There are a few Trek music cues in the score throughout the film, but they're used subtly.

In the Lost special sneak peek... did anyone else think that...

Been listening to the score... it aint Star Wars that's for sure. Actually the soundtrack is pretty weak, 45 minutes, short tracks except for the last one. A couple main themes but I didn't find a lot of depth to it.

Yeah, it's the same concept artist that designed it actually. Most of us at work are in agreement the red creature just doesn't look like it should live there. But I don't really know the Star Trek universe, is that just how it rolls?

Non-humanoid creatures in Star Trek are fairly rare, and nothing like that has been seen on the shows as far as I recall.

The Naked Time, This Side of Paradise, The Devil In The Dark, The City On The Edge Of Forever, Operation Annihilate, Obsession, The Trouble With Tribbles, The Gamesters of Triskelion, The Immunity Syndrome, Return To Tomorrow, and The Lights of Zetar all featured non-humanoid aliens to one degree or another. And that's just from TOS.

The only reason we haven't seen anything like the giant monster in the new Trek movie has more to do with budget than anything else. But we did have the Horta, which is about the best a low budget 60s TV series could do.

I would be willing to bet that between all the series, the humanoid to non-humanoid ratio of aliens/creatures is like 20:1

Given that Star Trek was about character more than spectacle, it makes sense to have humanoid aliens instead of giant monsters like in that clip.

And I think the first monster was meant to be a throwback to the guard dogs in Star Trek VI.

For all the bitching and moaning about the giant monsters, the scene in question is the only scene where any of the characters encounter gigantic aliens.



Long story short, this is the best film in the series since Khan.

Abrams has complete respect for the franchise and makes it more in-tune with the original series, just with a lot more money put into it. There are things I would've wanted more from. For example, Kirk and Spock take up a majority of the film; but I would've loved to seen more participation from the rest of the gang especially with the film's inspired casting. It could've also used a lot more action (the film's only real action set piece comes during the finale), but for an establishing film within a new franchise, I loved it. It's like the Batman Begins of the Trek universe.

Given the storyline, it makes sense to focus on Spock and Kirk in this one. And we got enough of the rest of the cast that we cared about them (except Scotty, you can never have enough Simon Pegg).

Agreed, but I would've loved to seen more of Cho, Pegg and Urban.

Cho had the least to do by far. I can't wait to see the sequel, which will hopefully broaden the scope to encompass the whole cast more completely. Especially Pegg and Urban.

Boston Globe review came out today, 4 stars (out of 4). They've given it front page treatment naming it "The best prequel ever":

http://www.boston.com/ae/movies/arti...resh_frontier/

I just got back from watching this at the Regal on 42nd Street in Manhattan. I really thought they did a good job. I got advance screening tickets and took my sister. I am more of a casual fan, while she is a fangirl. We both enjoyed it and she LOVED how they put a lot of classic Star Trek lines in the movie ( I was able to recognize them as well) I feel the casting was well done, the action and special effects were good and while sometimes storylines in Sci Fi can lose me I had no trouble following along.
I think you guys are gonna enjoy it!

Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As 'Fun, Watchable'

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide...star_trek_film

Just got back from the Austin aintitcool Imax screening.

I do not like Star Trek. I think it is excellent in concept, terrible in execution. I only enjoyed Khan and parts of Spock.

But...I thought this was borderline flawless. One of the Top 20 movies I have ever seen. Not only was it entertaining and an amazing reboot, it was also very funny.

Just came from a screening in Houston.

Simply put, Star Trek is the reason we love movies in the first place.

Sitting in the theater, it was like being a kid again. I was never a fan of Star Trek, having only seen a few films, but I remember the movies I loved as a kid. Indiana Jones. The Goonies. Stuff like that. Star Trek is a movie that makes me proud of loving movies. It has action, comedy, drama. The casting job is perfect.

Saw it. Loved it.

I can't frakkin' wait to see this movie.

Don't bet on it. Scotty got more screen time in his TNG cameo than almost the entire TOS episodes and the movies put together. He was a minor character at best.

McCoy, however, feels criminally underutilized. As far as characterization goes, he was spot on.

Loved this movie. Felt the tone was perfect. Loved the special effects, set design, cinematography, acting, script, and how little they used treknobabble (they use "beam" more often than "transport").

I don't know why some reviewers were complaining about the story being fractious and whatnot, because it was really easy to follow. A good script really made things flow well.

My only complaint is that if you divide the movie into three acts, the second act is by far the weakest when it should have been the strongest. It starts off with a bang, and builds tremendous momentum, then the movie slows down (but doesn't grind to a complete stop), before things start picking up again.

Star Trek is exciting again. It's fun, it's adventurous, and it harkens back to that swashbuckling feel of TWOK (something that Nemesis tried so desperately to copy, but failed).

I bought nachos and a soda and from the opening moments they were untouched throughout the whole movie.

The anticipation of this movie is making me go bonkers

saw this over at trekbbs:

lol

+1

At this point, I'm almost afraid my expectations are too high.

Negative review (2.5 / 4) from AP: http://movies.yahoo.com/news/movies....ome-trouble-ap

Namely, there was a plot point they didn't like so despite excellent execution it isn't a good movie. What sucks is thats the review that will be printed in a lot of newspapers, not that it will make a huge different

This was hilarious