| Angelus said: Quite interesting seeing the reactions of big time Star Trek fans. I'm only a very casual fan, in that I thought the 3 new movies were varying levels of decent. Never really bothered to go back and watch the old shows and movies. I wasn't aware all the new Star Trek material was so hated by the fans. My mom always told she was a huge Star Trek fan back in the day, and the the biggest punishment she used to get from her parents was not being allowed to watch the new episodes if she'd misbehaved.....anyway, she really enjoyed the new movies they made, so I guess I always just assumed they went over well with fans. Seeing the discussion here I'm suddenly thinking not so much lol Anyway, @OP, I thought that trailer was a good deal better than the first, which had me dismissing the show entirely. This one had me like, ya ok....maybe I'll check out an episode or two when it releases, see if it's worth watching. |
I wouldn't say the new material is hated. It's mostly just not loved; many feel it is too dumbed down and formulaic; all of them are basically the same plot structure. James Cameron's Avatar, for example, often got accused of rehashing the plot of Fern Gulley or Pocahontas: but Avatar has NOTHING on the commonality of rehashed storylines the recent Star Treks are guilty of; they're basically any number of dozens of car chase films, super hero films, or disaster films: A villain pops up, the villain does something terrible, the heroes have to do action stuff from stopping the villain of doing similar terrible things to their home, some crap will happen to split up the crew in some way; there'll be some over-dramatic BS that happens before the heroes unite for the final strike; but during the final strike the villain does something that makes it look like the heroes are about to lose, when suddenly the heroes win. There's not much depth to the recent Star Treks outside of that basic formulaic plot line, all the appeal is in dumbly looking at fancy CG.
Basically, Abrams made Mission Impossible deeper in both plot and scientific elements than Star Trek. I'll watch the films for entertainment, but they're the sort of films that a viewer won't be compelled to ever think of again after the viewing; except for Leonard Nimoy's cameo.
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