This was one of those great dinner and a movie nights. The J. and I met up with the Mini-Ster and Waldorf at La Tavolata for a light pasta dinner and then rushed over to Cinerama to stand in line. This was opening weekend and we knew it would be a packed house. I had been looking forward to this film for some time and while such anticipation can often lead to unrealistic expectations that inevitably fall short, I'm happy to say this was not such the case. Even the J., who was originally reluctant to go, turned to me immediately after the film ended and said, "oooh, we should watch this again."
I'm a fan of J.J. Abrams but not a fawning one. I love Lost and Alias but thought Cloverfield was ridiculous. I felt his take on Mission Impossible was interesting at best ... actually, I thought his casting decision to put in Philip Seymour Hoffman as the villain was interesting ... the rest of the film not so much. With that said, I thought his treatment of Star Trek was brilliant. By creating a shift in the time continuum, Abrams was able to recreate the beloved history of Star Trek while not necessarily violating it. In other words, he's making it very clear that while this new series contains the same crew, the Enterprise has come together under very different circumstances. The inclusion of Nimoy as a time-traveling Spock acknowledges the old, canonical history but, again, puts it in the new role of an alternative
I'm really curious what Abrams is going to do for a follow-up. After such a smart reinvention of the franchise, do you continue to move forward in new ways or do you backtrack into more conventional territory?
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