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Star Trek new movie; Kirk and crew's beginning

#31 barend

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Posted 03 August 2009 - 12:50 AM

civilian_number_two, on 09 July 2009 - 02:16 AM, said:

Yeah, that's what I thought. I think when this is all over (the hype I mean), people will realize that this was no CASINO ROYALE, this was DIE ANOTHER DAY.

Which reminds me... did you see 'Quantuum of Solace'? What the hell happened there? Everyone seems to be moving at 130-140% normal speed. Not just the action sequences but the whole damned movie. Couldn't help but notice that the movie runs an exact 100 minutes. Did they run overtime and think that was the best way to compress it?
Jesus, the whole time I was watching it I had the Benny Hill theme running in my head.

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Posted 06 August 2009 - 06:20 PM

Is this accurate?

"I felt insulted until I realized that the people trying to mock me were the same intellectual titans who claimed that people would be thrown out of skyscrapers and feudalism would be re-institutionalized if service cartels don't keep getting political favors and regulations are cut down to only a few thousand pages worth, that being able to take a walk in the park is worth driving your nation's economy into the ground, that sexual orientation is a choice that can be changed at a whim, that problems caused by having institutions can be solved by introducing more institutions or strengthening the existing ones that are causing the problems, and many more profound pearls of wisdom. I no longer feel insulted because I now feel grateful for being alive and witnessing such deep conclusions from my fellows."
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Posted 11 August 2009 - 02:47 AM

Yes it is. The story is just as ridiculous as that. And honestly, that thing even pulled a few punches.

STAR TREK is the most ridiculous movie I have seen in a long time. And because it never lets up in its jaw-dropping idiocy, it is being hailed as the best film of the year by the usual idiots (see the lines for TRANSFORMERS II). It is almost instantly forgettable, yet it delivers enough chases, easy punchlines, tits and explosions to make people text OMG! to one another across the aisles of the theatre. Which apparently is all a movie is asked to do now.

I like the comment that the film and its marketing made significant effort to alienate and insult the fan base of the original series, in some sort of effort to make Star Trek "cool." Sorry, while Star Trek was never exactly "cool," it was at least something worth talking about. This film is about as memorable as WING COMMANDER or LOST IN SPACE. It is no more nor less than a summer bottom-feeder. At its best it is bad fan fiction. It is not Star Trek.

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