Paramount wants the next Trek to be in 3D

[Amaris]

Loved Titanic. It was, of course, the most successful film of all time - and not by a little bit - until Cameron made another movie. None of this happened because he's "inept" in any way.

This all reminds me of Groucho Marx's story about the school acquaintance who would come to his Broadway shows over the years and plead with Marx to get into a dignified, adult line of work that he could be proud of. The guy was a junior accountant at an insurance firm or something.

Yeah, Titanic is a good movie. I was more interested in the technical aspects of the ship itself (which were realized in glorious detail), but the romantic subplot was enjoyable, too.

 

[JarodRussell]

Steven Spielberg hasn't made a good film since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

The Color Purple? Last Crusade? Schindler's List? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can? Munich? None of these?

 

[Set Harth]

As in, he has an army of groupies who would fawn and gush over him even if he made a film that consisted of a blank white screen for 2 hours. (which would be an improvement over Inception, I grant you)

"You hear that, Mr.Anderson? That is the sound of the death of credibility."

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Really, I think JarodRussell's list killed SMC's credibility pretty thoroughly.

Beside which, any one of those is better than Temple of Doom.

 

[SMC]

Steven Spielberg hasn't made a good film since Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom.

The Color Purple? Last Crusade? Schindler's List? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can? Munich? None of these?

Those are all crap movies. Saving Private Ryan - don't even get me started on how silly the plot was or how cliched the "multi cultural" squad of Rangers was or how inaccurate the details of the period were or how implausible the entire premise was...

Munich was just a load of apologism for Isreal and and for Mossad death squads.

Catch Me if You Can was just bland and uninspired

Schindler's List - A patronizing oversimplification of the holocaust - its almost like the Disney version...

Indy and the Last Crusade - the worst Indiana Jones movie until... the new one. But seriously, the father and son dynamic was an embarrassing attempt at an odd couple routine and fell flat. The female love interest was boring and characterless. The villains were cartoony charicatures even by Indiana Jones standards. Just an awful hodge podge of nonsense and bad ideas. And Harrison Ford and Sean Connery simply could not look any more bored or unmotivated. They phoned this one in bigtime.

I've always contended that Temple of Doom is very underrated - its not perfect but I love the dark direction and Spielberg actually showed he had the stones to do all-out horror as skillfully as the masters of the genre did. Its also entirely in keeping with the Saturday Matinee Serial style which was the inspiration for the films in the first place, something they seemed to have forgotten when it came time to do Crusade and, ugh, Crystal Skull....

Never saw The Color Purple but it looks to be yet another schmaltzy and patronising Spielberg flick... as if there weren't quite enough of those already.

 

[Skywalker]

I just hope that they actually film the next one in 3D, instead of filming it in 2D and then converting it to 3D in post-production. But a lot of the movies that have done that so far didn't start filming until the 3D craze really started, so I imagine most blockbusters from now on will film in 3D.

 

[Set Harth]

I had been looking forward to "The Green Hornet" until I read your review and then decided it could wait until the movie appeared on The Movie Network, however many years from now. But then my son asked to go and see it and to my eventual chagrin, I indulged him. It was horrible. Whatever D it was in didn't matter. But .. .WHY? Why 3D? There was no reason for this movie to be in 3D. The only good use of the effect was for the end credits. Which was when everyone was walking out. Which we all should have done sooner.
I offset the cost of it by using a 2-for-1 Christmas coupon, but, really. Geez.
Never again.

Some people only learn the hard way.

 

[Expo67]

The best directors in my opinion are the following:

1. Stanley Kubrick
2. Peter Hyams
3. Sir Ridley Scott
4. James Cameron(despite his personality)
5. George Lucas
6. Steven Spielberg
7. Michael Anderson
8. Franklin J. Schaffner
9. Robert Wise
10. Richard Donner
11. Brian De Palma
12. Sam Peckinpah
13. Martin Scorsese
14. Francis Ford Coppola
15. Paul Verhoeven
16. John Sturges
17. John Carpenter
18. Nicholas Meyer
19. Franco Zefferelli
20. Robert Aldrich

Indiana Jones and the temple Of Doom was way too violent. If nothing else, it's storyline was just as bad as The Cave Of the Crystal Skull. The best films in that series was Raiders Of The Lost Ark and The Last Crusade(the latter being that Sir Sean Connery was in the film playing Indy's absent-minded professor of a father. And with excellent results).

Titanic was just like any other film about the ill-fated British steamliner. You've seen one film about the Titanic, you've seen them all.

It will be interesting if the next Star Trek film is made in 3-D. However, if Paramount should go that particular route, they should wait and make the third film a 3-D experience. If only for marketing purposes.

 

[Expo67]

And the best actor/directors....

1. Clint Eastwood
2. Ambassador Spock himself(aka Leonard Nimoy)

 

[Set Harth]

Abrams lens flares + 3-D = cerebral hemorrhage

 

[JarodRussell]

Now Kubrick is definately overrated. I have seen all of his movies, and I have liked none of them, can't help it.

 

[Expo67]

I fail to understand why there has been so much hate towards J.J. Abrams for having brought Star Trek back from the brink of death. If anybody should have some hate directed towards them, it should be Rick Berman.

Berman and those under him at Paramount are the ones who are truly responsible for that period of franchise fatigue and nearly running Star Trek into the ground. Abrams and his writers re-energized and brought new life into the franchise in a very ingenious way. One that I have described in past posts.

So, instead of bashing the guy, how about just commending him for doing damage control as far as the Star Trek franchise is concerned.

