Star Trek

The other night me and a few of my companions were out on the town up to no good. We were expressing our teenage angst by being less than polite to people and even wearing slightly unusual clothes, we were trouble makers alright. We then thought, what could we do to really stick it to the man?

Obviously the answer to this question is go and see Star Trek, so that is what we did. Now at first I thought it would kill an hour and a half of my life and that would be it. I assumed it would all be CGI and I would sit there rolling my eyes thinking: "This CGI is so lame". For you see, CGI and I have not gotten along since George Lucas decided to kill my childhood with the Star Wars prequels and Indiana Jones 4.

However the CGI in this movie was really good. In fact the whole movie was rather good. I mean it wasn't massively mind expandingly brilliant, but it made me laugh occasionally, things blew up and all in all I started to get into it.

I mean, I'm not much of a trekkie, I'd shake hands with Chewbacca before Spock. But I did know some of the characters and got alot of the references which were actually done quite well, not in the tacky George Lucas sort of way.

Infact through the process of writing this I have realised why I liked it so much. George Lucas was nowhere near it, it did not make me want to gouge out my eyes with the corner of my Revenge of the Sith DVD. It was a remake, that used CGI but it didn't have irritating sidekicks, ridiculous stunts (Shia La Beouf swinging through trees with monkeys...???) and the CGI wasn't overused to the point were it looked like a PS2 game.

So kudos to George Lucas for not ruining another movie. And if you are off to see a movie I strongly recommend seeing Star Trek.