STAR TREK

[Phillip V]

This Thursday. 

[katmai]

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Tim, you look different somehow. do something with the hair?

[FunkMonk]

I'll watch it.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

me too.

[Neil]

I'll watch it, even though time-travelling Romulans from the future is a stupid idea, as is fucking up the timeline.

[Siege]

I shall be there.

[DontSayBanana]

I'll watch it, even though time-travelling Romulans from the future is a stupid idea, as is fucking up the timeline.

Ditto. I figure I'll shoot for expectations of a horrible brainless action-film "reimagining" of the Trek universe. That way, the only surprises for me will be pleasant.

[MadImmortalMan]

The moment they introduced time travel into Star Trek, it was all downhill. Yes, it was season 3, IIRC.

[HVC]

Many of the previous movies are so bad that unless this one is horrible it pretty much gets a buy

[DontSayBanana]

Many of the previous movies are so bad that unless this one is horrible it pretty much gets a buy

None of the TNG-era movies are really glaringly bad. I rewatched Insurrection recently and found that a lot of the complaints about it were really overblown.

I would also say that the only good one was First Contact, and that was probably because it didn't even land in the normal Trek format. Generations, Insurrection, and Nemesis all fell into the "last-minute save from the weekly doomsday device" trap, with Generations and Nemesis trying to save face with token sacrifices by Kirk and Data, respectively.

I'm actually predisposed to like the idea of this one because it sounds as if it's not going to be a complete save, and the human cost feels less like a shoestring budget when it's not a overhyped retirement of a washed-up overdramatic actor or exploring the "sacrifice signifies humanity" aspect too little, too late, when the character's earned a penchant as mostly comic relief.

And thus another one of my rants comes to a close. Methinks I really need less free time to overthink these things.

[vinraith]

Indeed.

[katmai]

Aw crap Vinraith agreeing with me on movies, hold me i r scared.

[vinraith]

Aw crap Vinraith agreeing with me on movies, hold me i r scared.

It just shows you how right we both are. A point of agreement like this can only occur when the movie is, in this case, objectively .

[katmai]

looking at summer movie schedule there isn't really anything out there that demands i go check it out really. Can't recall last summer that didn't have one thing i was really looking forward to.