New movie Kirk and Spock pic.

[Hector]

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[Hector]

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[huedell]

That's my first glance of THE BRIDGE---you know me---
I don't pass judgement til the end credits---but it iS a bummer
that the bridge doesn't really resemble the original one at all.
It looks too feminine angularly (lotsa curves), too bright and sterile as
opposed to what I was expecting.

[Hector]

This is not about resembling the original show...it's based on the original but with an all modern look to it...to at least mimic realistic existing (or soon to be) technology.

If you have those cardboard cutouts and blinking plastic buttons from the original series, modern audiences are going to be laughing their butts off...the bridge would look ridiculous, lol.

I'm not stuck in nostalgia and the 60s...I'm so glad the filmmakers are taking this route.

I for one...love that Apple Store look of the bridge.

[Hector]

...and whatever you write in response to me previous post, Hue...

I DISAGREE.

[huedell]

...and whatever you write in response to me previous post, Hue...

I DISAGREE.

You totally misjudged me on this one Hector in thinking I have to urge to lash
back challengingly in response to your opinion, which (if anything) resembles
my own more than it doesn't.

Firstly, Trek doesn't mean that much to me in the first place to care about
the bulk of anything in a Trek movie...

Even if it DID...

Secondly, things like "the look of the bridge" mean tremendously little to me
in the scheme of approving of...or liking the new movie...honestly...at the
risk of insulting others here---I think it's absolutely foolish to think otherwise..

Even though I think the bridge looks stupid (even I could
have designed it better) A movie...is but a movie.

I want to enjoy a good movie----and although "good" has many different definitions...one aspect of my opinion can be understood clearly...
And that is:
I do NOT get caught up in the semantics of nostalgia in trying to enjoy MY definition of a good movie. (nor do I get caught up in scene dressing...
special FX...etc.)

Mix it up slice it up dice it up and spit it out for all I care...from Superman
to Star Wars---and back again---

If I like it---I like it---and that's that.

[Hector]

[huedell]

And ta think...if you didn't mention my name---I wouldn't have
even posted that rant

[Hector]

I'm an...

[huedell]

I'm an...

Only if you feel guilty for subjecting the board to another one of
my rants...I'm okay with it..you know

[ctc]

>It seems, to me anyway, far too convient that the regular characters from the original series first met when they were younger.

I was discussing this with a friend recently; but pertaining to Star Wars. The principle is the same though; since the 90's sci-fi universes have been VERY small. Everything interesting happens to a small number of people who keep meeting each other. (For being the arse-end of the galaxy, Tatooine sees a LOT of traffic these days....)

I think the principle applies here too. And it really makes it seem like nobody did anything interesting until the show happened. (Anyone seen "Rozencrants and Guildinsteen are Dead?") OR until their fifteen novel series.

Ultimately it's about more face time for the big sellers.

>If you have those cardboard cutouts and blinking plastic buttons from the original series, modern audiences are going to be laughing their butts off

....which is sad, 'cos modern sci-fi accoutriments are equally silly; but in a more overwrought CGI kind of way. (Try figuring out what all them lines and numbers are on any sci-fi targeting screen.)

Don C.

[Mikey]

If you have those cardboard cutouts and blinking plastic buttons from the original series, modern audiences are going to be laughing their butts off

I don't know one single classic Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon fan who doesn't love the Sam Jones movie.
That movie was done so perfectly ....
It had everything that covered younger viewers who had no idea who Flash was, but also grabbed the classic fans.

Look what happened last year when they tried to change too much and go serious with Flash.
They got a load of crap that NOBODY liked.
It seems like filmakers today just arent as talented as they once were.
It's like everybody got stupid (filmakers and audiences) within the last 20 years.

[jds1911a1]

I think it's gunna stink and be forgotten (thank god) 1 week after it's released.

I agree
these pictures leave me UNIMPRESSED. what the franchise needs is a new hook not a rehashed one. A better thought might have been a different crew/ship in the timeframe of of the existing frnachise - this is what made DS9 work it could interact with the events and characters we knew. woudl it be tougher to have it occur alongside the 5 year mission timeline of TOS sure but if they could do it in Trials and tribilations in ds9 12 years ago on a tv budget there is no reason they couldn't use digital editing to do it today with other classic trek moments (even if they didn't want to pay shat and nimoy royaties there are other actors to use).
Voyager (and ENTERPRISE) didn't work because they pushed away from the rest of the coninuty so it got dull fast with only 1 ship

[Hector]

You haters will be eating crow when this new Trek flick makes well over $200 million...eclipsing the highest grossing Trek...the Voyage Home's paltry $120 domestic box office take.

So much for the old classic Trek crew...couldn't even go beyond $120 million.

[huedell]

You haters will be eating crow when this new Trek flick makes well over $200 million...eclipsing the highest grossing Trek...the Voyage Home's paltry $120 domestic box office take.

So much for the old classic Trek crew...couldn't even go beyond $120 million.

It would be nice if the "new Trek" movie direction generated some
heavy, heavy box office.

STAR WARS has trounced STAR TREK at the box office from the beginning.
(The "Motion Picture" Trek was a bad foot to start on)

All good natured Trek "taunts" aside---I couldn't help but think
that the quotes from Abrams regarding STAR WARS' appeal
and a love for "movies being movies first" (paraphrasing) being a solid
philosophical direction for the new Trek movie series.

Now whether they'll be able to make those big words work sucessfully
or not---that remains to be seen.