Re: Star Trek beams up $72.5 million in 1st weekend

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I'm not planning on seeing it either, though maybe on DVD. From all that I have seen it looks like the typical "let's overload their sense with loud noise and more action on the screen at one time than ever occurs in reality so they don't notice a shoddy script, bad character development and poor plot." I've read reviews that say the first few minutes of this movie had more action and intensity than all of the Star Wars movies had in their whole length, assuming they mean individual movies and not the whole series.

Since the creator and his wife are gone, the series is probably going to go straight down the tubes to the lowest common denominator as the new owners chase profits over content.

In a message dated 5/10/2009 1:25:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, no_reply writes:

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[Guest guest]

" Since the creator and his wife are gone, the series is probably going to go

straight down the tubes to the lowest common denominator as the new owners chase

profits over content. "

I didn't hear whether or not they were going to do a series. TNG still had

Roddenberry's influence, so that turned out well.

" Enterprise " did not have any of his influence, and I think that was one of the

reasons it was such a flop. That and the fact that the " first " enterprise was

more advanced than Kirk's ship. And even though that was explained at one point,

I still think the whole series was cheapened by not having the first Enterprise

being the most primative and bare bones space ship of them all.

As for this movie, I don't like when they have actors playing the part of other

actors because you have to suspend belief throughout the entire movie. I think

I'd be thinking " He doesn't look like Kirk. " " Spock wouldn't have said that. "

" y's accent is wrong. " Etc.

Maybe kids who have never seen the original series might get into this movie,

but I doubt I can. There are certain movies where the previews turn me off. This

was one of them, and to date, I have never liked a movie where the preview

turned me off.

Administrator

[Guest guest]

wrote: " ... <snip> ... Maybe kids who have never seen the original

series might get into this movie, but I doubt I can ... <snip> ... "

Uh, , you are assuming quite a bit there.

Cub has seen -- and continues to watch -- the original Star Trek series along

with the many franchises. He despises the series with Bakula because of

all the errors and leaps in logic in an attempt to make it somehow gel with the

original series while being true to some of the somewhat related other series.

He attended the latest Star Trek movie on Friday afternoon and stated that while

there were minor things that had excellent and logical explanations (ie. Spock's

youthfulness at a time when he allegedly -- according to the old series -- would

have been an adult already) that allow the viewer to suspend disbelief without

effort.

He also said that y arrives very late in the movie and the accent is

correct.

So when all is said and done, the movie stands up well beside the original

series while straddling the better received Star Trek franchises that came

afterwards.

Raven

[Guest guest]

Hi;

somewhat belated reply; was thinking about if I was going to the new Start Treck

Movie or not,

decided not to see it , it follows a different 'time line,' Personally, I prefer

following ONE thread in whatever Sci Fi series i am readng or watching etc.

I 'grew up' with The Original Series and prefer novels etc that are consistent

with it's characterization, world view etc.

This does not meant that I would not read some novels dealing with diferent

realisties, universes etc, just that Stat Treck has a certain 'meaning' to me.

renaisanzelady

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> " Since the creator and his wife are gone, the series is probably going to go

straight down the tubes to the lowest common denominator as the new owners chase

profits over content. "

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> I didn't hear whether or not they were going to do a series. TNG still had

Roddenberry's influence, so that turned out well.

>

> " Enterprise " did not have any of his influence, and I think that was one of

the reasons it was such a flop. That and the fact that the " first " enterprise

was more advanced than Kirk's ship. And even though that was explained at one

point, I still think the whole series was cheapened by not having the first

Enterprise being the most primative and bare bones space ship of them all.

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> As for this movie, I don't like when they have actors playing the part of

other actors because you have to suspend belief throughout the entire movie. I

think I'd be thinking " He doesn't look like Kirk. " " Spock wouldn't have said

that. " " y's accent is wrong. " Etc.

>

> Maybe kids who have never seen the original series might get into this movie,

but I doubt I can. There are certain movies where the previews turn me off. This

was one of them, and to date, I have never liked a movie where the preview

turned me off.

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> Administrator

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