re: Who thinks the new Star Wars trilogy will suck?

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I know several long time Trek fans that really liked the JJA version.

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As do I, thus I continued to reiterate I was in the minority and explaining why I disliked it, and why I didn't agree with this consensus that it was a great movie.

I reiterate - I am in the minority, even amongst hardcore fans of TOS, although we were clearly not the target of the new material - they knew most of us would, eventually, give it a try. This was a tug at fans of Star Wars or Transformers, where much of the movie is a pretense or excuse for a special effects sequence. I am not against movies like that, per se, if it is well done, "Iron Man" and "The Avengers" are recent examples of Marvel products that are in this category.

And, since the JJ Abrams' brand of Star Trek is the new normal, going forward, I will just have to abstain.

I was already going to abstain from future Star Wars films (call me if Ridley Scott, Joss Whedon, Joel and Ethan Cohen or Peter Jackson get involved with a future Star Wars or Star Trek project - I may reconsider), so this rant is, to a certain degree, me just b*tching about the way things are. Abrams clearly doesn't care what original fans of TOS think - since he, himself, is a fan of Star Wars, maybe he will do it justice...and lens flares.