"Forget Everything You Know"
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darkwing_duck1
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From everything that's been posted so far, essentially the film's "device" for rebooting the franchise is an "unresolved" temporal alteration. That is, nothing is done to "fix" the temporal damage.
Thus they can say "everything that happened still happened" but also "we can do whatever we want".
And they DO too, if the big "shocker" that everyone is speculating in fact happens:
Thus they can say "everything that happened still happened" but also "we can do whatever we want".
And they DO too, if the big "shocker" that everyone is speculating in fact happens:
Vulcan is destroyed
Yeah, pretty much.
They have a fig leaf to cover it, a little talk about "quantum mechanics."
That should have been the tagline for the film. The general public would be lined up in droves!
Exactly. It is a subtle way of saying, "Hey we're not nerdy or cheesy any more. Please check us out!"
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Its not about a reboot, its just advertising to non-fans that its not the usual ST movie.
RAMA
It's a reboot of the franchise. If it's successful, they'll do pretty much anything they want with regard to continuity questions that might arise in the future.
I mean the advertising, not the story itself. Its most definitely a reboot, but audiences don't care, they just think it looks good.
RAMA
It's a not uncommon marketing statement, I wouldn't read too much into it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8wnp79zws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8wnp79zws
That's pretty much what I got out of it.
True. Let's see what IMDB has...
Willow (1988) [above]: Forget all you know, or think you know.
Truant Soul, The (1916): You will forget everything else in the world for two hours when you see this picture!
Thunder Mountain (1935): You'll forget everything this wizard of Western thrillers has done before!
Escape to Glory (1940): Forget All The Action Pictures You Ever Saw... And Brace Yourself For A New Kind Of Thrill!
Sergeant Rutledge (1960): Forget all the suspense you have ever seen! Forget all the excitement you have ever known!
Santa sangre (1989): Forget Everything You Have Ever Seen
Ali (2001): Forget What You Think You Know
"Enterprise" (2001): Forget what you think you know, it won't help you here (Season 3 Tagline)
Not Another Teen Movie (2001): Forget Every Thing you Thought You Knew. Because this Christmas We're Changing ALL the Rules!
Vanilla Sky (2001): Forget everything you know, and open your eyes.
Sherlock (2002) (TV): Forget Everything You Know About Sherlock Holmes
...and I blame every single one of those for raping my childhood!
I think so far the marketing has been on target for what they want to accomplish for this movie.
"Forget Everything You Know" suggests that we will have to be brain dead to enjoy Star Trek XI.
what is "Star Trek" and where am I?
So the studio's not actually ignoring folks my age altogether, then?
This Tag Line does scare me a little bit. But at the same time I can see where the studio is coming from, They're looking for the people who never gave Trek a chance, who might dismiss this just because of the Trek label.
I was planning on seeing it anyways. Gonna try to ignore all the cannon the first time and just enjoy the ride.
I was planning on seeing it anyways. Gonna try to ignore all the cannon the first time and just enjoy the ride.
...and if you can't "forget everything you know", the producers no doubt recommend 'Repressitol'. Now available at all good chemists. 
For me the 'Forget everything you know' never had any negative connotations...
Perhaps I understood it as '... because this is a kind of Star Trek you've probably never seen before' (in the most positive sense, of course), perhaps I already had too many of these altered timeline/quantum physics hints in the back of my mind, perhaps I was always a little bit less apocalyptic about J.J. Abrams' approach, perhaps I thought that nothing could be worse than Insurrection and Nemesis...
Perhaps I understood it as '... because this is a kind of Star Trek you've probably never seen before' (in the most positive sense, of course), perhaps I already had too many of these altered timeline/quantum physics hints in the back of my mind, perhaps I was always a little bit less apocalyptic about J.J. Abrams' approach, perhaps I thought that nothing could be worse than Insurrection and Nemesis...
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