Star Trek (2009) full trailer released
Kirk and Spock over the Enterprise
First off, if you haven’t yet, go see the trailer. This one is worth the HD download. It’s pretty.
Okay, back already? Good.
Looks pretty good, don’t it?
I’m not going to obsess over the details here. I’ll do that at other blogs. Just wanted to put my quick two cents in: I can already tell from the trailer… I’m gonna like this movie.
Apparently, I’m an easy sell, though. I also like Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.
There will be fan-boys freaking out about this one. I think that’s inevitable. (”They’re building the ship on the planet?! Oh No! This movie will suck!”) But there’s no pleasing those people. I really do enjoy Star Trek, but if an inconsistency or two show up… oh well. It’s a movie/franchise. Continuity wasn’t even invented until Star Trek went off the air originally. I think it’ll be great.
Despite having said that, there is one thing that I’m going to bring up as a potential continuity issue, but only because Abrams brought it up himself (or someone did in the interview I read somewhere): the Federation knows of, but has never met a Romulan face-to-face before the time period of the original series. I’m not sure how Abrams is going to deal with this then…
Romulan looking down at Kirk during fight
Sure looks to me like Kirk and a Romulan in a fight.
Guess what. If they don’t explain it, I’ll be okay. A little disappointed, since they brought it up, but it won’t prevent me from liking the movie.
(Hmm… I haven’t even finished the 2008 movie list, yet, and it looks like I’ll need to start making my 2009 list.)
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November 18th, 2008 at 2:02 am
I’m not offended by either Nemesis or Insurrection, Insurrection is basically a long episode with one or two cringe worthy lines (Troi discussing her breasts being one and a lot of singing being the other) but overall it is entertaining enough until Riker goes all Microsoft Sidewinder on us which again is probably a scene that sounds really cool on paper.
Nemesis really cops it though, I don’t think it was that bad, sure there are qualities that let it down such as a poor villain and what didn’t really feel like much of a threat but Data’s death was handled really well and it was nice knowing that the characters were moving on to other things.
I’m sick of fan-boy self loathing, they were moaning about this film when the very first teaser poster came out. I hope this film does really well and brings on a new group of fans who just want to enjoy Trek and not nit pick it to death. (says I who had to break his analysis of the trailer into multiple parts LOL)
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Jeff says:
November 18th, 2008 at 10:17 am
heh… I had to try really hard to not deconstruct the trailer like you’re doing. It being really late when I started helped.
Yeah, that joystick actually gave me physical pain. I’ll grant you that one. What the heck were they thinking? I don’t even see how that sounded cool on paper… I liked the rest of the film though.
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November 18th, 2008 at 5:56 am
I’ve never been the biggest star trek – I’ve seen it now and again, but haven’t really got too involved in it. I might watch this though, as it looks quite promising. I’m sure I won’t get all the subtle references and things, but thats ok
lol!
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Jeff says:
November 18th, 2008 at 10:20 am
Heh… yeah, Dan I think us Star Trek geeks will let you watch it anyway. If you’re lucky we might let you enjoy it.
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November 18th, 2008 at 8:16 am
I’ve still to see the last trek film but going on everything I’ve seen on the new one it’s lost the look and feel of the older movies. I’m not sure thats a good thing but if James Bond can do it I’ve no doubt Trek can as well.
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Jeff says:
November 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Yeah, this is really a reboot, not a continuation or even a “prequel” so much. The Bond comparison is really a good one.
Star Trek has always been a mix of cerebral with action. The Kirk era (TOS) was heavier on the action while the Picard era (TNG) was generally heavier on the cerebral. It appears that they’re kicking up the action even farther on this. Hopefully it’s not at the expense of the cerebral.
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November 18th, 2008 at 10:56 am
My son dresses in character to attend those things. He may be a tad obsessed.
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Jeff says:
November 18th, 2008 at 11:17 am
Yeah. A bit. He’s the guy that scares me at these things.
The only time I accept costumes are at conventions, and if you sit outside the theater overnight to get tickets. I’ve done that once in my life, for Star Wars Episode 1, and you just gotta expect the costumes there.
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November 18th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Ooooo…pretty!
I’ve never been that much of a Trek fan, but I’ll definitely go and see this.
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Jeff says:
November 18th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Jon! YOU? You wound me… not much of a Trek fan? I’ve always assumed you were into it for some reason… hmm… well, maybe this’ll pull you in to the fold.
Sooner or later, Star Trek will get you.
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