Star Trek Beyond trailer

[kane_magus]

Yeah yeah I know, everyone else is talking about the new Star Wars that just came out and all that good shit...

...but what I want to know is...

...what in the unholy fuck have they done to my beloved Star Trek? ;_;

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They took the main thing that I hated about the previous two movies, i.e. all of that stupid, ridiculous, over-the-top, way-too-actiony horseshit, and then made the trailer for this new movie practically nothing but that. A trailer is supposed to get you hyped to see a movie, but judging by that trailer, I am firmly in the DO NOT WANT camp, at least for now. Ugh. Just... ugh. ಠ_ಠ

"Okay, let's never do that again." Indeed. I kind of almost wish that someone in a position of power at Paramount had said that after Into Darkness. ¬_¬

(Oh, and speaking of Star Trek: Into Darkness, I haven't seen Force Awakens yet myself so I don't know at all how accurate a description this is, but I'm hearing that the new Star Wars movie is essentially a sort of rehash of A New Hope in the same sort of way that Into Darkness was a rehash of "Space Seed"/Wrath of Khan. So, like, is that just a thing that J.J. Abrams does now? Taking earlier, better movies and rehashing them to troll nostalgiaphiles or something? Oh, wait, never mind, that's just what Hollywood as a whole has been doing for the past decade or two now.)

Comments

[owsf2000.livejournal.com]

Personally I wasn't the biggest fan of the original series (a couple of movies aside) so I'm not really disturbed by the alternate reality of the new movies. I actually do like the action, but at the same time I can't see the point of the trailer either, as it hasn't really hyped me up on watching the movie either so I'll probably do what I did with the others - wait until I see it cheap on dvd. (or a bluray/dvd combo.)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

The alternate reality stuff doesn't bother me at all. If that were the case, then I'd have absolutely hated the first movie, where they blew up the planet Vulcan. I just view this new series of movies the same way I viewed the mirror universe (http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Mirror_universe) episodes of the old shows. If it were just time travel, though, in the sense that this new series of movies actually retconned the old Trek Prime universe into nonexistence (and that sort of thing was definitely a plot point/threat in most of the old Trek time travel episodes/movies), then I'd have hated the new movies a lot more, but since it was pretty much explicitly stated to be dimension hopping instead of (or in addition to) time travel, it doesn't really affect anything (outside of the highly unlikely event of them ever doing a crossover with Trek Prime in one of the later nuTrek movies).

Hell, I mostly don't even really mind the idea of them apparently destroying the Enterprise in this new movie, given that they did the same thing in The Search for Spock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_III:_The_Search_for_Spock) and then didn't get a new ship until The Final Frontier (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_V:_The_Final_Frontier), two movies later.

But no, the action... I really don't care for the ridiculous action that makes up vast chunks of these movies. The first movie was action-y, bordering on overly so, but it was still mostly okay. I liked it. The second movie was way more retardedly over-the-top action-y than the first one was, and yet I still (mostly) liked the second one well enough as well, despite that. I just hope that there's also more to this new movie than the all-action-all-the-time shit that the trailer makes it seem like. Given that J.J. Abrams jumped over to directing the new Star Wars movies instead of this new Star Trek movie, I was hoping that the ludicrous action would have been toned down at least a little bit in this new one, but... apparently not. If anything, it seems like it's going to be even worse. :/ I'm not against action movies in general, just Star Trek films that are far too action-oriented, which I feel these are. If I wanted a bunch of action in my space movies, then I'd... well... I'd go see Star Wars.