Did it? Oh, wait... no. It turned Kirk into a juvenile delinquent, and no, I don't mean in the tween flashback, I mean from there all the way up until he takes command of the Boobyprize.
Kirk was known for being a hothead in his younger days. That's just Trek history. As to the specifics, very few were given during the show, this movie simply played out a relatively plausible scenario in that regard.
Because Urban's performance was the only one that showed even the slightest scrap of respect to the source material. Not one of the others did.
How so? Urban played an insane Romulan. Romulans are assholes, but generally not insane. I was speaking of McCoy and whoever played him. Kirk was well done - I remember the barfight scene after he gets popped in the mouth, the look on his face immediately afterwards was as close to Kirk as anyone outside of Shatner could ever come. He's rash, brash and unprincipled at this point which I think is a fair approximation of how the young Kirk would have been.
Scotty...alas, they fucked up there. I think Simon Pegg is an excellent comedic actor, loved him in everything else I've seen him in, but this wasn't the role for him. Way off base.
Spock was pretty good, but his nose was too big. New Spock, not Spock the first.
Where? Where was it anything beyond a dimwitted, generic "sci-fi ad-vent-yor!!!"?
It's all in the characters, man.
The pre-Enterprise Star Trek, where the Vulcans were portrayed as, if not genuinely logical, at least a vastly superior approximation of it.
And how was this not displayed properly in the movie? Vulcans have always been stuck up snobby pricks. Spock is half-human, and that comes through in the movie as it has in the TV shows.
The fact that it was the van and not the characters that served as the lynchpin connecting that piece of pablum to anything you remember as the A-Team? That reinforces my point.
The van. Easily the most instantly recognizable piece of the A-Team. That's right, not seeing them roll in that beast was a bit of a slap in the face.
Now, this is a group of 4 guys who, episode after episode, at the urging of a pretty lady will concoct an impossible plan to defeat a group of bad guys who usually outnumber them by at least a few to 1, improvising all the way with the tools and environmental components around them. And then they do it. So how was the movie different? Minus the van, I mean.
Not too bad at all, as far as stale, boring reboots/remakes go. At least it presented a superficial illusion of being something fresh.
Then I'll keep it in mind next time I stop by TPB.
Then they should have created, not recycled.[/i] If they can't do justice to the source material, they should leave it the fuck alone.
There are certainly movies out there with which to better illustrate your point than the ones you've chosen here.
