Star Trek Into Darkness: JJ Abrams' 9 Point Guide To Rebooting A Franchise

4. ''Ooooh Yeah''

Star Trek Into Darkness Set phasers to phwoar, JJ€™s Star Trek is €˜€™Sexy Trek.€™€™ There is no two ways about it, both Star Trek 2009 and Into Darkness are good looking films. Not a frame is wasted as we are dazzled by colour, spectacle and lens flare. To complement the sexy film you need a sexy cast and JJ doesn€™t disappoint in that department. Yes the male crew members are good looking but it€™s the women that bring the sex appeal. Uhura might have been a pioneering TV character in the 1960€™s but TV and film is full of black actors now so JJ used her other asset to get the non-trekkies clapping. If you haven€™t noticed, Uhura is a woman and in the world of blockbusters for the mass audience, her job is to get the blood pumping and the willies rising. Forget all that stuff about being a linguistics expert and a positive role model, she can strut her booty and demonstrate €˜€™exceptional aural sensitivity.€™€™ But as she is a woman, she also has to be the annoying girlfriend. Look how she makes Mr Spock€™s life so difficult. Not only did she hassle him to get on board the Enterprise, she constantly nags him after every Away mission. I€™m sure JJ put that in as a little nod and wink to the men in the audience, after all they know what women can be like. It€™s not just her, Kirk might be pleasing to look at but he also shows the audience how a real man attracts the ladies. When he€™s not having threesomes with cat aliens, he is like a 14 year old in the middle of puberty. He can€™t walk past a woman without turning on the moves. JJ knows that the mass audience like seeing violence and sex. So in the same way he ramped up the action, he ramped up the sex. That is why Carol Marcus stripped to her underwear (for no reason) in the shuttlecraft. It wasn€™t for Kirk€™s benefit; it was to get the boys in the cinema drooling. JJ RULEZ
Like Megan Fox gyrating on a bike, the rule is to keep the sex at a level where 13-year-old boys will rush to hit the pause button. Who doesn€™t like looking at a beautiful body? And isn't everybody€™s dream to have a threesome? So to go with the exciting action, make everything sexy, they will love it. If that is too much to take in, just remember €˜€™Explosions & Boobs€™€™ and you won€™t go wrong.
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Child of the 80's. Brought up on Star Trek, Video Games and Schwarzenegger, my tastes evolved to encompass all things geeky.