Things you'd like to have seen in a movie...

[The Comedian]

Anakin should have caught Obi-Wan in bed with Padme.

THAT would have given us a plausible explanation for his fall to the Dark Side and would have put a whole new spin on Vader/Obi-Wan's meeting in "A New Hope".

 

[Silvercrest]

"When I left you I was but the learner; now I am the master. And again I catch you going after my girl here on the Death Star. What's wrong with you, man?"

 

[Gojira]

I like giant monster movies so I would have loved to have seen much more of the monster in Cloverfield. While I did and do enjoy the movie I don't like re-watching it as much as I do other monster movies due to the low pay-off of not seeing the monster as much as I like.

So I hope they do a sequel and I want more monster next time!

 

[Python Trek]

I would like to have seen just one---ONE---of our "heroes" in AbramsTrek suggest that they do something to undo the countless loss of life caused by the villain. In every other time travel movie that I've ever seen, the heroes actually try to undo damage done by bad guys. I don't think it's asking too much for my heroes to behave heroically.

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

How does that explain heroic characters behaving in a non-heroic fashion?

 

[bullethead]

I would like to have seen just one---ONE---of our "heroes" in AbramsTrek suggest that they do something to undo the countless loss of life caused by the villain. In every other time travel movie that I've ever seen, the heroes actually try to undo damage done by bad guys. I don't think it's asking too much for my heroes to behave heroically.

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

How does that explain heroic characters behaving in a non-heroic fashion?

There's no way to undo the damage without time travel or something because Vulcan turned into a black hole. There's no coming back from that. Besides, Kirk and Spock do team up to stop the Narada from destroying Earth, so they do act heroically.

 

[Tom Hendricks]

I like giant monster movies so I would have loved to have seen much more of the monster in Cloverfield. While I did and do enjoy the movie I don't like re-watching it as much as I do other monster movies due to the low pay-off of not seeing the monster as much as I like.

So I hope they do a sequel and I want more monster next time!

I liked Cloverfield as well, my only wish is that they used multiple peoples recordings to put together the film. Like the government/military edited together every video recording device they found in the area. They could have kept the "main" video recorder as the basis, but used others to expound on it.

 

[Myasishchev]

The Lois Lane single mom thing in Superman Returns was stupid, and the fact that Clark didn't man up and marry her as soon as he found out about the boy is unforgivable.

Firstly, that's kind of an overbroad definition of "unforgiveable."

Secondly, it was a more complicated situation than that.

Right on re: Ra's, though.

Anakin should have caught Obi-Wan in bed with Padme.

THAT would have given us a plausible explanation for his fall to the Dark Side and would have put a whole new spin on Vader/Obi-Wan's meeting in "A New Hope".

Telling OBW that the "student is now the master" while his big red lightsaber grows?

 

[Gojira]

I like giant monster movies so I would have loved to have seen much more of the monster in Cloverfield. While I did and do enjoy the movie I don't like re-watching it as much as I do other monster movies due to the low pay-off of not seeing the monster as much as I like.

So I hope they do a sequel and I want more monster next time!

I liked Cloverfield as well, my only wish is that they used multiple peoples recordings to put together the film. Like the government/military edited together every video recording device they found in the area. They could have kept the "main" video recorder as the basis, but used others to expound on it.

That is a good idea. It would have added great depth to the movie.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

I liked Cloverfield as well, my only wish is that they used multiple peoples recordings to put together the film. Like the government/military edited together every video recording device they found in the area. They could have kept the "main" video recorder as the basis, but used others to expound on it.

I don't know. I really liked how the film presented such a limited perspective and how we were presented with the entire tape as is, including getting glimpses of backstory whenever the recording cut out and we saw the trip to Coney Island that was being taped over. That last line of the film, "I had a good day," is just so freakin' brilliant!

 

[kkozoriz1]

I would like to have seen just one---ONE---of our "heroes" in AbramsTrek suggest that they do something to undo the countless loss of life caused by the villain. In every other time travel movie that I've ever seen, the heroes actually try to undo damage done by bad guys. I don't think it's asking too much for my heroes to behave heroically.

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

Personally, I think ditching time travel in almost all scifi franchises would be a great thing, because it opens up plot holes as to why people don't use it to fix things, even when it's been proven that things will not go to shit if they use time travel.

And yet they base the ENTIRE MOVIE on time travel. It should ahve just been a full on reboot. If you wanted to see it as happening in an alternate universe that TOS never saw, that would work just as well.

 

[Gojira]

I would like to have seen just one---ONE---of our "heroes" in AbramsTrek suggest that they do something to undo the countless loss of life caused by the villain. In every other time travel movie that I've ever seen, the heroes actually try to undo damage done by bad guys. I don't think it's asking too much for my heroes to behave heroically.

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

Personally, I think ditching time travel in almost all scifi franchises would be a great thing, because it opens up plot holes as to why people don't use it to fix things, even when it's been proven that things will not go to shit if they use time travel.

