Thank you so much though for saying that my opinions are meaningless. You are very kind. I still have the right to express them, even if it puts me in the minority.

Thanks! I always come here for personal attacks from people who don’t even know me.

Perhaps you’ll learn to express your opinions more civilly and respectfully someday. That might be the first step toward the enlightenment you seek.

Nice to see that the IDIC thing is working so well for you. Your handle is very appropriate despite the poor spelling.

There is also the possibility that either your opinion is “wrong” in the sense that you are (quite inarguably) in the minority, or (more likely) that your opinion is–for all intents and purposes–meaningless to the vast majority of life on earth.

I’m sure either possibility doesn’t mean much to you, however. Feel free to continue to convince us of our error in judgement. I’m sure it will prove most enlightening.

@34. hawaiowa
“I can appreciate the effort into your mashup, as using a TV series is much more challenging. With a movie, one only has to pick and choose out of 90-120mins, while with the TV series, they have dozens if not hundreds of hours.”

I can’t agree with you. Picking out of 90-120min movies is still challenging, becouse you must find right clips in small period of time. While using such huge series like BSG of course takes much more time, but there is also more footage to choose from.

Nevertheless, the Battlestar mashup is awesome I love it! Great work, aliotsy.

@35. Sxottlan
“I’d love to see a Master & Commander / Trek mash-up. LOTR too.”

I really like the Star Trek trailer 3 with LOTR idea. I know the LOTR trilogy pretty good, I will think about making such trailer ;)

A poor example, in my opinion. McDonald’s food is good tasting and people like it. You have to pay attention not to eat that kind of stuff every day. Also, don’t be sedentary and all will be fine.

I can appreciate the effort into your mashup, as using a TV series is much more challenging. With a movie, one only has to pick and choose out of 90-120mins, while with the TV series, they have dozens if not hundreds of hours. (Imagine a Dr. Who mashup with Trek09).

Trailer 3 is definitely monomythic, I noticed that right off the bat as well. But as a trailer, it was just as riveting as the movie, if not more. My philosophy is that the movie starts with the release of the first trailer…thereby Trailer 3 was about 4 mins into the movie experience and definitely a hook for the fans.

Curiously, the juxtapose between poster and movie is so significant, it may be lost on some people…and thereby offensive. When I first saw it, I was amazed at its eclectism and how different it was from the predominately black, movie-star crammed ilk of Wollyhood promo posters. It is definitely not banal (banal as in it’s true sense meaning ‘predictable’ or ’systematic’) either with the Trek movie or with the ad genera of movie posters coming out this year. Nebulous might be a more apt description, strictly from a critical perspective. Again, the predominate white/bright color is illustrative of the monomyth, metaphorically the hero arising Phoenix-like out of the sun.

The movie is a SFX-fest, but the poster is so minimalistic, it’s almost in the aesthetic spirit of yugei, (those who haven’t studied Japanese art, you’ll have to Google it, as it doesn’t have wiki). It articulates without being overbearing, and is representational rather than reproductive.

Bravo to those who awarded the poster the honors it so thoroughly deserved!

Perhaps you weren’t paying attention to my McDonald’s example?

I only wish your statement were true “to a certain extent.” Perhaps in some perfect and just parallel universe this might be the case. It certainly isn’t the case in the one we’re living in.

This is true to a certain extent, but success is not something that can be earned by marketing only. Without true quality, products always fail.

Why?

Because they didn’t just distill the whole film’s best bits into a few moments. there was a whole lot more out there [and I don't mean in 2 hours and 8 other minutes or whatever ..]

Some trailers to be frank .. , you may as well skip the film, nothing in it apart from what you already saw while you were getting comfy and strapping on the feedbag of popcorn.

Unlike some trailers, Star Trek 09 still left a huge amount of the film unseen until you got to the theatres. There was more of the story, more of the characters’ interaction and personal backgrounds.

.. and as for the Simpson / Trek .. Great fun and oh what a wonderful finish.. “the wait is over”. .Mr Burns / Nero ! Still smiling to myself over that.