Star Trek Into Darkness

[hadley123]

Back from Birmingham Cineworld, quite full but not packed.

Brilliant film, enjoyable.

The 3D was terrible for the first 10 minutes - not really watchable but then average.

[Celini]

'Fascinating'
9/10

(horrendous 3D at the O2 as well)

[greece]

Just saw this at Greenwich O2 which was as usual pretty full, I agree about the 3D, didnt do much for me, a few scenes hurt my eyes. The movie was pretty good, action packed, had its funny moments and didn't drag on too much on the boring scenes, 7.8/10 from me.

Did you spot any FMUKers?

[TheBoySeggy]

3D movies should just be banned (I tend to exaggerate a bit but you get my point). Largely pointless & adds next to nothing to 90% of films I've seen.

JJ Abrams... your lens flare fetish is now at a level where I think you need counselling. Stop it!

Now that that's out the way... I loved the film. Benedict Cumberbatch was excellent & the action scenes were brilliant.

For me it was just better than the first because the villains were better.

I don't recall seeing Greenwich so packed so early. I had to sit on the back row of the front section. Wasn't too close to the screen so didn't spoil my enjoyment.

9/10

[blazed]

Just saw this at Greenwich O2 which was as usual pretty full, I agree about the 3D, didnt do much for me, a few scenes hurt my eyes. The movie was pretty good, action packed, had its funny moments and didn't drag on too much on the boring scenes, 7.8/10 from me.

Did you spot any FMUKers?

No idea, they all look alike, Pair of eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, some short hair, some long hair, some with none.

lol.

[greece]

Just saw this at Greenwich O2 which was as usual pretty full, I agree about the 3D, didnt do much for me, a few scenes hurt my eyes. The movie was pretty good, action packed, had its funny moments and didn't drag on too much on the boring scenes, 7.8/10 from me.

Did you spot any FMUKers?

No idea, they all look alike, Pair of eyes, nose, mouth, teeth, some short hair, some long hair, some with none.

lol.

Lol so I took you to FMUKcon for nothing

[Beate]

O2 was packed as ususal and we arrived at 5.30pm to a queue for the balcony - didn't even get our favourite seats but got acceptable ones and saw TheOnes, AndrewFalconer (don't know what happened to him afterwards) and ZoeBanfield who was waiting for rawsalsa. Saw bevvy downstairs from leaning over the balcony and cliveas exiting later (thanks for the book!)

Time passed quite quickly and - miracles do happen - the film started on the dot at 7pm. Caught me and the apple I was still eating by surprise! Security was making sure that no one had their phone out so it was a nice peaceful screening.

The 3D seemed to pack a punch at the beginning only to sort of disappear after a while. Writing in 3D at the edge of the screen is quite hard to read though, and the lens flares were irriating - I thought it were my eyes at first!

I liked this very much and a lot of the ingredients from the 2009 film were still in place - humour, punchy oneliners and a great villain. Everyone was as good as ever, and Scotty got a lot more to do this time round. Also nice to see that in the future London St Pauls is still standing amongst the futuristic skyscrapers. It did however not move me quite as much as the first one - maybe because how each of the characters react is nothing new anymore. Nice to see old Spock make a quick appearance - and even Noel Clarke can put Star Trek on his CV now.

But yeah, it definitely gets a solid 8.5/10.

[Beate]

Just saw this at Greenwich O2 which was as usual pretty full, I agree about the 3D, didnt do much for me, a few scenes hurt my eyes. The movie was pretty good, action packed, had its funny moments and didn't drag on too much on the boring scenes, 7.8/10 from me.

Did you spot any FMUKers?

If he's your OH, I think I might have spotted him - if he was at the balcony relatively early with a male friend? If not, I was just dreaming it.

[blazed]

Just saw this at Greenwich O2 which was as usual pretty full, I agree about the 3D, didnt do much for me, a few scenes hurt my eyes. The movie was pretty good, action packed, had its funny moments and didn't drag on too much on the boring scenes, 7.8/10 from me.

