Just in case... I was just kidding.
The First Trailer
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Just in case... I was just kidding.
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Oh God, does this movie look stupid, that annoying Beastie Boys song was just the icing in this shit cake! I expect this entry to underperform but hopefully Paramount will then take the franchise away from Abrams and his entourage. At this point, I'd rather have no Star Trek than junk like what was shown on the trailer.
Let me just add too: this trailer is going to be shown before the Star Wars movie which tens of millions of people are going to see. This trailer is designed to grab the attention of as many non-Star Trek fans as possible in order to sell the movie. It's just good marketing to try to appeal to as broad a base of viewers as possible. There will probably be another trailer later that is geared more towards the Trek fan but right now the goal is to get the word out to as many people as possible. Don't you nay-sayers want Trek to succeed?
I hoped that the best we could get out of the new trailer was the exploration, new civilizations, and new planets from the first 10 minutes of STID magnified into a movie, and I'm amazed that they managed to cram all of that into 1:25. Very impressive indeed. Whereas the Star Wars Awakens trailers left me feeling they were trying to milk the nostalgia of the non-prequels, this trailer left me thinking they were doing something familiar but bold ond new on a different scale.
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What's the source for that?
And you're basing this on the trailer?
Wow. You're quite the Sage of Hollywood. I'm sure you're making tons of money knowing what will and won't work based on 1/100th of the film.
A classic false binary - what's the assumption here, that the "Trek fan" likes thoughtful drama, and the "mainstream viewer" is a dumb-dumb who likes explosions? That's just not true. Gravity and Interstellar and The Martian were geared to regular audiences, but those movies (and their trailers, more to the point) did not insult the intelligence of the viewer by assuming that all mainstream viewers want is action fun.
I am not asking for a trailer (or movie) geared to "Trek fans." I am asking for one geared to mature and thoughtful adults. There is no reason for a production company to assume that the "broad base of viewers" are action-lovers with the attention span of a goldfish.
I wouldn't say she was toothless in Nemesis. She gave a pretty good fight in that one. But in the last three she's been almost useless.
Someone could come up here with a guess about the movie storyline that turns out to be totally accurate - and noone would notice. Because people spam this forum with senseless debates. For years and counting...
I agree completely. It isn't a 50 year-old tv show, or even a 30 year-old movie. It's a movie aimed at a 2016 audience. Now, the question is, why is it assumed, by the marketers, that an average, broad swath of the 2016 audience desires action above all else? There have been plenty of great, successful, well-received science fiction films in the last few years that had very little action.
That's THE reason why I only really visit the TrekLit section. I watch the shows and movies and love what I love. The endless debate on what show is better, why some movies suck, what captain Hindsight would have done that would have made series suchandsuch way better, and the endless debates based on one trailer alone..... Nope, I'm done with that.
I liked what I saw, and think it will be a fun movie. Others will think different, and that's cool. But I'm not getting into discussions on forums anymore. Been there, done that.
Today, perhaps.
BTW, this is not a TV show. Go look at the relative success - and DVD sales, etc - of the eight TOS-based films versus the four TNG outings and get back to us.
The bean counters and their empirical evidence from the immensely successful Marvel platform.
Today, perhaps.
BTW, this is not a TV show. Go look at the relative success - and DVD sales, etc - of the eight TOS-based films versus the four TNG outings and get back to us.
I'm all ears. Where do I find such numbers?
Today, perhaps.
BTW, this is not a TV show. Go look at the relative success - and DVD sales, etc - of the eight TOS-based films versus the four TNG outings and get back to us.
I'm all ears. Where do I find such numbers?
Google 'Box Office Mojo', the box office numbers are there.
And how does a trailer that is fast paced with a lot of action in it, "insult the audience"? It does not.
And how do you know that Star Trek Beyond won't be a mature and thoughtful movie for adults?
Today, perhaps.
BTW, this is not a TV show. Go look at the relative success - and DVD sales, etc - of the eight TOS-based films versus the four TNG outings and get back to us.
I'm all ears. Where do I find such numbers?
Google 'Box Office Mojo', the box office numbers are there.
DVD sales... numbers
Thanks for sharing my sentiments. Finally I know I'm not alone here.
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