Abrams doesn't like spoilers - Defends STXI secrecy

[ancient]

Screw it, he shouldn't even bother releasing a movie. Just release a bunch of spoilers.

For the next year, nothing but spoilers. Then we won't even need a movie! It's such a brilliant marketing scheme.

Spoilers without a movie. So much easier to make, and so many happy fanboys!

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

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.

Heaven forfend. I might have to settle for a medium popcorn.

 

[Franklin]

[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.

That's not even the half of it. Say it's ten bucks a pop. For me, it'll be me, my wife, and two daughters. That's $40. Then the girls will want pizza before the movie. That's $30 or so. Then there's roughly ten bucks on popcorn, ten bucks on drinks, and five bucks on candy. My wife will probably insist on Starbucks afterwards.

I want to read the script. I want prior script approval before making my investment. I'm not going to put down something around a c-note for another Ishtar.​

 

[Carpe Occasio]

^ Ishtar! Run for your lives... Oh please God, save me!!!

 

[BigC]

Sometimes having is not as good a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.....

I like it.

Did you just make that up?

No. I was paraphrasing an old friend.

 

[Franklin]

Sometimes having is not as good a thing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true.....

I like it.

Did you just make that up?

No. I was paraphrasing an old friend.

This old friend?
Spock: After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. [From: "Amok Time"]

 

[BigC]

I like it.

Did you just make that up?

No. I was paraphrasing an old friend.

This old friend?
Spock: After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. [From: "Amok Time"]

I was wondering if anyone was going to remember that.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Then the girls will want pizza before the movie. That's $30 or so.

So if you don't go to the movie, the girls won't need to eat?

 

[Rabittooth]

Here's a link to his TED talk. It's about...mystery.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/205

-Rabittooth

 

[RoJoHen]

What did people do about spoilers before the internet? I, for one, like to be surprised.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

What did people do about spoilers before the internet?

Actually, there were no spoilers. We read books. And masturbated.

 

[Balthier the Great]

Maybe it's my cynicism, but I don't like it when the producers of a movie play it too close to the vest. I makes me wonder whether he has any confidence in the film at all. I think if you were truely proud of the movie you were making, you wouldn't mind letting a few details slip, introducing most of the major characters (save for the surprise baddie that appears an hour in). I don't want ALL the details, just some basic stuff that would let me see what direction he's going in.

If you think the film is teh shizznit, show off a little.

 

[Franklin]

Then the girls will want pizza before the movie. That's $30 or so.

So if you don't go to the movie, the girls won't need to eat?

Good point. I guess some of those costs I mentioned are immutable.

 

[Tralah]

Maybe it's my cynicism, but I don't like it when the producers of a movie play it too close to the vest. I makes me wonder whether he has any confidence in the film at all. I think if you were truely proud of the movie you were making, you wouldn't mind letting a few details slip, introducing most of the major characters (save for the surprise baddie that appears an hour in). I don't want ALL the details, just some basic stuff that would let me see what direction he's going in.

If you think the film is teh shizznit, show off a little.

They will when it's closer to release date. It's still 11 months away. People want too much too soon. Had they kept the December date, we probably would have gotten a lot more information by now. They were just getting reading to step up the publicity when the date was moved back.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

We read books. And masturbated.

So we replaced "books" with "the internet", and everything else pretty much went on as before.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Then the girls will want pizza before the movie. That's $30 or so.

So if you don't go to the movie, the girls won't need to eat?

Good point. I guess some of those costs I mentioned are immutable.

I say don't let them eat, otherwise.

It's more of an incentive to get them interested in going to the movie.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

So if you don't go to the movie, the girls won't need to eat?

Good point. I guess some of those costs I mentioned are immutable.

I say don't let them eat, otherwise.

It's more of an incentive to get them interested in going to the movie.

 

[Samuel T. Cogley]

Good point. I guess some of those costs I mentioned are immutable.

I say don't let them eat, otherwise.

It's more of an incentive to get them interested in going to the movie.

Hey, I'm supporting Star Trek. All else comes second.

 

[darkshadow0001]

He shouldn't have to worry too much I think, according to my poll I had it seems like most of us is going to watch the movie for what it is, and all seem to be eager to see it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

What did people do about spoilers before the internet? I, for one, like to be surprised.

For STs III, IV and V, our ST club newsletter added "special sealed sections" where we collected every factoid we could find via the rumour mill.