Good or New Movies Review
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@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:
I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho
I think David Lynch did this in like the 90s, are we talking about original Twin Peaks at this point?
One day, my Captain's Log will have something to say about this.
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Watch the new She-Ra.
That’s how you stay true to the original while flipping everything on its head.
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@Ganymede said in Good or New Movies Review:
Watch the new She-Ra.
That’s how you stay true to the original while flipping everything on its head.
I saw the new She-Ra when it dropped.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
it really is terrible how studios keep doing things that make money so they can keep making more movies i mean god they should just go full french art house ugh
I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho
You know Tarantino planned to do a Star Trek movie? But it's apparently not happening any more.
Oh, wow. Someone I'd be even more pissed off to see doing Star Trek than Abrams.
Please excuse me while I get a rage nosebleed at the mere thought.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
I think I'm entitled to have preferences while aware they don't constitute rights, no?
I agree. That's the second half of the sentence, the part following the word 'or.' I said and will repeat I'm not judging you for disliking current Trek. My only objection is the suggestion that it's a function of age rather than attitude.
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@Coin said in Good or New Movies Review:
I saw the new She-Ra when it dropped.
Then you know that you can honor and improve on source material.
Not saying Abrams isn't lazy about it, though.
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@Aria said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Wizz said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Auspice said in Good or New Movies Review:
it really is terrible how studios keep doing things that make money so they can keep making more movies i mean god they should just go full french art house ugh
I mean wouldn't a French art house Trek be kind of amazing tho
You know Tarantino planned to do a Star Trek movie? But it's apparently not happening any more.
Oh, wow. Someone I'd be even more pissed off to see doing Star Trek than Abrams.
Please excuse me while I get a rage nosebleed at the mere thought.
I don't think I'm spoiling anything since the movie isn't happening, but the information about the script is here: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-idea-1930s-gangster-movie-1234578751/
Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
I don't think I'm spoiling anything since the movie isn't happening, but the information about the script is here: https://www.indiewire.com/2020/08/quentin-tarantino-star-trek-idea-1930s-gangster-movie-1234578751/
Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!
I'd give it a shot, but I dunno if I want to deal with the scene where the camera inevitably zooms in on Uhura's toes.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!
Its called The City on the Edge of Forever, where McCoy travels to 1930s NYC and saves someone who was supposed to die, they start a movement that delays the US entry into WWII, and the Nazi's develop nukes 1st and win. Like that 1930s try not to break the Prime Directive, or different?
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Should I be yelling at the damn kids to get off my lawn?
Not precisely. The contention here isn't age, it's either that you think you have a greater right to dictate what Star Trek is than the people who own it have, or that you think Star Trek can only be one limited thing.
I think I'm entitled to have preferences while aware they don't constitute rights, no?
In a nutshell there are so many franchises and properties out there which are based on big action pieces. I liked (sometimes loved) Trek because it occasionally - not always - strayed from that formula and gave us ethical, educated, optimistic thinkers as its protagonists, and problems that were solved by deliberation and reason rather than out-phasering the enemy.
I'd still like to be catered to. Believe me, I'm quite aware why I won't be, at least in the movies (in fact that's the whole point of my post) but do I need to like it?
I'm not sure we'll see Trek regularly quoting Shakespeare again, but we can get Klingons whose new costumes include pumpkin pants.
Somehow, I don't see this as an improvement.
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@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!
Its called The City on the Edge of Forever, where McCoy travels to 1930s NYC and saves someone who was supposed to die, they start a movement that delays the US entry into WWII, and the Nazi's develop nukes 1st and win. Like that 1930s try not to break the Prime Directive, or different?
Given Tarantino's penchant in his last couple of movies for changing the past I suppose the time travel angle was more likely.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Lotherio said in Good or New Movies Review:
@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Basically it'd have been set in an Earth-in-the-1930s-like gangster setting, presumably while trying to not break the Prime Directive. I dunno, that's certainly different!
Its called The City on the Edge of Forever, where McCoy travels to 1930s NYC and saves someone who was supposed to die, they start a movement that delays the US entry into WWII, and the Nazi's develop nukes 1st and win. Like that 1930s try not to break the Prime Directive, or different?
Given Tarantino's penchant in his last couple of movies for changing the past I suppose the time travel angle was more likely.
And his use of Nazis.
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If any big budget action director were to be given Star Trek, I'd love to see Nolans version.
What is obvious to you may not be obvious to me and vice versa.
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@Groth said in Good or New Movies Review:
If any big budget action director were to be given Star Trek, I'd love to see Nolans version.
This would be interesting. I mean I'd see a Tarantino Star Trek, but I'd look forward to seeing what Nolan might do with it.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
Predictable given how publicly he quit, but disappointing all the same. I dunno, maybe he could do a good Superman if given a good script, but it just didn't feel like he had anything to bring to the table other than a chiseled jaw.
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@GreenFlashlight He impressed the fuck out of me in the Witcher. And he was really good in The Man From U.N.C.L.E. as well.
In fact come to think of it his roles as Clark were easily the worst ones I've seen him in.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
In fact come to think of it his roles as Clark were easily the worst ones I've seen him in.
So, the role in which he was directed by Zack Snyder were his bad ones? Funny that.
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@Arkandel said in Good or New Movies Review:
In fact come to think of it his roles as Clark were easily the worst ones I've seen him in.
Yeah, and I don't know what the behind the scenes was like on those movies. Maybe Cavill had actual ideas to bring to the character but Snyder is such a dictatorial auteur he refused to allow for any theme or characterization beyond "suffering is manly and romantic." I can only judge by what was on the screen, though, and I'd really like to not see him in the S-shield again.
Real talk, I kinda want them to just give the role to Tyler Hoechin. He's killing it on the CW.
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@GreenFlashlight said in Good or New Movies Review:
Real talk, I kinda want them to just give the role to Tyler Hoechin. He's killing it on the CW.
Real talk, I wanted Grant Gustin to play the Flash in the movies. Of course that was during the first couple of seasons but still - it'd have been fun!
