Star Trek XI and the average joe(spoilers inside)

[Samurai8472]

Imagine that there are people that don't know about little attention to details in the movie(Delta Vega, Kobayashi Maru test) and just know that a new movie is coming out.

What things have you heard from various people who will go watch the movie?

Do you have the irresistible urge to correct someone whose information is slightly skewed?

"Oh yeah, there's a new Trek movie coming out. It's got Old Scotty in it right? and it's directed by James Cameron?"

I usually find these comments funny

 

[cubbie]

Not quite what you are asking, but the makers of Trek have done an amazing job of marketing this movie. They advertisers are freaking over how well the stunt in Austin took off. See this article.

If you’re struggling with the concept once called “permission marketing,” then re-branded as “social marketing,” and finally re-packaged into “content marketing,” let me boil it down for you.

When most of your target audience is empowered to talk as well as listen, doing something worth talking about can be a highly effective marketing strategy.

Be useful. Be entertaining. Be bold.

and it goes on to talk of the effectiveness of Austin

 

[Temis the Vorta]

When I heard that there was a new Trek movie coming out, I mentioned it to the "mundanes" of my acquaintance - it's a recasting of Kirk, Spock, etc. People who normally shrug at the mention of Star Trek suddenly were interested. Very good sign.

 

[Iano]

I really wish everyone who saw this movie knew the history of the Kobayashi Maru scene because it's so fantastic.

 

[Anthony]

When I heard that there was a new Trek movie coming out, I mentioned it to the "mundanes" of my acquaintance - it's a recasting of Kirk, Spock, etc. People who normally shrug at the mention of Star Trek suddenly were interested. Very good sign.

It's only good if they actually show up to see Trek and not [most likely] Wolverine and/or Terminator, which, I predict, will be even bigger than Wolverine, thanks to Christian Bale's star power.

 

[FlyingLemons]

My girlfriend is a complete outsider to most sci-fi. She turns off when I spend my time speculating about what the best way would have been to reconcile Trek XI with existing canon, and continuously teases me for being a giant nerd and having instant recall of any episode after seeing five seconds of it.

About the only sci-fi things she does watch are Heroes and Lost because they are cool and "in" things. Anything else and she turns off. But, amazingly, despite being uninterested in the tiny mechanics of Trek XI, she's willing to see it as it's by JJ Abrams, and Zachary Quinto's in it. She's Miss Mainstream Viewer, about as mainstream as you can get, and it succeeded in pulling her in. That's a very good sign for the success of this film.

 

[Captain X]

When I heard that there was a new Trek movie coming out, I mentioned it to the "mundanes" of my acquaintance - it's a recasting of Kirk, Spock, etc. People who normally shrug at the mention of Star Trek suddenly were interested. Very good sign.

I find that kind of weird, personally. So recasting suddenly makes Star Trek good?

 

[TremblingBluStar]

I was talking with my supervisor about the movie the other day. He's a TNG trekker, was never into the original series. According to him the film is about "them before they became Star Trek".

Needless to say, I had to suppress a snicker.

 

[Gepard]

I find that kind of weird, personally. So recasting suddenly makes Star Trek good?

It suddenly makes it different. And if you're somebody who didn't go for the original version, a different version might be worth checking out.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'll admit to being pretty clueless thus far about Twitter - aren't the messages limited to 140 characters? Some of the messages posted on that page as Twitter messages are a good bit longer than that. So how does this actually work?

 

[cubbie]

I'll admit to being pretty clueless thus far about Twitter - aren't the messages limited to 140 characters? Some of the messages posted on that page as Twitter messages are a good bit longer than that. So how does this actually work?

The messages are limited to 140 characters, but many people link to another page which bypasses the limit.

Also, some twitter apps let you be longer.

I took a flight on Delta today, and the Sky magazine talked about the most anticipated movies of the summer, and even had a picture of Star Trek in it.

 

[perigee]

Thanks to the fans, I think it's safe to say that there's certainly not one human in the civilized world who has not been aware of "Star Trek" all of their lives. We could, if we wanted to, run down a list of what most would have considered their personal turn-offs - hokey, old, talky, boring, old guys, crap stuck to noses - but the one thing they were certainly aware of is that there was something BIG going on that they didn't feel.

