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Actually, the diminished returns for MI3 had less to do with the director's stewardship than with Tom Cruise's waning star power. On his Enterprise enterprise Abrams summoned Leonard Nimoy out of a black hole to play an elder Mr. Spock, and Eric Bana, star of the lambasted Ang Lee version of The Hulk, for the bad-guy role of Nero. But Chris Pine (young Kirk) and Zachary Quinto (young Spock) are actors not previously seen on a movie marquee; they might not even be in FaceBook. The film's biggest on-screen name is probably Winona Ryder, hard...
...political lessons declaimed by actors in pastel polyesters; that was, after all, the late 1960s, an epoch so distant that the word irony hadn't yet been invented. Solemn homilies had to be replaced by gritty action, and thinky by feelie. (Read Richard Corliss' reviews of the original Star Trek TV series, season by season...
Orci and Kurtzman managed this by making Star Trek a standard revenge epic, as punk rebel James Kirk becomes a man by chasing down Nero, the renegade Romulan who killed his father at the very moment James was born. (In the inevitable sequel, will Kirk find out that Nero is his real father?) For the first third of the movie, James is a budding sociopath; as a kid he steals a car and, when pursued by a cop, nearly drives it over a cliff; later he picks bar brawls with packs of space studs. Anger management was not a major...
...that's the fun of spinning an origins story; the writers can improvise the itinerary as long as they reach a plausible destination - one that folds into the beginning of the first show of the first season of the original Star Trek. From the rapt response of Trekkies, critics and this weekend's customers, that journey could be long and prosperous...
...official estimation of the top 10 finishers, as reported by Box Office Mojo: 1. Star Trek, $72.5 million, first weekend; $76.5 million, four days 2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine, $27 million; $129.6 million in two weeks 3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, $10.5 million; $30.2 million in two weeks 4. Obsessed, $6.6 million; $56.2 million in three weeks 5. 17 Again, $4.4 million; $54.2 million in four weeks 6. Next Day Air, $4 million, first weekend 7. The Soloist, $3.6 million; $23.5 million in three weeks 8. Monsters vs. Aliens, $3.4 million; $186.9 million in seven weeks 9. Earth, $2.5 million...