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New Star Trek: The Movie trailer!
Topic Started: Nov 16 2008, 10:14 PM (2,483 Views)
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Um. Since when was STAR TREK this amazing piece of avant-garde art? It was fluffy sci-fi entertainment as this will probably be. What the hell are you talking about?
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Exactly!

TickTock just seems to have it in for any and all blockbuster movies. Silly.
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Apr 10 2009, 02:18 PM
Um. Since when was STAR TREK this amazing piece of avant-garde art? It was fluffy sci-fi entertainment as this will probably be. What the hell are you talking about?
Uh, hello, it's the the biggest fan boys extravaganza and biggest franchise that has ever existed. It IS a HUGE DEAL! You've never been to a Treky Convention, have you? Star Trek is 500 billion times bigger than Star Wars.

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Apr 10 2009, 06:10 PM
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Apr 10 2009, 02:18 PM
Um. Since when was STAR TREK this amazing piece of avant-garde art? It was fluffy sci-fi entertainment as this will probably be. What the hell are you talking about?
Uh, hello, it's the the biggest fan boys extravaganza and biggest franchise that has ever existed. It IS a HUGE DEAL! You've never been to a Treky Convention, have you? Star Trek is 500 billion times bigger than Star Wars.

The Star Trek movies were never all that popular, especially outside of the US.

Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that Gimme's point is totally accurate. Star Trek has never been arty, avant-garde entertainment. It's sci-fi fun for the masses. Always has been, always will be. This new movie is no different. They haven't even remotely *sold-out*,
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Apr 10 2009, 08:22 PM
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Apr 10 2009, 06:10 PM
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Apr 10 2009, 02:18 PM
Um. Since when was STAR TREK this amazing piece of avant-garde art? It was fluffy sci-fi entertainment as this will probably be. What the hell are you talking about?
Uh, hello, it's the the biggest fan boys extravaganza and biggest franchise that has ever existed. It IS a HUGE DEAL! You've never been to a Treky Convention, have you? Star Trek is 500 billion times bigger than Star Wars.

The Star Trek movies were never all that popular, especially outside of the US.

Anyway, that doesn't change the fact that Gimme's point is totally accurate. Star Trek has never been arty, avant-garde entertainment. It's sci-fi fun for the masses. Always has been, always will be. This new movie is no different. They haven't even remotely *sold-out*,
No, it is not, and it never will be.

Star Trek is the MECCA for Sci-Fi superiority, and all others are compared to it. You don't get bigger than that. Star Trek was a tv series. The movies were little side ventures. The franchise is as big as the Beatles, and Elvis combined.

They are trying to sex up this film, and the people who will go to see it, and allow it to either live or die, do not want this crap. The entire "fan boy" concept, started in large part from the Trekkies. The producers will have a fatwa on their heads if this goes the way of Dawson's Creek, which it is.

Start planning the funerals.

I have no doubt that it'll have some big weekend opening like, Indiana Crap: And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Dung. But it'll drop fast after that.
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More spectacular raves pouring in, this time from the trade papers Variety and The Hollywood Reporter:

Variety: "...… Abrams' smart and breathless space adventure feels like a summer blockbuster that just couldn't stay in the box another month. Paramount won't need any economic stimulus package with all the money it'll rake in with this one globally, and a follow-up won't arrive soon enough. … "

HR: "… Paced at warp speed with spectacular action sequences rendered brilliantly and with a cast so expert that all the familiar characters are instantly identifiable, the film gives Paramount Pictures a new lease of life on its franchise. … The boxoffice should beam up enormous returns. …"

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Star Trek may have a huge fan following, but it's a TV franchise and one that was pretty much past its sell by date at that. The last spin off series killed the franchise stone dead so the idea it's bigger than "The Beatles and Elvis combined" is (to quote Mr Spock) "highly illogical". None of the movies had US or global success to even light a candle against the Star Wars canon and indeed the last one was an embarrassing bomb for Paramount.

As for the idea that Star Trek is the "MECCA for SciFi superiority" (whatever that means Jim...) have you seen "Galaxy Quest"??? Star Trek has never been arty or highbrow; nor did Gene Roddenberry conceive it that way in the first place.

