[Movie] Star Trek (2009)

Originally Posted by sprouticus

What I don't get is why you people even SEE the movie if you think it's going to be that bad. Seriously, nobody is forcing you to go. Just stay home and save yourself the money.

Because we are dealing with the same kind of people what, when Final Fantasy: Advent Children came out, the masses that hated it were all deep seeded fanboys that hate the idea of the very thing they understand most in life is touched in some way.

I'm gonna get flamed big time for that statement.

All in all, it's a movie. I'm just on my way out to go see it and I'm not a Star Trek fan in the least. Am I going to get some references? No. Am I going to care that I'm not? No. Does it make me a bad person that I'm not going to give two shits if it touches on some philosophical life statement like most M. Night Shamalamadingdong movies weave in? Probably in the eyes of hard core Trek fans it does make me an evil, evil person.

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Originally Posted by The Dopefish

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Well, that's ONE theory, though that's the worst possible theory in my mind. I'm not thrilled with the idea of an entire 40-plus-year timeline being wiped out because Paramount wanted to make some more money off this franchise.

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So if I understand this statement correctly, you are not thrilled with the idea that this movie went ahead and, instead of tarnishing the original story, the original Star Trek universe by trying to create some backstory to the original Captain Kirk and probably pissing off hundreds of thousands of Trekkies, Paramount instead came up with a plausible, but highly unlikely scenario so that they could preserve the Original Star Trek Universe while at the same time giving people unfamiliar with Star Trek a chance to jump in and see what all the hub bub is about?

I saw this yesterday, and I enjoyed it. I have only seen a handful of original Trek episodes and only watched a few of the movies and yet I could still, from a casual viewers standpoint, see the original cast channeled through this movie. This, of course, makes me the worst kind of scum in a lot of trekkies eyes, but so be it.

Don't take this as an insult Dopefish, but the kind of thinking that says 'Oh they just threw away 40 years of story' is the kind of closed mindedness and disrespect to the original series that you see in any sort of fanboyism whenever someone tries something new with a franchise. The original series is NOT going to disappear in the real world. You can still find the original Star Trek anywhere. This movie is NOT going to erase everyone's mind of what the original Star Trek was, and if anything, could sweep in a higher interest from outside sources to the original series.

But, I know how some fanboyism goes. Trekkies see Star Trek as their own little world, their safe place, and they don't want outsiders coming in, or messing around with it. It's understandable, but childish and selfish.

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