Comments on: Kevin Smith (Sort of) Reviews Star Trek

By: milbup

milbup — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:04:15 +0000

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By: Bob Tompkins

Bob Tompkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:45:58 +0000

Well, here we are heading into September and what we know about the new Trek couldn’t fill a thimble.

Neither of my kids nor their peers know or even care to know that a new movie looms.

What happens if Abrams made an absolutely brilliant Star Trek movie- 4 star ratings, Oscar buzz, the whole magilla- and it still doesn’t gross much more than $100million? That is what I fear the most.

I think Paramount had better start promoting the heck out of it soon to at least make the Gen X & Y’ers & the kids who like those horrible Levi’s ads [my kids and their peers] aware of its existence. Chances were squandered by all of this ’secrecy’. Iron Man, Indy 4 or even Tropic Thunder would have been good spots for a new trailer.

Let’s take a look at Paramount’s release schedule for the rest of 2008. “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” seems the only movie likely to approach $100 million for the rest of the year. Not much to tie the next trailer to and nothing else of much interest until May of 2009. I guess the next trailer will have to be run a couple of minutes before the Trek movie starts if they want any actual worthwhile exposure at the theaters!

By: Bob Tompkins

Bob Tompkins — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:20:44 +0000

I was formely Seven of Five until I was blocked by the auto filter. Mr. Pascale says he doesn’t understand it, so I dropped it in favor of my real name.

Just so there is no confusion.

By: Ten Ton Diesel Head

Ten Ton Diesel Head — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:38:28 +0000

“It’s as close as you can get to the comic book page without looking ridiculous. These guys know what they’re doing. Mark is as passionate if not more so than anyone can be about making a DAREDEVIL movie. He’s done heavy-duty research. He’s read all the important DAREDEVIL work, and the not-so-important DAREDEVIL work like my own and he’s certainly not going to let any DAREDEVIL fans down from what I’ve seen.”

-Kevin Smith

By: emperend

emperend — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:29:43 +0000

Very interesting comments from Smith.

By: Steven Millan

Steven Millan — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:28:41 +0000

I’m truly glad to hear some positive stuff about the upcoming “Star Trek” film,for it should be a massive box office success when it’s released next May(whether or not “Hannah Montana” is in the way),considering the absolutely monstrous fanbase that “Star Trek” has.

By: Lance

Lance — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:24:30 +0000

Should we trust a “review” from the man who brought us Daredevil? I vote for J.J. to redo THAT.

By: Lyle

Lyle — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:23:44 +0000

Other than Jar Jar Binks and “Yippee!”, The Phantom Menace was a fine movie. Sure it wasn’t The Empire Strikes Back, but what else could it be? Problem with TPM was that it came at the end of a 16-year drought in SW movies, and the fanbase was so incredibly hyped beyond belief that their stratospheric expectations couldn’t help but be let down by a film that, by its very nature, couldn’t have the kind of spectacular space battles and other cool stuff that the earlier movies did. It did have Darth Maul in it, so give it a rest eh?

That having been said, I’ve personally enjoyed very much all of the KS-diected movies I have seen. If Silent Bob can give the new movie a thumbs-up, that is good in my book.

By: Redjac

Redjac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:19:14 +0000

Whoops! I would like to amend my previous post by saying we have yet to see KS direct a film like “Watchmen” (which, I think he could do a great job with a superhero film based on his comments in the past).

I did not intend to imply he was working on Watchmen.

By: Redjac

Redjac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 01:16:10 +0000

“And finally, Kevin Smith is a one-trick pony. It grates my nerves that his opinion is given merit on anything, just because he managed to make a string of movies based on the same joke. Congrats as a lover of capitalism, and I curse you as a lover of art.”

Um, I don’t know that he’s a “one trick pony”. We’ve not seen Watchmen yet. That will probably determine whether or not he’s a “one trick pony”.

Whether that label turns out to be true or not, the “one trick” he’s done so far he has done very well.

Personally, I love his films. I’ve also seen his “stand-up” DVDs and those are hilarious as well.

I’d like to party with KS. I don’t know him, obviously, but he seems like he is a cool dude…