Did you spot any FMUKers?

If he's your OH, I think I might have spotted him - if he was at the balcony relatively early with a male friend? If not, I was just dreaming it.

I wasn't at the balcony, I was in the main area in the middle, dead center.

[TheOnes]

I have never been a fan of Star Trek. Hell growing up i always looked down on it and never gave it a passing thought. When i was young the philosophy and ideas behind it bored me and i could never appreciate them. When i got older, i got appealed by the ideas which i grew to understand more and more, but the dated effects and cheesy coating prevented me from watching it

That being said, i LOVED the 2009 Star Trek when it first came out. I know its not what people consider real "Star Trek", but i loved it nonetheless. I had some quarrels with it but nothing major

Star Trek 2 on the other hand....I felt like a blend of Kirk and Spock while watching this

"Its going to be Fun, But Highly Illogical"

The following is a mind dump from a very tired and crusty young man, which may be touched up or expanded upon further in the near future

For me, i found the structure to be a complete and utter mess. Like someone else said earlier, the changing of Captains was utterly pointless and wasted time. Kirk starts of Captain of the Enterprise, gets demoted and then becomes Captain again, all within 10 minutes. I just never felt like there was a realistic consequence to anything, and nothing was learned. Kirk didn't earn his way back, he just lucked out. Although i did wonder how pissed off everyone on the crew is that they get a new Captain every 10 minutes. Everyone gets a chance to be Captain, it felt like it was an Exhibit and people were waiting in line to try out the chair.

Alot of moments felt pointless in terms of Structure, and seemed to only be there to pander to the audience and add some "oooh tension" moments. Like the scene where they are trying to open up the Torpedo. Bones gets his arm trapped and theres this big "oh no!! He's gonna blow we're running out of time". It really annoyed me since that added nothing to before or after. It felt entirely pointless. The Entire movie is chock full of these moments. Any moment where we are about to get some intelligent dialogue and some emotional conversations, something big and actiony butts in and diverts it, which totally felt like: "Oooh, look at the Shiny" (Key example, Carol and Spock talking next to the Torpedo, as she is about to explain herself, OH NO SHIP IN DANGER.)

This really does feel like a nitpick, but it stayed in my mind throughout the film. I liked how they tried to reuse the epic moments in the previous film to exhaustion. In the previous film there were carefully placed epic moments of the ship with the epic music soaring behind it (when we first see it in space, As its rising from the clouds on its first flight, and during the Victory. All carefully chosen emotional pivot points for the ship). Here they try to exploit that experience to the point where its nausiating, and only half felt like it really justified it, but even then it felt like a rehash of itself. Once again, wasting time with pointlessness

Even [spoiler]Kirk dying[/spoiler] was a waste since by the end [spoiler]he's back to life anyway[/spoiler]. I never got emotionally invested in that death scene since you knew that the poorly and laughably written McGuffin introduced earlier was going to come into play (come on, i saw Heroes season 2 with that awful and really stupid plot device, you can't fool me). And once again, there was a lack of any sense of emotional consequence or any sort of justification for it. I guess you could argue that it brought Kirk and Spock closer together, but the fake death didn't feel like the cause of that.

Also the rushed ending kinda bothered me. Khan gets beaten up by Spock, then all of a sudden he's defeated. Would've been nice to see that in progress, instead of the casual "exposition wrap up" they did

Also, what is it with Theme years in movies. Last year most of the movies had the villain deliberately getting caught just to break out (Avengers, Skyfall, etc). This year is [spoiler]The villain advertised is not really the REAL villain. I guess Khan became the villain in the end but i felt that Kirk provoked him to continue his tirade by stunning him[/spoiler].

With all that being said, i still REALLY enjoyed myself. It was funny, great performances and fun action. The plot just seemed to get a little convuluted (not complex. I love Complexity, just convoluted, full of things that didn't need to be there or happen to achieve the same thing). I don't regret going to see this at all as i had a great time with it. I just came away thinking over the movie in my head and just poking at it

Final Score. Floating somehwere between 5-6.5/10