The trailers are not giving them a lot of excuses NOT to like it, and to take a shot at getting on that 40-year old bandwagon.

I've been trying to figure out how to explain this new movie to Andrew when we go see it; in the end, I think the best way to explain it is, "This is what We Thought we saw, when we watched the old show back when we were kids."

 

[Classic Fan]

Well, my girlfriend is not a Star Trek fan. However she likes Star Wars, i got her hooked on Firefly when we first met 5 years ago, shes into Heroes, i got her onto Quantum leap but thats about it in her Sci Fi range wheras ill take anything if its good enough.

She has no interest in Trek what so ever, and in a way it frustrates me cos i want to talk about little things such as design elements in the sets, sound effects, props and even makeup and locations such as Delta Vega and the Kobyashi Maru test. All these are lost on her, that means i have to arrange a pub visit with a fellow geek, i cant just 'talk' to her about it, like most of us on here wish we could.

now, we got talking, a group of mates and me, about movies out in the summer. Wolverine, Terminator cropped up, but when i started talking Trek XI with a fellow die hard Trekkie, all we got was "Pfft " from the others.

They have no intention on seeing Star Trek, ive tried reasoning with them and even showed them the trailers, but all they can see is 'old 60's Trek'.

Maybe its the uniforms, Spock makeup, or just those two words 'Star Trek' but they aint interested.

But then that is just a small slice of the average Joe movie goer from my neck of the woods.

I have tried, but they wont take the bait.

 

[Canadave]

When I heard that there was a new Trek movie coming out, I mentioned it to the "mundanes" of my acquaintance - it's a recasting of Kirk, Spock, etc. People who normally shrug at the mention of Star Trek suddenly were interested. Very good sign.

It's only good if they actually show up to see Trek and not [most likely] Wolverine and/or Terminator, which, I predict, will be even bigger than Wolverine, thanks to Christian Bale's star power.

I have the feeling Wolverine won't do that well, period. People don't seem to be very excited about it, or at least that's the impression I've been getting.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I have the feeling Wolverine won't do that well, period. People don't seem to be very excited about it, or at least that's the impression I've been getting.

Yeah, there's zero buzz on that one other than the predictable geek ramblings on the web.

 

[M'Sharak]

I'll admit to being pretty clueless thus far about Twitter - aren't the messages limited to 140 characters? Some of the messages posted on that page as Twitter messages are a good bit longer than that. So how does this actually work?

The messages are limited to 140 characters, but many people link to another page which bypasses the limit.

Also, some twitter apps let you be longer.

You can actually write longer messages, but it requires an extra click on the ellipsis to read beyond the first 140. Max appears to be 250 characters, but I don't know anything yet about the apps you mention. URL shorteners such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly and is.gd get a lot of use on Twitter.

 

[Qonos]

I have the feeling Wolverine won't do that well, period. People don't seem to be very excited about it, or at least that's the impression I've been getting.

Yeah, there's zero buzz on that one other than the predictable geek ramblings on the web.

Plus the fact there is there is an almost complete copy floating around the net...... And reviews of it haven't been good...

 

[Eddie Roth]

Recasting possibly has a positive effect on the average Joe because I think for a long time there was a feeling that the original cast was too old and/or fat to be in those roles anymore. Which I find ridiculous, but I remember many reviews for TFF and TUC that said stuff along those lines. Maybe it's really the aspect of rejuvenating the franchise that gets regular folk interested again.

 

[Borgminister]

I have tried, but they wont take the bait.

Maybe they will from someone else who's not so vested...

 

[LutherSloan]

I have the feeling Wolverine won't do that well, period. People don't seem to be very excited about it, or at least that's the impression I've been getting.

Yeah, there's zero buzz on that one other than the predictable geek ramblings on the web.

Plus the fact there is there is an almost complete copy floating around the net...... And reviews of it haven't been good...

THEY RUINED DEADPOOL

Seriously though, I was going to see this until I found out what FOX did to Deadpool. Let's just say it's not good. I was hopeful because of the almost perfect casting of Ryan Reynolds in the role, but they made it irrelevant later in the film apparently.