The First Trailer

[Overgeeked]

You saw him popping wheelies? Huh.

There was one motocross jump and NOT A SINGLE WHEELIE in the one I saw.

It's 'funny' how you only call out one side's hyperbole.

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But in-thread call-outs, such as this? Please don't. It's considered poor form, and wins no "cool guy" points.

Ah. So you calling him out is okay, but me calling you out is Verboten. Got it.

 

[M'Sharak]

It's 'funny' how you only call out one side's hyperbole.

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But in-thread call-outs, such as this? Please don't. It's considered poor form, and wins no "cool guy" points.

Ah. So you calling him out is okay, but me calling you out is Verboten. Got it.

Had I, in fact, been "calling him out" (as opposed to giving a gentle mocking to his repeated misrepresentation of one bit of trailer content) this would still be the wrong place for you to conduct an MA complaint. Now, either drop it, or take your complaint to the venue appropriate for such action (i.e., not here.)

Back to topic, please.

 

[Squiggy]

You should consider yourself lucky you didn't have to sit through Kirk "popping wheelies" to a blaring 20 something year old Beastie Boys song.

You saw him popping wheelies? Huh.

There was one motocross jump and NOT A SINGLE WHEELIE in the one I saw.

It's 'funny' how you only call out one side's hyperbole.

What's the other side's hyperbole? That they'll like it?

 

[Shazam!]

What's the other side's hyperbole? That they'll like it?

Probably more along the lines that all old Trek is stuffy nonsense and people sat around tables.

Not true, of course, but it is retroactively painted that way to suit the narrative of nu-Trek being superior in every single possible way imaginable.

 

[Mudd]

Well, unless you like stuffed shirts sitting around tables talking. Then nuTrek would be inferior.

 

[eyeresist]

So I'm wondering if the trailer did in fact reveal too much. It's appearing to me that the Enterprise gets attacked and crashes on the planet and the crew is separated. Somehow Kirk rescues the crew with the help of the new female lead and find the derelict USS Franklin, which has also crashed on the planet. They attempt to re power the ship to fight the baddies and return to earth. Or am I reading too much into the trailer?

Mostly right, except the "return to Earth" part. Remember, the city we see is Yorktown, a deep space outpost. Also, breaking off in the middle of the five year mission to hobble all the way home would be a disappointing conclusion. I'm pretty sure the movie will end with the crew somehow continuing their mission.

 

[M-Red]

Make no mistake, I'll be in the theater on opening weekend. Maybe more than once.

But this a poor opening trailer for a Star Trek film.

I have really high hopes for STB. But I just got nervous.

 

[Mudd]

Why do people "get nervous" or "worry" about movies?

 

[OpenMaw]

Why do people "get nervous" or "worry" about movies?

Because it's something they are passionate about, and they, perhaps, want their financial/time investment to not go to waste?

 

[F. King Daniel]

So, just want to say that I've seen Star Wars twice, and neither time has the Star Trek trailer played before it. Weird, thought it was supposed to play before Star Wars.

You should consider yourself lucky you didn't have to sit through Kirk "popping wheelies" to a blaring 20 something year old Beastie Boys song. The crowd I saw TFA kind of had a WTF was that reaction after the trailer played.

 

[fireproof78]

Make no mistake, I'll be in the theater on opening weekend. Maybe more than once.

But this a poor opening trailer for a Star Trek film.

I have really high hopes for STB. But I just got nervous.

I can understand the nervousness, but I really wouldn't worry about it. Lin and co. have little (if any) say in trailers. They are put together by the studio to advertise their films. Trailers can (and often are) misleading to the point that watching them is almost pointless. Scenes that seem to go together may actually be in completely different acts of the film, line readings may be changed in post-production, etc, etc.

In other words, the trailer isn't the final product. It's the advertising its wares.

 

[Mudd]

Why do people "get nervous" or "worry" about movies?

Because it's something they are passionate about, and they, perhaps, want their financial/time investment to not go to waste?

Oh, you mean the kind of folks who wait to see what everyone on the Internet thinks of a movie before buying a ticket.

Yeah, I don't get that.

 

[ralph]

So I'm wondering if the trailer did in fact reveal too much. It's appearing to me that the Enterprise gets attacked and crashes on the planet and the crew is separated. Somehow Kirk rescues the crew with the help of the new female lead and find the derelict USS Franklin, which has also crashed on the planet. They attempt to re power the ship to fight the baddies and return to earth. Or am I reading too much into the trailer?

Mostly right, except the "return to Earth" part. Remember, the city we see is Yorktown, a deep space outpost. Also, breaking off in the middle of the five year mission to hobble all the way home would be a disappointing conclusion. I'm pretty sure the movie will end with the crew somehow continuing their mission.

In the trailer, I see a place that looks like a graveyard of ships. Kirk and the crew may have been able to set in motion an old ship and try to return to Yorktown base. If this old ship is the Franklin I do not know.

 

[ConRefit79]

With films like Nemsis written by a successful screen writer and directed by Stuart Baird, I can see why there's apprehension with Lin making Beyond. Makes me nervous to based on what little we've seen. But need to remember Myer and Bennett never saw Star Trek before signing on. Maybe Lin will surprise us.

 

[Nerys Myk]

With films like Nemsis written by a successful screen writer and directed by Stuart Baird, I can see why there's apprehension with Lin making Beyond. Makes me nervous to based on what little we've seen. But need to remember Myer and Bennett never saw Star Trek before signing on. Maybe Lin will surprise us.

Lin's a successful director and a long time fan.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Logan isn't a successful writer; he's a successful hanger-on. And Baird was never a director.

 

[eyeresist]

Logan isn't a successful writer; he's a successful hanger-on. And Baird was never a director.

But somehow they've had successful careers being the thing they're not.

Despite the things in NEM people call not-Trek and say are responsible for the failure of the film, I think a civilian would say the problem was that it was much too Trekky. Long philosophical conversations between Picard and Shinzon, and Picard and Data, and a plot centred on Romulan politics and the issue of "authentic" identity...

 

[CorporalClegg]

Logan has become notorious as a leech who's had his name attached to successful films because of WGA rules. Anything he's written on his own has been terrible.

Baird has directed three films, none of which are very good.

 

[Amaris]

Why do people "get nervous" or "worry" about movies?

Because it's something they are passionate about, and they, perhaps, want their financial/time investment to not go to waste?

Yep. I get nervous, sometimes, because it's something I like, and I'm afraid it will get trashed. It's like looking at a painting and admiring its colors, when the guy next to you decides that it's shit and something his 5 year old could paint. It makes you less willing to share your enthusiasm.

 

[eyeresist]

In 2016, the movies I am hyped about are Star trek Beyond and Suicide Squad. The only one I'm "nervous" about is Batman V Superman...