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New Star Trek: The Movie trailer!
Topic Started: Nov 16 2008, 10:14 PM (2,479 Views)
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It would be devastating if it doesn't do well and they never made a sequel. This deserves to be a HUGE success and is begging for more movies to be made of a similar quality. The thing is, I never quite realised how strongly most people dislike Star Trek. I've mentioned to quite a few people this week that I was going to see the movie and 90% of them respond with a "Whaat? Star Trek? LOL." kind of reaction. It's a real shame. I never really realised til now the uphill struggle the studio has in convincing non-fans and/or closed-minded people to go see it.
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May 8 2009, 03:02 PM
It would be devastating if it doesn't do well and they never made a sequel. This deserves to be a HUGE success and is begging for more movies to be made of a similar quality. The thing is, I never quite realised how strongly most people dislike Star Trek. I've mentioned to quite a few people this week that I was going to see the movie and 90% of them respond with a "Whaat? Star Trek? LOL." kind of reaction. It's a real shame. I never really realised til now the uphill struggle the studio has in convincing non-fans and/or closed-minded people to go see it.
I think Paramount have got a lot to do with that; they milked it to death with the last couple of very shoddy TV incarnations to the point where it became pretty low rent and a million light years away from Roddenberry's original vision.





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Well if this movie can't save it, nothing will.
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Oh please, they'll make a sequel, even if it stalls at the box office early on. They just won't give it the same budget next time around.

Remember what a bomb Superman was? They're already discussing rebooting it again.

Angels and Demons is going to be huge -- as big as Tom Hanks wig!

I'll download Star Trek and see how it is. I'm in no mood to go and sit with a bunch of Trekies, with pocket protectors, and retainers.
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Ooh. I'm still only on season 1. I watched "The Corbomite Maneuver" last night.


Oh right. You haven't seen my fave episode then yet... "City On The Edge Of Forever" :wub:

I did! I dispensed with continuity and watched that episode after you declared your love for it. I actually didn't think it was all that great to be honest. I found the Earth setting a little dull. It was nice to see Joan, but I prefer it when they're in their usual environment and dealing with nasty critters.
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Well I suppose time paradox stories are considered run of the mill now, what with Terminator et al. It was quite ahead of its time in that regard.

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Well I suppose time paradox stories are considered run of the mill now, what with Terminator et al. It was quite ahead of its time in that regard.

Oh I'm sure it was. I did enjoy it, but I just prefer it when they're on the Enterprise or on some crazy alien planet.
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'Star Trek' beams up $24 mil at the box office on Friday

J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot started off its opening weekend in warp drive, grossing a stellar $24 million at the box office on Friday, according to Box Office Mojo. That opening-day total is among the year's best: Though behind the $35 mil that X-Men Origins: Wolverine scored in its first 24 hours and the $30.1 mil that Fast & Furious revved up on its initial day, it is basically on par with the $25.1 mil that Watchmen earned on its first Friday. And if you add in the $7 mil that the franchise film banked in late screenings on Thursday, Star Trek's starting sum is already around $31 mil. Friday's box office leaders are listed below, and please check back here on Sunday for a full weekend recap in the Box Office Report.

1. Star Trek -- $24 mil
2. X-Men Origins: Wolverine -- $8.5 mil
3. Ghosts of Girlfriends Past -- $3.1 mil
4. Obsessed -- $2.1 mil
5. Next Day Air -- $1.4 mil
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I have never been a Trek fan but I am still pissed off that because Nemesis (the 10th movie in a series) bombed, they completely pulled the plug on DS9, Voyager and Enterprise movies.

I am surprised with all the hate for Joss Whedon and how everyone who watches his stuff are "nerds", there's love for JJ Abrams here, IMO JJ is the poor man's Joss
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Oh come on. Who wants to see movies for DS9, Voyager and Enterprise? Those tired, stupefyingly dull shows are the very reason Star Trek's stock fell so, so low over the past few years.

Thank God Abrams has given it up a huge kick up the arse. This movie is the very opposite of those turgid, made-for-geeks-only shows.
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I have never been a Trek fan but I am still pissed off that because Nemesis (the 10th movie in a series) bombed, they completely pulled the plug on DS9, Voyager and Enterprise movies.

