Vote here, will it be good, or am I likely to leave the theater really pissed off.
I'm voting that Gene Roddenberry will rise from the grave to give "Bad Robot" studios a Kirk style beat down.
Everyone let me know...
I'm going to see it. It'll probably be pretty good, but different from the Star Trek that we're used to.
Great Rumbler Wrote:I'm going to see it. It'll probably be pretty good, but different from the Star Trek that we're used to.
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Unlike Nemesis, This film has received some stellar early reviews.
The fact Leonard Nemoy is behind it 100%, Is a good enough assurance for me that the product is gonna be good.
Some Fans really do think and act like that,The Onion stab at the fanboys is dead on.
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Star Trek could definitely benefit from depicting a more realistic vision of the future.
A future in which people wear stylish clothing, read books that aren't Shakespeare and listen to music that isn't Classical.
Star Trek was intended as an optimistic future, not necessarily a realistic one. If you want that, you kinda have to scrap manned space travel.
At any rate, my only concern is that it gives a sense of scientific wonder and poses a moral dilemma.
Yeah. Star Trek needs to stay optimistic, it's pretty much the whole point... almost everything else out there sci-fi is depressing, it's nice to have ONE thing that's not, for sure. :)
As for the movie, I'm not sure... I'm expecting it to be flashy, but accurate to Star Trek? Not so much...
...And his vision was burned to the ground.
In fairness I guess it does work in the sense that the future (st, stng, etc) found the super educated near perfection idealism. But I seem to remember a certain war that sparked the creation of a warp drive that resulted in alien contact which lead us to a whole new view of our own world that ended the wars and created a unified society... which hurled the galagtic class starships for deep space exploration. Not semi-marines in an aerodynamic Deathstar.
plus 1 for cable guy reference
Weltall Wrote:Star Trek could definitely benefit from depicting a more realistic vision of the future.
A future in which people wear stylish clothing, read books that aren't Shakespeare and listen to music that isn't Classical.
Battlestar Galactica?
I think it's entirely possible to have an optimistic view of the future that doesn't completely ignore everything that ever happened since 1965.
Oh, before the movie there were three trailers...
G.I. Joe
Transformers 2
Terminator Salvation
...This whole 'make new movies out of '80s properties' thing is getting ridiculous... :)
Captain Rush shouted "Yo Joe!" during that trailer.
What's next? Thundercats?
The movie specifically said "black hole" both times. In any case, a singularity is just another word for black hole. It can't "mean anything".
That was a very bad example of evolution. Painfully stupid. It's not like we have the ENTIRE history of our genetic lineage in our DNAs, and anything trying to "activate" what we do have would create horrible piles of living goo that would die within minutes. In fact, how would the transition even go that smoothly even if we had a fully viable genetic history? Some of our genes ONLY activate during certain points of our lives, like during infancy, to facilitate our slow change into adults. There's also a few "fatal" genes that activate well into adulthood that just never had selective pressure to be bred out, namely because we reproduce at a younger age well before their fatal influence could have a selective pressure, and because in generations past we were lucky to live past 30.
Quote:Captain Rush shouted "Yo Joe!" during that trailer.
What's next? Thundercats?
They're already on it.
Quote:It was announced on June 5, 2007, that Warner Brothers is making a CGI-animated feature film of ThunderCats, based on a script written by Paul Sopocy. In October 2007, Variety magazine revealed that Jerry O'Flaherty, veteran video game art director, had signed on to direct. The film is being produced by Spring Creek Productions. It is set for a summer 2010 release.[1]
Whenever they get to remaking the Snorks, I think we'll know this has gone way too far... :)
Feal the bullshit!
Hear the krap!
Thundercats re-made!
i'm still pissed about dragonball z
lazyfatbum Wrote:Feal the bullshit!
Hear the krap!
Thundercats re-made!
i'm still pissed about dragonball z
It waist DBZ just DB
I never watched the thundercats as a kid