Star Trek Into Darkness Opinions thread (spoilers inside)

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**Satan's Little Helper**

I watched it over the weekend and thought it was awesome.

However, none of my friends are into Star Trek so I thought I'd ask you guys what you thought about it.

Personally I thought that Cumberbatch was brilliant and the highlight of the film.

What do you guys think?

**azazel the cat**

I think it's stupid that North America gets to wait until the 16th to go see it.

**LordofHats**

azazel the cat wrote:
I think it's stupid that North America gets to wait until the 16th to go see it.

This. I can forgive Sydney Australia getting it way back in April cause come on. When's the last time Australia got anything first? But why is North America and the rest of the world waiting an extra week after the UK release?

**azazel the cat**

LordofHats wrote:
azazel the cat wrote:
I think it's stupid that North America gets to wait until the 16th to go see it.

This. I can forgive Sydney Australia getting it way back in April cause come on. When's the last time Australia got anything first? But why is North America and the rest of the world waiting an extra week after the UK release?

It's like the MPAA is trying as hard as can be to see their film pirated in NA.

**Frazzled**

Iron Man 3 was the same way wasn't it?

**LordofHats**

Yeah. Especially since its STAR TREK. That's like making a doctor who movie and releasing it in the US on May 7 and in the UK on May 14. It's just backwards.

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Frazzled wrote:
Iron Man 3 was the same way wasn't it?

Iron Man 3 had an international release ahead of its US release. But for STID it's just the UK which is weird. You'd think they'd just release the stupid thing at the same time everywhere.

**azazel the cat**

LordofHats wrote:Yeah. Especially since its STAR TREK. That's like making a doctor who movie and releasing it in the US on May 7 and in the UK on May 14. It's just backwards.

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Frazzled wrote:
Iron Man 3 was the same way wasn't it?

Iron Man 3 had an international release ahead of its US release. But for STID it's just the UK which is weird. You'd think they'd just release the stupid thing at the same time everywhere.

Lacking a global release date was one of the things that really hurt the music industry when Internet piracy was coming into play. Seems just silly to hope that the exact same outcome doesn't happen in the exact same situation.

**Frazzled**

That is strange. KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!

**d-usa**

I thought it was awesome.

Great throwbacks, the trailers really didnt give anything away. Everything I thought I knew from the trailers was false.

**Goliath**

azazel the cat wrote:
I think it's stupid that North America gets to wait until the 16th to go see it.

And now you know how it feels for the rest of the world.

**Frazzled**

Hasn't bothered me a whit.

**Sasori**

d-usa wrote:
I thought it was awesome.

Great throwbacks, the trailers really didnt give anything away. Everything I thought I knew from the trailers was false.

Pretty much this. Great Movie!

**Soladrin**

Goliath wrote:
azazel the cat wrote:
I think it's stupid that North America gets to wait until the 16th to go see it.

And now you know how it feels for the rest of the world.

Yeah, that just pleases me.

**d-usa**

My personal highlight of the movie:

Spoiler:

**Squigsquasher**

Going to be honest, I thought this was the best Star Trek movie ever made. It had the action and humour that made the 2009 movie great, combined with original series intrigue and plot twists.

In short, I loved it. Even if it was completely filled with lens flares.

**Jihadin**

Well....Seeing the old Star TrekWrath of Khan on the big screen and how this one was reversed.......nnnnniiiicccceeeeeeee......Spock wailed the crap out of Khan....after Uhula stun him like 10 plus times

**Breotan**

Well, I'm not going to spoil your fun with my opinion (which I've been sharing all over the internet as well as the DCM movie thread) except to say it is very different than what has been posted here. And not in a good way.

Glad you guys enjoyed it though.

**Jihadin**

I grew up on old Star Trek. I like the new twist on Star Trek now.

**d-usa**

We need to either spoiler details, or add a spoiler tag to the title I think.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Liked it, maybe even loved it...

Till they decided it was a remake of Star Trek 2 the Wrath of Khan, only without the emotional impact because they'd foreshadowed how they're bring back Kirk in the first #$%^ing scene of the film.

And then they settled everything with a fist fight.

Sigh...

And I still h8, h8, h8 the idea of a reboot. You cannot have a show whose premise is 'boldly go where no one has gone before' and then go backwards.

H8ed the Enterprise show for the same reason.

Still much more logical than Star Trek 11: The Reboot. I give Star Trek 12: The Wrathier of Khanier a covet rating of 4/5 stars.

