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“Star Trek”: “Personal Human Drama Missing”
By Kyle | May 8, 2009
So says John Nolte in his Trek review. John is the first to notice that this is installment 11 of the series, which makes it an odd-numbered entry. And we all know the even-numbered ones are the good ones. The only one I really liked was “Star Trek IV”–because it took the mickey out of the whole, er, enterprise, which manages to be both portentous and campy at the same time.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:00 am
Star Trek: Nemesis — an ironic title, since it appears to have pretty much brought the original timeline to an on-screen end — was the tenth film.
It wasn’t as bad as Star Trek V, but it was just terrible, a couple good ideas (mostly cribbed from Wrath of Kahn) and executed terribly.
I saw the new movie tonight and enjoyed it far more than I figured I would. This particular odd-numbered film is certainly a step up from the last even-numbered film.
May 9th, 2009 at 2:46 am
You’ll NEVER convince me that Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, wasn’t the best of the bunch.
Well, maybe until now; I haven’t seen this one yet.
Anyway, NEVER!!!
KHHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!
May 9th, 2009 at 7:31 am
As of this morning, STAR TREK is the best reviewed movie of the year, making Kyle’s “odd-numbered” theory laughable. Trek is 84% at MetaCritic and 96% at RottenTomatoes. For comparison, last year’s “The Dark Knight” is at 82% at Meta and 94% at Tomatoes.
Of course, it’s a free country and you can always go with Kyle’s opinion, a chap who thinks the medicore Cary Grant movie “Father Goose” is a better movie than “The Philadelphia Story” “The African Queen” and “Bringing Up Baby.” Each to their own, I guess.
May 9th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Enjoyable as it is, the new movie is no Wrath of Kahn, not by a long shot, and any suggestions that the movie is even in the same ballpark as The Dark Knight is simply absurd.