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re: So wait - there's another crappy Star Trek movie coming out?
Posted on 7/31/15 at 10:58 am to The Godfather
Posted on 7/31/15 at 10:58 am to The Godfather
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If there is some kind of incident on set of this movie, my money is on Ace
If I told you my reaction to that quote (I think I saw it last month or so) was ambivalence, would you believe me?
The studio probably thinks the first 2 movies were too "Star Trek-y" too. I still watch an average of 10 to 12 TOS episodes per month. Good times...
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Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:01 am to blueboy
quote:Soooooo..redbox?
Did I sleep through the thread about this or did the trauma of hearing about it block my memory?
Star Trek: Beyond (Belief)
So, they really do think they can just spit out all of the old stories in random order with subtle and not so subtle changes, and we're just going to eat it right up.
Oh, but Idris fricking Elba is in it. We're saved. Faggy movie board circle jerk - activate!
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:05 am to joeyb147
quote:hooray
Fast and Furious... in space!!!
And just because the idiocrats flocked to it and RT thought it was good doesn't mean it is.
The first one was good, bu the second one was just a plot formula gimmick that threw up all over itself. It clusterfricks the franchise from that point forward.
It's "boldly go where no man has gone before," not "hackishly regurgitate old storylines to support your cocaine habit."
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:08 am to blueboy
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The first one was good
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:09 am to The Godfather
quote:Wow. Let's dumb down a thing that's popular for not being dumb so we can get more butts in the seats, thereby cultivating human stupidity which is already being cultivated at record rates.
For his role as the primary screenwriter, Pegg had been asked to make this new film "more inclusive", stating that the solution was to "make a western or a thriller or a heist movie, then populate that with Star Trek characters so it's more inclusive to an audience that might be a little bit reticent.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:20 am to Ace Midnight
quote:I liked it. There was never an origin movie about the academy years. At least the content was fresh.
But admittedly, with the time travel formula, you knew the abomination was coming and, sure enough, it did.
This post was edited on 7/31/15 at 11:30 am
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:23 am to blueboy
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another crappy Star Trek movie
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Idris fricking Elba is in it.
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Faggy movie board circle jerk - activate!
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:24 am to blueboy
The second one sucked Beyond Belief...
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:29 am to blueboy
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There was never an origin movie about the academy years.
And there still hasn't been. Star Trek (2009) was an abortion - it hit all the action beats the millenials expect to see, without making a lick of sense.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:30 am to blueboy
I loved both wholeheartedly. It may not have been true to spirit of Star Trek, but I couldn't care less about that. Star Trek always bored me.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:36 am to The Godfather
The new ones are made for Star Wars type fans and not Trek fans.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:38 am to CocomoLSU
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I did watch the frick out of ST:tNG though. I loved that show.
You should watch "First Contact" it was pretty good.
Star Trek 2 is the best though.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 11:47 am to blueboy
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For his role as the primary screenwriter, Pegg had been asked to make this new film "more inclusive", stating that the solution was to "make a western or a thriller or a heist movie, then populate that with Star Trek characters so it's more inclusive to an audience that might be a little bit reticent.
Wow. Let's dumb down a thing that's popular for not being dumb so we can get more butts in the seats, thereby cultivating human stupidity which is already being cultivated at record rates.
It's a trend to make Star Trek less hard sci-fi and more Star Warsy and more like your run-of-the-mill action film.
When the last one started with your standard James Bond mini-action sequence, it was the end of the line for sci-fi Star Trek films.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:22 pm to Fewer Kilometers
quote:Yeah, I suppose so. The Beastie Boys segment was pretty cheesy.
When the last one started with your standard James Bond mini-action sequence, it was the end of the line for sci-fi Star Trek films.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:23 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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it was the end of the line for sci-fi Star Trek films.
Yet the last one, made more the the first five combined.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:23 pm to blueboy
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Yeah, I suppose so. The Beastie Boys segment was pretty cheesy.
Well in three hundred year maybe they will still be popular, like Beethoven is to some people. IDK.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:43 pm to The Godfather
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You can't bitch about this then bitch about the new movie (that has no plot yet) not being like the original series. Roddenberry himself marketed the original series as "Wagon Train to the Stars". It sounds to me like they are trying to follow Gene's trail as closely as current audiences will allow.
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tating that the solution was to "make a western or a thriller or a heist movie, then populate that with Star Trek characters so it's more inclusive to an audience that might be a little bit reticent.
You can't bitch about this then bitch about the new movie (that has no plot yet) not being like the original series. Roddenberry himself marketed the original series as "Wagon Train to the Stars". It sounds to me like they are trying to follow Gene's trail as closely as current audiences will allow.
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:45 pm to Fewer Kilometers
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run-of-the-mill action film.
And the thing is - it is not as if there aren't enough mindless action film franchises, filled with fakey, cartoonish special effects, rock/hip-hop soundtracks, with dumbed down writing and acting - (Transformers, FF, Jurassic Park, etc.), already - why did they have to involve the crew of the NCC-1701?
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:47 pm to blueboy
You realize both were pretty damn good right?
Posted on 7/31/15 at 12:49 pm to Bard
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Roddenberry himself marketed the original series as "Wagon Train to the Stars".
He was playing to the crowd - and he was trying to avoid a gigantic lawsuit - if you look closely, Star Trek was actually a series based strongly on the premise of the film Forbidden Planet.
As he was trying to sell the show, originally, as early as 1964 - he went with what was hot - Wagon Train - although, broadly, the pattern of a "continuing" journey was consistent.
But Star Trek never truly had the vibe of a Western (for example, as Star Wars and Firefly did). It was always more of a smart, extended Twilight Zone episode rather than a scifi environment with traditional western themes.
This post was edited on 7/31/15 at 12:52 pm
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