@Gargantua:
No offense, and as a fan of the trek… I thought the remake was really good?
You haven’t decided that it was really good? The stealthy aspects of its mediocrity seem to be catching up to you. I can see why people liked ST:INO but I can’t understand how anyone can claim it was a good movie or good Trek.
Prior comment on JJ Trek. From: http://www.axisandallies.org/forums/index.php?topic=15562.60
@frimmel:
**I am going to talk freely about JJ Trek. This post will likeley contain spoilers for those who haven’t seen the travesty of cinema realeased in May of 2009.
@ZehKaiser:
Simply put, if you check your geeky baggage at the door when you see this movie, you will likely enjoy it very much and have a great time. That’s what a great movie really is to me.
And this is what angers me the most about the ‘gushers’ with regards to this film. That I didn’t like it because of some kind of baggage.
If you are unable to recognize or are willing to excuse the plot holes and contrivances beyond any sort of set-up more power too you. Good for you, I’m glad you enjoyed the movie.
But don’t make your willingness to accept lazy script writing, shallow characterization and shot for TV cinematography along with lots of overdone camera work to create faux action as some sort of high ground by calling my ability to think critically ‘geek baggage.’ I like me some big effects driven popcorn summer movies but filmmakers can’t abuse their ‘It’s a movie card.’ JJ and company did. That is not geek baggage.
This is the geek baggage– they didn’t take any of their knowledge of Trek from actually watching Trek. They took it all from watching Futarama, or Shatner parody himself or other parodies. If these guys had ‘re-imagined’ Casablanca instead of “You played it for her. You can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can stand it. Play it.” Rick would say, “Play it again, Sam.”
I’ve said my piece and am willing to agree to disagree from here on out.
I can go on.