I had a light bulb moment last night about this movie.
I believe what we have here is a dumbing down of films to suit the audience. What do I mean by that? Well if you look at interviews with the writers about Star Trek and even the last Transformers film you'll notice they want to explain everything so not to confuse us or have us asking questions. Examples being about the reason there's no viewscreen in Trek or no female Autobots in the first Transformers film.
So it's partly our fault too. We live in a world where we want everything right now, handed to us on a plate and everything is explained so we can just sit and stare at the screen without thinking and too that end action adventure films are just a series of action sequences strung together with other stuff, like semi naked Orion girls, to keep us from thinking and asking questions.
It's by having the audience ask questions and seeking answers that draws us into the film, makes us get swept away and not realise we're sitting in a cinema. Seeking the answers to questions raised in our minds makes us want to see the film through to the end and sometimes we don't get the answers as Nicholas Myer once said, 'it's not my job to provide you with the answers.'
This has been an on going trend in Hollywood for quite some time now and Star Trek has somehow managed to stay immune because the people working on the film understood the fans have brains and like to fill in pieces of the puzzle themselves. Perhaps we should breathe a sigh of relief though as Star Wars fell victim too with Episode 3 being a perfect example.
I long for the day films are built around a good solid story and we're stopped being treated like idiots. Well that's my two cents.
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Would it be possible for all the haters, to quit publically trashing the movie because they didn't happen to like the movie? It's fine if you have an opinion, but thats just what it is... YOUR opinion. Quite a few of us actually enjoyed the movie, regardless of its flaws. I recall the exact same debating going on while ENTERPRISE was still on the air. Enough is enough I say.
and, no (as has been said)
too many times were people in this thread persecuted or jumped on or debated or attacked for not absolutely loving this movie... in this thread alone (not to mention the general attitude at other forums), god forbid should anyone not be jumping up and down clapping and screeching "i loooooove this new generic dumbed down flashy sexy and CGI-ridden cool new Star Trek!" people would be given a realm of shit for speaking out against, or speaking any objection towards, this movie...
so, no - as much as the film-lovers get to speak their praises, the film-haters get to speak their objections...
no one in particular is being insulted, no one in this thread is being disrespected (as yet, and i do watch out for shit like that lol) so stop taking it so personally as tho this movie was your own personal project and the world is shitting on it... (i dont mean that directly at you, so much as i mean it towards the film-lovers who hate the film-objectors)
the more people dont like it, the better this conversation goes, IMO...
