Star Trek Into Darkness - Images, Videos, Discussion, etc

[Shadowknight1]

Not my doing, so please ease off the accusations.

...I was joking.

[Vortex]

Nice ST:III reference, Shadow. xD Remember, use the smileys. Always. :p

[Trim]

What the hell is with all the attitude in this thread anyway?!?!?  Jeez guys, its just a friggin' movie FFS, who cares!!!!!  

[JimmyB76]

What the hell if with all the attitude in this thread anyway?!?!?  Jeez guys, its just a friggin' movie FFS, who cares!!!!! 

thank you!

now knock it off, people - for fraks sakes!!


ok, now carry on

[captain_obvious]

...I was joking.

Ah.  It seems I need to get a new engineer to fix my sense of humour!
My apologies SK

[FarShot]

What the hell is with all the attitude in this thread anyway?!?!?  Jeez guys, its just a friggin' movie FFS, who cares!!!!!  

To some people, it's the death of Star Trek incarnate!  But nay, it is the dawn of a new frontier, where Trek need not be slow, boring, and filled with Treknobabble!

All hail JJ!

Death to the opposition!

*bolts for the door*

[captain_obvious]

To some people, it's the death of Star Trek incarnate!  But nay, it is the dawn of a new frontier, where Trek need not be slow, boring, and filled with Treknobabble!

All hail JJ!

Death to the opposition!

*bolts for the door*

Hahahahahahhahahahaha! Hahahahahahhahahahaha! Hahahahahahhahahahaha! Hahahahahahhahahahaha!  Haha!
Ha..

[mckinneyc]

Time for this thread to go away me thinks, the film is out now and people have seen it.

Some hated it for valid reasons, some loved it for equally valid reasons.

All this thread is doing is flaring tempers from our more emotive and passionate members

[captain_obvious]

Time for this thread to go away me thinks, the film is out now and people have seen it.

Some hated it for valid reasons, some loved it for equally valid reasons.

All this thread is doing is flaring tempers from our more emotive and passionate members

I second that.  Nothing much left to say about it now.
Roll on the Trek XIII thread!

[FarShot]

But... but... awww, fine...

[086gf]

The problem with opening up Trek to the general audience.

"We did a lot of focus groups in a lot of countries, and asked what they liked and didn't like and we listened," Marcoly said. "Basically, it was more action, more of the adventure elements and less of the real Trekkie stuff." The stuff, in other words, that turned the 1960s TV show into a cultural phenomenon in America and launched the film franchise.

http://movies.yahoo.com/news/star-trek-darkness-heading-where-none-gone-foreign-213331663.html
A.K.A. no more pointy ears and make Trek as generic as possible with more action, more adventure, more action, even more action and even much more action. Did I mention more action? Personally these last two have been a tad speedy with the pace and could have had a whole 30 minutes more wedged in there but I think for Trek that is right were it needs to be at the max.

Though this is what non-North America wants from Hollywood period by all accounts.
http://theomegasector.com/index.php?/topic/18715-paramount-ditch-the-ears/ The larger posts are really the ones of interest here though the following quote somes this all up perfectly.

Movies have been slowly dumbing down more and more since the '80s. Ever since opening box office returns made the art of filmmaking into a football game scoreboard.

Thoughts?

[FarShot]

I'm fine with the films going that way.  If it makes more money for the franchise by having the movies more action-y, that's just money that can be recycled into television production, where true Star Trek thrives.  I think mostly it has to do with a shift in the entertainment culture in the world.  The "right now" aspect of television satisfaction has been shafted with the addition of massive casual gaming, social networking, etc.  You have no idea how many people I know who fill in their spare time playing Words With Friends on their iPhones.  Instead of watching movies on a Sunday night, they're gravitating towards big-budget television like Game of Thrones or Walking Dead, etc.  And with IMAX and 3d movies bouncing all over the place now, I'm also seeing a shift where people definitely enjoy a flashier movie so they can get a solid two hours of amazement.

[nxadam1701]

 

[Nighthawk]

the thing is.... we've run out of controversial themes already 

[Shadowknight1]

By the way, went to a bookstore and flipped through the novelization.  McCoy in the novel actually states that he doesn't want to assume that Khan's followers will have the same healing abilities and he basically states that he, and by extension Jim, doesn't have time to run a lot of tests.  He also says he can't predict what death might do to Khan's cells, so he needs Khan and needs him alive.  A lot of babble that might have made things a little easier to swallow but would've also slowed down the climax.

Oh, and the novel gave Kirk some last words to Spock that probably should've made it in: "Take care of our ship."

[Tuskin38]

 according to Memory-Alpha's Into Darkness page "As Kirk wakes from his coma near the end of the film, he can hear his mother and father speaking about him moments after his birth. "


Hmm, I never noticed.

[Shadowknight1]

Yeah, it's not 100% noticeable, but it's in there.

[Tuskin38]

more I see of this ship the more it grows on me

[captain_obvious]

I know what you mean Kori.  It's not a pretty ship, but it's grown on me.  A lot like the oberth class I think.

[Shadowknight1]

I know what you mean Kori.  It's not a pretty ship, but it's grown on me.  A lot like the oberth class I think.

Indeed.  A ship need not be sleek and curvy to kick ass.