May 11, 2009 11:32 AM
23,487
Enter your username and password.
San Francisco, 4:23 PM
Tue Feb 9
27 posts in the last 24 hours
Let's see: Star Trek gets great reviews, a good opening weekend and nerdgasms aplenty. So that would mean the backlash should be along any... minute... Yeah, this could be it.
I'm not talking about random Trekkies/Trekkers/Trekfans/whateverthey'recalled disliking the movie; that's all fine and dandy. I'm more interested in essays complaining that the costumes weren't consistent with the television series and concerns about product placement (Hey, Nokia was subtle compared with the Slusho shout-out).
Chud's Devin Faraci spent multiple tweets pointing out plot holes in the movie, before telling followers to "[d]emand smarter movies," while American Original's Jeff Katz had problems with Leonard Nimoy's presence and wondered why it got free passes that The Phantom Menace and Attack Of The Clones didn't (Cheap answer: Because it was good). Even SciFi Wire got in on the act early, with a list of 11 things from the movie that made them go "WTF?".
Is this just natural comedown from a movie that's ideal popcorn fodder but not classically Trek intellectual stimulation, the start of the much-joked-about fan backlash actually beginning, or just internet karma to balance out the comments section here? You be the judge.
Send an email to Graeme McMillan, the author of this post, at graeme@io9.com.
Original material is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution.
Start a new discussion