What could have been
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The Star fucking Trek movie I wanted to see!
Captain Kirk is in a pawnshop, looking around... he sees a Klingon dagger. Then he sets it aside for a Vulcan lirpa. Then he picks up an Andorian ushan. And finally he sees a big honkin' bat'leth. He grabs that, then begins slicing up the BSDM jumpsuit aliens of Yamaikamon Six...
(Kirk, after being buried in tribbles)
"I have had it with these Mugatu fighting tribbles on this Monday to Friday station!"
"I have had it with these Mugatu fighting tribbles on this Monday to Friday station!"
All joking aside, I’d love to see the script someday, but have to say it’s hard to imagine that it wouldn’t have turned out to be a creative mismatch. Everything I’ve ever enjoyed about Tarantino’s style in every film of his just seems wrong for this franchise, unless he was drastically changing it for this project. I’d still, yes, love to read the script.
(I could see a darkly humorous Klingons-only story done in Tarantinoese, but I gather that wasn’t the plan.)
(I could see a darkly humorous Klingons-only story done in Tarantinoese, but I gather that wasn’t the plan.)
I believe it was going to be the Kelvin equivalent of "A Piece Of The Action".
A Piece of the Action, yes, but I think it would have been a completely new timeline rather than Kelvin.
I'm glad this never happened, as I do not enjoy Quentin Tarantino movies & I dislike the man.
I do not enjoy his movies either but I thought he’s an epochal artist. What’s wrong with him as a person?
Yes, because Tarantino did not care about the character of Kirk but loved William Shatner.
He's a self important narcissistic person who is insensitive to other people's feelings. His portrayal of Bruce Lee was widely critized by people who knew Lee. I would not trust him.
Having watching Tarantino in many, many interviews over the years, he's always been a self-aggrandizing egotist. Tarantino's movies are weirdly the least obnoxious thing about him, and I say that as someone who loves his filmography.
I think it's a huge loss that it never happened. It'd be the most publicity the franchise has had in a long time - hell, the initial reports got more coverage in mainstream press here than I've seen for Trek in years - and I cannot imagine it would be worse than many of the Trek films.
i haven't seen Once Upon a Time in Hollywood but I heard it was some level of misplaced nostalgia for a long past era of filmmaking (one he certainly wouldn't have thrived in)
Idk, if it was about the gangster planet, I don't think it would've been that great. Tbh, I never thought the "alien who acts likes Earth subculture" was a great plot to being with
Especially since Tarantino has stated he prefers Shatner's Kirk, as well as his trend towards more violence, profanity and such which were considered awful when Discovery and Picard did them so not sure why Tarantino gets a pass?
No. OUaTiH is a legitimately good movie that manages to pull off the feel of 1968/69, but doesn't succumb to the nostalgia and reference bait his prior work had a tendency to do. The late 60's brought about the generation of Coppola, Bogdanovich, Scorsese, Spielberg, Cassavetes, and Polanski - Tarantino definitely would've worked in that New Hollywood system.
I'm pretty sure the people complaining about profanity in DSC/PIC aren't the same people who would've looked forward to Tarantino Trek.
Even if not, anyone who's sane can recognize it would've been a Tarantino Movie first and a Trek Movie a distant second. And love him or hate him, you know what you're going to get.
If they'd made it, I'd have been supremely disappointed if they hadn't gone completely over-the-top. It might not have been any good, but I won't even pretend I was looking for that. I'd see it, have a good laugh, then move on.
I never thought the profanity was awful.
Star Trek has been profane ever since Kirk uttered "Let's get the hell out of here."
Oh, I don't either. But it's been a big sticking point on not accepting newer Trek or it being "less enlightened " than past Trek, or humans being essentially evolved.
So, I get a sensible chuckle out of the widespread welcome to Tarantino.
