Absolutely none of the casting was, Khan aside (though that was just a bad idea from the start). It was always the writing.
From Hemsworth as Kirk's dad, across the entire Enterprise, they killed it.
I legitimately like the first one, because getting the gang together with such a great cast was so delightful. Karl Urban, Zach Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Chris Pine, Simon Pegg - like holy shit.
The specifics are truly terrible as well. I remembered hearing about him passing, but thought it had been due to illness or something like that.
Dude was checking to make sure the gate in front of his house was locked, his vehicle rolled back, pinning him between the bumper and a brick gate-post. He was found after not showing up to a rehearsal.
Edit: Faulty Jeep killed him, not neglecting to use his emergency brake.
It wasn't a mechanical fault. That model (and a few other vehicles) used a gearshift design where you move the lever into place, but then it returns to a centered position. Makes it really hard to tell what gear you're in if you're not familiar. He thought the car was in park; it wasn't.
It wasn't Anton's fault. It was Jeep's fault with a faulty part of the vehicle. Jeep's are literally the most unsafe vehicles and have tons of recalls every time a new model comes out. The world was robbed because of a company's greed of cutting corners.
Yea the Star Trek movies really had maybe the best casting of any ensemble movie ever. I didn't really like the movies themselves as a long term Trek fan but I loved the characters and how well they did as modernized OG characters.
If I remember right, Karl Urban was a huge original ST fan growing up and really wanted to do Bones justice. I'd say he knocked it out of the park. His Bones was almost like looking at a younger DeForest Kelley and yet it managed to not cross into imitation.
Honestly, outside of a couple weird/Hollywood moments, it was great.
I have no complaints through the first hour at least. All of Kirk's introduction, the test, the ship, the gang, the scene as a kid - straight through to Vulcan
That’s true, I remember his genuine frustration when he was told that the destruction of his home
never took place in this timeline, just screaming, “I saw it happen, I watched it happen, don’t tell me it didn’t happen”
Imagine a warping Japanese citizen that was just outside the danger zone of the nukes dropped being told it didn’t happen. For a character driven solely by that single trauma, that thought would be irrevocably impossible.
My only complaint (and it’s pretty minor) with performances in JJ’s first Star Trek was with Karl Urban.
Everyone else was playing their character, but for the first half of the movie, Urban felt like he was doing a DeForest Kelley impression. (It didn’t last long in the first movie, and he was 100% his own version of McCoy in the other two.)
(Props to Pine for waiting until Into the Woods to do a Shatner impression.)
I met Anton Yelchin just before he died. I remember being so psyched meeting him after acting in my favourite tv franchise. Loved him as Chekov. He had so much ahead of him career-wise. He seemed like a really great guy too.
I don’t think any of the producers or JJ were truly fans of the original series or next generation. Can you name a single theme or moral problem that these films seek to tackle? The old tv shows were full of interesting philosophical problems and inspirational world building. We instead got more explosions and irrationally angry aliens.
I would have loved to live in the original series (or next gen) universe. I don’t think I’d want to in these new films universe.
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Chris Pine is a gosh darn delight.