The funny thing is if i went to see wrath of khan on the big screen and they showed this i would feel cheated beyond belief. I would be willing to pay a lot of money to see Trek II on the big screen.
I would not spend 2 cents to see this contrived piece of dung paramount is putting out. And when that reviewer compared it transfromers that seals the deal with me i'll be staying home, that movie had some of the most attrociously bad script writing i have ever seen next to lucas at his indiana jones IV and prequel best.
After seeing Lost, Alias, Fringe and MI:III i am convinced orci and kurtzman are the biggest hacks in hollywood at the moment. Next to David Koepp and Akiva Goldsman that is.
The thing is no matter what i think this movie is going to make tons of money. Just like the horrible comic prequel sold out in stores.
People are going to see this because it is not star trek even though it is calling itself such. People that would have stayed away because trek was for geeks and nerds and losers or whatever stereotype is popular at the moment,lol. What they made is another popcorn munching, cgi blockbuster that looks like a 200 million dollar videogame. Basically the Trek version of bays transformers. It will be action packed and sexy and not real science fiction or cerebral roddenberry trek which others hate but i like. The cage and the motion picture happen to be some of my favorite trek in this way.
They have been making action trek flicks for years. The last one which had any thought going on in it was Insurrection, well that ones message was incapsulated in an action film trying to be like first contact which was a mistake imho. Then Nemesis a rehash of star trek II and an action film. Every film since First contact has pretty much been this way. The studios want to make money, they care nothing about getting you to think or film as art.
It is unfortunate that a great film like trek II would unseat and destroy the very franchise it saved, by making each film have to be militaristic and an action piece and not about exploration or the final frontier.
Wow i just saw the mtv clip what stupid dialogue the scene was as funny as it was cringe worthy, reminds me of the padme and anakin scenes in the prequels.
He tells Uhura who is a linguist that she has a "talented tongue" Uhura tells him something like since he is a farmboy from iowa he must have sex with the farm animals and pine quips "not only" WTF? This sounds more like a Kevin Smith movie than a star trek movie.
I just knew the guys who gave Sam Witwicky in Transformers the screen name ladiesman, and had bumblebee pissing and Optimus Prime saying "my bad" like he was from the clueless movie could not get a thing right. All the bad one liners you could ever think of. I hope its not American Pie in outerspace or trek 90210, but things are looking pretty grim. These guys wrote in the comic "get Your ass up here bigboy". Wow such great writing. Dude a bunch of drunk fratboys might write like this but these guys are paid screenwriters in hollywood.
Their writing would not pass muster in a high school english class much less a college one. They get paid millions to write scripts that a room full of monkeys could come up with. Here lets smear poo on a piece of paper,lol.
This is the so called stellar Script Nimoy was waiting for he came out of retirement to make, yet he turned down generations, just wow. Unbelievable. I hope they paid the old chap well enough because this thing is a visual feast but written like a turd.