For the 1st 2/3 rds of the movie I thought it was ok, nothing great but somewhat reasonable. But then the Beastie Boys playing from the star ship to defeat them was a SERIOUS face palm. Nothing wrong with the Beastie Boys but OMG was that a stupid twist that just led me to hate the rest of the movie. That was completely stupid and ruined the movie for me. The latter part of the movie was awful and this scene kicked off the crappyness.
shareAgreed. Know your audience.
shareThe problem is, they did - The same audience who loved young kirk on his motorbike, playing the same (!) song two films previously.
They knew the audience loved motorbikes / Sabotage so much, they spun them out into two separate scenes this time round...
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The problem is, they did - The same audience who loved young kirk on his motorbike, playing the same (!) song two films previously.
I like the Beastie Boys, but I'm still wondering why a VHF radio transmission would cause an alien warfleet to explode
shareYeah, the idea was that it would disrupt the fleet's ability to coordinate their movement and stop them from moving as one. No where was there any kind of reason to believe that the music would cause them to blow up. Someone might argue that they started running into each other and that caused the explosion but McCoy bumped around quite a bit and his craft did not explode.
What happened is the writers created an enemy too powerful to stop. So they just made up something stupid as a "weakness".
It was supposed to disrupt the warfleet's communication so they could stop them from launching their major attack on Yorktown starbase.
You said it yourself pal, we're the guardians of the galaxy!
Well I gotta agree with you there...as much as I love STB overall, but that part was 1 of the very few moments in the movie when I went "WTF?!" I thought that part was silly, I hate that awful Beasties song...if they insisted on playing a song during that scene, I would've preferred a different song
shareYea it just killed my enjoyment of the movie, nothing after that scene made much sense and it was so cringe worthy I just could not recover from it.
shareI would have chosen "Intergalactic" but I guess it does not have the same kind of energy in it...
shareConsidering I'd seen (or heard) the song used in the trailer and reacted to by characters, I was kind of dreading where it would turn up. While it was contrived and unnecessary, at least it wasn't as bad as I was dreading. Besides, some of the reactions (Chekov toe tapping, Sulu head-bopping and McCoy/Spock asking about classical music) were fun. Seriously? In the pantheon of things I've had to grit my teeth and bare it through in Trek movies...this won't even make the top 5.
shareSorry but this was one of the most cringe worthy things I've seen in a movie theater, been going to the movies since the 70's. It was horrible and just literally capped off the crappy part of the movie. Horrible cringe and face palms all around
shareAnother reason why Simon Pegg is a TOTAL HACK. His writing ruined the movie
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Yeah, it kind of made me cringe, didn't kill the movie for me or anything. If they'd just stuck to the context of it being played through the speakers I don't think it would have been all that bad, but actually making it the soundtrack of the scene was kind of jarring. But to me it also seemed like a kind of classic Trek solution, besides the choice of music it seemed like a pretty typical pulled-out-of-their-butts Star Trek plan that saves the day. Only instead of Beastie Boys it would probably be some resonating frequency or some such technobabble. So it was very Trek-like and also not very Trek-like at the same time.
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Yeah the music and motorcycle were pretty stupid. My biggest problems with the film. That said, I still found it quite enjoyable and think it's the best of the new movies.
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