My other two nit-picks are the the opening was both funny and skeevy as hell (I don't know how to articulate it and I might be being over-sensitive, but... I was skeeved out)
I honestly had the dual reaction where I liked it but simultaneously knew it had a shitty White Man's Burden overtone. What I liked about it had more to do with just, in my own mind, the idea of how amazing it would have been to have been a member of a technologically basic, intelligent civilization and have your volcano start to erupt and then have what amounts to a god rise out of the sea to destroy it. So I knew it was squicky but at the same time I was awed by the idea of something miraculous happening and the idea that it would become a huge component of their mythology was epic.
In retrospect...the casting of a white guy as Khan makes more sense. I still don't agree with why the story needed to be that way, but I can see more of the thought process now and that it would have been worse to have a POC in it with the story they were trying to tell (ex: crashing a spaceship into buildings in a major metropolis). Granted, I really don't see why the crash scene at the end needed to be as dramatic as it was, aside from the fact that he was angry and just wanted to cause as much death and destruction as he could before he was finally taken out (although I feel like there's another missing scene where he realizes that his crew is actually alive, which would have rounded everything out way more effectively).
I genuinely enjoyed the movie though! JJ Abrams isn't a very good storyteller and the ladies were treated terribly, but it had moments where it really shone and hit some amazing character points. I'll talk more in-depth about it later, but I liked it a lot.
ESPECIALLY KIRK DYING. AND SPOCK'S REACTION. AND THAT SPOCK BEAT UP THE BAD GUY WITH HIS AMAZING SPACE GIRLFRIEND. AND THE FACT THAT SOMEONE OTHER THAN KIRK GOT THE HERO HIGHLIGHT IN THE END.
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My other two nit-picks are the the opening was both funny and skeevy as hell (I don't know how to articulate it and I might be being over-sensitive, but... I was skeeved out)
I honestly had the dual reaction where I liked it but simultaneously knew it had a shitty White Man's Burden overtone. What I liked about it had more to do with just, in my own mind, the idea of how amazing it would have been to have been a member of a technologically basic, intelligent civilization and have your volcano start to erupt and then have what amounts to a god rise out of the sea to destroy it. So I knew it was squicky but at the same time I was awed by the idea of something miraculous happening and the idea that it would become a huge component of their mythology was epic.
In retrospect...the casting of a white guy as Khan makes more sense. I still don't agree with why the story needed to be that way, but I can see more of the thought process now and that it would have been worse to have a POC in it with the story they were trying to tell (ex: crashing a spaceship into buildings in a major metropolis). Granted, I really don't see why the crash scene at the end needed to be as dramatic as it was, aside from the fact that he was angry and just wanted to cause as much death and destruction as he could before he was finally taken out (although I feel like there's another missing scene where he realizes that his crew is actually alive, which would have rounded everything out way more effectively).
I genuinely enjoyed the movie though! JJ Abrams isn't a very good storyteller and the ladies were treated terribly, but it had moments where it really shone and hit some amazing character points. I'll talk more in-depth about it later, but I liked it a lot.
ESPECIALLY KIRK DYING. AND SPOCK'S REACTION. AND THAT SPOCK BEAT UP THE BAD GUY WITH HIS AMAZING SPACE GIRLFRIEND. AND THE FACT THAT SOMEONE OTHER THAN KIRK GOT THE HERO HIGHLIGHT IN THE END.