If anybody should be bashed, it should be Rick Berman. He is the one who almost put an end to Star Trek with such less than glamorous spin-offs as Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. It wouldn't even surprise me if he had an unofficial hand in Star Trek:Intrepid's mediocre production.

Abrams is to be commended. Not condemned.

 

[Expo67]

I'll admit, I despised A Clockwork Orange and Eyes Wide Shut.

However, Kubrick's other movies were masterpieces in their own right.

The best one of all, being 2001: A Space Odyssey. The greatest science fiction film ever made for the cinema. A film, whose production values and artistic qualities set the standard for other science fiction films that were yet to come. It's excellent sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact being one of them.

 

[Set Harth]

The best one of all, being 2001: A Space Odyssey. The greatest science fiction film ever made for the cinema.

2001 is tha shiznit.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Abrams lens flares + 3-D = cerebral hemorrhage

Then it pretty much has to be in 3D.

 

[Dukhat]

I fail to understand why there has been so much hate towards J.J. Abrams for having brought Star Trek back from the brink of death. If anybody should have some hate directed towards them, it should be Rick Berman.

Berman and those under him at Paramount are the ones who are truly responsible for that period of franchise fatigue and nearly running Star Trek into the ground. Abrams and his writers re-energized and brought new life into the franchise in a very ingenious way. One that I have described in past posts.

So, instead of bashing the guy, how about just commending him for doing damage control as far as the Star Trek franchise is concerned.

If anybody should be bashed, it should be Rick Berman. He is the one who almost put an end to Star Trek with such less than glamorous spin-offs as Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. It wouldn't even surprise me if he had an unofficial hand in Star Trek:Intrepid's production.

Abrams is to be commended. Not condemned.

You're vastly overrating Berman's influence over Star Trek. As for DS9, because of it's syndicated nature, the writers had much more freedom to do what they wanted. Berman may have had his input into the show, but more often than not his issues were ignored. And as for Voyager and Enterprise, those were solely UPN's animals. Almost every point of contention that fans have over these two shows were the product of network tampering, not Berman's directives. If you really want to blame someone for the end of TV Trek, blame people like Les Moonves and Dawn Ostroff, and the UPN execs who came up with such winning ideas as a Chakotay/Seven romance, the Temporal Cold War, and the first human warp five vessel from the 22nd century looking like a 24th century Akira- class ship because it was "kewl."

 

[Expo67]

Abrams lens flares + 3-D = cerebral hemorrhage

Then it pretty much has to be in 3D.

As I said before, what is it with all of this primitive and mindless, let alone distateful hatred and resentment toward J.J. Abrams? For fans of Star Trek and its message of tolerance, let alone the philosophy of I.D.I.C., there seems to be a huge lack of it on this particular subject and other Star Trek related topics.

Oh, well, some people just don't practice what they preach.

On the subject of Deep Space Nine, if Rick Berman had some amount of control over that mediocre production, then he should have enforced it more. Or even better, not have created the spin-off whatsoever.

To be honest, the writers and whoever else that were employed by Paramount during DS9's run clearly ripped-off ideas and situations left and right from another science fiction series. One Babylon 5, no less(which was much better and fun to watch).

I'm amazed that J. Michael Straczynski and Babylonian Productions didn't throw a fit about it. If they did, it was not a big one.

 

[Dukhat]

As I said before, what is it with all of this primitive and mindless, let alone distateful hatred and resentment toward J.J. Abrams? For fans of Star Trek and its message of tolerance, let alone the philosophy of I.D.I.C., there seems to be a huge lack of it on this particular subject and other Star Trek related topics.

Agreed.

On the subject of Deep Space Nine, if Rick Berman had some amount of control over that mediocre production, then he should have enforced it more. Or even better, not have created the spin-off whatsoever.

But something had to happen. TNG was in it's 5th season, with the stars' contracts expiring at the end of the 6th. Either TNG would have to go on and the network would have to pay Patrick Stewart et. al more and more money, or they could end TNG and make movies with that cast, in an effort to monopolize on TNG's success. But where would that have left TV Trek? Clearly, they needed another show. And as for DS9 being mediocre, I'm afraid you'll have to speak for yourself. To me, DS9 was the best Trek show ever produced. Was it perfect? No. But the best? IMHO, yes.

To be honest, the writers and whoever else that were employed by Paramount during DS9's run clearly ripped-off ideas and situations left and right from another science fiction series. One Babylon 5, no less(which was much better and fun to watch).

They indeed ripped off the concept of the show, not the execution of it.

I'm amazed that J. Michael Straczynski and Babylonian Productions didn't throw a fit about it. If they did, it was not a big one.

I remember watching both DS9 and B5 back to back when it was being broadcast weekly. I liked both shows, although in all honesty B5 kept me more on the edge of my seat than DS9 did.

 

[Bishop76]

Yeah, Babylon 5 was the superior show. DS9 was very "B5-lite", though I think the similarities are far more numerous than most. Not that DS9 was bad, IMO, it just wasn't as good as B5.

I do think Berman deserves a lot more credit for running Trek into the ground. Keeping so many of the same creative team around for all those years made all those series all very stale. The 4th season of Enterprise was getting good after they wiped the slate, but it was too little too late.

JJ Trek is awesome. It's not without flaws, but it really did breathe a lot of life back into a dead ass franchise. I wasn't sure they were going to be able to save it after Nemesis, to be honest.

 

[ST-One]

The best one of all, being 2001: A Space Odyssey. The greatest science fiction film ever made for the cinema. A film, whose production values and artistic qualities ...

Sadly it ends there; that film is a boring pile of sleeping pills; it makes TMP look positively riveting.