*STAR TREK (2009) TRAILER OUT NOW*

[charlie and algernon]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7b_0WAbBVs

Looks awsome, can't wait to see it!

[CBGLuthier]

1. legit version is up too

http://www.startrekmovie.com/

Unfortunately everyone on the internet is trying to view it so good luck. :-)

[DS1]

2. I can't believe they're waiting till May to release

I'm not a fanboy Trekker by any means, but that's just mean to the people who are. Clearly it's just about done.

Guess they have to get all the toy enterprises built

[Deja Q]

13. Was due to be out this year; who lost confidence and moved it forward?

Not to mention, who is the target audience; people who hated Kirk and/or William Shatner? (No wonder he's not making a cameo; the trailer adding something to make an inference with...)

A fan of Kirk's era myself, Kirk usually broke the prime directive to help other societies and not to be a pompous donkey rump.

Okay, yes, he bonked or it was insinuated but that's not important right now.

The trailer starts with a boy who has driven a convertible over a cliff (:wtf:) -- he later drives by the Enterprise being built.

Once again: :wtf:

23rd century and they drive convertibles and here's Kirk being a rebellious twerp by plunging one over...

One heck of a reboot.

Is the new Kirk based on the original Kirk, or a loose inference of a certain actor who played Kirk at one time?

[MrScorpio]

3. Can anyone explain why we have to wait six months to see this movie?

The wait ain't over yet

[LeftyMom]

5. I think they thought they'd have better box office as a summer blockbuster v. Christmastime

:shrug:

[Lorien]

6. That's probably it, unless there's been script problems

speaking as someone who has worked in film, there's usually only two reasons for long delays like this: A). Marketing strategies; the coveted 16-35 yo male demographic spends more on movies over the summer, so that would be the ideal release date, or B). The completed film had shaky scores with test audiences, sending it back into script rewrites and production. This happens more often than many people think!

[XemaSab]

14. They did the same thing with Harry Potter 6

:banghead:

[arcadian]

4. OMG!!! HOLY FUCK! HOLY FUCK!

:P

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

7. I think it looks like shit.

I hope I'm not the only one.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

12. Nope. Looks like you are.

[Deja Q]

15. Nope. I saw the trailer in the theater and I don't know where to end in wondering what it's about,

and for whom is the target audience.

Not to mention, just showing Kirk like that means it's either a reboot of the Kirk era in a new vision or the writers don't know jack **** about Kirk's motives and instead are using some news articles involving William Shatner and his known ego in lieu of Kirk.

The original series has Kirk violating the chain of command when it helped civilizations, or even to get Spock back. Talk about crimes against humanity (not!). That trailer is the typical cynical lame-buttocks-for-brains approach to modern film making. Trek is supposed to be optimistic, amongst other things. Not self-aggrandizing recklessness, though I won't deny Kirk had a lot of jiggy and they already explored the result of one of his sexual escapades by giving him a son in "Star Trek II" (1982) and that was well handled.

And I hope my interpretation of that trailer is wrong, in which case I'll retract my unspoken expletive, but even I am seeing something of a pattern in modern day media and I don't like it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

16. I'm reminded of Armageddeon.

For some reason modern blockbuster writers feel the complusion to put their hero in a fancy sports car and have him tear ass through the desert. Nevermind that it's a movie about spaceships.

I think they tried the same thing with Picard driving an SUV through the desert in one of the recent movies. I don' t know, I've stopped watching them.

"Trek is supposed to be optimistic"

I keep hearing that, but I don't know where it comes from. Star Trek was always a cheap rip-off of Forbidden Planet. A flying saucer and it's earthman crew lands on a new planet, experiences some problem, maybe an interesting sci-fi concept, usually a sci-fi cliche, then flies off to a new planet next week.

[tigereye]

18. there are worse things than ripping off Forbidden Planet...

which is a rip-off of The Tempest, which is a rip-off of ___________



:shrug:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

20. Oh it's a great concept for a TV series.

New planet every week. Works great.

But I think this two hours of teenagers fist fighting in space might be missing the point.

[tigereye]

25. kid sez, "How many explosions does it have?"

:rofl:


It did kind of have that look, eh? That was the problem with Enterprise, after a while.

[krispos42]

8. The first few notes of the main theme...

...still gives me goosebumps!






/geek I am

[LeftyMom]

9. The first trailer gets me all goosebumpy with the theme and Nimoy doing "space, the final frontier"

I get all verklempt.

[krispos42]

10. I had to look that one up1

:D


"verklempt" says it quite well.

[Stuart G]

11. I am not sure I can care.....Because....

I got hooked on "Enterprise" and I recall that Paramount did not treat the actors or producers well. They made a real effort on that and them like dirt. IT was an awful way to end that series...Bad taste in my mouth..Doesn't mean much anymore..sorry..

[tigereye]

17. interesting - but the actor's faces seem to lack, well, character

I'll go anyway and give it a chance... gotta appease the Trek addiction.

[AlCzervik]

19. i saw that trailer on Saturday before Bond, i'm looking forward to seeing the movie

and like the new Bond film i won't be reading any reviews before i see it.

[MilesColtrane]

21. Two concerns.

The bridge of the Enterprise is too white and shiny.
It looks like an Apple™ store fer chrissakes.


There better be a damned good reason for Spock physically attacking Kirk on the bridge.
I hope Abrams isn't just going to chalk it up to Spock's youthful exuberance, cause Vulcans don't roll like that.

[Deja Q]

22. Well, now we know one of the movie's sponsors...

They have to find product placement somehow... :D

Of course, Kirk and/or Spock might have their minds taken over by alien entities... (and how many times did the original show already do that? Quite a few...)

[MilesColtrane]

24. Yeah, I can just see Kirk taking his first tour of the Enterprise...

..from stem to stern, ending up on the bridge.

At the end, Steve Jobs the sixth steps out of the turbolift in a black turtleneck and says, "Oh, and there's just one more thing...".

Re:Bridge Fight

Maybe Spock is in Pon Far and he's jealous because Kirk is banging Uhura?

[charlie and algernon]

23. I noticed that too, about the look of the bridge

Looks too "Modern" when you consider the original bridge. Unless we're supposed to believe that the bridge as been worn down by the time Kirk gets to the Shatner age.