What did you hate about it? I don't get it, fab films.
Jeez, let me see:
- The fictional early antagonism between Kirk & Spock - totally disrespects everything we know about these 2 characters
- The set pieces used to drive the plot. Kirk stranded on an alien planet, gets chased by a monster and falls into a cave where... surprise surprise, Old Spock just happens to have fallen into. "Of all the caves in all the planets in the the universe, he has to fall into mine..."
- The overplaying of the Kobayasi Maru. In Trek 2 it's merely hinted at a couple of times in the movie as an allude to how Kirk's mind works. In Reboot they base whole scenes on it. Talk about flogging a horse to death. There is no subtlety in the storytelling.
- Into Darkness.. how Enterprise gets shot down from max warp speed... and just about manages to fall into Earth's atmosphere. Really? That's like me shooting down a jet fighter and it landing in my swimming pool.
- Spock turns into an action figure chasing down Khan. Really? With skills like that he should have joined the military branch, not the scientific branch.
- Phaser shootout with the Klingons. Why? It just paints the klingons as mindless thugs. No, we must have an excuse for a big lser fight in space, because that's the lowest common denominator for the sci-fi adventure movie now. A better way to handle a sense of threat would be the have Kirk shake hands with Klingon commander and then boot him in the nuts.
I could go on and on.
Yep, all in all, hated it. Abrahams is a charlatan of the highest degree.
