Official Trailer Review & Comments Thread!! [Spoilers, of course]
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I'm heading to the midnight showing tonight, I'm so excited it isn't funny. I hope there's no line...
I'm heading to the midnight showing tonight, I'm so excited it isn't funny. I hope there's no line...
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If we don't hear from you we'll assume you didn't get a Trek trailer and self destructed.
If we don't hear from you we'll assume you didn't get a Trek trailer and self destructed.
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But seriously, if there isn't one, someone should have an ambulance on call. If not for me, then for those who I would thrash that sat next to me.
But seriously, if there isn't one, someone should have an ambulance on call. If not for me, then for those who I would thrash that sat next to me.
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Thanks,
M'
I'm pinning the thread now. Everyone please keep your trailer comments confined to this thread and this thread only, both for the sake of keeping it all in one place and for the sake of keeping the spoilers all in one place.
Thanks,
M'
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It's a short trailer, and I'm not sure what I can add right now to the descriptions you've already read. After the first few scenes establishing Kirk and Spock as characters with voiceovers talking about them (the one for Kirk I suspect is Christopher Pike) the cutting is very fast.
The precipice Kirk drives the car off of is pretty clearly a quarry - you can see the rectangular cutting marks on the rock faces and floor. In fact, there are shots when it looks like the huge "basement" of a missing building. The cop has a robotic face.
Bones's line, I believe, is something like "Space is disease and darkness and danger and silence." He doesn't sound like he's just complaining for the hell of it.
When the trailer comes online and people start frame-grabbing it I expect we'll get a lot of information about various parts of the ship - bridge, corridors - but it all goes by real fast. The interior of the ship seems to be very white ala "2001." The corridors are curved in cross-section, with flat ceiling and floor.
Nothing about this, though, looks like any previous "Star Trek" movie. There's quite a sweep to it. If the trailer is any indication, it would have been really strange to have this called "Star Trek 11" followed by a subtitle as if to indicate continuity with the previous ten films. This is just something real, real different.
The space effects - in very fast-moving montage, mind you - come across as dynamic and unlike anything in previous Trek movies.
And the scene where the Enterprise is up on scaffolding, under construction, and another very brief shot of it coming out of the light right into the camera - hang the details. It's the Enterprise. And it's huge.
It's a short trailer, and I'm not sure what I can add right now to the descriptions you've already read. After the first few scenes establishing Kirk and Spock as characters with voiceovers talking about them (the one for Kirk I suspect is Christopher Pike) the cutting is very fast.
The precipice Kirk drives the car off of is pretty clearly a quarry - you can see the rectangular cutting marks on the rock faces and floor. In fact, there are shots when it looks like the huge "basement" of a missing building. The cop has a robotic face.
Bones's line, I believe, is something like "Space is disease and darkness and danger and silence." He doesn't sound like he's just complaining for the hell of it.
When the trailer comes online and people start frame-grabbing it I expect we'll get a lot of information about various parts of the ship - bridge, corridors - but it all goes by real fast. The interior of the ship seems to be very white ala "2001." The corridors are curved in cross-section, with flat ceiling and floor.
Nothing about this, though, looks like any previous "Star Trek" movie. There's quite a sweep to it. If the trailer is any indication, it would have been really strange to have this called "Star Trek 11" followed by a subtitle as if to indicate continuity with the previous ten films. This is just something real, real different.
The space effects - in very fast-moving montage, mind you - come across as dynamic and unlike anything in previous Trek movies.
And the scene where the Enterprise is up on scaffolding, under construction, and another very brief shot of it coming out of the light right into the camera - hang the details. It's the Enterprise. And it's huge.
Yeah, the trailer generated a lot of noise and excitement in the theater where I saw it - which was only about half filled, BTW. The only other reactions of note were some laughs for the Disney/Adam Sandler movie. Even the "Watchmen" trailer was greeted with silence.
And THAT my friend, I'm betting, is EXACTLY the reaction they meant to get for this.
They didn't FUCKING show it at my showing!! 
I was completely caught off guard by the trailer. I went to see it, but didn't realize what I was watching until the kid told the cop his name was "James TIBERIUS Kirk", so I was one of the people going, "Huh?!"
It's a breathless trailer, with a fast-paced editing style that made it hard to follow the action. I'm now sold on Quinto as Spock, he delivered one line, warning Kirk not to oppose him or something, and it was perfectly in character.
Some observations about the 23rd Century ala Abrams:
It's a breathless trailer, with a fast-paced editing style that made it hard to follow the action. I'm now sold on Quinto as Spock, he delivered one line, warning Kirk not to oppose him or something, and it was perfectly in character.
Some observations about the 23rd Century ala Abrams:
- Four-wheeled vehicles are still around, as is the gas to power them.
- At least some of the cops are robots or cyborgs. (I thought I was watching a remake of "THX-1138" before boy-Kirk told us his name).
- Robot cops ride hovering motorcycles.
- There are huge stretches of underground ruins in the desert. Like 22nd Century cliff dwellings. Don't drive your car fast in such deserts, since there are no guardrails and you might lose it.
- The corridors of the Enterprise are brightly lit. The corridors we saw in that 1701 website several months ago are from a different ship.
- The original red alert klaxon is still used.
- The music did not sound at all like Star Trek, but it did sound exciting.
- I think I saw the aft end of the Kelvin
- Constitution-class starships are ... alas ... built on the ground.
- The Enterprise looks better in the trailer than it does in that photo we've been over-analyzing.
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Really, was there even the slightest doubt this would be the case since the ST:XI teaser was released?
*sigh*
TGT, resigned
I held out hope.
I do note, in another thread, the existence of those three circular ports on the leading edge of the Kelvin's saucer section. I didn't see them in the trailer, but they're visible at the Intel promotional site and they really made me smile. Little touches like that are always appreciated.
I do note, in another thread, the existence of those three circular ports on the leading edge of the Kelvin's saucer section. I didn't see them in the trailer, but they're visible at the Intel promotional site and they really made me smile. Little touches like that are always appreciated.
Relax. A "the-Enterprise-is-built-on-the-ground" can't sneak into your house and rape you.
GodThingFormerly
A Different Kind of Asshole
Like that is supposed to cheer me up?
TGT
Well....if that's your thing, I suppose I could arrange for Ryan Church to sneak into your house and rape you.
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