The new Star Trek VS. Serenity- which film is best?
POSTED BY: chrisisall
UPDATED: Wednesday, June 7, 2017 04:16
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Serenity had a more plausible plot, better fx and hotter babes.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
I loved the new Trek flick, but Serenity is still the best IMO.
What say you all?
I liked the new Trek film, but the next one will most likely be worlds better.
Serenity is still king of sci-fi films.
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I really liked the Star Trek film. I thought the plot was a little weak, although it kept within the Star Trek lore (space-time continuum thingy), but ultimately it served the ST storyline.
I liked the way they introduced how all the characters came to meet each other, and the pace was action-packed (it moved the story along at a frenetic pace), making it a good popcorn movie - perfect for summer fare.
I liked the fact that Abrams paid homage to Joss with his silent space shots and panning techniques. He also gave a nod to both Joss and us Browncoats by using hand-held shots and "flares" in a number of scenes (more towards the first third to first half of the movie). I thought he overused the flares myself, but that's a minor quibble. Overall I liked Star Trek, but in no way (except for what I mentioned above) does it compare to Serenity.
Although they were similarly shot and paced, they're two different distinct films. The action scene on the mining drill was exciting and well shot, but it's nothing compared to the Maidenhead Bar scene. Abrams tried desparately to show that Kirk was this fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants type of guy, someone that could hang out with Mal and the crew in Persephone's worst dive and hold his own. Hmmmm........let's see - Kirk hits on Uhura, gets beat up by some Federation toughies, beds a fine-looking green-skinned girl, makes friends with a doctor, breaks the rules and winds up captain of a Federation vessel. Bad boy gets laid, cracks wise and saves the day.
Our captain is a type of bad boy, breaks rules and conventions, cracks wise and flys in a silent space with agressive baddies. Okay, Trek did perfect the baddest of baddies in space (Klingons, Romulans and Khan). But Joss perfected the "flare" hand-held shot and championed the silence in space actioners. He took the space western to new heights - a pirate who carries a six shooter.
What Abrams did was take the best of Serenity and apply the cortical electrodes to the Star Trek corpse. And what he got was a very distant cousin to the Frankenstein monster, a type of Reaver, if you will, a died-in-the-wool George Romero look-alike zombified corpse that looked like a duck, and quacked like a duck but didn't quite capture the essence of the BDM. Something was missing. Oh it was funny, and it ran amok with flare shots and hand-held scenes (especially aboard the Enterprise), but it could only mimick what has been described as the best sci-fi movie to come along since the original Star Wars trilogy.
Some may go as far as saying that Serenity, with it's beloved characters, has transformed the space opera and surpassed the bold innovations of the Star Wars saga. One could say that Abrams is a Browncoat at heart, this is based, IMHO, to how ST was shot, set and paced. It's as though he saw the genius behind what came before in Joss's vision and, like those that came before Abrams were influenced by Kurosawa, Kubrick and the like, he too saw fit to pay homage to a fellow filmmaker by paying the highest compliment - copy, as best he can, the best of what inspired him.
So, by virtue of inspiration, Serenity is the better film. When you see it again pay special attention to the first half-hour to 45 minutes of the film. You will see very similar shots and pacing (in particular the space scenes).
BTW, the young officer who takes over the doomed ship (The Kelvin), who we later find out is Kirk's father, will be playing Thor in the upcoming movie due to come out in 2011.
SGG
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Saw Star Trek yesterday, a very good film nice change from the recent blockbuster trend of not much brains but still it is no contest for me really. Serenity has a better cast (ST does have a great cast but not overly fanbulous), Serenity has a deeper more interesting storyline which doesn't completely follow standard narrative especially in hollywood, Serenity for me might not have as realistic special effects as Star Trek but they more impressive in how they were used. Always been a fan of Star Trek but not quite a fanboy but I still had issues with film not fanboy nit picks but just overall style, content, etc. The villian Nero in Star Trek was pretty routine and not overly interesting. But Star Trek had many great moments and well I do like it a lot, the beginning was impressive (though not as much as Serenity I might add), it had some genuinely original humourous moments, had a decent ending, few nice touches here and there, and the majority of the cast was great.
To me Star Trek is a staple for blockbusters nowadays, although Serenity could be considered a blockbuster but honestly its so much more than that and for me can keep up with the truly great films.
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I will see Star Trek for the first time today.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
No joke- I saw STII in the theatre upwards of 20 times the year it came out.
Yeah, weed was much cheaper back then!
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Quote:Trek/Wars were my drugs of choice.
Originally posted by Jongsstraw:
Yeah, weed was much cheaper back then!
The laughing Chrisisall
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Quote:Don't mince words, Ec, how do you really feel?
Originally posted by ecgordon:
I have no intentions of ever watching JJ's Trek again.
The laughing Chrisisall
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Originally posted by chrisisall:
Don't mince words, Ec, how do you really feel?
The new Star Trek is a piece of gos se.
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