Star Trek Film

[hawkida]

I watched the new Star Trek movie over the last couple of days (such things are the incentive for the treadmill use). Skip the rest of this post to avoid spoilers.

Was it just me or was Kirk just a jumped up, self obsessed, little moron? And did they have to hammer home the entire Vulcans-can-have-emotions-too schtick? I confess I'm not particularly au fait with the original stuff, but if this was anything to go by I wonder why anybody ever watched it. Was it true to the spirit of the original, or simply a load of tosh to keep the Trek cash-cow going into the next generation by giving the youth a grunting pretty boy to obsess over if they can tear themselves away from the vampire movies?

Comments

[watervole.livejournal.com]

He's a very smart, self-obsessive. I felt he worked. In many ways, he's git, but he's also a git who thinks fast on his feet.

I wasn't happy with them doing the Vulcans have emotions thing so early on, but I could sort of see why they did it.

In the original series, it came out gradually, but in the present case, the fans already know it, so get it done and move on...

[seawasp]

I felt it was necessary in order to establish the main dynamic of the series; in the series we were presented with the three main characters as an accomplished fact, but there needed to be clear emotional interaction to connect Kirk, Spock, and McCoy in the movie.