Who's gushing over it? They haven't seen it therefore they just have high hopes and are keeping an open mind.

oh jeeze.

But saw the trailer, looked pretty good.

I am just hoping this reboots the franchise good, I would love another star trek series.

No, there are people who've said it looks like it will be good, and no one comes in here and gives them shit in post after post.

I've seen the trailer and think it will be bad. For some reason, this is unacceptable and evilly close-minded of me.

I don't like this officially-sanctioned opinion crap.

:lol: You're such a martyr. :violin:

Care to show where a mod deemed your posts unacceptable?

Exactly the sort of shit I'm talking about.

Read through the previous thread. The opinions expressed by the mod there in response to my posts appear to have been adopted as the official position one must take in order to appear open minded and to avoid being dogpiled on.

We can say positive and hopeful things based on the trailer, but saying anything negative is unwarranted, because we only have the trailer (and a shitload of leaked details) to base an opinion upon.

Nice try, but unless you've been warned by a moderator that you've been posting unacceptable posts, you're making stuff up.

I think you're confusing comments from the moderator as a member of this forum as official moderation posts. Generally, if it ain't in italics they ain't speaking as a moderator.

I'm not confusing anything. I'm merely pointing out that those statements seem to have become the parameters within which this discussion is now allowed to take place. Anyone moving outside of those parameters is subjected to ridicule.

If you'll go back and look, you'll see that the first time I used the term "officially sanctioned," I put it into scare quotes, as I wasn't using the term to literally mean that dissenting opinions would be punished through the moderation system, but that that dissenting opinions were being punished nonetheless, by ganging up on dissenters and subjecting them to ridicule.

Either way, the effect is turning these threads into positive-only threads.

I've been paying attention to this conversation for, oh, exactly 3 minutes and 17 seconds now and I find it boring.

The movie is still 5 months away. You can have a sense of doom and gloom. You can have a sense of "open mindedness". You can be completely apathetic about the whole thing. All are valid positions.

There is no point trying to sway anyone any way. Conversation about the movie's merits (or lack thereof) at this point is trivial at best.

What is there to fight over for the moderators to give a shit one way or another? There's no reason for anyone to take it so personal.

No one is saying that there aren't more important things. However, the design of the ship is one of the things that I can critique since it's looks won't change. That doesn't mean that if you don't like the design of the ship that is being myopic. You can have your cake and eat it too. Just because you have a good ship design doesn't mean you will have a terrible story and vice versa. Do you think the person designing the ship is also the writer?

I'm not even talking about accuracy of the ship design. I just think it is a terrible design period.

<i>Mod note: I am, AFAIK, the only active mod in Movie Talk. I just looked, and I made exactly one post in the previous Star Trek XI thread, and that was to announce that I was closing it for length. Anyone who thinks that there is some official position here to stifle negative comments about any movie is imagining it. Period.</i>

I already own Galaxy Quest on dvd so I don't see any need to see this film.

I might be wrong, but I think Ron was probably referring to my posts in the previous thread. I am a mod and I did disagree with many of the points he made. However, I made no attempt to posit my posts as official DVD Talk moderator posts.

For future reference to anyone here who may not know, I moderate HD Talk and Video Game Talk and always make it clear when I am acting as a moderator.

For what it's worth, Ron, I think your concerns might be better addressed by starting a thread in Feedback. That, however, is my opinion as a general member of this forum, and not a comment as a moderator.

What's a scare quote?! This term is new to me.

It's not the "I think this movie will suck" posts that got people angry, it's the "if you think this looks good you can't possibly be a true Star Trek fan" posts that got people angry.

Anyway, I'm still stoked for a new Trek film, especially with Abrams at the helm. Maybe it will be great, and maybe it will suck, but I'm going to go see it and then form my opionion.

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If I were to travel back in time after this movie is released and post "I told you so" before any of these arguments started, would that break canon?

If it happens (happened?) then it's canon.

does anyone know if or which current DVD releases the awesome extended trailer for this is on? tia.

I will see this and it looks kind of cool. But it also looks like an action flick crossed with a WB teen soap.

I like that they're going with an outside director/screenwriter instead of the usual in-house suspects.. but I wish they'd stop trying to re-create Wrath of Khan (flashy charismatic villain, some vendetta against Kirk).. the shows were much more interesting and nuanced than that. When will Star Trek actually be sci-fi again rather than the tired Battleship/Die Hard on a Spaceship formula they've used for all but parts 1 and 4?

The films have never really lived up to the series in ideas and content.

Forgive me Ron but I was of the understanding that posting ANYTHING on the DVDtalk forums left your liable for ridicule. This your first rodeo?

Given that this is meant to be Kirk's first mission, I don't see how it could be about a villain with a vendetta against him. Unless it's about some guy he flamed online coming back to get him.

ditto..i was confused by that too