I went to see "Cloverfield" yesterday and thoroughly enjoyed it...there's an ad in front of it, BTW, that some of you may like.
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie but something troubled me. Right up front, of course, is the logo for J.J. Abrams' production company "Bad Robot."
It's basically an animation of a cute little floppy robot running around through some high grass. I don't know why it's running; maybe that scary "I Am Legend" monster from the Mutant Enemy logo is chasing it.
Anyway, that's when I realized that this goofy little robot is going to be chasing butterflies right at the beginning of the "Star Trek" movie!
This violates canon on two fronts.
First, of course, for forty years every Trek production has featured some variation of the Paramount logo**: a majestic mountain vista, wreathed in stars. Breathtaking, and wholey appropriate as an introduction to each segment of a saga dedicated to heroism, exploration, idealism and Blowing Up Spaceship Models.
For forty years! Now we're supposed to just accept this robot and not notice that it was never there before?
Plus, it's a CGI robot - doesn't look a thing like a real goofy robot. Only a bunch of punk kids who have destroyed their vision by shooting up their retinas with ecstasy every day since primary school could accept this obviously phony effect.
Second, there are no robots in "Star Trek." Well, except for human-looking ones like Mudd's Women and Danny Thomas' daughter and Data-the-sex-droid. No sad-eyed cartoon floppy-bunny-bots of the kind clearly more suitable for introducing movies about Manhattan yuppies being savaged by giant sea creatures.
That's it. I'm out. J.J. Abrams can take this travesty and bury it on Altair IV along with the remains of his buddy and crewmate "Doc" Ostrow for all I care.
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** Except for the first few episodes of TOS, which were signed by that Desilu guy that the Ricardos worked for.
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie but something troubled me. Right up front, of course, is the logo for J.J. Abrams' production company "Bad Robot."
It's basically an animation of a cute little floppy robot running around through some high grass. I don't know why it's running; maybe that scary "I Am Legend" monster from the Mutant Enemy logo is chasing it.
Anyway, that's when I realized that this goofy little robot is going to be chasing butterflies right at the beginning of the "Star Trek" movie!
This violates canon on two fronts.
First, of course, for forty years every Trek production has featured some variation of the Paramount logo**: a majestic mountain vista, wreathed in stars. Breathtaking, and wholey appropriate as an introduction to each segment of a saga dedicated to heroism, exploration, idealism and Blowing Up Spaceship Models.
For forty years! Now we're supposed to just accept this robot and not notice that it was never there before?
Plus, it's a CGI robot - doesn't look a thing like a real goofy robot. Only a bunch of punk kids who have destroyed their vision by shooting up their retinas with ecstasy every day since primary school could accept this obviously phony effect.
Second, there are no robots in "Star Trek." Well, except for human-looking ones like Mudd's Women and Danny Thomas' daughter and Data-the-sex-droid. No sad-eyed cartoon floppy-bunny-bots of the kind clearly more suitable for introducing movies about Manhattan yuppies being savaged by giant sea creatures.
That's it. I'm out. J.J. Abrams can take this travesty and bury it on Altair IV along with the remains of his buddy and crewmate "Doc" Ostrow for all I care.
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** Except for the first few episodes of TOS, which were signed by that Desilu guy that the Ricardos worked for.
