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Topic: Star Trek: Beyond (2016)
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Bobby Henderson
"Ask me about Trajan."
Posts: 10973
From: Lawton, OK, USA
Registered: Apr 2001
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posted 07-26-2016 08:53 PM
Cinema: Harkins Bricktown 16, Oklahoma City
Screen: Cine Capri
Format: 2D, Dolby Atmos
Presentation Problems: Projected image seemed a little dark. Might have been the look of the movie though.
Rating: 2 stars out of 4
I keep trying to give this new version of Star Trek a chance. It has a good cast and good production values, but it keeps coming up short in certain respects such as baffling plot points. Perhaps I'm just supposed to unplug my brain and just look at all the stuff happening on screen without trying to understand any of it.
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If the main bad guy turns out to be a former Star Fleet officer stranded on some distant planet just how is he able to figure out how to suck the life force out of other people, much less develop swarming, brain connected space craft that totally schools Federation star ships? Why would such advanced space craft be prone to a Mars Attacks" style vulnerability? The flaw would seemingly be there on purpose. In Mars Attacks the vulnerability had a very good comedic pay off. In this movie the big action moment looks kind of like a big space wave getting lit on fire. The moment isn't as thrilling as it was supposed to be. It sure isn't as wild a visual as a Martian's skull exploding. Since they re-used Sabotage by the Beastie Boys I felt more like I was watching the movie's movie trailer again.
The Star Trek saga has a habit of marooning its cast members on some distant planet for a big chunk of the movie. I like it more if the story has them visiting a lot of different places. It's not a prison movie or Castaway. Star Trek: Beyond is a little more like Star Trek: Stranded.
The movie's Atmos mix was okay, but nothing really impressive. There was a few decent side wall and back wall sound pans tracking across the speaker arrays. If the sound designers used the ceiling arrays at all I hardly heard any of it. And I was sitting fairly far back and high. The ceiling surrounds were loud and clear during the Atmos "Unfold" trailer. I think Harkins to needs to adjust the sub bass in this room. There's not as much thump in there as I think there should be.
Interesting note: while killing time in the lobby I saw Steven Tyler of Aerosmith fame with a younger brunette lady. At first I thought I was seeing things, thinking "what the hell is Steven Tyler doing in Oklahoma City of all places?" They were coming from one of the auditoriums on the theater's western half headed to the main snack counter. As they were passing a self service station Tyler pointed at a pile of spilled popcorn on the counter. "Slobs," he scoffed. My thoughts exactly. Slobs. When I heard his voice I knew it was him for sure.
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Pravin Ratnam
Jedi Master Film Handler
Posts: 844
From: Atlanta, GA,USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 07-27-2016 04:09 PM
Saw the 3D version at Regal Avalon. The lights remained too bright for the main presentaiton. That made the picture contrast suffer. I went and complained, the manager looked at the lights and said that was normal. Now it was not an obvious too bright level. But shouldn't I be able to stare at the lights in the ceiling and not have to blink my eyes in reaction? Or see people in other seats way too clearly even during the dark scenes?
I don't know if because it is assigned seating(all auditoriums are htis format in this theater) that they feel they need to have the lights on this much, but it was annoying.
Anyway back to the movie.
The 3D effects were hardly visible and when they were it was for the bad reason (like relative scales of people versus objects, in one scene Spock's hand looked like that of the Hulk's while the rest of the frame looked nomral). No need for a 3D conversion if it was going to be done this lazily.
So what is the trend of this series giving partners to even freaking Spock, (not to mention Sulu's male partner even if Takei himself felt it would have been better to come up with a new character who was gay), but then at the same time emasculate Capt. Kirk. Kirk hasn't gotten any action the last two Trek movies. not even Jalen and Kirk?
Overall, I enjoyed the movie. even if it was not great. I am a huge fan of the original series. but except for Wrath of Khan and Park 6, felt like the movies with the original cast were lame. So this movie definitely is an improvement over some of those movies.
In a weak slate of movies this summer, this movie will do as one of my big movies to see.
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