I think I've seen one episode of TOS & TNG each and I saw First Contact (and that was just to see the Star Wars special edition trailer but I did like the movie). As a kid, neither of my parents and none of my friends were into Trek so I basically never saw it. Then as I got older, there was so many TV series and movies that it was just too much to get into so I never bothered then either. I have to say that the new movies do pique my interest for the TOS and movies.
You should watch TOS ST II, III and IV when you get a chance. They're really one story and a lot of fun. Each movie couldn't be more different. If you like those and want more, then watch I, V and VI. That's my two cents.
Sure, I don't know when I'll get a chance to check them out but it's always good to have some recommendations.
Nimoy's Spock could be emotional too, but it was like small ripples on the surface of a vast ocean. When Quinto's Spock gets emotional, it's like large splashes in a small puddle. His Spock just feels much closer to the surface than Nimoy's did.
Technically, anything that happened prior to Nemo's arrival in 2233 should be identical in both timelines, and therefore canon in both timelines. As a result, the USS Franklin would have existed in both timelines under the command of Captain Balthazar Edison, and vanished in 2164. But while it was found and retrieved in the Kelvin timeline, it is probably still missing, fate unknown, in the original timeline.
. But the ones Josh listed and the ones I listed are good ones, of course everyone's mileage will vary.
I also loathe shakycam - which is why I was surprised to hear comments about the camerawork. As I noted, I'm pretty vulnerable to motion sickness, and that wasn't an issue at all for me. I also didn't think the camerawork was excessively "shaky".
Maybe I've been beaten down by too much shakycam!
I DID notice - and get annoyed by - the standard issue teal coloring, though...
Yeah, the fight sequences were very rapidly edited and that coupled with how they were shot could occasionally make it tough to get a sense of geography or even who someone was fighting. It wasn't like it wrecked the movie but I can see it as a complaint and I don't think that kind of mistake is something that the better action directors would do.
It's mentioned in a few places in the film (esp. Idris Elba's "captain's logs" videos) that the Franklin crew discovered an entire abandoned alien civilization possessing the mutational technology that extended the survivors' lifespans, and I think the soliders were actually automatons, as opposed to organics (we never see any of them unmasked).
When the U.S.S. Franklin crash landed on the planet, Edison discovered indigenous technology that allowed him to extended his life by sucking the life out of others. But the process changed him, and he took on characteristics of the species whose lifeforce he fed on. Presumably the species he fed on looked more or less like he did in his Krall form. By sucking the life out of humans among the Enterprise crew, he was able to return to looking human.
It appeared that they were mostly other surviving USS Franklin crew, who'd transformed in the same way he had by extending their lives with the same technology.
I do agree with all of this.
See, that's the part I was kinda fuzzy on, too (trying to remember what was established in the movie) -- at one point, Edison mentions in the logs that there were only two other remaining survivors among his original crew left (implying that the rest had been killed off somehow), and we also see Commodore Paris closing out those few remaining crew-files at the very end of the movie.
I don't know if you saw it previously but the trailer for Lights Out caught my attention because the opening part of it just showed a spooky scene before getting into the usual horror movie trailer rapid cuts, LOUD noises and screaming. I didn't care that much for the movie but the trailer was very effective because part of it went against the grain and let a scene play.
