C3PX said:His last movie was an unwatchable take on the giant monster movie genre, it while it was successful in creating hype, and getting people interested in the looks of the cast, it pulled plenty of people into the theaters, but how many people came out saying that it was an awesome movie? Not that many from what I can tell. I have yet to hear one of my friends say that they really liked it, the best I have heard was, "It was kind of cool I guess, wouldn't really be interested in seeing it again though".
Really?! I loved Cloverfield. I normally hate movies that end that way, but I loved Cloverfield. I was on the edge of my seat (literally) at times. I'd watch it and rewatch it looking for all the little clues about the monster and events that are sprinkled throughout the movie (one of the opening songs even aludes to one of the first deaths).
The interesting paradox of this whole thing, is that JJ is aiming this sucker at the "Star Trek, eww, nerd alert!" crowd, and not at the nerds who are its loyal base. Kind of an interesting experiment actually. I think for the next phase of this experiment, they should take Barbie, a franchise aimed at the 9 years and under girl crowd, and make it into a feature film aimed at 18 - 34 year old males.
It could be Bat Barbie :)
skyjedi2005 said:Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford should be applauded for breathing Life into the characters in the original star wars trilogy. Had the characters been played by Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman etc. they would have been as sterile as the prequels and its phony cgi are.
This is doubtful. In the originals, George couldn't keep saying "I don't care what you think". He actually had people telling him no and he had to listen. By the time we got to the Prequels, he didn't have to listen to anyone. So while you're right on some level, Hayden probably wouldn't have been cast in the first place, therefore you wouldn't have seen the same performances. The performances you saw are like that because Lucas figured he'd just fix everything in post. That was not possible in the originals, so you therefore have different performances.
In the case of Star Trek, Paramount doesn't have to worry about what the creator thinks since they own the rights. One of the other things I see wrong with this new movie is that everyone, to me, looks way to young. The actors in TOS looked much older than the current actors.