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Rumor · Oct 29, 2008, 04:36 PM

Who and who?

Dakar V · Oct 29, 2008, 04:37 PM

Don't play dumb with me, dummy.

Rumor · Oct 29, 2008, 04:40 PM

Reported!

No, really, I have no idea who you are talking about. Celebrity gossip isn't one of my concerns.

olePigeon · Oct 29, 2008, 04:45 PM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Reported!

No, really, I have no idea who you are talking about. Celebrity gossip isn't one of my concerns.

Dakar V · Oct 29, 2008, 04:47 PM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Reported!

No, really, I have no idea who you are talking about. Celebrity gossip isn't one of my concerns.

Has nothing to do with gossip and everything to do with the demographics their work appeals to.

osiris · Oct 29, 2008, 04:51 PM

I wonder how dumbed down this new beast will be.

Rumor · Oct 29, 2008, 04:53 PM

Star Trek, premiering exclusively on the WB.

Big Mac · Oct 29, 2008, 05:03 PM

Those two look like they're going to Comic-Con together. That doesn't even look like Quinto.

olePigeon · Oct 29, 2008, 05:34 PM

Originally Posted by Rumor

Star Trek, premiering exclusively on the WB.

I don't need a Klingon played by D. L. Hughley.

"Why do Andorians look like white people?"
"... Klorg, Andorians are blue."
"So they're white people who drank blue Kool-Aid!"

andi*pandi · Oct 29, 2008, 10:02 PM

Just horrible. Unless this is a pre pre prequel, or as mentioned, High School Star Trek Musical, there's no way that kid can be plausible as a captain. He's ensign material at best.

SpaceMonkey · Oct 29, 2008, 10:12 PM

Originally Posted by osiris

I wonder how dumbed down this new beast will be.

I bet they won't even ever reverse the polarity.

vcutag · Oct 29, 2008, 11:59 PM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

I bet they won't even ever reverse the polarity.

Wasn't that more of a TNG thing?

analogue SPRINKLES · Oct 30, 2008, 01:28 AM

I kinda like what I have seen so far visually. It is campy.

SpaceMonkey · Oct 30, 2008, 09:20 AM

Originally Posted by vcutag

Wasn't that more of a TNG thing?

Even so, if they don't reverse the polarity on something during this movie, I will be very upset.

Dakar V · Oct 30, 2008, 09:22 AM

I expect inertial dampers to go offline at least once.

analogue SPRINKLES · Oct 30, 2008, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

I expect inertial dampers to go offline at least once.

Not to mention they will be close to a core breech but the ejection system will be offline.
I also expect a rescue mission that involves beaming someone out last second.

SpaceMonkey · Oct 30, 2008, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by analogue SPRINKLES

Not to mention they will be close to a core breech but the ejection system will be offline.
I also expect a rescue mission that involves beaming someone out last second.

Or, given the time period, a rescue mission that involves Kirk getting it on with a hot chick at the last second.

What's the over-under on number of red shirts getting killed in this movie?

Peter · Oct 30, 2008, 04:14 PM

Why is Harold on the enterprise!

love that guy

olePigeon · Oct 30, 2008, 04:40 PM

"I see you managed to get your shirt off."

Eug · Oct 30, 2008, 04:57 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

Why is Harold on the enterprise!

Harold and Sylar Escape from Botany Bay.

vcutag · Oct 30, 2008, 08:29 PM

Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey

Even so, if they don't reverse the polarity on something during this movie, I will be very upset.

I have a feeling I'm going to hate it. Still, I'm willing to give it a try.

analogue SPRINKLES · 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

Why is Harold on the enterprise!

love that guy

He is playing Suli. Inetersting connection... In Harold and Kumar Neil Patrick Harris was in it playing a straight guy and later in reality to come out as a gay man. In Star Trek Harold is playing a straight character who in reality is gay.

Wait that's not really much of a connection but there ya have it.

Peter · Oct 31, 2008, 10:40 AM

do you mean Neil Patrick Harris?

Dakar V · Oct 31, 2008, 10:42 AM

Maybe he meant Robert Duncan McNeill.
next!

Laminar · Oct 31, 2008, 10:43 AM

Perhaps it was Sarah Jessica Parker.

andi*pandi · Oct 31, 2008, 10:54 AM

Neil Patrick Janus.

Dakar V · Oct 31, 2008, 10:54 AM

Kneel Patrick Harrahs

osiris · Oct 31, 2008, 01:14 PM

Or Neil Patrick buying Dunkin Donuts at Harrah's.

shabbasuraj · Nov 1, 2008, 03:07 AM

omg FAIL^^^^^^^

Kerrigan · Nov 1, 2008, 03:48 AM

The makeup on the old Kirk is worse. You can see where it ends near his hairline, and the eyebrows are tweezed off dramatically. The old Spock also has a vaudevillian dash of purple makeup under his own improbable eyebrows. Ridiculous indeed. I don't see exactly how this new arrangement falls short of previous standards.

