Can the Trek franchise afford a JJ movie to bomb?

[number6]

Thank God for the drooling masses.

Most of whom are easily as intelligent - not to mention a good deal less obsessive - than the folks trying to mock them.

This.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

People do like stuff that isn't all filled with explosions and those films can make money. There's more intelligent people out there than you seem to give credit for. There's many different factors why certain movies don't do a well as they should.

1. This movie is popular
2. The complainers have to dismiss it.
3. They mock the audience.
   
   
   

Not complicated, but not much to watch.

 

[BillJ]

People do like stuff that isn't all filled with explosions and those films can make money. There's more intelligent people out there than you seem to give credit for. There's many different factors why certain movies don't do a well as they should.

1. This movie is popular
2. The complainers have to dismiss it.
3. They mock the audience.
   
   
   

Not complicated, but not much to watch.

So your measurement of somethings quality comes down to "it's popular... so it's good". By that logic Transformers 2 must be twice as good as Star Trek 2009 and the quality of Titanic is many times that of Star Trek 2009.

 

[Devon]

People do like stuff that isn't all filled with explosions and those films can make money. There's more intelligent people out there than you seem to give credit for. There's many different factors why certain movies don't do a well as they should.

1. This movie is popular
2. The complainers have to dismiss it.
3. They mock the audience.

Not complicated, but not much to watch.

So your measurement of somethings quality comes down to "it's popular... so it's good".

Where did he say that in his post? You completely made that up just so that you could rehash this Copy & Paste comment:

By that logic Transformers 2 must be twice as good as Star Trek 2009 and the quality of Titanic is many times that of Star Trek 2009.

 

[BillJ]

Not 'copy and paste', I typed it with my own little hands.

 

[Devon]

Not 'copy and paste', I typed it with my own little hands.

It's been tried before by someone else, therefore it's a copy & paste comment, as in unoriginal (and silly.)

 

[BillJ]

Not 'copy and paste', I typed it with my own little hands.

It's been tried before by someone else, therefore it's a copy & paste comment, as in unoriginal (and silly.)

It was probably my comment.

And I stand by it. Too many people come running in here to fawn over this film because it made money. They seemed more interested in the franchise being popular rather than it being good.

 

[Devon]

It was probably my comment.

No.

And I stand by it. Too many people come running in here to fawn over this film because it made money. They seemed more interested in the franchise being popular rather than it being good.

How many people did you see saying "I liked it because it made a lot of money?" In fact, where in Dennis' comment did it warrant that kind of response?

 

[BillJ]

It was probably my comment.

No.

And I stand by it. Too many people come running in here to fawn over this film because it made money. They seemed more interested in the franchise being popular rather than it being good.

How many people did you see saying "I liked it because it made a lot of money?" In fact, where in Dennis' comment did it warrant that kind of response?

It was Captain Robert April who made the comment... I just ran with it.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=120840

And my comment was towards 'Lovers' rather heartwarming dismissals of people who dislike this film over the last year.

 

[Lord Garth]

I feel like I've seen this popularity discussion 100 times before. Maybe 1,000. Are you all stuck in the TNG episode "Cause and Effect"?

 

[Devon]

And my comment was towards 'Lovers' rather heartwarming dismissals of people who dislike this film over the last year.

As most should be dismissed, all thanks to those same people.

 

[M'Sharak]

It was probably my comment.

No.

And I stand by it. Too many people come running in here to fawn over this film because it made money. They seemed more interested in the franchise being popular rather than it being good.

How many people did you see saying "I liked it because it made a lot of money?" In fact, where in Dennis' comment did it warrant that kind of response?

It was Captain Robert April who made the comment... I just ran with it.

http://www.trekbbs.com/showthread.php?t=120840

If you're going to post a link, you might as well link to the post, rather than to the start of the thread and make people dig for the post (yours) which you've more or less repeated here,

Then:

...Transformers 2 is at least twice as good as Star Trek based on the worldwide totals!

Now:

By that logic Transformers 2 must be twice as good as Star Trek 2009...

even if it did also borrow from a couple of posts in the same thread by the Captain (ever one to favor a fresh bon mot over the stale gibe, he. Non.) No, it's not an exact copy/paste, but it might as well be, for all the originality it exhibited (then or now,) and few of your other recent remarks do any better in that regard. You could at least try to make it look as if you're not dropping by just to wind people up for old times' sake, couldn't you?

I feel like I've seen this popularity discussion 100 times before. Maybe 1,000.

You have.