The new trailer says one thing about mass appeal to me...
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We can only HOPE!!
Exactly.....I dont think u can call Voyager (latter half), Enterprise, Insurrection or Nemesis cerebral trek ------ It was mediocre sci fi at best...
I think JJ and BO and AK will find it quite hard to dumb it down even further than the trek Ive just mentioned.
I noticed the same thing, at both showings of Watchmen I've seen (once in IMAX, which you would expect to be more hardcore geeky, so I take that with a grain of salt.)
Keeping mass appeal while staying true to the essence of the thing - yep, that's pretty much what it all boils down to. and it's damn difficult to do - sometimes producers squash the creative instincts of the director, other times the director goes off the deep-end and there is nobody there to reign them in, sometimes they just take their paycheck and get out. There are dozens of ways a franchise movie can fall off that balance beam. For that reason, I'm going to err on the side of forgiveness, and focus on what they did right.
What would you call INS, NEM, Voyager or Enterprise? So many times Rick Berman, or the powers that be at UPN/Paramount tried to mainstream Berman's Trek and it continued to fail miserably.
It CAN'T get any worse that what we had a few years ago - A Star Trek franchise driven into the ground by gross mismanagement and stagnation. At worst, we'll be right back where we were - with nothing.
I went to the movies today, and my friend I went with was buddies with one of the people working the theater, so we went in early and chatted about upcoming releases. Apparently, my theater is expecting a pretty good showing for Star Trek. The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me. 
Oddly enough, the more "grumbling" from the Trekkie side of the aisle, the more people will likely see the movie... 
That's GREAT to hear!I went to the movies today, and my friend I went with was buddies with one of the people working the theater, so we went in early and chatted about upcoming releases. Apparently, my theater is expecting a pretty good showing for Star Trek. The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Very True!Oddly enough, the more "grumbling" from the Trekkie side of the aisle, the more people will likely see the movie...
trevanian
Rear Admiral
The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Trekkie side of the aisle, huh?
Do they make them sit in the back of the bus (oops) back of the theater, or are they ID'd by their IDIC tattoos on the backs of their wrists?
The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Trekkie side of the aisle, huh?
Do they make them sit in the back of the bus (oops) back of the theater, or are they ID'd by their IDIC tattoos on the backs of their wrists?
If the grumblings were intelligible, you certainly could tell if they were Trekkies or not, don't you think?
Just like guffaws and heckles would show you who the hicks were...
trevanian
Rear Admiral
The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Trekkie side of the aisle, huh?
Do they make them sit in the back of the bus (oops) back of the theater, or are they ID'd by their IDIC tattoos on the backs of their wrists?
If the grumblings were intelligible, you certainly could tell if they were Trekkies or not, don't you think?
Just like guffaws and heckles would show you who the hicks were...
That doesn't explain the apparent segregation, which was my point. Last time I checked, it had been thirty-odd years since there was a smoking section in movie theaters, and that was even before there were TREK movies.
Metaphorical Trekkie side of the aisle. As in they are hearing a lot more, "I can't believe they're doing this to Trek. The Enterprise looks all wrong!" etc than they are hearing, "Trek? People still watch that stuff?"The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Trekkie side of the aisle, huh?
Do they make them sit in the back of the bus (oops) back of the theater, or are they ID'd by their IDIC tattoos on the backs of their wrists?
As in things Trekkies grumble about versus things that the rest of the world would grumble about.
Figuratively speaking, in other words, which was pretty clearly the way you intended it to be read.Metaphorical Trekkie side of the aisle. As in they are hearing a lot more, "I can't believe they're doing this to Trek. The Enterprise looks all wrong!" etc than they are hearing, "Trek? People still watch that stuff?"The guy said that there was some grumblings from the Trekkie side of the aisle, but overall the buzz for the movie is pretty good. That excites me.
Trekkie side of the aisle, huh?
Do they make them sit in the back of the bus (oops) back of the theater, or are they ID'd by their IDIC tattoos on the backs of their wrists?
As in things Trekkies grumble about versus things that the rest of the world would grumble about.
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Amaris
Guest
But Gep, what about the lies?
J.
But Gep, what about the lies?
J.
My dear J., especially the lies!
trevanian
Rear Admiral
Wow, had no idea I was so dense.
Whether you intended it or not, you did a fairly good job of coming across that way.
trevanian
Rear Admiral
And yet all I can take away from this previous exchange is that there was badly-written flippancy that couldn't withstand the slightest scrutiny.
More (and different) density issues, I guess.
