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Post #359379

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Anchorhead
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Abrams is Destroying Star Trek like Lucas has Destroyed Star Wars
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Date created
11-May-2009, 9:37 AM

Something I wanted to mention here, after seeing it, is how context can greatly affect how a movie clip or trailer is percieved.  Several pages back, there was some discussion on two trailer scenes.  One where Kirk was smart-mouthing Spock and what appeared to be an unrelated scene later where Spock is attacking Kirk.

There were a few pre-haters that were denouncing the film outright, and they mentioned those two scenes in particular.  The tone in their posts was as though Abrams had broken some sort of unspoken law, Abrams is satan, etc, etc. The topic of context came up, but they didn't want to hear it - even though they were quick to lambaste me for doing the same thing (which I did as an example) with some of their sacred scenes from past films.

Those two scenes now make much more sense and in fact, to me, are a very cerebral part of the film - Spock assuring Kirk that he's been emotionally compromised and pushing him into trying to break him so that he admits it. I thought that whole passage, particularly with old Spock, was done very well.