I mean, considering this movie already insults the audience’s intelligence repeatedly across its 2.5(!) hour runtime, are we surprised that the director thinks we’re so stupid we’d believe this bullshit?

She also brings him all his personal belongings—which amount to a shoe box of memorabilia of his ex-wife (Olga Kurylenko) and his son, who died of leukemia at six.

It really depresses me that the fun and lively Strange New Worlds is being saddled with (a) “old traumas” (because that’s what I think of when I think of SNW) and (b) any further association with STD, truly the worst of Treks.

This sounds like the Roger Rabbit shorts they released in the early 90s.

They killed [...gestures wildly at wreckage of HBO Warner merger...] for this?

And the all-consuming behemoth devours another.

I feel like Disney/Pixar learned the wrong lesson from Up and now operates from the premise that one-word title = quality.

And yet, EA somehow still manages to be worse.

counterpoint -this is the NXIVM dude:

Those Etsy Pip-Boy replicas are nicer than this.

honestly, for the right kind of (mediocre) movie, i would 100% recommend D-Box over traditional cinemas. 

Not true! I’ve had plenty of fun times at Jurassic World D-Box or Spider-Man: Homecoming 4D.

lol i forgot idris elba was in a star trek movie. 

Looks Incredible

As a comics nerd and Trekkie, it gives me no end of pleasure that the guy she was so quote-unquote “terrified” of is just this gentle Blerd who wrote the Star Trek: Starfleet Academy comic book in the 90s. 

mid credits scene, which comes about two hours after the audience has lost interest.

I don’t disagree with your basic premise - the “multiverse” undercuts dramatic tension since you know there’s always an alt-Gamora or alt-Thanos or alt-Kang to take a character’s place - but (at least for now) you’re wrong to say that it hasn’t been working for Marvel.

For all its faults, the Civil War-precipitating Superhuman Registration Act did a fine job of interrogating this dichotomy. The answers to these questions aren’t easy: