Categories: just-life
Date: 11 August 2009 09:58:12
I very rarely get to go to the cinema as often as I would like. If I'm at home I just don't see to get round to going, so I usually only when I'm away on tour somewhere. I actually think I've been to the Cineworld in Wolverhampton more often than I have been to the cinema down the road!!
This weekend I finally got round to seeing the latest Harry Potter film, which I enjoyed.
I hadn't planned on enjoying the film, in fact I had been warned that I'd probably dislike the film for the simple fact that I think that the cannon of the story is fairly important. I certainly grumbled during 'Prisoner of Askaban' because of all the changes that the film put in over the cannon. But I did enjoy 'Halfblood Prince'. Admittedly I did wonder what the point of blowing up The Warren was for, but apart from that I did really like it.
Unlike the last movie I saw which was the latest Star Trek movie. I love Star Trek, even the latest reincarnation that was Star Trek: Enterprise, so I was really looking forward to seeing the new movie. So much so that I actually bought tickets to see it at the Imax theatre in London.
I was certainly blown away. The special effects are just amazing. The basic idea of the plot was pretty good as well. What actually happened, the fine details of the plot was... well... utter rubbish. I could not have been much more disapointed if I tried. I realise that the director was trying to bring some excitment into the series by saying that by changing the past it means that any of the main charactors could be killed, even though we all know that they aren't going to kill off any of them. But what they did do was to say that if you are to take this new film as cannon all the movies and television that are set after the latest movie (The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Movies I-X) technically don't exist anymore. If Vulcan, 99.997% of all Vulcans and Spock's mother are all killed in the past how can they appear in episodes set in the future?? Not to mention the fact that it has been established that further in the future there is a force who makes sure that the timeline is protected. No sign of them in this movie and apparently they may never exist now.
I am therefore, as cool as the movie was, considering Star Trek to be non-cannonical and therefore not actually Star Trek. Well as the director himself said that it was set in an alternative univerise it can't be the real Star Trek.