Re: Star Trek Movies

Miss Moneypenny Fri May 03, 2013 4:03 pm

Please allow Wendy Williams to express my feelings on the subject.

RiverThames Fri May 03, 2013 4:05 pm

Crazier thought. JJ Abrams is pretty damn media savvy, and they've been playing up this whole secret.

Is it possible-- is Abrams crazy enough-- that they actually made a foiler-cut of the movie? Just to fuel the spoiler/outrage machine?

laddical Fri May 03, 2013 4:10 pm

I followed you through the crazy time lost Picard theory, but I'm afraid a "foiler cut" is a wank too far.

RiverThames Fri May 03, 2013 4:17 pm

Yeah, true.

But, you have to admit, the studios have been desperately trying to get ahead of the Spoiler Machine that is the Internet, and that would be the the next logical step. And the person to do it would have to be an Abrams/Whedon/Nolan.

laddical Sat May 04, 2013 1:54 am

Commentary under the cut that includes a spoiler from Iron Man 3:

Spoiler:

Wildog27 Tue May 07, 2013 2:25 pm

Old Spock battles new Spock in the greatest car commercial of all time.

The levels of awesomeness on this are unbelievably hilarious.

mandalaya Tue May 07, 2013 3:44 pm

Old Spock battles new Spock in the greatest car commercial of all time.

Hee! That is indeed awesome! I especially like that Nimoy has such a good sense of humor about his presence in the cultural zeitgeist.

laddical Tue May 07, 2013 3:57 pm

I very nearly fell out of my chair when he started in on "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins".

Wildog27 Tue May 07, 2013 4:37 pm

Notice the lens flares on Quinto's Audi?

Putli Bai Tue May 07, 2013 6:26 pm

"Technically we're not inside yet."

Fascinating...and awesome!

Melk Thu May 09, 2013 7:32 pm

So, I saw Into Darkness this afternoon...

(Seriously, I am about to post enormous spoilers, click at your peril)

Spoiler:

On a fussily small, non-spoilery note, I really appreciated how many of the background crewmembers were extras or small speaking parts I recognised from the first film. It really gave an amazing sense of continuity to the whole thing, and is the sort of detail a lot of films would just fudge over. I'll probably have way more to say about this film when I think about it some more.

RiverThames Thu May 09, 2013 7:38 pm

So: no spoilers, but general sense: Yay? Or bleh?

Melk Thu May 09, 2013 7:39 pm

Oh! (I should have said!) YAY. Definitely yay.

Cutebutpsycho Thu May 09, 2013 9:53 pm

I saw the major spoiler and well...

Spoiler:

Bad Username Fri May 10, 2013 2:25 am

I say YAY as well,

Spoiler:

I had a problem with the lack of women in the movie.

Spoiler:

I've never seen Betadine Cuckoosnatch in anything, so I didn't know about The Voice, but wow. I also thought the movie was longer than what it was, I was surprised to see it's only about two hours. It's not that it dragged, but that there was a lot of...stuff.

Melk Fri May 10, 2013 5:11 am

I totally agree about the lack of women. If anyone's wondering, the brief moment with Alice Eve in her underwear is even more ridiculously awkward and unnecessary in the film than it was in the trailer.

I also agree...

Spoiler:

laddical Sat May 11, 2013 12:45 am

This movie is going to have to practically be Avengers good (to me) to get back on my good side. The (spoiler) is annoying me that much.

I'll still see it. And I will try to keep an open mind. But...

Spoiler:

At this point, if someone allowed me to time travel forwards to June 14 so I could see Man of Steel right now, but doing so would put me in a timeline where every scrap of film and computer data concerning Into Darkness had been destroyed... I'd do it.

Cutebutpsycho Sat May 11, 2013 11:56 pm

You're better than me Laddical. I'm still annoyed and not sure if I want to see it, even though the cast is stellar.

Kiran Sun May 12, 2013 1:40 am

You are right that I feel similairly, Cute. Its sad because I AM A HUGE (albeit quiet) Star Trek fan but

Spoiler:

RiverThames Sun May 12, 2013 1:43 am

Are all of you named Smalls?

BECAUSE YOU'RE KILLING ME, SMALLS.

Kiran Sun May 12, 2013 1:51 am

I think what is saddest to me is that

Spoiler:

Cutebutpsycho Sun May 12, 2013 2:38 pm

What bugs me with the whole secrecy is that WE KNOW ANYWAY before going into the theater. Really I think the whole thing is a chickenshit way of avoiding backlash.

Cowards.

QueenSix Mon May 13, 2013 4:08 pm

I went to see it this afternoon. I'd avoided spoilers but from what people were saying here and on Twitter and from what I surmised from a Tumblr gif set of John Cho being interviewed about the film, that thing I thought was going to happen actually did. I'd spoken to my mother about it the other week and when the reveal happened, the two of us looked at one another and shook our heads. It disappoints me for reasons that Cutebutpsycho and Kiran have mentioned and also I am disappointed for them as well.

I had hoped for a moment that

Spoiler:

So I give it a Yay because there are some great moments in there, real edge of the seat stuff and nice character interaction. I noticed Amanda Foreman in the background and thought that was a nice touch. But it could have been a YAY ++. And I feel about it the way I felt about the first Wolverine film. I enjoyed it but there's some missed opportunities there.

Kiran Mon May 13, 2013 4:18 pm

I hope its not as much of a hot mess as Wolverine. I enjoyed that movie but mostly because of the hot men. Otherwise it was kind of a total hot mess.

QueenSix Mon May 13, 2013 4:24 pm

No, I didn't mean it that way. I just meant that I went into Wolverine Origins with expectations of better but didn't get it and that's a bit how I feel about this sequel. It was actually the Star Trek film that matched those expectations that summer. I didn't find either a waste of my time though so there's that.

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