Star Trek Into Darkness (Post-release)

[SSgt Burton]

I can't quite put my finger on why, but my gut tells me that that character should have been a woman.

Really? The one character that was in the movie for 2 minutes and that's the one you don't like? Ok then.

Umm... Did I miss something? Which character? :confused


Edit- nevermind, I didn't get that "Noel Clarke" was the name of the actor.

Can't understand how that would have been better suited for a female though.


Kevin

 

[JasonT1979]

The transwarp beaming device - which I totally acknowledge is a 'lazy' plot device (as was the original transwarp beaming concept, really) - is not standard issue Federation equipment. It's a piece of covert technology from Section 31. So, no, the Enterprise can't beam Spock out of the volcano with their standard transporters.

Well, maybe if they hadn't done something as daft and pointless as parking a starship under the sea rather than in space where it's supposed to operate (an absurdity that is even pointed out by Scotty in his first line in the film!) they might have had a bit more luck getting a direct line of sight to the volcano to beam Spock out of it....

 

[GvnHldn]

I didn't say I don't like him, I said I think they should have swapped it so that it was a high-ranking female employee of Starfleet that blew up the Kelvin memorial. I also said I can't put my finger on why I feel that's what they should've done. Aside from that I absolutely loved the movie.

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I honestly don't understand it either, maybe I just think they should have had more female employees in high ranking positions. I mean, my understanding is that Starfleet is about as forward-thinking and pro-equality as it gets.

 

[Captain Dunsel]

I really liked the movie but the miscasting of Khan did--and still does--bother me and I can't shake lose of it.

I really think it would have been infinitely better to have cast Benedict as Garth of Izar. Perhaps that is where the character started? Per the article I had read, they went back and forth on Khan being in the movie; maybe at one point the villain really WAS Garth of Izar at one point in the story's development?

Captain Garth had been horribly injured and given special powers by an alien race with regenerative and metamorphic abilities--so he really could have had "super blood".

As a legendary Starfleet captain, Garth really was "one of their own" as Harrison was supposed to be and a traitor on the surface.

Finally, having learned of Garth's abilities, Marcus could have manipulated him in the same way by using Garth's Starfleet crew as pawns. Added to this Garth's own touches of insanity and megalomania.

Finally, Captain Garth could easily have been a Brit.

 

[SSgt Burton]

Unfortunately Benedict being "Garth of Izar" would have the majority of the audience saying, "Who?"

Even "non" Trek fans have heard of "Khan" given all the "KHAAAAAN!" memes around.


Kevin

 

[ghostryder]

So The Third Abramsverse STAR TREK Movie Sounds Like It'll Be A Bit Leaner

 

[Apollo]

Well there goes that one to! :lol

So The Third Abramsverse STAR TREK Movie Sounds Like It'll Be A Bit Leaner

 

[The Terminator]

"Its vague trailers made it damn near impossible for audiences to glean the heart or drive of the film - and I’ve heard from a number of folks who dismissed STID entirely simply because they couldn’t get sense of the picture’s pulse from the promos."

Because trailers has to be a short version of the entire film, like a lot of trailers are. That way you don't have to actually go see the film :facepalm :facepalm :thumbsdown

 

[NakedMoleRat]

I for one would not mind a story driven movie, over an explosive roller coaster.

What we have not gotten yet is WHY this crew are friends. We have Spock hating Kirk one minute and crying over his death the next...

Give us the Enterprise responding to a distress OUTSIDE of Earth and let them get caught up in saving a race or something.

Create a new villian, not rehash an old one, don't make it dictator destroying Earth......

And I finally realized why the JJ Klingons looked so off.... despite the red skin....or the stupid piercings....

The ridges were not too far off from what we have seen before. They were lower to the surface of the skull and wrapped around the temples a little more but that wasn't too much of a stretch.

I downloaded the movie to my tablet and paused on them....It was the complete lack of hair on them that really threw them off for me. No pony tail ala TNG, no short hair ala TOS movies.... There was no hair, nada, no eyebrows, beards, goattees, nothing. That is what made them look weird to me.

 

[ghostryder]

I feel like I posted this before, maybe not:

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[The Terminator]

And I finally realized why the JJ Klingons looked so off.... despite the red skin....or the stupid piercings....

and they looked nothing like Klingons really

 

[Jeyl]

and they looked nothing like Klingons really

Or acted like them. MovieBob made the best point about how they're more comparable to Orcs than Klingons. And they also have piercings!

 

[The Terminator]

That is a good point.

"But the JJ Trek-verse is different" - Yes, but killing Kirks dad shouldn't change the way Klingons look and so on

 

[Solo4114]

Meh. It's a reboot. Best not to try to make sense of it.

 

[Riceball]

Or acted like them. MovieBob made the best point about how they're more comparable to Orcs than Klingons. And they also have piercings!

http://i1181.photobucket.com/albums/x436/lordJeyl/kli-orc_zps88c4a993.jpg

Orcs in spaaace!!!!

 

[robn1]

Meh. It's a reboot. Best not to make it.

Fixed that.

 

[Apollo]

:lol Word! :lol

Fixed that.

 

[redshirt]

Okay, just wait until JJ Abrahms gets ahold of Star Wars.

 

[Father]

Just watched Into Darkness on DVD the other day. Still loved it but watching Cumberbatch talk, he seemed to overact a bit in some scenes. Still loved him as Kahn and still loved the movie, probably more than the first JJ-Trek film.

 

[Vivek]

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