PPP1 Research: Star Trek

One film that I thought I would never actually get round to watching was J.J. Abrams adaptation of Star Trek (2009). I did not think it was my type of film until I actually sat down and watched it properly and I loved it and thoroughly enjoyed watching it, despite the ridiculous amount of lens flare.

The general storyline for me at first was very complicated and confusing and I wasn't sure whether it was down to the fact that I hadn't seen any of the other films - but I was assured I would get it in the end: Lies. The story begins by showing our villain and how his planet had been destroyed so he uses a black whole to travel back in time; but doesn't use this to warn his people, no. He waits 25 years just to get revenge on a certain Vulcan.  During this time we learn about a young Spock and Kirk and about there past and how the members of the original enterprise where acquired.

It is a thrilling story that introduces characters to the story and also gives us an insight to Captain 'I can dodge death' Kirk younger self who believes that he will dodge death at every corner. Along with this, and the fact he managed to get on the enterprise without any paper work or medical check and the wonderful surprise visit from old Spock; this film definitely is up there with my favourites.

The sounds used have all stayed true to the original movies and the music is wonderful to hear as so much has obviously been changed about the film anyway. Going to see this at the cinema is something that I wish I had done as it looks incredible just on a regular screen. Along with the epic-ness of the music there is also the CGI that can be ignored as it challenges the likes of the big CGI based film Avatar.

Then there is something that can definitely not be ignored... Lens flare. I have never seen a film include this amount of lens flare that you can point it out every 3 seconds; but for me it does work surprisingly. As they are constantly in space with machinery that would have produced a large amount of specular roll off; so it actually does work very effectively. But does leave me with this question: How can they see where there are going?