Star Trek XI (Abrams, 2009) - Part 2
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Star Trek XI (Abrams, 2009) - Part 2
Originally Posted by wendersfan
I'm going to close this for length. Anyone who wants to start a part 2, feel free.
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This movie is going to be (Great/Awesome/OK/Awful/The Worst Movie Ever). Abrams is (Revitalizing a dead franchise/Bringing a mainstream audience to Trek/Catering to the MTV Generation/Raping my childhood over and over again oh dear god make it stop please). All and all, I think we can all agree (We're a bunch of geeks/We're a bunch of geeks)
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I like Star Trek--have watched it in every incarnation except DS9--but I'm not a nitpicker when it comes to continuity/canon. So I'm looking forward to this regardless of how it aligns with previous Trek. I have no problems with a reboot that steps outside the path that the series and previous films laid out. I think at this point that's the only way to do it.
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This movie is going to be (Great/Awesome/OK/Awful/The Worst Movie Ever). Abrams is (Revitalizing a dead franchise/Bringing a mainstream audience to Trek/Catering to the MTV Generation/Raping my childhood over and over again oh dear god make it stop please). All and all, I think we can all agree (We're a bunch of geeks/We're a bunch of geeks)
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I wonder what color Lighstabers they'll use? Will they match the uniforms or be more in tune with the character's personality. I guess we'll know on opening day.
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So basically, if I have major reservations, I shouldn't post in this thread, lest I get dogpiled by the "open-minded" ones, including the mod?
Is this the official DVD Talk position? I just want to know before I voice any complaints in gushing thread number two.
Is this the official DVD Talk position? I just want to know before I voice any complaints in gushing thread number two.
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At the same time, I grow tired of the attitude on this board that old Trek fans should just shut up. If someone doesn't like the nacelles on the new Enterprise, they should be allowed to voice their opinion without ridicule.
Like I said, perhaps this needs to be split into two threads, so that those who are oh-so-offended by Star Trek fans needn't read our complaints.
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While I find the new version of the Enterprise ugly, this is not my major reservation. Anakin Kirk, however, bothers me.
At the same time, I grow tired of the attitude on this board that old Trek fans should just shut up. If someone doesn't like the nacelles on the new Enterprise, they should be allowed to voice their opinion without ridicule.
Like I said, perhaps this needs to be split into two threads, so that those who are oh-so-offended by Star Trek fans needn't read our complaints.
At the same time, I grow tired of the attitude on this board that old Trek fans should just shut up. If someone doesn't like the nacelles on the new Enterprise, they should be allowed to voice their opinion without ridicule.
Like I said, perhaps this needs to be split into two threads, so that those who are oh-so-offended by Star Trek fans needn't read our complaints.
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Considering Star Trek, by the admission of its own fans, hasn't had an exciting twitch on its flogged dead horse of a storyline in close to a decade, I think there are bigger overall concerns than the placement of the nacelles.
It doesn't help that Star Trek's fanbase is almost unique in its devotion to the property. Out of a hundred fans, two or three can raise a stupid argument about the nacelles or the omission of the Starfleet Silver Palm (with cluster!) from his dress uniform. This will happen with any sci-fi, comic book, or fantasy movie (or video game!) based on an existing franchise with a long history and plenty of fans. Society has every right to make fun of these extreme statistical outliers.
What makes me laugh is that you see this making fun of Star Trek fans as a new emerging fad or novelty, rather than as the natural order of things for the past several decades.
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Well for me I'm still really annoyed that just didn't make that damn trek book into a movie. The one where the borg bring Kirk back as a romulan plot blah blah blah. That would've been so insanely bad ass I would've had tears in my eyes.
Do I have high hopes for the new one, no. Will I watch it and give it a chance , yes. After next gen pulled it off I'm willing to give anything that's new trek at least a chance.
Do I have high hopes for the new one, no. Will I watch it and give it a chance , yes. After next gen pulled it off I'm willing to give anything that's new trek at least a chance.
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I'm sorry. I didn't realize that it was necessary to jettison everything I loved about Star Trek in order to post on this board.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
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I'm sorry. I didn't realize that it was necessary to jettison everything I loved about Star Trek in order to post on this board.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
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OK, I deleted the posts that were part of the deraillment of this thread.
MaxMFP, expect administrative action.
MaxMFP, expect administrative action.
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But I also respect that some people are worried about the little things, and I think that their opinions shouldn't be ridiculed over and over.
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I'm sorry. I didn't realize that it was necessary to jettison everything I loved about Star Trek in order to post on this board.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
Please, do tell me what it is I am supposed to think about this trailer and the other info regarding the new film, so that I might be socially acceptable to the denizens of DVD Talk.
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If you're gonna piss on it, I'd rather see you do it after a viewing of the film. I don't get the necessity to spew hatred and express how much of a loyalist to TOS you are based on a few clips and online banter about the plot of Abram's film. If you don't/won't see it, I don't see why you need bother to make mention at all about anything involving it.