Basically if the franchise hadn't been "sexed up" it was dead and buried commercially and contrary to what you may think, the Star Trek fan community (which derided the last movie) has pretty much embraced this reboot ever since the first trailer hit earlier in the year.


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I've never been a fan really, but I've just started watching the remastered versions of season 1 of the original series and I'm kinda hooked! They're actually really beautiful to watch. The colours and costumes are gorgeous. Yes, it's very hokey and silly in places, but it's actually quite intelligent too. I'm surprised at some of the themes and ideas that they went into, especially in those early episodes. They also aren't complete bores like many of those later spin-off series seemed to be. They're actually incredibly gripping!
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And yes, I agree with Fem that they needed to leave all the old Star Trek baggage behind and totally start afresh. I think they'll attract millions of new fans and will lose very, very few. It looks like they've taken what made it great, left out the stuff that made it shit and given it all a major kick up the arse. It's going to be huuuuuge.
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I've never been a fan really, but I've just started watching the remastered versions of season 1 of the original series and I'm kinda hooked! They're actually really beautiful to watch. The colours and costumes are gorgeous. Yes, it's very hokey and silly in places, but it's actually quite intelligent too. I'm surprised at some of the themes and ideas that they went into, especially in those early episodes. They also aren't complete bores like many of those later spin-off series seemed to be. They're actually incredibly gripping!
Oh season one of the original series is fantastic. So ahead of it's time and the remastered versions are gorgeous.
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Apr 23 2009, 01:58 PM
I've never been a fan really, but I've just started watching the remastered versions of season 1 of the original series and I'm kinda hooked! They're actually really beautiful to watch. The colours and costumes are gorgeous. Yes, it's very hokey and silly in places, but it's actually quite intelligent too. I'm surprised at some of the themes and ideas that they went into, especially in those early episodes. They also aren't complete bores like many of those later spin-off series seemed to be. They're actually incredibly gripping!
Oh season one of the original series is fantastic. So ahead of it's time and the remastered versions are gorgeous.
The DVD boxset is out on monday. I 'm definitely getting it! I've just been downloading torrents of the episodes so far, so really looking forward to seeing them properly on the telly!
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Star Trek was never the kind of thing that would appeal to me (have never really been into sci-fi), but I have a particular blind spot about this series.

My old flat mate was the chairman of the Scottish Star Trek Association (I know, but it gets sadder), and the "board" used to have their meetings in our living room. I walked in one day to offer them all a cup of tea, expecting them all to be talking earnestly about Spock ... Instead they all had their tops off and were massaging each other.

You've seen the average sci-fi fan boy (and girl)? They're not bonnie!

The scars are still with me all these years later.
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Oh. My. God. :lmao:

So what was going on exactly??
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Oh, fuck knows. Apparently, one of them said they had a sore back, another said they were great at giving massages, and then it just snowballed.

If any of them had even been remotely attractive, then it would have been acceptable. But, honestly, they all looked like their faces had been put through a blender.
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:lmao: That really is quite disturbing.
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33 critics' reviews on RottenTomatoes thus far and it's still 100% fresh!

Can't wait to see this tomorrow after work!! :alexz:

"A sublime space adventure that flies as confidently and triumphantly as Trek ever has before. It's not only a victorious series highlight, but perhaps one of the best pictures of the year...120 minutes of unrelenting goose bumps."


"It's exciting, moving, hilarious, action-packed, sexy and suspenseful -- in short, exactly what big, fun summer popcorn movies are supposed to be and yet so rarely are."


"A near-perfect template for what a summer thrill ride should be, Star Trek is great fun that doesn't forget its brain, heart or sense of humor."
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I have seen one Star Trek episode, none of the new series, non of the spinoffs, non of the movies.

but I will probably go and see this.
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It seems designed to attract the non-Trek fans, which is totally what they needed to do at this point. A complete fresh start. You don't need to know a thing about Star Trek to enjoy this movie apparently!
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I had tickets to see a preview of angels and demons last night.

I thought it was next week, thus we missed it. I am in the doghouse with him indoors.
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:lmao: I'm looking forward to that one a lot! The book should lend itself far more to a movie than "The DaVinci Code" did. Having said that, I'm not sure I've *ever* enjoyed a movie that Ron Howard directed.
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