Star Trek Beyond
Added 2016-07-27 20:06:20 +0000 UTCCurrently editing our Star Trek Beyond episode of Half in the Bag. It's been taking a little longer than normal because we've had a pull a ton of old Star Trek clips for reference's sake, but it should be out in the next day or two!
Comments
Before I saw this movie I would have gauged the crappiness of some movies to be in direct proportion to the number of times i rolled my eyes... but, oddly enough, despite the fact that this movie was almost a relentless barrage of absurdly ridiculous moments, to the point that i was nearly suffering from vertigo, I can still honestly say it was really good.
Philip M Nord
2016-08-02 14:55:05 +0000 UTCOr Uhura recognizing Krall out of the corner of her eye in the background of a fuzzy video that briefly flashed in the periphery of her vision. Or the fact that Krall had a super drone army that could easily devastate a federation spaceship/planet in a matter of minutes, yet he needed a super weapon that hinged on the presence of a giant 'central air' system, etc etc...
Philip M Nord
2016-08-02 14:46:59 +0000 UTC---- SPOILERS DO NOT READ IF YOU HAVE NOT SEEN THE MOVIE ---- Among the more baffling things in the script: - The presence of the motorbike randomly in the corner of a downed spaceship - The entire thing involving 80s hiphop was utterly retarded from start to finish - Jaylah is concealing the spaceship she's holed up in using advanced cloaking, but the guy she's concealing it from is... the captain and knows precisely where it is? Why isn't he still using it, seems like a good base? - Why did the captain rename himself "Krall" instead of using his Earth name other than that the movie needed to conceal an obvious and idiotic twist? - Why was Krall so mad at the Federation? He sent distress signals but he was deep inside an uncharted nebula and would have known that. And what did he actually WANT? To quote Plinkett, "how about a bad guy whose motivations make sense?" - When Kirk had his phaser on Krall on a platform in the space base thing, why didn't he just SHOOT HIM instead of talking to him? This is way more retarded than the usual talking instead of shooting trope because normally it's the guy with the gun enacting the evil plan. This was one of the points in the movie where I was looking left and right at my friends completely baffled. One of them mentioned it after we left the cinema. etc etc, there was much more, can't remember all of it now.
Chris Vinall
2016-07-28 11:48:08 +0000 UTCThere were like 3 times in the movie where I looked left and right at the people I was at the movie with, to see whether they were as baffled by what was taking place on screen as I was.
Chris Vinall
2016-07-28 11:40:48 +0000 UTCInterested to see so many comments saying they liked the movie. I thought it was pretty awful, incoherent. The entire first act was good, then it went completely off the rails. WTF is a motorbike doing on a spaceship? Beastie Boys, really? Nothing made sense. Well directed film but the script was a turd. I'd be pretty surprised if Mike liked it, Jay not sure.
Chris Vinall
2016-07-28 11:38:18 +0000 UTCThought the movie was incredibly fun despite the occasional misfire and abundance of action. This might have had the best script of the three! I felt like the characters were a lot more realized through their dialogue.
Jessie Leigh
2016-07-28 03:12:34 +0000 UTCAll I want to hear is you say the words... ...plinkett review
Arch Friend
2016-07-28 02:35:52 +0000 UTCWhen is the next Plinkett review coming out?
Matthew Goncalves
2016-07-27 23:18:54 +0000 UTCI thought it was good, it had a little too much action for me, though, for a Star Trek movie. I'm excited to see what you guys have to say.
Brandon Grayson
2016-07-27 22:40:01 +0000 UTCI thought it was an okay movie. I wish more of it had taken place in space, though.
Matthew Wylder
2016-07-27 22:11:47 +0000 UTCI like this webzone... its exciting!
Matt P
2016-07-27 21:40:29 +0000 UTCI can't wait. Guessing you guys would like it as much as I did.
Dave Davenport (dogspunk)
2016-07-27 21:22:46 +0000 UTCAll I want is to hear Mike talk about the shows and bring up specifics as Jay's eyes glaze over! I'm so giddy over this news it's sad!
Bahareh
2016-07-27 21:12:38 +0000 UTCInterested to see Mike's take on it. As someone with very good, but not obsessive expert, knowledge of Star Trek I liked this movie a lot. Given that a modern movie like this has to be filled with action, Simon Pegg did a great job of squeezing in character developments and moments. Best Trek movie since at least ST6
Kyle Williams
2016-07-27 20:33:51 +0000 UTCah I was just looking to find this. Really interested in what you are going to say... I myself couldn't follow the action at all, my eyes are too old for Bayhem.
maledei
2016-07-27 20:20:40 +0000 UTCLooking forward to this one!
Marvin Falz
2016-07-27 20:19:12 +0000 UTCI just saw it last night and it's the first of the new three films I actually enjoyed. First time I liked Chris pine too.
Dave Pallas
2016-07-27 20:11:44 +0000 UTCInterested to hear your opinions on this since some of you are big Star Trek fans and others give a good outside fandom opinion.
Taylor Hensley
2016-07-27 20:11:42 +0000 UTC
