A movie that was not made just for the fans is a good bet. It allows a good thing to be more widely shared.
Star trek as a franchise needed the kind of new blood that was pumped into by J.J. Abrams and we are all happy for it.
The first J.J. Abrams Star Trek was a witty, juiced up adventure that genuinely had mass appeal. The second one is too busy tripping over it’s own feet. So here my favorite things that are wrong with the film.
******SPOILERS! (duh)********
Note: These are things that are wrong with the film as a film. I don’t really care what little nitpicks of the Star Trek universe they got wrong.We are only considering the things that are wrong vis-a-vis the two Abrams films.
1) The entire opening sequence
Here is the set up -
Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy are racing through a red forest while a band of natives chase them.
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Basaveshwara, the great reformer and philosophizer, was born today, as calculated by the Hindu calendar. So we wish a very happy birthday to a man who deserves a lot more praise.
(The Hindu calendar changes year by year, so an exact date is hard to estimate. For example it was on May 8 in 2008.)
Basavanna, as he was popularly known, lived in the 12th Century in what is today the Indian state of Karnataka and was the founder of the reformist Lingayat sect.
Long before the world, and India, took any righteous and moral paths of equality, Basavanna preached these concepts to all he encountered.
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Nawaz Sharif, the ‘lion of Punjab’, has returned to power in Pakistan for the third time, sweeping the historic 2013 elections. Considering Pakistan’s political history – his survival (both physically and politically) seems amazing, although his victory follows an established pattern of replacing the Pakistan People’s Party when they got too corrupt.
A quick run down of Nawaz Sharif -
He is one of Pakistan’s richest mens and a feudal lord. His family was from Kashmir and has settled in Punjab since Independence.
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“Modi magic fails in Karnataka”
After the Congress swept the May 103 Assemby elections in Karnataka, this was one of the first bits of information to float around.
This line was pushed out by the Congress (who were busy salaaming Rahul Gandhi, the media (to whom balanced reporting is…Go on
Image: The Starry Night | Vincent van Gogh
My friend,
We see that you are going to do something that you know is not going to end well.
Sink into it. Sink in, in a sublime surrender…like you would sink into that’s lover’s first kiss.
If you cannot taste the victory, cannot feel the…Go on
Image: Thirty-Six Faces of Expression by Louis Boilly
A common complaint that is sweeping the country is that the grand (and largely self-imagined) brilliance that India could have been has been cut short thanks to the apathy of those most necessary to fix our problems – The middle class, the educated, the intellectual and…Go on