I had the impression that it was faster than we saw from the Slave I. A very visually stunning moment, when they opened fire with everything.Mike DiCenso wrote:We have seen similar rates of fire. Jango Fett's Slave-I, for example, or the Imperial TIEs. Of course you may mean captial ships, so no, we have not seen anything quite like that, at least not in the movies, nor can I recall anything like that in the TCW.Sift Green wrote:I saw the Movie on Friday, and I have to say it is now my favorite Star Trek Movie.
I was rather impressed by the new Enterprise's rate of fire, I don't think I've seen anything with a similar rate of in Star Wars.
Anyways, who else wants Sulu's Sword?
-Mike
On the whole, I wasn't actually that impressed with the movie in terms of plot coherency. A supernova threatening the galaxy? Smashing into Romulus before a warp-speed ship can get to it? Completely messed up. Lots of implausible crap and bad explanations. However, now that someone mentioned that the original continuity is probably still in place, I'm going to hypothesize...
... the Trek intellectual property is split at the moment, right? Paramount Pictures owns the movie rights, CBS owns the television rights. So it makes sense that they would break the franchise into two separate continuities. And soon, Star Trek will be about as messy as a comic book universe in terms of canon.
There were a lot of good scenes - moments, at least - in the movie, and I liked how Abrams did that Kirk-Uhura-Spock triangle. And Sulu's sword was pretty rocking.
Visually stunning, intellectually lacking, fairly solid characterization, alternate-reality level continuity butchering. I give it three stars.