The early ones had me worried, but I'm 100% on-board after this:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/ ... rtrek_trailer3_large.html

Cool

It's about time they got some new blood in the roles.

Simon Pegg and John Cho in this? Do they want to make a comedy?

I thought Pickard was the bar brawler, now they make Kirk one too?

Way too much lens flare, though.

:jawdrop:

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Simon Pegg and John Cho in this? Do they want to make a comedy?

I thought Pickard was the bar brawler, now they make Kirk one too?

Lemme guess, Simon Pegg is the new Scotty

Still, forget Pegg and Cho - Jennifer Morrison is in it too :lovies3d:

...and Sylar!!!


Cant wait for this one...looks brill from the trailer!

wow! great movie! I have never seen a full episode of Star Trek, but this looks cool.

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wow! great movie! I have never seen a full episode of Star Trek, but this looks cool.

You are surely the AntiChrist

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The early ones had me worried, but I'm 100% on-board after this:

http://www.apple.com/trailers/ ... rtrek_trailer3_large.html

is there any version that doens't need quicktime?

EDIT: VLC ftw!

looks promising

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is there any version that doens't need quicktime?

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/startreknews.php?id=53507

Doesn't look like Star Trek at all

That's why they call it a reboot.

I hope there will be story behind those effects...

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Simon Pegg and John Cho in this? Do they want to make a comedy?

I reckon the only reason Pegg's doing this is because Peter Serafinowicz got to do Darth Maul's voice. Then again Simon Pegg did that shit film for David Schwimmer last year so maybe he's just happy to take the pay check.

Unfortunately Starwars/trek has run it's course as with most other things I used to hang on.

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Doesn't look like Star Trek at all

Yep it looks like yet another crap action-adventure blockbuster with a famous brand name stamped on it. Next one will be Space balls I suppose.

If someone really has to reboot something, let's do it to Kubrick's mind, so we can see a serious filmmaker kick some executives' asses around once more.

He would just change the tastes of everybody again. I sincerely hope a new Kubrick shows up within my lifetime or I'll be forced to pass for one of those oldies who only seem to like old things and dislike new ones for the sake of it.

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Kubrik this Kubrik that??? is it fashionable...maybe in the 70's these days I have yet to find an impresive dierctor.

Listen to a song called sea of love that does it for me

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Listen to a song called sea of love that does it for me

Cat Power 'Sea of Love'? Cause Cat Power is the more desirable woman who ever lived.

But anyway...

Oh, and for an impressive current director, I'd go with Paul Thomas Anderson. He's amazing.

Edit: Also add Guillermo del Toro to the list.

If you're expecting Kubrick out of a Star Trek film, you're looking in the wrong place.

And there are plenty of directors as good as if not better than Kubrick working today, but you're right in that there are very few who are working on "big" movies.

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If you're expecting Kubrick out of a Star Trek film, you're looking in the wrong place.

When did I say that?

Star Trek has always been more on the fantasy side of things (though not as much as Star Wars), but this looks like badge engineering. Or how do they call when the studios take an old household name and glue it on something that has little or nothing to do with what the name used to represent?

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And there are plenty of directors as good as if not better than Kubrick working today, but you're right in that there are very few who are working on "big" movies.

The very fact there is little or nobody who is able to affect the tastes or redefine genres in the way he did, means none of them is as an important director as Kubrick was. That doesn't mean there aren't good directors, mind you. It's just about as the same as to say that after the Beatles there were very few groups (some would say none) that were able to change the history of music in a such significant and all so evident way.

They are niche. Kubrick was universal.

We are talking about a person who, with little interest whatsoever in SF, took a genre that on screen was made of giant ants that kidnapped beautiful women, and turned into thought-provoking art.

Star Trek maybe didn't ascend to the dizzy heights of art, but nonetheless it started out as a pulp-y TV series and turned into something that was more significant than that. Should I point out that in TOS we see for the first time on the TV screen a crew whose members are not strictly white americans?

Anyone who would make the mistake to think that the name Kubrick has nothing to do with Star Trek, is clearly lacking an historical perspective of the genre. Or, in the case of AlienT, is vainly trying to pass for a youngster

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The very fact there is little or nobody who is able to affect the tastes or redefine genres in the way he did, means none of them is as an important director as Kubrick was. That doesn't mean there aren't good directors, mind you. It's just about as the same as to say that after the Beatles there were very few groups (some would say none) that were able to change the history of music in a such significant and all so evident way.

I nodded all the way through that paragraph. I think you are bang on with the metaphor. Saying that X director isn't as good as Kubrick, is like saying that Y band isn't as good as Elvis.

When people like Kubrick were making movies, the medium was like putty, ready to be bent and moulded. Nowadays the foundations are set and real achievement comes with what you do with that legacy. Instead of judging young artists by such an unjust comparison, we should be judging them on how they take that influence and make it their own. We are no longer forging the artform, we are perfecting it.

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Yep it looks like yet another crap action-adventure blockbuster

That's what Hollywood does best. That's why they regularily give all their awards to foreign filmmakers like Danny Boyle.

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I sincerely hope a new Kubrick shows up within my lifetime

Have you not seen any Cohen Brothers films? They don't have the visual purity and single-mindedness that Kubrick had, but their films are beautiful and clever, and - amazingly - they're still making American drama look innovative.

Terry Gilliam is another big favourite of mine, American Director-wise.

Don't forget Terrence Malick.

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Terry Gilliam is another big favourite of mine, American Director-wise.

But we nicked him!! Once a Python...ALWAYS a Python!!!