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Amazing that the budget was $190M - with no A-list cast, no big sets to build, no international filming locations, nothing much practical, no epic army battles, no CG creatures, and only a 2-hour runtime. The VFX budget must have soaked up most of that.
To be honest, I can't say that it looked like a $190M picture. It looked more like half that.
Quick thoughts on Star Trek:
I'm no Trekkie - I literally know next to nothing about the franchise, characters etc. I saw the earlier Star Trek movie, but only once and I barely remember it.
I went to Star Trek Into Darkness with my mum, as an excursion (dinner and a movie) for Mother's Day. And considering she found Serenity to be "too violent", it's possible that part of my consciousness was wondering what she was thinking of it (she is a fan of the original show as a teenager) but loathes violence in general. She enjoyed it, I enjoyed it. Sure, there were massive plot holes and some scenes made me roll my eyes uncontrollably, but overall, I liked the message of the movie, that people in power have a responsibility to be careful and respectful of that power, and of other cultures. In direct contrast to how I felt leaving the cinema after Iron Man, which seemed to believe the exact opposite (certainly from a world-view perspective) and I walked out of Star Trek with a smile on my face. I didn't think too hard about it, but it didn't offend or annoy me on any serious level. Overall I give it a 3 / 5. I wouldn't pay to see it again, but I didn't feel like I'd wasted hours of my life.
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I'm pretty sure he's just super-strong and that wasn't technically a hand-held weapon... even though he was handling it with his hands. But still, yeah. That happened.
I enjoyed the hell out of this.
Seriously, that gif should become an institution.
Anyway, coming to this one as a non-geek the film held together much more than Iron Man. I know they've flipped a lot of stuff on its head, but that doesn't bother me at all.
Also, I've no experience of the villain before seeing this picture.
You chaps can all sit around and collectively fellate Tony Stark's 3rd solo film, I'll be sitting I over here with a huge box of popcorn, watching new Start Trek, and grinning from ear to ear.
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You disappoint me Dave
Wow, you sound like many of my exes.
After bedroom time.
This is all eerily reminscent of the prequels, what with their reliance on the audience's knowledge of later movies to fill in the drama of the story/scene, invariably done with a wink.
Which suddenly makes me very concerned for Star Wars Episode 7. Is Abrams capable of showing restraint and not filling that up with self-references? Are we going to see a one-armed wampa?
I just didn't care, I was having fun.
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