Star Trek Into Darkness... and beyond

[Ⓐaron]

First Contact is really good, but I don't think it's as good as or better than XI. I'd put The Undiscovered Country at #4, and The Voyage Home at #5. Honestly I'm not sure where I'd rank any of the others, but the old adage (warning: TV Tropes link) of the even-numbered Trek films being good and the odd-numbered Trek films being crap is mostly true, except that Nemesis and XI bucked the trend. The best of the rest is probably The Search for Spock, though.

 

[ForceStealer]

After The Search for Spock I'd probably say Generations, Insurrection, The Slow-Motion Picture, and The Final Frontier.

I also didn't hate Nemesis as much as the rest of the world did, but I acknowledge its flaws and it does piss me off all they deleted, because almost every deleted scene would have improved the film.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Yeah, Generations is probably better than the others in that list.

I haven't seen any of the deleted scenes in Nemesis. Are they worth watching? It really pissed me off

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how they killed off Data and then basically negated his sacrifice mere minutes later

. It was even more cheap than

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Kirk's death

in Generations.

 

[ForceStealer]

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Well, none of them fix that, although there as an alternate (well, extended really) ending which I prefer. But there is a scene from earlier in the movie in Picard's Quarters with a discussion with Picard and Data which bring together a lot more of the movie's themes. There's a lot more to the wedding in the beginning, according to the cast there's a LOT more that isn't even on the DVD releases.
There are a couple more scenes with Shinzon which help his character some. There's also a second Troi mindrape scene which I was fine with not being included.

More than the B4 thing, I just hate when it's obvious a character was killed for it's own sake. By which I mean it was so easily avoidable. WHY would they only have one of those emergency transport things? Hell, why doesn't every single person in Starfleet have one?

 

[Ⓐaron]

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Yeah, the whole thing was cheap and stupidly done, and pretty clearly not very carefully thought out.

I don't even remember what half of that stuff is even referring to so I'm pretty sure I'd just need to watch the film again, preferably with the deleted scenes restored.

 

[Ghost X]

As far as movie posters and originality are concerned, there was an article on io9 aaaaages ago, had a ton of posters categorised (if I recall correctly) into certain repeated styles. Was interesting to look at. Just as with music, I think only a small number of compositions are eye catching to the human eye (in music's case, the human ear ), so I guess that is why there is only a small number of ways posters are done.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

So does this take place in ST:2009 timeline, or in TOS timeline? 'Cause as much as I thought they did a good job with ST:2009, I was mad that we have yet another time-line to keep track of. Other then that I thought it was good.

 

[Ⓐaron]

ST:2009. It's a sequel to XI.

 

[Cookie Monster]

 

[Tetsujin]

There was a URL hidden in the teaser:
http://www.areyouthe1701.com/

Viral campaign ahoy.

 

[Ⓐaron]

Wikipedia is officially the most ridiculous website ever. Abrams, you magnificent troll.

See also: http://xkcd.com/1167/

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Spoiler: title text

Of course, factions immediately sprang up in favor of '~*~sTaR tReK iNtO dArKnEsS~*~', 'xX_StAr TrEk InTo DaRkNess_Xx', and 'Star Trek lnto Darkness' (that's a lowercase 'L').

 

[Tetsujin]

Abrams, the guy behind hit shows Lost and Fringe

Correction, he had some involvement with Lost's pilot and wrote one episode in season three. Apart from that, he didn't do anything on Lost (despite being credited as Executive Producer in every episode or something)

In any case, lulz.

 

[Ⓐaron]

New trailer. May be removed as it's not official so watch quickly.

 

[Super Mario]

Damn how I miss the epic feeling Abrams puts into the film! Can't wait to see it once more! T____T

 

[Cookie Monster]

Awesome.

 

[Ⓐaron]

DO WANT. That was even more impressive than I thought it would be.

 

[Ghost X]

ARAGHAHGAHG... got to see the first one before I can see this, but want to see it.

 

[Cthulhu]

Lots of people jumping off cliffs / high places, and they're crashing another Enterprise? I'm seeing trends here, .

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

... and they're crashing another Enterprise?

"Plenty of letters left in the alphabet."

 

[X-SOLDIER]

HO. LY. SHIT.

EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS TRAILER.



X

 

[Ⓐaron]

Yeah, holy shit is right.

 

[X-SOLDIER]

Yeah, the entire sequence between 1:00 - 1:30 left me utterly speechless. I want that screenshot in HD as my background.



X

 

[Tetsujin]

Have I mentioned my relief over this guy also doing Star Wars VII already?

This is looking great.

 

[Ⓐaron]

 

[Tetsujin]

Gonna see it tomorrow at the premiere.