Doofy · Nov 1, 2008, 06:49 AM

I bet some of your living rooms look like that.

Jawbone54 · Nov 1, 2008, 09:36 AM

Seriously, I'm scared they're going to botch it up too, but this thread has made me realize that the whiniest, most nit-picky two groups of people are Mac fans and Star Trek fans.

Add the two together, and...

analogue SPRINKLES · Nov 1, 2008, 01:17 PM

Originally Posted by Peter

do you mean Neil Patrick Harris?

Ya that's the bastard.

Veltliner · Nov 2, 2008, 03:02 AM

Originally Posted by subego

Ugh.

You should click on original size to get the full effect of "new" Spock's truly horrid makeup.

I always forget how handsome of a devil Shat was back in the day, and judging by the pose, who would have known they had myspace?

This is so sad!

I'd call it abuse!

Harrydangler · Nov 2, 2008, 03:35 PM

Yes I guess we can't clone Shater and Nimoy, so everyone just chill out. most of you still think that science fiction started with Star wars. so lets don't go off half cocked and start saying crap until the movie is out. If you want to talk crap let's talk about the remake of War of the Worlds or the the new X file movie which should of been called (I want to be bored). Carter really blew it with this movie.

Face Ache · Nov 2, 2008, 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by Harrydangler

most of you still think that science fiction started with Star wars.

We am smarter than that.

Metrosexuals innn spaaaaace!

SpaceMonkey · Nov 3, 2008, 12:14 AM

Originally Posted by Harrydangler

Carter really blew it with this movie.

Keep it in the Pol/War Lounge, please.

Brien · Nov 14, 2008, 06:54 PM

Well, went to see QoS today (good flick btw) and the Star Trek trailer was there... let me say that while it looks nothing like a Star Trek film, it's the first one since Generations that I've actually wanted to go see.

I think, as much as people are going to hate change, the franchise needed a shot in the arm. This just might do it.

analogue SPRINKLES · Nov 15, 2008, 02:02 AM

Any trailer leaks?

Brien · Nov 15, 2008, 03:16 AM

Bad quality, but apparently, yes.

ghporter · Nov 15, 2008, 11:21 AM

I just saw the action-packed trailer before Quantum of Solace. I am SO there! As my son put it, "I don't care if it's canon or not, I'm going to see it." Yes, it impressed me that much.

(By the way, QoS really kicked serious @ss! I'm going to have to rent Casino Royale now...)

LegendaryPinkOx · Nov 15, 2008, 12:02 PM

There is something not right about Kirk driving a corvette off of a cliff...

Peter · Nov 15, 2008, 12:12 PM

I just can't get excited if Patrick Stewart isnt in it.

Laminar · 12:46 PM

Originally Posted by ghporter

(By the way, QoS really kicked serious @ss! I'm going to have to rent Casino Royale now...)

Really? I didn't like it. When it ended I was like...is it over? Something about it just doesn't feel like a proper Bond movie. Besides his phone, he used exactly zero gadgets. His car did nothing special - a couple of rockets out of the taillights would have made short work of the first scene.

It just seemed like another "agent goes rogue and must get the bad guy to clear his name" generic movie.

Dakar V · Nov 15, 2008, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Laminar

Really? I didn't like it. When it ended I was like...is it over? Something about it just doesn't feel like a proper Bond movie. Besides his phone, he used exactly zero gadgets. His car did nothing special - a couple of rockets out of the taillights would have made short work of the first scene.

This is actually a concerted effort on their part. They're trying to be gritty and realistic. I can agree that by Brosnan the films sometimes stretched things too much, but still.

It does take away from making the movies feel Bondish, but I think Craig and his wooden acting were the worse change.

Laminar · Nov 15, 2008, 02:55 PM

Originally Posted by Dakar V

This is actually a concerted effort on their part. They're trying to be gritty and realistic. I can agree that by Brosnan the films sometimes stretched things too much, but still.

It does take away from making the movies feel Bondish, but I think Craig and his wooden acting were the worse change.

I don't care about gritty and realistic. I want to see Bond driving his car using his cellphone while lying in the back seat avoiding rockets fired by the bad guys. Bond is all about over the top.

Dakar V · Nov 15, 2008, 02:56 PM

I agree.

Laminar · Nov 15, 2008, 03:03 PM

I still think Tomorrow Never Dies has one of the best opening scenes - he single-handedly blows up an entire black market weapons meeting, then flies the nuclear-equipped jet out of the explosion.

calverson · Nov 15, 2008, 03:07 PM

IMO, Vanilla Sky really has the best opening scene. The way that it soars over NYC, and the intermitted black screen, then the Abre Los Ohos and... Radiohead.

edit: Then you see Tom Cruise half nekkid... yikes.

Dakar V · Nov 15, 2008, 03:07 PM

Particularly when compared to the rest of the movie (One of the lamest Bond villains with least interesting henchman ever?)