The Enterprise entering the atmosphere doesn't bother me. This one was built in Iowa, right? Since when have starships in Star Trek not been capable of entering atmospheres? It didn't even reconfigure wings or nacelles and sprout landing gear, because we all know that only smaller ships do that in Star Trek.
The underwater scenes are much more questionable, but at least Scotty acknowledges it first chance he gets. Still, I don't think it is that far-fetched. Even in space, the maneuvering we see these ships do at impulse speeds (approaching the speed of light) subjects the ship to far greater forces than water pressure at that depth. That's why they have to have structural integrity fields and inertial dampening technology, to hold the ship together against tremendous forces and keep the occupants from splattering into chunky red salsa on the bulkheads every time evasive maneuvers are ordered while travelling at incredible speed. Going underwater shouldn't be much of a problem.
Saw the movie tonight, and enjoyed it for what it was. It does look pretty great at times, and was a fun ride. There was plenty that the fan in me didn't care for, but I would still rank it above at least half of the previous movies, and I will almost certainly watch it again, and again.
I'm feeling a lot of frustration about it, though. Everything is hit-and-miss.
Those atmospheric and underwater shots are stunning. We can quibble about how realistic or in-character for the Trek universe they might be, but they are easily some of the best looking starship scenes we have yet seen.
I still feel like I haven't seen enough of the Vengeance to have a clear picture of it in my head, but it doesn't work for me. It seems poorly thought out, at least a few generations ahead of this time period, and it looks like they intentionally made it the darkest Federation ship ever to make it the obvious bad guy ship. Enterprise gets beat up by the big ugly black Enterprise.
The little Klingon D4 patrol ships were somewhat cool, but I don't feel like I got a good look at them. It felt like they were teasing with the Klingons. They only show the one with his helmet off, and he happens to be hairless and has piercings in his forehead ridges. You could see hair and beards hanging out under the helmets of other Klingons, though. With at least some facial hair, I think the look of these Klingons would work fine for me.
The warp core set was a much better use of location than the brewery used for engineering, but I was dissappointed to see them use the brewery again this time. After seeing how well the real-life experimental fusion reactor worked, the brewery looked even more out of place.
The lens flares were lessened, but they were still all over the place.
I liked Cumberbatch as a villain, but I wish he wasn't Kahn Noonien Singh. They could have made him one of the other 72 genetic supermen, named Kahn Nigel Smythe. In the real Trek universe, he was one of the guys who bit it on Ceti Alpha V.
The underwater scenes are much more questionable, but at least Scotty acknowledges it first chance he gets. Still, I don't think it is that far-fetched. Even in space, the maneuvering we see these ships do at impulse speeds (approaching the speed of light) subjects the ship to far greater forces than water pressure at that depth. That's why they have to have structural integrity fields and inertial dampening technology, to hold the ship together against tremendous forces and keep the occupants from splattering into chunky red salsa on the bulkheads every time evasive maneuvers are ordered while travelling at incredible speed. Going underwater shouldn't be much of a problem.
Saw the movie tonight, and enjoyed it for what it was. It does look pretty great at times, and was a fun ride. There was plenty that the fan in me didn't care for, but I would still rank it above at least half of the previous movies, and I will almost certainly watch it again, and again.
I'm feeling a lot of frustration about it, though. Everything is hit-and-miss.
Those atmospheric and underwater shots are stunning. We can quibble about how realistic or in-character for the Trek universe they might be, but they are easily some of the best looking starship scenes we have yet seen.
I still feel like I haven't seen enough of the Vengeance to have a clear picture of it in my head, but it doesn't work for me. It seems poorly thought out, at least a few generations ahead of this time period, and it looks like they intentionally made it the darkest Federation ship ever to make it the obvious bad guy ship. Enterprise gets beat up by the big ugly black Enterprise.
The little Klingon D4 patrol ships were somewhat cool, but I don't feel like I got a good look at them. It felt like they were teasing with the Klingons. They only show the one with his helmet off, and he happens to be hairless and has piercings in his forehead ridges. You could see hair and beards hanging out under the helmets of other Klingons, though. With at least some facial hair, I think the look of these Klingons would work fine for me.
The warp core set was a much better use of location than the brewery used for engineering, but I was dissappointed to see them use the brewery again this time. After seeing how well the real-life experimental fusion reactor worked, the brewery looked even more out of place.
The lens flares were lessened, but they were still all over the place.
I liked Cumberbatch as a villain, but I wish he wasn't Kahn Noonien Singh. They could have made him one of the other 72 genetic supermen, named Kahn Nigel Smythe. In the real Trek universe, he was one of the guys who bit it on Ceti Alpha V.
