Yeah, that's pretty much exactly what I'm going to do.
Abrams doesn't like spoilers - Defends STXI secrecy
- Thread starter Carpe Occasio
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"Let's do the tribble transport again!"
It's astounding, space is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely, not for very much longer
I've got to keep control
I remember doing the tribble transport
Drinking scotch and vodka when
The furry things would hit me, and the purring would be calling
Let's do the tribble transport again!
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your console
And bring your levers in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the tribble transport again!
It's so dreamy, oh Cyrano free me
So you can't feed them, no not at all
In another grain bin, with tribbles dropping in
Well piled on, I see all
With a bit of a communicator flip
You're into the tribble slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on flame gems, and you're in tribble mayhem
Let's do the tribble transport again!
Well I was warping through the quadrant just a-having a think
When a snake of a Klingon gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had an engine room and Garvin’s eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
Tribbles meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the tribble transport again!
It's astounding, space is fleeting
Madness takes its toll
But listen closely, not for very much longer
I've got to keep control
I remember doing the tribble transport
Drinking scotch and vodka when
The furry things would hit me, and the purring would be calling
Let's do the tribble transport again!
It's just a jump to the left
And then a step to the right
Put your hands on your console
And bring your levers in tight
But it's the pelvic thrust that really drives you insane,
Let's do the tribble transport again!
It's so dreamy, oh Cyrano free me
So you can't feed them, no not at all
In another grain bin, with tribbles dropping in
Well piled on, I see all
With a bit of a communicator flip
You're into the tribble slip
And nothing can ever be the same
You're spaced out on flame gems, and you're in tribble mayhem
Let's do the tribble transport again!
Well I was warping through the quadrant just a-having a think
When a snake of a Klingon gave me an evil wink
He shook-a me up, he took me by surprise
He had an engine room and Garvin’s eyes.
He stared at me and I felt a change
Tribbles meant nothing, never would again
Let's do the tribble transport again!
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As soon as I saw your post, I was thinking someone would do a "Time Warp" send-up.I love this board!
Me too. When it comes to plot, I'm OK with knowing about what one would learn reading the back of a DVD case.
I used to think this, especially when it came to Trek. I was "spoiled" on Nemesissy, Insurrection and the Enterprise first and last episodes. Anyway, noticing that I take in spoilers of other things and can enjoy them greatly anyway I realized if a film or episode is really well done (The Shield, for example), no level of spoilage taints the final experience. It really matters how good the product is.
With modern Trek, it just isn't so. Heck, from reading the shooting script, I even expected Broken Bow to be BETTER than it was. Nemesissy was the train wreck I expected.
No details whatsoever?
"Well, that's just like, your opinion, man." /the dude
Seriously, why bother holding off? Sooner (yet probably much later) there will be a trailer, which as always will be ripped apart frame by frame and analysed. Once the toys/novelization/collectables etc come out they'll be scrutinized.
And guess what. All of those things will happen BEFORE the film launches. BEFORE. I don't know how JJ will deal with it.
I would have liked it if he (or someone) would have thrown us a tiny bone by now. Anything. A photo of Captain Kirk? Would that set off mad crowds of spoiled moviegoers? Instead we've only a snippet of spy photos around the academy, which I'll admit were interesting.
Lucas was very "secretive" about his prequels, but he flooded his website with videos and photos up until release each time, and heck, he even made money charging people for it.
"I'm not going to see that movie. I already saw a photo of Kirk 11 months before it's release." - One superspoiled Trekkie
"Well, that's just like, your opinion, man." /the dude
Seriously, why bother holding off? Sooner (yet probably much later) there will be a trailer, which as always will be ripped apart frame by frame and analysed. Once the toys/novelization/collectables etc come out they'll be scrutinized.
And guess what. All of those things will happen BEFORE the film launches. BEFORE. I don't know how JJ will deal with it.
I would have liked it if he (or someone) would have thrown us a tiny bone by now. Anything. A photo of Captain Kirk? Would that set off mad crowds of spoiled moviegoers? Instead we've only a snippet of spy photos around the academy, which I'll admit were interesting.
Lucas was very "secretive" about his prequels, but he flooded his website with videos and photos up until release each time, and heck, he even made money charging people for it.
"I'm not going to see that movie. I already saw a photo of Kirk 11 months before it's release." - One superspoiled Trekkie
Yeah, but the content of the trailer will be controlled by Abrams. I don't think he would care if the trailer is analyzed and the toys are scrutininzed -- as long as too much information about the plot is not revealed.
In fact I think Abrams would love it if the trailer and the toys WERE the talk of the internet, because that would show him that there is a "buzz" about the film. However, it would best serve Abrams and the film if the buzz doesn't start until December or January, so it can hit its crescendo in May when the film opens.
I like it.Sometimes having is not as good a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.....
Did you just make that up?
Except some of us really enjoy the experience of watching a movie for the first time and being surprised at the plot twists and not knowing what will happen next. Directors and writers put considerable time and effort into creating a movie to tell a story a certain way, if they want people to experience an interesting story and not know everything that's going to happen beforehand, it's understandable that they would want to keep spoilers at a minimum.
For example, I really wish I could have seen Hitchcock's Psycho spoiler-free, but that movie had become so much a part of our culture, I had already seen the shower scene enacted in parodies countless times before I actually got to see the original movie. What a thrill it would have been to be in that audience, and to not know what was coming! When I did see Psycho, I still enjoyed the movie, but it wasn't the same, and I think some people are fooling themselves if they think so. I didn't see The Empire Strike Back until somewhere in the 1990s. I already knew that Darth Vader was Luke's father. I still LOVED and thoroughly enjoyed it, but at the same time I would have loved to have been surprised by that revelation.
I do know some people don't particularly care if they're surprised or not, and that's fine, but for some odd reason some people want to see the script for this movie before it's even released? Why? You don't have to see it on opening day, so just wait until the movie comes out, then read the spoilers to your heart's content and decide if you want to see it. If I could trust that people who get their hands on the script wouldn't ruin it for the rest of us, I'd say fine, read the script! But it just takes one person to be careless with spoiler codes, and other sites aren't nearly as good at enforcing "no spoilers", so unless I limit my Internet access to non-Star Trek websites, I run the risk of accidentally seeing a spoiler from the script. Hell, this is the main reason I'm seeing the movie on opening night, so I can hopefully avoid them from people who have seen the movie.
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Sometimes having is not as good a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.....
Anticipation is almost always superior to actually having or doing. We build things up in our minds and imagine a better reality than what we actually experience.
It's eight bucks for a ticket. I'll take the "risk."
It's eight bucks for a ticket. I'll take the "risk."
With the price of oil, gas, milk, rice, etc., etc., going up constantly, by the time STXI comes out next year it will probably be $12.00 a ticket.
Well, in that case, forget it.
I'll spend countless hours here whining about it, and spend hundreds of dollars on Star Trek DVDs and merchandise, but I ain't gonna pay 12 bucks to see the movie. No way.
At least you have your priorities straight.
You should have your own MSNBC show. We could all benefit form this wisdom.