The marketing juggernaut for Star Trek Into Darkness has begun its marathon journey before the film’s May 2013 release. People who went to watch The Hobbit at selected IMAX cinemas were treated to a nine minute preview of the beginning of the film. If you haven’t seen it or need a quick recap, you can read our review of the footage here.
Critics and audiences who have seen it have been raving about how it’s left them wanting more. ‘’Exciting,’’ ‘’Exhilarating’’ and ‘’WOW’’ are some of the buzz words that have been thrown around by people left salivating by the footage.
But if you ignore the hype and look beyond the shiny-shiny spectacle, what did the preview tell us about Star Trek Into Darkness? What can we expect from the 12th Star Trek movie? Even though it was light on details concerning plot or who the villain is, it did tell us a fair bit about other things that JJ has in store for us.
So breaking it down, here are the five things that we learned from watching the nine minute preview of Star Trek Into Darkness.
5. Visuals
Watching the footage in 3D on the IMAX screen was spectacular. One thing that Star Trek 2009 had going for it was that it was a gorgeous film to watch. I was surprised at how lush the colours looked and IML’s special effects are truly breath taking. Everything from the red forest to the Enterprise underwater, visually Star Trek Into Darkness looks the business. JJ Abrams has gone on record that he isn’t a fan of 3D and reluctantly converted Into Darkness after filming had finished. But you couldn’t tell with spears flying at you and flames from the volcano licking your face. And combined with the giant screen, that extra dimension really added a sense of scale to the landscape.
It was also interesting to see a future, Federation London. Apart from San Francisco, we never got to see what the rest of Earth looks like so this was quite a thrill.
There was also a distinct absence of lens flares. I have to say that I didn’t miss them at all and it definitely made the film less distracting to watch.
But all in all, it appears that we are in for a visual treat and Into Darkness and 3d IMAX is the way to experience it.
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Damn this was annoying to read…the author couldn’t have sounded any more bitter & whiny if he tried. “Brainless, pointless action”…or maybe we enjoy the thrilling, tense action scenes?
Would you prefer the just sat around the ship and did everything from there?
Also the fact that you think the entire film will be devoid of logic because of one simple fact (enterprise being underwater) from a 9-minute preview…just..such a pointless attempting at an argument!
How can you judge an entire script and story based on a teaser and a 9 minute preview? I’m not saying Star Trek 2009 was by any means perfect, but it was a hell of a lot better than some of the older Trek films, and if this is a continuation, thank god for that.
Why not have the list be about stuff that we ACTUALLY can learn from the preview? Like: Spock might die in a manner similar to Wrath of Khan; Uhura and Spock kiss, another sign that Spock will die; Kirk is still full of himself, and it will endanger the crew somehow.
This is just bitter speculation from a Trekkie purist who wants boring thinking and politics all done from the bridge, rather than new visuals and action sequences done all over the galaxy.
Ok so I held off with any criticism of this critical article until you said that Quinto doesn’t make a good Spock. Not only does he have the “Seal of Approval” from Nimoy, but he fleshes out Spock in ways that TOS and the film series never did. The way he said “Live long and prosper” in the 2009 film sent chills down my spine. He slight quirks and demeanor work, because rememvber, they’re in an alternate universe. So it’s impossible to have the same EXACT Spock (which would suck) injected into this fim series because the confrontation between the Narada and the Kelvin altered time enough that, even though all the crew members are still around nad have the same name, they no doubt experienced vastly different origins, and the like.
Stop expecting TNG era brains, politics, and officiousness in the film series because TOS was far more swashbuckling than TNG.
Wow, this article was so whiny and such garbage that I actually have to leave you a comment expressing this in the hopes that you take it as criticism to not be such a whiny brat in the future if you wish to continue writing. I mean seriously, this sounds like something a 13 year old would have written after they got killed by someone too many times in their new Call of Duty game. Garbage.
Let it go with you trademarked “brainless action” already god if you didn’t like it don’t watch it PERIOD! Amarpal you should watch the first movie again, and reevaluate and maybe go back to finish high school.