I am surprised with all the hate for Joss Whedon and how everyone who watches his stuff are "nerds", there's love for JJ Abrams here, IMO JJ is the poor man's Joss
If you're not a fan then are you really pissed off?
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May 9 2009, 07:01 PM
Oh come on. Who wants to see movies for DS9, Voyager and Enterprise? Those tired, stupefyingly dull shows are the very reason Star Trek's stock fell so, so low over the past few years.

Thank God Abrams has given it up a huge kick up the arse. This movie is the very opposite of those turgid, made-for-geeks-only shows.
Lost and Heroes aren't made-for-geeks-only TV shows? Shit, Star Trek is the ULTIMATE geek show of all time.

I know a lot of people who would go to a Voyager movie
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May 9 2009, 07:04 PM
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May 9 2009, 06:55 PM
I have never been a Trek fan but I am still pissed off that because Nemesis (the 10th movie in a series) bombed, they completely pulled the plug on DS9, Voyager and Enterprise movies.

I am surprised with all the hate for Joss Whedon and how everyone who watches his stuff are "nerds", there's love for JJ Abrams here, IMO JJ is the poor man's Joss
If you're not a fan then are you really pissed off?
well not where I'd boycott a movie I'm not going to see, but I do have a lot of friends who are Trekkies and it really sucks for them because one out of ten Trek movies underperformed at the box office (and IMO I think part of the failure was because the action/sci-fi/geek market was overpopulated in late 2002 with LOTR, Harry Potter and 007 all at the same time), so therefore all those fans are screwed over one movie. There have been 007 movies that underperformed and they never pulled the plug on those and decided to start over from scratch.
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May 9 2009, 07:50 PM
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May 9 2009, 07:01 PM
Oh come on. Who wants to see movies for DS9, Voyager and Enterprise? Those tired, stupefyingly dull shows are the very reason Star Trek's stock fell so, so low over the past few years.

Thank God Abrams has given it up a huge kick up the arse. This movie is the very opposite of those turgid, made-for-geeks-only shows.
Lost and Heroes aren't made-for-geeks-only TV shows? Shit, Star Trek is the ULTIMATE geek show of all time.

I know a lot of people who would go to a Voyager movie
Well personally, I don't know a single one and I'd like to keep it that way. Those TV shows were *dreadful*. The original Star Trek shows were simple yet clever, gripping and fun. In other words, everything that those spin-offs weren't. The new movie is in a different league to those terrible, terrible shows.
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I think Voyager is only so popular because of gay men, it's the "feminist" Trek with ass-kicking women and gay men are a sucker for butt kicking heroines, LOL
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May 9 2009, 06:55 PM
I have never been a Trek fan but I am still pissed off that because Nemesis (the 10th movie in a series) bombed, they completely pulled the plug on DS9, Voyager and Enterprise movies.

I am surprised with all the hate for Joss Whedon and how everyone who watches his stuff are "nerds", there's love for JJ Abrams here, IMO JJ is the poor man's Joss
Nemesis was absolute shit on practically every level - directed by someone who even the cast have slated.

As for Voyager, one can only hope that Janeway and pretty much the whole godawful cast get blasted through a spatial anomaly. Voyager makes Galaxy Quest look edgy...



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I *love* your avatar Fem!!!! :clap:

I hope you're watching "Bring Back Star Trek" on Channel 4 now??
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I hope you're watching "Bring Back Star Trek" on Channel 4 now??
WHAT?? :drama:

*runs to TV*

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The thing I don't like about this movie is that JJ Abrams basically said he's "dumbing down" Star Trek to appeal to a wider audience. I understand this in a financial sense but at the same time, dumbing down Trek so it can appeal to a larger audience like Star Wars does is a huge slap in the face to the Trekkies who have spent thousands traveling all over the world for conventions, collecting useless memorabilia and out and out worshipping the franchise for over 30 years... those are the people who kept Trek alive long after NBC cancelled the original series and were responsible for getting the first movie greenlit to begin with.... and the thanks they get is a watered down reboot with some pretty-boy actors in hopes to draw in people who never watched Trek before? I have looked at the IMDB boards and a lot of the people who have been Trekkies since the 70's hate JJ Abrams for this.
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I do take your point, but if you'd see the movie you might realise that it hasn't been dumbed down THAT much really. It's still quite a clever little thing. It's a very *different* Star Trek though. I'm quite sure there are many Star Trek fans that will hate it and many who will love it. It has also gained a new fan in me, and I'm sure many, many others.

Times move on. Things change. Deal with it.
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