I hate Nu-Trek more than anyone, but didn't hate those three movies. Star Trek has never really been a movie franchise (1 and a 1/2 good movies pre-2009 out of ten attempts?) so if they went the big blockbuster route in 2009 to try and bring in new fans, but paired it with a traditional, optimistic, thoughtful TNG or DS9-style TV series set 20 years after Voyager, I think the franchise would be in really great shape now.
They were never going to sell $1B in tickets with Smart Trek movies, and I think the three films were about as good as you could hope for given the constraints of the modern movie-going public. They just happened to be released in the middle of a huge Smart Trek drought, that ended in the death of Star Trek w/ STD and Picard.
Sorry, what do mean about Kirk? Just curious.
Okay, gotcha.
It was an origin story, though, and didn't they show him kind of maturing and mellowing by the third one?
I hate Nu-Trek more than anyone, but didn't hate those three movies. Star Trek has never really been a movie franchise (1 and a 1/2 good movies pre-2009 out of ten attempts?) so if they went the big blockbuster route in 2009 to try and bring in new fans, but paired it with a traditional, optimistic, thoughtful TNG or DS9-style TV series set 20 years after Voyager, I think the franchise would be in really great shape now.
They were never going to sell $1B in tickets with Smart Trek movies, and I think the three films were about as good as you could hope for given the constraints of the modern movie-going public. They just happened to be released in the middle of a huge Smart Trek drought, that ended in the death of Star Trek w/ STD and Picard.