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Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 30, 2016, 12:45 PM:

We went to see Star Trek Beyond at the late show last night. (How late? When we got out our car was basically there all by itself!)

This one has reached the point where it's almost more an action picture than Science Fiction. The action comes so hot and heavy in the first half I'll need the DVD and multiple viewings to be completely sure what happens.

I think people in the future will be much tougher than we are. They keep falling off cliffs worthy of a Road Runner cartoon, smacking into rocks all the way down, get up with a couple of cuts on their faces and then go into hand to hand combat!

You or I would do months in the hospital it we were lucky!

-but it's a Star Trek Feature! The crew is challenged by a single, obsessive villain. All hope seems lost, but by virtue of the Enterprise Crew's character and loyalty they rise to the impossible challenge and at the end the villain...

(You know!...the usual!)

Someone upstairs grabbed the volume knob and twisted it 'til it broke off! The sound was so loud I heard something I've never heard before in a theatrical audio system: hum! You not only heard the battle scenes, but felt them! (-ENOUGH, guys!)

Leonard Nimoy's passing was dealt with very warmly and sensitively, and a dedication was made for Anton Yelchin, who died post-production.

Posted by Pasquale DAlessio (Member # 2052) on July 30, 2016, 01:15 PM:

I agree with your review Steve. Excellent movie.

Live long and prosper Y~

Posted by Guy Taylor, Jr. (Member # 786) on July 30, 2016, 01:22 PM:

I was entertained. I don't have high expectations for any of the current science fi and action hero movies but I usually enjoy seeing them.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on July 30, 2016, 02:04 PM:

There was a trailer for some upcoming Tom Cruise movie that was basically two minutes of him punching people in the face! At one point he punched a guy right through a car window.

I thought it would be neat if they did it as a musical!

-beatings with a beat!

Of course at the audio level we had it was a little like he was hitting US!

-but I was thinking the whole time "Isn't Tom Cruise like five feet tall? Please, somebody just step on him!"

Posted by Steven J Kirk (Member # 1135) on July 30, 2016, 03:48 PM:

The volume is far too loud these days. I take foam earplugs with me and it makes it tolerable. I couldn't go otherwise.

Posted by Brian Fretwell (Member # 4302) on July 30, 2016, 05:52 PM:

That sort of volume level makes me think they are trying to re-invent Sensuround, only without the sudden shock of it at really appropriate events in the film.

I remember the hearing light fittings vibrate during the trailer for Battle for Midway - and that was when I was still in the foyer

Posted by William Olson (Member # 2083) on August 03, 2016, 12:46 PM:

Yes, sound in theaters these days is WAY too loud. Loud and booming and sub-woofer rumbling (a la Sensurround) does not make a better movie watching experience. All it does is loosen your fillings and shatter your nerves. Audio fidelity is much more important than extreme volume. All this technology to create sophisticated soundtracks gets lost when the volume is turned up to jet engine levels.

Posted by Osi Osgood (Member # 424) on August 03, 2016, 12:52 PM:

Sad that they'll have to get a new person to play Chekov, as the actor was killed a few days or weeks back.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 03, 2016, 01:03 PM:

I have a feeling Chekhov will be reassigned to another ship before the next one comes out.

A very long time ago, we took our 3 year old to see his first theatrical movie.

-Pooh's Heffalump Movie, it was!

Now, the average age in the auditorium couldn't have been as high as ten years old, but hey! -We were all going to see Winnie the Pooh and Piglet figure out the world once again: the most violent thing we saw that day should have been Tigger! What could ever go wrong?!

-but then the trailers rolled...

Flaming cars spiraled through the skies and were blown up mid air by missiles! Buildings exploded and the screen was full of flames and shrapnel! Men carrying six machine guns each dove through the air and cut each other down. Explosions were exploded by even bigger explosions! The air pulsated with about 100,000 watts of violent sound track, and the floor quaked beneath our feet.

-The assault died down and most of the theater was crying: not all of them were children!

My little boy looked at me and said "Daddy, I want to go home!".

Oh, bother!

(WHAT were they thinking???)

Posted by Ty Reynolds (Member # 5117) on August 03, 2016, 01:29 PM:

I read somewhere on the Imdb newsfeed that Abrams does not intend to recast Chekov.

Posted by Steve Klare (Member # 12) on August 03, 2016, 01:41 PM:

That's the joy of characters like this: they are people with jobs and they can just be working someplace else. (-happened to me a couple of times, actually!)

They can come and go at will.

-it's not like a story with a family and all of a sudden you're stuck to explain why little sister is gone!

"Boarding School...she got a surprise...scholarship."

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