt. Pike alludes to in the next Kirk scene.
So finally, when we're talking about space and the movie being about space, then I can understand why someone would say it's the worst part of the film. I just hope that reviewer wasn't downplaying the importance of that scene just because he saw fields in Iowa.
Star Wars the new trilogy is garbage. I pretend they never happened. And if someone wants to argue that that's the reason Star Wars sucks, please look back at half of the 10 Star Trek movies that were released. Everyone is batting .500 here.
Man, you call that him being a teenager? I guess a young one, but when I think teenager I think a kid in high school. He couldn't be more than 12 or 13, right?
Anyway, I was actually thinking about that after the movie. I think the problem the reviewer has with it is it's relevance. There doesn't seem to be one because every other scene in that film is about space.
However, my thoughts are this: if you don't like that scene then you can't like Spock's young childhood "oh, he's half human" scene. Because they are one in the same. They are character scenes.
Kirk's young scene was trying to show us that he was 1. A rebel in some ways and 2. Disinterested with authority.
Both of those characteristics play a large role in his being named Captain of the Starship Enterprise. Perhaps at the moment, the scene seemed irrelevant. And maybe the reviewer dislikes it because we already know that Kirk is a rebel and disinterested in authority. But, the point is that the film was taking us through time and the past must explain something or it's out of place.
Yes, that scene was different (again, no space here). But, it's important to help viewers understand Kirk. Without that scene, we don't know that he's always been considered an intelligent human with a tendency to act against authority - something that Cpt. Pike alludes to in the next Kirk scene.
So finally, when we're talking about space and the movie being about space, then I can understand why someone would say it's the worst part of the film. I just hope that reviewer wasn't downplaying the importance of that scene just because he saw fields in Iowa.
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