Comments on: Exclusive Interview: JJ Abrams Talks DVD/Blu-ray and About What Worked (and didn’t) with Star Trek 2009

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By: Magicdan

Magicdan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:31:54 +0000

Lord Ravenwood:
Your mom said you have to get off the computer and go do your homework.

This is just so you know how good a movie this is from my point of view. Note how I use examples instead of just downing or praising the movie.

My wife absolutely hates Star Trek and everything about it.

She hates most Sci-fi really. Mostly because I am a nut about it.

She was hooked on this movie from the opening scenes. She actually was startled twice, laughed at all the funny parts, and ended up saying it was a really good movie.

I have forced her to watch all the Star Trek movies over the years of course, and this is the very first time she has enjoyed it at all. At the end she even said “Hey, I want to be captain of a starship!”.

I liked it, but I liked all the movies.

I would have to say JJ and his team did an awesome job, they pulled off what I thought was impossible. Making Star Trek accessible to all people again, like it should be.

And I have no doubts that the next one will have all the same elements and be even better than the first, no matter who’s in it.

Obviously Abrams has a clue. Now go finish your homework.

By: Trek Nerd Central

Trek Nerd Central — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:51:17 +0000

Also, I don’t know about anyone else, but I would *love* to hear Pine delivering the classic intro in the sequel — split infinitive included. We’ve now had two Trek movies in which Spock closes out with “Space, the final frontier.” How cool it would be to hear that introduction where it belongs: at the beginning, voiced by Kirk.

By: Trek Nerd Central

Trek Nerd Central — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:45:40 +0000

116. Alack, Lord Ravenwood, but methinks thee is a troll. . .

By: MJPENG

MJPENG — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:20:17 +0000

101. TonyD – November 16, 2009 …….Well said

Just watched it again on bluray and the engineering sets look awful. What were they thinking about, for me it spoils the whole film. I would feel better about the next movie if Abrams would recognise this but there is no mention of it in the interview.

By: Lord Ravenwood

Lord Ravenwood — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:30:47 +0000

Abrams criticizes himself because he now realizes, he didn’t have a clue as to what he was doing!

This movie stinks to high hell!

Star Trek: 1966-2009

RIP

By: Shunnabunich

Shunnabunich — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:01:08 +0000

@111: Keep in mind that the music in the trailers was done by an outside company that exists just to make trailer music, so it wasn’t indicative of the actual score. In fact, I remember visiting the movie’s website at one point during the lead-up to the movie’s release, hearing what I later discovered was the film’s main motif in the background, and thinking, “holy crap, they really picked the wrong bit of trailer clip-art music for this update…can’t wait until they fix it.” Other bits, like Enterprising Young Man (which I first heard here on TrekMovie), kinda made me cringe, but then I saw them in the context of their scenes and my whole understanding (and opinion) of them changed.

By: Son of a Maui Portagee

Son of a Maui Portagee — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 21:35:43 +0000

#82. ahdam queried “You don’t seriously think Paramount will not put out a director’s cut in the future?”

I would lean towards taking the man at his word.

What I expect is that when the time comes to air it on public commercial TV for U.S. audiences that it is going to get edited – with him or without him. That’s when we are likely to see attempts to fill in the gaps with it likely turning into an “extended” version that Paramount will indeed market on home video later.

By: Dom

Dom — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:55:33 +0000

112. Tchessi

I suspect that’s partly because the casting of the ‘MkII’ characters was so strong that Leonard Nimoy really didn’t need to be in the film. I know it helped sell the film to the doubtful fans prior to release, but as it turned out, everyone was good enough in their roles that we didn’t need a former cast member to convince us after all!

By: Tchessi

Tchessi — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 13:35:32 +0000

Getting the DVDs today. I would agree with Mr. Abrams that Nero (or at least his motivations) were a bit undeveloped. But I guess my main gripe with the movie was actually (I’m sure I’m in the minority with this) Nimoy’s portrayal of Spock of all things! I understand that he was trying to show Spock as more comfortable in his own skin and played him closer to Mr. Nimoy himself. But Spock’s dialog in places came off too colloquial for my tastes.

Lines like “Do yourself a favor…” didn’t work for me coming out of Spock’s mouth. Seems that Quinto’s lines were more like the Spock I wanted to hear.

I love Leonard Nimoy but oddly his Spock was the weakest thing in the movie for me… I was surprised.