So, here's my two cents. Because, you know, we're Trek fans. We have a neverending supply of... two cents.
I hated the first Transformers movie. Completely and utterly. Detested it. So, so bad. And yet many of my friends thought it was great. Which is... hey. We're all different. Fair enough. But I really, really hated it.
Along comes the news that the duo responsible for its script were slated to pen Trek 2009. "Oh lord," I thought to myself. "Maybe I should spare myself and not even see it." Part of me strongly considered it. But then the grandmother of my girlfriend at the time took us to see it, and you know what? I effing loved it. And I effing love it to this day. And I effing love Into Darkness, too. There's a lot of effing love here.
What became obvious to me was that Orci and Kurtzman are good at adapting to what they've been given. Of course, plenty of Trek fans detest nuTrek, and again, all well and good. But not me. So I realized that as screenwriters they approach projects radically differently from one-another. A fairly simple thing to grasp, but hey, I was 21, I was too busy traveling and drinking at the time to contemplate such things.
While I never let anyone convince me to go see any of the other Transformers movies, I've happily eaten up some of Orci's other work. And I've given not only writers but directors and producers the benefit of the doubt that maybe, just maybe, they too are capable of adaptation.
Just because F&F's got cars and titties doesn't mean Trek 3 would have the same approach. Maybe he gets the job and it's awful and it thoroughly resembles any of those movies, but maybe it's wildly different and stunningly satisfying. Regardless of who gets the job I think it's fair to say the Enterprise will be traveling along at ludicrous speeds, anyway.
As a massive 80s Transformers fan, even I'm sick of what he's done to the franchise. Brilliant first film (probably due to Spielberg's influence), I've always given him that, but the rest were utter shite.
