Last night we went to see Star Trek at Canal Place and then headed over to Slice on St. Charles Avenue for pizza. <\/p>\n
I’m a trekkie and though the movie was fun, it just was not a good movie for Star Trek. I love Captain Kirk’s braun against Spock’s brain, but instead this movie spent too much time hitting you over the head to establish the characters, and didn’t have a new message. <\/p>\n
Star Trek was a great new world back then when they put a black woman, a Russian, a Chinese, and several other mixes of personalities and cultures on one ship that encountered real life dilemmas and provided broad minded fixes. This Star Trek seemed nothing short of a video game. I’d say the shaky camera effect of old were not substantially enhanced with the technology we have today. <\/p>\n
It was fun in a banal way, but I think the franchise has so much more to offer – a real movie with real characters exploring real future issues. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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