Finally watched Star Trek: Into Darkness. I liked it.
I grew up with original Star Trek, and in general didn't like the 2009 one because it was hard to accept the reworking of all the characters, and let's face it, the story itself was pretty bad. But this is what Star Trek is now, so I guess I should get used to it.
Except that that didn't even occur to me until after I'd watched it. I am used to it, already, and didn't even realize it. I've always liked Karl Urban's McCoy; I think he does the best out of all of them at nailing the original character. But this time around, Spock and even Kirk seemed much more like the original characters. Either that, or I'm just getting used to them as the new characters. Probably a bit of both. But when Kirk was on the other side of the glass at the end, he really looked a lot like a young William Shatner. A lot.
And before you say anything, I realize that that's not even required. They don't have to be just like the originals; it just helps us old fogies adapt a little better. So the Big Three were fine, and I guess I'm getting used to New Uhura, but I still think Chekov and Scotty are pretty bad. I usually like Simon Pegg, but man, he's just not Scotty. Sulu was pretty cool. I still can't watch John Cho and not see Harold Lee, but Harold Lee as Sulu is still pretty good.
Were we not to supposed to know exactly what was happening when there was an Admiral Marcus and then a cute blond named Carol Notmarcus shows up? Come on, give your audience a little credit. Wait, she strips to her underwear for no apparent reason? Okay, I guess I'll allow it.
So this is the "rebooted" Star Trek universe, and it just happens to have the same characters, even Khan (even though he's Notkhan) and a bunch of scenes where we have the same exact lines from the original movie, except spoken by someone else. Interesting who ended up fixing the warp core and how it...
You know what? I'm like the last person in the world to see this movie so I'm not saying anything new. I just wanted to say that I liked it a lot more than I thought I would.