**flamingkillamajig**

Am i the only one that was kind of disappointed. It was still really good but disappointing. I think i prefered the first one.

Spoiler:

**Jihadin**

Well..the original Wrath had the crew split...Chekov with another Captain discovered Khan on a planet that they (original crew) left him on....and Chekov forgot which planet.....

**flamingkillamajig**

Jihadin wrote:
Well..the original Wrath had the crew split...Chekov with another Captain discovered Khan on a planet that they (original crew) left him on....and Chekov forgot which planet.....

I dunno i never felt like things were really at stake. I mean yeah a couple times during the movie some things were at stake but nothing ever got to the point where everything felt as if it was 'all on the line' and relied on the crew with kirk and spock to save the day. There were good parts sure but the vulcan planet and spock's mom died in the first movie and earth was almost destroyed. Things happened in the second movie but not nearly as much was at stake as it was in the first movie.

**Ahtman**

flamingkillamajig wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Well..the original Wrath had the crew split...Chekov with another Captain discovered Khan on a planet that they (original crew) left him on....and Chekov forgot which planet.....

I dunno i never felt like things were really at stake.

Think about what Khan was able to do by himself in the film, then imagine 74 more like him running around, then imagine them with the most advanced warship the Federation had created. The dreadnought was cool. Gonna have to get me one of them.

**Ouze**

I'm probably going to see this on Monday. I'm not at all into Star Trek, but I liked the last one pretty well.

That being said, I am a little concerned because of the lens flare.

Yes, I know it's become fashionable to bag on JJ Abrams over his overuse of this effect. That being said I think there is an awful lot of truth in that particular beef. Because they seem to have been rapidly escalating. In Cloverfield, it was merely present, in the last Star Trek it was distracting, and in Super 8 I found it to nearly ruin the movie. Certainly I think it screwed up some scenes, where you'd have dialogue where you can't see characters faces because of a giant corona. So - is it like that here as well?

**Ahtman**

It is about like the first, as far as lens flare is concerned. That means about 400% more than most movies, but it could have been worse.

I thought the Klingons were handled well, and like there look that is a combination of the old and new, while adding there own touch. The Klingon patrol ships were fairly cool as well.

**Kid_Kyoto**

Ouze wrote:
I'm probably going to see this on Monday. I'm not at all into Star Trek, but I liked the last one pretty well.

That being said, I am a little concerned because of the lens flare.

Yes, I know it's become fashionable to bag on JJ Abrams over his overuse of this effect. That being said I think there is an awful lot of truth in that particular beef. Because they seem to have been rapidly escalating. In Cloverfield, it was merely present, in the last Star Trek it was distracting, and in Super 8 I found it to nearly ruin the movie. Certainly I think it screwed up some scenes, where you'd have dialogue where you can't see characters faces because of a giant corona. So - is it like that here as well?

Yes, even in scenes were it makes no sense. It's like the whole thing was filmed through a plate of glass.

**Ouze**

Ahtman wrote:
It is about like the first, as far as lens flare is concerned. That means about 400% more than most movies, but it could have been worse.

Ok, cool. I think in the first one it detracted rather then added, but it wasn't so bad as Super 8 - I could live with that.

And with that, I depart the thread, lest I be spoilered.

**Jihadin**

I have to admit I agree with you. The only movie so far in my life that made me feel like I was putting my tan arse on the line again was "Hurt Locker". If you think about it it kind of playing into the "5 year mission" With advance tech from the Dreadnaught due to Khan I can see that mission possible without support for long period of time. Basically the theme is breaking away from the.....canan?...well the establish timeline that we're fimiliar with....So the next old movie was Search for Spock. Since Spock alive we can't go into that timeline and the Genisis Project....Kirk son....ex wife...well you know. Best guess to nail down a good continuation. Federation/Klingon War.

**Experiment 626**

Jihadin wrote:
I have to admit I agree with you. The only movie so far in my life that made me feel like I was putting my tan arse on the line again was "Hurt Locker". If you think about it it kind of playing into the "5 year mission" With advance tech from the Dreadnaught due to Khan I can see that mission possible without support for long period of time. Basically the theme is breaking away from the.....canan?...well the establish timeline that we're fimiliar with....So the next old movie was Search for Spock. Since Spock alive we can't go into that timeline and the Genisis Project....Kirk son....ex wife...well you know. Best guess to nail down a good continuation. Federation/Klingon War.

Something really weird that brings in the Borg because of timeline fudging?

Maybe just go with, "Q did it... again"