Saturday, May 9, 2009

Roger Ebert, I thought I knew ye

Roger Ebert, you fucked up.  I saw Star Trek last night (like everyone should have), and was delighted.  It was so delightful.  Anyway, today I'm checking up on my man Rodge and wondering, "What did he think?"  Well, he went the weird route of critiquing the logic of the film.  He didn't even pick out the time travel based questions that I had.  In fact, one of his criticisms about the film was a COMPLETE MISTAKE.  Here is a quote from his review: "The logic is also a little puzzling when Scotty can beam people into another ship in outer space, but they have to physically parachute to land on a platform in the air from which the Romulans are drilling a hole to the Earth's core."  Okay, there's a couple things wrong with this.  To begin, at this point in the film, they did not have Scotty aboard the ship.  That's a minor issue, because nearly everyone can beam people up (just not as good as Scotty).  Here's the biggest problem.  Mr. Ebert, if you'd been paying attention, you would know that the reason they even parachuted to this giant drill was because it was blocking their teleportation abilities.  The captain specifically said that.  They went there with the sole purpose of destroying it so that they could teleport.  I feel like Rodge just read the sparknotes for the film.  Actually, I feel like he just skimmed the sparknotes.  A rare miss for you, Mr. Ebert.  Better luck in the future.

1 comment:

Kerry said...

Ha! You and Roger Ebert should host a show. You would bicker like little nerdy schoolgirls who can't agree on Star Trek.

 
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