Random Terrain's Tetraternarium

Have you seen the new Star Trek movie?

 

Yes, as a Star Trek fan I don't know where to start complaining, but even if I try to see it just a "Science Fiction movie", not as a Star Trek movie, this still remains:

 

1. Shaky camera. Almost all the time. And not only in the action scenes. The scene when Captain Pike and the young Kirk are talking in the bar (after Kirk got himself into a fight), and Pike tries to talk Kirk into joining Starfleet, the camera shakes... or rather it wobbles around... What's going on there? The cameraman was drunk, too?

 

2. Yeah, lens flares. I've read the section on your website about lensflares, and I totally agree. But I've never seen a movie so far that does it so extremely.

 

3. Camera angles... all the time you feel like "too close to the action". Combined with the lens flares and shaky cam, you never really know what's going on. In fact, many times during the movie I was thinking exactly that "What the hell is going on, PLEASE zoom out, so I can see what's going on, and stop the shaking!" It's especially telling there is not a single shot of the starship Enterprise where you can see the whole ship clearly, without any action going on. If you compare to the other Star Trek movies, EVERY single one of them hat at least one shot like that. It's almost like they're too ashamed of the redesign of the ship to clearly show it. But it's not just the Enterprise, the other ships, too... and everything else.

 

 

A reviewer said, he felt exhausted after seeing the movie. That's exactly like I felt when leaving the cinema. Exhausted. After being bombarded with flashy colors and loud sounds for 100 minutes (or whatever the runtime of it was). After you finally get to think about the story you realize it is weird and uncreative, and doesn't really fill a full movie at all. However to "compensate" they just resorted to the bombardement with sound and colors. As if nobody was going to notice!