Just Say No To JJ Abrams

[SGCSG1]

It's official: Star Trek fans are actually nuttier than the 'I was abducted by aliens' people.

 

[RoJoHen]

I'm fine if you don't want to see the movie because you don't think you'll like it, but that does not mean that the movie is actually bad. This is true of all movies, not just Trek.

Heh. Well, like I explained in another thread, everything that I've seen of this movie so far seems to indicate a very Sci-Fi channel-like grade C production with a huge-ass budget and a bizzare and fanatical hype machine behind it. I, personally, as a movie fan, haven't actually seen any element that I've LIKED about it. I've gone from 'meh' to wincing at parts. More on the wincing.

That's cool. You're perfectly entitled to that.

There have been plenty of movies that I haven't seen because they "looked" bad (does not mean they ARE bad, but I'm not going to give them a chance to prove themselves). I just wish more people would learn to differentiate "This sucks" from "This looks like it sucks."

 

[ManOnTheWave]

Just say [FONT/SIZE//ROMAN/[[gobbledegook{crap

 

[Orac Zen]

I just wish more people would learn to differentiate "This sucks" from "This looks like it sucks."

That would be nice, wouldn't it? Unfortunately, I can't see it happening any time soon.

As for the OP...err, no.

 

[Roshi]

Oh my God, Nancy Reagan is still alive???

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Sorry, tldenson - been a fan since 1966, and I can't wait for this movie.

 

[EnsignRicky]

I say no to Times New Roman.

 

[Lord Lunacy]

[FONT=Times New Roman]I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was a boy. Growing up, we moved around a lot and sometimes there was no heat or water in the house. My parents rarely got along. However, on Saturday at 6 p.m. no matter how bad the family strife, everything stopped when Star Trek: The Next Generation came on. It was one of the few things that brought my dysfunctional family together, even if it was for only an hour a week. The main things that I took away from Star Trek were one, that the future could always be better and second, that all people can come together for the betterment of humanity. As a teacher that is part of the message that I tell my students. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]It is also the message that many fans took away from Star Trek. Fans that for 40 years have made 4 TV Series and 10 movies financially successful. Fans that wrote letters, spent millions of dollars on merchandise, and kept it alive by creating shows in their garages and basements. Fans young and old, from across the world have been inspired by Star Trek. Fans that have bought into an established cannon, even as ridiculous as it sounds, makes the show more real for them and reinforces the original message of Star Trek.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The people that have been involved in creating Star Trek over the years have love and affection for the show. Not all the series have been great, not all the actors have been good, and some of the stories were just bad. Star Trek has deserved the ridicule receives. There is not argument that Star Trek needs fresh blood. However, that does not mean that you take 40 years of tradition and cannon accepted by Trek fans and through it out. What if you did that with Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter, or The Lord of the Rings? Studios seem to think that if you get some sexy actors and blow something up, you have a great movie. Paramount doesn’t understand that if you mess up something that is literally an American Icon, people will be turned off by it and take their money with them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The trailer and screen shots show this movie disrespects the cannon that is created and cherished by fans. This movie like those TV series that have been made into movies like The Brady Bunch, The Beverly Hill Billy’s, Bewitched, Starsky and Hutch, and the Dukes of Hazzard. Those movies mocked the original series and that is what this new Trek is doing. It does not matter which actor you bring out of moth balls to say how great it is, anyone will say anything if they get paid enough.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Star Trek is about going forward and faltered when it began the Lucas style prequels. Take Star Trek forward. Go after the Next Generation Era. Make made for TV movies that tell us what happened to our Trek Characters. Take some of these fan based movies and remake them into televised movies. It is a strategy that worked for Star Gate and Babylon 5. Let’s do this for Star Trek. This is what the die hard fans have wanted, Paramount and CBS should do this. In doing so bring in new talent but bring in the people, actors and writers, who understand it and let it go forward. If you show it one the right networks and make it really good, Star Trek at its best, you will bring in new fans. I was 7 when TNG premiered, I just turned 29. I was born in 1979, thirteen years after Star Trek TOS. If I could become a new fan, anyone can.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]I am calling on all fans of Star Trek to boycott the new Trek movie and begin a letter writing campaign as never before to get Trek back on track. If not, just let it die.[/FONT]
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Here we go again... OP=Epic Fail. Watch the movie before you judge it; you just might enjoy it.

 

[Devon]

Something I made last week. Credit to whomever came up with the slogan a while back. Okay, so the Enterprise isn't perfect. I did my best

 

[Balthier the Great]

Something I made last week. Credit to whomever came up with the slogan a while back. Okay, so the Enterprise isn't perfect. I did my best

I like, I like.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Something I made last week. Credit to whomever came up with the slogan a while back. Okay, so the Enterprise isn't perfect. I did my best

Very cute.

