“I stopped listening to you when you said you didn’t like ‘Star Trek.’ I know what happened because your mouth kept moving after that, so I’m assuming you apologized,” - Jon Stewart
“I stopped listening to you when you said you didn’t like ‘Star Trek.’ I know what happened because your mouth kept moving after that, so I’m assuming you apologized,” - Jon Stewart
i agree. the Kelvin films were, technically speaking, popular, crowd-pleasing films. But they were terrible Trek films, devoid of everything that makes Trek Trek. Trek was never meant to be “sci-fi boom-boom action-adventure idiots is space,” but that’s what JJ wanted, and we got 3 films like that. And his audition for George Lucas bagged him 2 Star Wars films, because, c’mon, that’s what it was really all about anyway.
and they were terrible Star Wars films, too. Popular and crowd-pleasing, but terrible.
To his credit, JJ did such a terrible job that it chilled out a lot of the more hostile Star Wars fans and gave us a common enemy lol
word. JJ brought me and my SW friends together and finally got me to watch all of the SW animated shows.
TFA wasn’t bad. Some of the characters were completely wasted(read: Finn) and it was a retread of a new hope, but it was decent.
Kirk and Uhura are caricatures, Spock isn’t anything like Spock, and the plot borders on parody. It’s like Orville but not funny.
TFA was not a terrible star wars film, even for star wars fans. Highly derivative of A New Hope, yes, but many star wars fans were longing for something akin to the original trilogy after the prequel trilogy was… controversial to say the least, and it genuinely seemed like a great place to start.
Rise of Skywalker? Whole 'nother story.