Arctic Blast
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ORIGINAL: Marauders I am a Trekker, and I was a Trekkie before there were Trekkers. I had high hopes for this film, as I am a huge TOS Trek fan, and I really liked Cloverfield. I hoped that Trek would get away from the crap that was Voyager and Deep Space Nine. So what did I think of the new film? Well, I will start by saying that my wife loved it, and she isn't quite the Trek fan that I am. For myself, I just cannot give a great review to this film. It is a good film, but not great. (*** potential spoiler alert ***) I could go into many reasons, but the greatest is that this film has turned Star Trek into an alternate universe Trek. Nothing that came before it in TOS matters anymore. It is a cheap comic book approach to writing, and that really ruined the whole premise of the film for me. For a casual fans, it isn't a big deal, but for old TOS Trekkies and some Trekkers, it is. So there it is, Star Trek 2009 is a fun movie. It has action and effects, but it is more what NBC wanted for Trek than what Gene Rodenberry wanted. I guess for a new start, that's ok, but it is no longer TOS in anything but the names of the characters. At this point that's almost the road they had to take, if for no other reason than to make people completely forget the last 2 series (or the last movie) EVER HAPPENED.
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