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Spoilers STAR TREK BEYOND

Roberto Orci said:
I don’t read [Lin’s comments] the same way. He’s not referring to STID, he’s referring to the fact that Lin has to mount a movie by a certain deadline that is very hard to make.
That's how I understood it anyway. Seems reasonable. Did anyone actually read that as a rescue of the franchise?
 
That's how I understood it anyway. Seems reasonable. Did anyone actually read that as a rescue of the franchise?
I discovered that some people are in fact spinning the comment as meaning STID on social media. Of course, I corrected them, but people are very intent on re-writing history to mean STID was a failure.

RAMA
 
I'm a little leery any time someone uses the word "deconstruct." It's like "Let's make Superman a flawed alcoholic heroin addict chain smoking womanizer as the high concept in our next film" sort of deal. No thanks. But Lin seems to be quite literal here and with Pegg writing, it should be okay... Maybe they'll finally circumcise those honking big nacelles.
Although the question put to Lin refers to the literal destruction of the Enterprise, I think Lin quickly changes to talk about "deconstructing" the franchise (rather than the ship), not in a grimdark or postmodern sense, but in order to rebuild it into something he sees as closer to TOS.
(And I like the nacelles!)

Roberto Orci said:
He’s not referring to STID, he’s referring to the fact that Lin has to mount a movie by a certain deadline that is very hard to make.
That's how I understood it anyway. Seems reasonable. Did anyone actually read that as a rescue of the franchise?
That is how I originally read it. It took a while to work out from the context what Lin really meant. Like many directors, he is more a visual than a verbal artist. :)
 
Awesome trailer imminent! That's good news.

Going back to the Lin interview for a moment, here is another quote that should cheer up the more conservative fans:
What I learned making Beyond is that the Star Trek I loved growing up lives on TV. It had a TV format. For a little while, there was another story idea that we really liked, but I felt like that specific idea didn't fit the medium this film would be. And that's why I can't wait for the new TV show, because they're going to have people who can tell those kinds of stories in that medium.
 
Ah... Am I the only one that thinks this film looks awful, I mean come on, the last trailer I saw had a motorcycle jump stunt...

I'm not going to be served this pig slop and enjoy it, Darkness was passable, this thing looks like a goddamned trainwreck.

The Voyage Home aside, what we know for sure is that the Ship and a general space adventure makes a good Star Trek movie... So apparently they decided to get rid of both for this movie for what appears to be no reason whatsoever.
 
Did we think the car chase scene from Nemesis was a fantastic artistic choice as far as Star Trek was concerned?

We're trying to watch science fiction here, not Mad Max Lite.

Well I'm glad that Earth has sole possession of the wheeled vehicles in the galaxy.

Considering what happens to the Enterprise in the trailer, having a scouting bike within the disaster relief supplies actually makes a fair bit of sense if they are going to be stuck on a planet. Better then walking everywhere.
 
...Like many directors, [Lin] is more a visual than a verbal artist. :)
Of visual artists, Ridley Scott makes Lin look like a master of verbal clarity.

Ah... Am I the only one that thinks this film looks awful, I mean come on, the last trailer I saw had a motorcycle jump stunt...
Cheer up. Lin - the director - expressed some amount of stun that they included the motorcycle thing, and Pegg outright didn't like the trailer, and he wrote the movie.
 
Mad Max is post apocalyptic/Motor Vehicle porn.



Yeah and let's use it to do this sick ass jump ya'll!

Gotta appeal to the action junkies... Come on mate, I've been a Star Trek fan my whole life, but I don't have to accept this pigs slop.

Well I'm glad you've seen the film in its entirety, so you have the knowledge to tell us all it's pigs' slop.
 
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