For the fifteen of you who didn’t go see Casino Royale 1.5 (seriously, tickets should have been half-priced) this weekend, the new trailer for J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is finally online in a format you can actually see, hear, and judging from the first thirty seconds… smell.
I’ve been sort of excited for the film, what with J.J. being TALENTED and Star Trek not being sacred material to me, but the first look at this online last week had me worried. The introduction is absolutely horrid and I find it seriously geeky and unrealistic to have Jimmy Kirk proclaim himself “James Tiberius Kirk” to the Black Hole Sentry Cop. Seeing it on the big screen yesterday eased some of my concerns because it plays better bigger, but it still raises more questions than it answers.
I did like Karl Urban as Bones, which was a surprise.
Luckily, Star Trek has been manhandled so much as a franchise that the haters have no leg to stand on.





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I went from being 'meh' to being 'that looks fucking terrible'. Urban as bones is OK simply because Bones was a miserable fuck and Urban has a miserable line in this trailer. No one looks good in this. Even Bana looks awful and he was my only hope. And that Intro is beyond shite (kid looks like he's floating on the edge of the cliff and "I'm James Tiberius Kirk".. shudder.
As long as they don't completely fuck up the continuity of the films (like the Star Wars prequels did to star Wars and AVP did to Aliens) then I'm fine with it.
I think the sum of it's parts will be greater than the whole. Still be there opening day though.
I proudly proclaim "I'm James Tiberius Kirk" to people all the time, and nobody finds it odd…
If you had a middle name like Tiberius, I'm sure you'd be using it every chance you got.
The Trek continuity was already fucked. Kirk is somehow prescient in Final Frontier that he'll "die alone," but when he does die in Generations he's lovingly cradled in Picard's arms.
I met a guy in Kmart the other day that still swears this is coming out before Christmas 08. He never heard of this site or even AICN and when I suggested to google the release date he kinda went nuts about how I was wrong. Trekkies that nuts scare me, however, after seeing the trailer I'll still go. I agree with the consent that it's a lot more action-packed than need be and that the OG ST is still the best, but fuck it, this outta be a fun time for me and my dad. Hell, we've watched so much Star Trek over the years why not go. Plus, I love Simon Pegg. He outta be great!
Sad to say, it wasn't playing before QOS at the theater I went to. But we got a fistful of Keanu rammed down our throats…joy and rapture…
These next eight months are going to be a blast on the internet. The presidential candidates didn't enjoy the level of scrutiny this flick will. It's a shame they had to shoehorn Nimoy into this thing, because they are leaving themselves open to all the complaints about continuity, when they should have just started over. The complaints would have still been there, but they would have given themselves an out. I think he was one of the Little Rascals.
Everything after the opening looks decent. That hotrod scene looks horrible, though… like a bad video game cutscene, complete with slo-mo action!! Thinking of changing my middle name to Tiberius, though. As long as I proclaim it with the same youthful defiance anytime someone asks…
cant wait —
used to be a trek fan when i was a lil kid, but it kinda is boring and dumb now with/Voyager and Enterprise, but this looks fantastic.
My nacells throb with optimism, now. I'm not really all that into Trek. Movie I and II I like a lot, but the rest are half-baked to freaking awful. TNG had its moments. OS… just never got into it. I'd just like to see a fun movie that's not completely stupid… Not sure I'm assuaged by this trailer, but I'll reserve judgment till I've seen more. As for fans of Trek who go crazy about 'cannon' and 'continuity', I hold back my derision (it's just too easy), but how can you seriously feel that strongly when the people who've been producing content for this series have been feeding you such crap for so long?
J.J. TALENTED? Bwaahahahahahaha!!!! Dude's a lowest common denominator crowd pleaser who has no true vision of what he really wants – he's not necessarily a hack (like, say, Ratner), but he's pretty fucking far from being talented. Maybe you'd see that if you'd get those dicks out of your eye sockets.
I have a royal middle name (not imperial, but of one of the past kings here) and I sure as hell never use it in anything but documents. Oh, and this trailer looks targeted at Myspace shiteens. Leave, long or prosper, or something like that.
What a beautiful pair of breasts that Uhura has. I guess I'll see this now instead of not caring about star trek as usual.
From The looks of it, James Kirk is a descendant of Ricky Bobby. "What's your name?" "James Tiberius Kirk and I want to go fast!"
This movie seriously looks like the Lost In Space movie from 1998.
I thought the beginning was from MISSION IMPOSSIBLE: THE EARLY YEARS
I take offense to a Korean playing my part. And if he's straight, Jesus H. Chriminy.
So, Kirk is wandering the wastes of planet earth, discovers the Enterprise under construction and yells out dibs first?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aN6LZfJafbg
I wish the new Kirk did White Jazz instead. Fucker.
What the fuck did they do to Simon Pegg that he doesn't look anything like himself in any of the promotional material for this film?
Is that really George Takei posting on this site? I have been a TOS fan and I think this movie is going to be a great action & cgi packed movie. So what if the beginning is a bit corny, I actually liked it because he is a rebellious kid and I don't take it seriously. Lets face it many of the original episodes were campy and B level, which is what made them so great. Buckle up, I for one can't wait to see this!
Much about this movie doesn't look all that good, but I now place better odds on a Gorn being in it than I had originally thought, and that can only be a good thing.
Looks decent for a REBOOT. Lets face it, Trek needed to do something different to get the masses interested. This looks aiiiiit.
JJ Abrams has gone and jettisoned 40 + years of continuity out the photon torpedo tubes! He wants everyone to bite into this turdburger that he's made. I won't be one of them.
Of course Paramount won't like the taste of that turdberger, but they'll have to eat it anyway!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3b56e0u0EgQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m66xx-UKHDU
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