 

[Lumen]

Nice!

 

[T'Aerwynd]

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There is not argument that Star Trek needs fresh blood. However, that does not mean that you take 40 years of tradition and cannon accepted by Trek fans and through it out.

If I had no water or heat in my house, the OP could be sure I wouldn't have cable television on which to watch Star Trek. But ... the quote I picked out is what baffles me about some of the canon people. I don't get it ... many of them admit, as the OP did, that Trek needs fresh blood ... but when someone comes along and tries to do just that, people freak. I've seen more dramatic threads that sound like "J.J. raped my childhood! I'm taking my toys and going home!" than any intelligent discussion about the movie. If you don't want to watch it, don't watch it. I don't care. But Lord, I wish the nonsensical threads would just stop.

 

[Koinek]

Actually, I'm going to say no to blind dogmatic attachments to insignificant bits of vintage TV shows.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Actually, I'm going to say no to blind dogmatic attachments to insignificant bits of vintage TV shows.

Don't go dissin' "My Mother The Car!"

 

[Koinek]

^I think I missed the reference.

 

[Arlo]

Someone has font issues (at the very least).

 

[Pendragon]

I'm just saying no to whiney fanboys that would rather piss and moan about something that hasn't been released yet than to support a move towards having Trek come back at all.

 

[Vance]

Actually, I'm going to say no to blind dogmatic attachments to insignificant bits of vintage TV shows.

Then, here's the question.. what's the point of the movie in the first place? I mean, isn't the whole selling point the dogmatic attachment to the vintage TV show?

Just sayin'...

 

[M'Sharak]

[FONT=Times New Roman]I’ve been a Star Trek fan since I was a boy. Growing up, we moved around a lot and sometimes there was no heat or water in the house. My parents rarely got along. However, on Saturday at 6 p.m. no matter how bad the family strife, everything stopped when Star Trek: The Next Generation came on. It was one of the few things that brought my dysfunctional family together, even if it was for only an hour a week. The main things that I took away from Star Trek were one, that the future could always be better and second, that all people can come together for the betterment of humanity. As a teacher that is part of the message that I tell my students. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]It is also the message that many fans took away from Star Trek. Fans that for 40 years have made 4 TV Series and 10 movies financially successful. Fans that wrote letters, spent millions of dollars on merchandise, and kept it alive by creating shows in their garages and basements. Fans young and old, from across the world have been inspired by Star Trek. Fans that have bought into an established cannon, even as ridiculous as it sounds, makes the show more real for them and reinforces the original message of Star Trek.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The people that have been involved in creating Star Trek over the years have love and affection for the show. Not all the series have been great, not all the actors have been good, and some of the stories were just bad. Star Trek has deserved the ridicule receives. There is not argument that Star Trek needs fresh blood. However, that does not mean that you take 40 years of tradition and cannon accepted by Trek fans and through it out. What if you did that with Star Wars, The Matrix, Harry Potter, or The Lord of the Rings? Studios seem to think that if you get some sexy actors and blow something up, you have a great movie. Paramount doesn’t understand that if you mess up something that is literally an American Icon, people will be turned off by it and take their money with them.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]The trailer and screen shots show this movie disrespects the cannon that is created and cherished by fans. This movie like those TV series that have been made into movies like The Brady Bunch, The Beverly Hill Billy’s, Bewitched, Starsky and Hutch, and the Dukes of Hazzard. Those movies mocked the original series and that is what this new Trek is doing. It does not matter which actor you bring out of moth balls to say how great it is, anyone will say anything if they get paid enough.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Star Trek is about going forward and faltered when it began the Lucas style prequels. Take Star Trek forward. Go after the Next Generation Era. Make made for TV movies that tell us what happened to our Trek Characters. Take some of these fan based movies and remake them into televised movies. It is a strategy that worked for Star Gate and Babylon 5. Let’s do this for Star Trek. This is what the die hard fans have wanted, Paramount and CBS should do this. In doing so bring in new talent but bring in the people, actors and writers, who understand it and let it go forward. If you show it one the right networks and make it really good, Star Trek at its best, you will bring in new fans. I was 7 when TNG premiered, I just turned 29. I was born in 1979, thirteen years after Star Trek TOS. If I could become a new fan, anyone can.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]I am calling on all fans of Star Trek to boycott the new Trek movie and begin a letter writing campaign as never before to get Trek back on track. If not, just let it die.[/FONT]
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Closing.