And yet they base the ENTIRE MOVIE on time travel. It should ahve just been a full on reboot. If you wanted to see it as happening in an alternate universe that TOS never saw, that would work just as well.

I have to agree with you there. I really do enjoy the movie yet there is and has been debate about alternate universe or has the time line been erased etc, but I think a full rebboot would have been better.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

The Lois Lane single mom thing in Superman Returns was stupid, and the fact that Clark didn't man up and marry her as soon as he found out about the boy is unforgivable.

Firstly, that's kind of an overbroad definition of "unforgiveable."

Secondly, it was a more complicated situation than that.

Exactly. Richard White might not have been Jason's *biological* father, but that was irrelevant. Superman recognized that Richard is a good man and would look after his family more than Supes himself could. Richard probably knows that Jason isn't his anyway, so it's Richard who's "manning up".

 

[Arpy]

TNG was my favorite series and I never felt we got a real TNG movie. FC was the best of them, but none of them was really cinematic TNG in the all-it-could-be sense.

"All Good Things..." indeed.

 

[Gojira]

The Lois Lane single mom thing in Superman Returns was stupid, and the fact that Clark didn't man up and marry her as soon as he found out about the boy is unforgivable.

Firstly, that's kind of an overbroad definition of "unforgiveable."

Secondly, it was a more complicated situation than that.

Exactly. Richard White might not have been Jason's *biological* father, but that was irrelevant. Superman recognized that Richard is a good man and would look after his family more than Supes himself could. Richard probably knows that Jason isn't his anyway, so it's Richard who's "manning up".

That is an aspect of Superman Returns I always liked (I do like the movie). They could have made Richard out to be a type of bad guy so we could have more empathy for Superman, but by making Richard a likable character it makes the separation between Superman and Lois more realistically painful and emotional and adds depth to the movie.

 

[bullethead]

I would like to have seen just one---ONE---of our "heroes" in AbramsTrek suggest that they do something to undo the countless loss of life caused by the villain. In every other time travel movie that I've ever seen, the heroes actually try to undo damage done by bad guys. I don't think it's asking too much for my heroes to behave heroically.

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

Personally, I think ditching time travel in almost all scifi franchises would be a great thing, because it opens up plot holes as to why people don't use it to fix things, even when it's been proven that things will not go to shit if they use time travel.

And yet they base the ENTIRE MOVIE on time travel. It should ahve just been a full on reboot. If you wanted to see it as happening in an alternate universe that TOS never saw, that would work just as well.

Just imagine all the nerd rage that announcement would've produced. Hell, the entire first half of Plinket's review of ST09 explains why they did what they did.

And while the movie was based on time travel, they decided to do it in a different manner than other Trek time travel stories, with time travel serving as the inciting incident and having the characters deal with the repercussions of that time travel incident, instead of the characters going back in time and doing something, having to correct some sort of thing caused by time travel, deal with a time travel duplicate, etc...

 

[Jetfire]

F.R.I.E.N.D.S the movie! Ross(David Schwimmer) is in charge of a Jurassic Park type Island and Joey(Matt Le Blanc) has superpowers similar to Superman...Rachel(Jennifer Aniston) is half naked on the beach through out the movie...Chandler(Matthew Perry) gets eaten by a dinosaur and Monica(Courtney Cox) is well Monica...Phoebe is filming a porno with Her twin(Ursula) during this movie.

 

[The Comedian]

F.R.I.E.N.D.S the movie! Ross(David Schwimmer) is in charge of a Jurassic Park type Island and Joey(Matt Le Blanc) has superpowers similar to Superman...Rachel(Jennifer Aniston) is half naked on the beach through out the movie...Chandler(Matthew Perry) gets eaten by a dinosaur and Monica(Courtney Cox) is well Monica...Phoebe is filming a porno with Her twin(Ursula) during this movie.

I'd watch that.

 

[paudemge]

Well, they could have had a line like,Kirk: "oldSpock just go back in time and save Vulcan" oldSpock: "I could do that but it would just create another time line, we already have a time line where he didn't destroy Vulcan, my original one"

The thing is with AbramsTrek, they were trying to avoid the reset button, which plagued the last Trek shows. Then there's the fact that being able to travel back in time and fix things pretty much makes the events of the story utterly pointless.

How does that explain heroic characters behaving in a non-heroic fashion?

There's no way to undo the damage without time travel or something because Vulcan turned into a black hole. There's no coming back from that. Besides, Kirk and Spock do team up to stop the Narada from destroying Earth, so they do act heroically.

 

[kkozoriz1]

No more time travel they said. Well, except for this bit. Oh, and this one over here but THAT'S IT!

 

[JonnyQuest037]

Well really, we only have ourselves to blame for the way they chose to revamp Star Trek. If Trek fans weren't so anal-retentive about continuity, they could have just done a hard reboot. The "alternate timeline" thing was just a sop to all of us old time fans, as a way of saying "The old Trek you loved is still out there. We're not rewritting everything."