Hunter6 said:Abrams seems to have turn Star Trek into just another Star Wars Rip-off.
Luke:
A farm boy who (thinks) father is killed by the main Villain.
Abrams' Kirk:
A farm boy who father is killed by the main Villain.
Luke:
has a want for a better life.
Anakin:
has a want for a better life.
Abrams' Kirk:
has a want for a better life.
Luke:
Gets show a better life by an old wise man (obi-wan).
Anakin:
Gets show a better life by an old wise man (Qui-Gon).
Abrams' Kirk:
Gets show a better life by an old wise man (Pike).
Luke:
Has dirty Blond and blue eye.
Anakin (ep2):
Has dirty Blond and blue eye.
Abrams' Kirk:
Has dirty Blond and blue eye.
Luke:
has trouble in a bar.
Anakin:
has trouble in a bar.
Abrams' Kirk:
has trouble in a bar.
Luke:
Fights a monster in the snow.
Abrams' Kirk:
Fights a monster in the snow.
Luke:
hangs over a pit with the Villain standing above him.
obi-wan:
hangs over a pit with the Villain standing above him.
Abrams' Kirk:
hangs over a pit with the Villain standing above him.
Anakin:
Blonder when he was younger.
Abrams' Kirk:
Blonder when he was younger.
Anakin:
Drove a high speed craft when he was younger.
Abrams' Kirk:
Drove a high speed craft when he was younger.
Anakin:
rides a hover-bixe.
Abrams' Kirk:
rides a motor-bixe.
Anakin:
fights an friend.
Abrams' Kirk:
fights an friend.
Anakin:
was an james dean want-be.
Abrams' Kirk:
was an james dean want-be.
han solo:
Woohoo.
Abrams' Kirk:
Woohoo.
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Darth Maul: villain with an bald head, face taboos and staff weapon.
Nero: villain with an bald head, face taboos and staff weapon.
Darth Maul: kills obi-wan's father-figure (Qui-Gon).
Nero: kills kirk's father.
Darth Vader: uses a large laser weapon shooting down on to a planet.
Nero: uses a large laser weapon shooting down on to a planet.---
Star wars prequels: Bad Designs by ryan church.
Abrams' Star Trek: Bad Designs by ryan church.
Star wars prequels: Bad CGI by ILM.
Abrams' Star Trek: Bad CGI by ILM.
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And so on....
This is just from the two trailers and some plot detail, the movie will more likely have more.
This Film is looking more and more like an Star Wars/Starship Trooper rip-off then a star trek film .
Wow, so many weird grammatical and spelling choices it make my head hurt...
Okay, I dislike everything about this movie as much as the next guy, but from browsing through those posts, I think some of these guys are freaking out way too much. Going on complaining about spending three million dollars to show us a Super Bowl commercial containing mostly no new footage. Come on, at that point it is obvious that we are to the point of finding everything to pick the movie apart about. Maybe the guy was disappointed that there was little new footage to pick apart. If someone doesn't even like the idea of the movie, why would they be so disappointed at a lack of new footage? At any rate, the point in spending three million USD on a Super Bowl ad is not to do people a favor and show them new footage, it is to promote the film and make people want to go see it. Since such a ridiculous number of Americans are obssessed with this handball sport, just about everybody in the states watches the Super Bowl, which means a hell of a lot more people have now seen an exciting short preview of the upcoming ST movie than they did before the Super Bowl ad. Plenty of people who don't care a thing about ST were likely to perk up and have their attention drawn in by this ad, and were likely to think "Wow! That is Star Trek? I never liked Star Trek, but this movie looks cool!"
Someone in that mess of other posts you posted said this movie was being made for the Transformers crowd. I think that is a rather good way to put it. The movie is being made. It is done. Nothing can be done about this now. It sucks. A sequel to Nemesis, the Romulan war movie, or a whole new Trek taking place farther into the future, or even one taking place between Kirk's era and Picard's would have been a much better. But they feel they have exhusted the ST fanbase, and are looking for fresh blood in the Transformers/SW prequels crowd. This last trailer really reminded me of The Attack of the Clones trailers for some reason. It does feel like an attempt was made to follow their lead as the new style of sci-fi action flick. That is a huge shocker, I used to always argue that the prequel style was one that would never be emulated. Turns out I was wrong.
Anyway, there really isn't much reason to continue on complaining about this. It is a means to no end. Purhaps the only purpose it serves is to make you feel better by venting how much you dislike it, and having others jump on the wagon with you, but at the end of the day nothing will change. A ton of the idiots who say they hate it will still toss their money at it by going to see it on opening day, so it is not like you are going to be knocking down ticket sales by any significant numbers. When all is said and done, you will have just invested hours of your life, permanently lost forever, on a movie you don't even like. Hours wasted posting and reading posts. At least the people who go see it in the theaters will only waste a couple of hours of their life, and around $10 so they can say, "eh, it sucked" and move on.
I agree with a lot of your sentiments Hunter, but is it really worth all this effort? You are not going to like this movie, neither am I. You are not alone. But there is nothing we can do about it.