Did You Like the Trailer?

I'm pretty sure heroic, scary and exciting fall in the category of "fun".

 

I love both of the nuTrek films. I recognize their flaws, but I also think they're entertaining entries that deliver what the franchise needed at that specific moment.


What I don't like, however, is this trailer. I've been really hoping that STB will expand the horizons of what nuTrek can be about on the silver screen. With the release of plot info...high hopes.


I was hoping to see more space and fewer motorcycles. More Beethoven and less Beastie Boys.

 

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It's one trailer and a teaser at that. People need to stop acting like there won't be another one or trailers actually reflect every aspect of the film. There was a trailer for TMP that basically strung together every action shot in the film and gave the impression it would be filled with explosions and weapons fire. Another was a just the a cast list. Neither one gave us an idea what the film was really about.

 

In Requiem For Methuselah, we did get a little (supposed) Brahms.

Each would nicely fall within their own categories, and they can of course be combined. Something like The Trouble with Tribbles would be "fun."

If the events of a episode leave you feeling sad, how would that be considered "fun?"

 

I don't think anyone is saying every episode was 100% fun (or 100% anything). Even down episodes like "City On the Edge of Forever" had fun moments.

 

If you take the first letters there you get PIHSEAF which is an anagram of SAFE HIP. Also APE FISH.

Take that as you will...

 

Janos Prohaska probably had a great Ape Fish costume.

 

SAFE HIPs save ships.

 

I was speaking figuratively with the musical contrast. As in, I'm hoping to see a little more depth with this film, even though I enjoyed the previous two nuTrek entries.

Your point still stands, however, with the trailer.

I was basically hoping to see the opposite of what I saw. No bigee. I'll keep the faith and be there opening day.

 

If the upcoming movie has strong emotional moments, I can imagine the haters accusing it of being a "tear-jerker".

 

And then there's Mick Fleetwood's costume.

 

Jazz is more appropriate to TOS than classical orchestral music, a genre feature apparently fixed in cement where big sf movies are concerned by John Williams's scores of the 1970s.

 

Personally, I think retro cocktail lounge/exotica music would fit perfectly with TOS.

Also, I finally saw the trailer in the theater, and I thought it was quite enjoyable on the big screen.

Kor

 

This is how I feel.

The problem with the first two films were they had a guy who wasn't a Trek fan directing and two/three shitty writers.

Beyond has a classic TOS fan directing as well as a talented writer who is also a classic Trek fan.

I think Paramount put together this trailer to appeal to all audiences with a lot of action, but it is not a good representation of the film as a whole. Pegg said something very similar to this, and I trust him enough to believe it.

This will have action, obviously, no problem with that, but I also think it will have more focus on the characters, relationships, and some philosophical elements that were all largely absent from the J. J. films.

I'm still excited. Don't let me down, Lin/Pegg!

 

If the writers and directors can put together a good story, then it doesn't make one bit of difference whether they are fans or not.

Nicholas Meyer was not a fan of TOS when he directed STII:TWOK, but it has long been one of the most highly-regarded Trek movies.

Kor

 

Yeah. Since when did you have to be a fan to direct something?

A good director can direct a movie even if he didn't grow up buying all the toys. This line of thinking is just like "well, I'm a tru-fan and only I know what Star Trek is and Star Trek died in 1969/1979/1987/1994/1999/2000/2005".

 

I would even argue that the dispassionate perspective of a non-fan in a leading creative position is needed to objectively create a compelling, high-quality work that strongly stands on its own merits.

Kor