OT: Star Trek Movie (XI)

Atrocities · #1 November 13th, 2007, 04:22 PM

"Romulus, My Father"
the Title.

Well they have the principle cast cast.

Sorry no Gary or Matt.

The Cast

It is rumored that the movie will be a remake of Balance Of Terror. This is supported by the fact that Eric Bana will be playing the Romulan Praetor Nero.

I was hoping that Thomas Jane would have gotten the part of Kirk, but they felt he looked too old. (BS in my opinon.)

Gary Sinise would have made an ideal McCoy but he wanted to much money.

Instead the part went to LOTR actor Karl Urban. I am ok with this choice but I do wonder how he is going to adapt his native kiwi accent to that of a souther gentleman's?

The choice for Spock was spot on "nailed it" , and other cast say for Scotty, I would have rather seen Paul McGillion get that part, but he just didn't know the right people, seem to be all good ones. (Paul McGillion did read for the part, but lost it to Simon Pegg.)

Bruce Greenwood Cast as Christopher Pike over Tom Cruise, THANK YOU GOD!

It is going to be good to see a TOS movie made. I loved the original series and still do to this day. With the remastered episodes the series doesn't look so dated. To bad the remastered version don't have the full run time as the originals.

The originals were 49 to 52 minutes long, the new version are about 40 to 41 minutes. Cut Cut Cut... damn bean counters should all go to hell.

On a personal note, I am jealous of all of these people. I spent my life watching Star Trek, and here they are making a movie about that series and I am older than most of the cast! What the HELL MAN! Hell most of them weren't even born until AFTER Star Trek The Motion Picture! WTH MAN!

GuyOfDoom · #2 November 13th, 2007, 05:31 PM

I'll see it mainly because it's Star Trek. Not because I have any expectations of quality. In fact I've pretty much given up on Star Trek since the same 3 people have been calling the shots for awhile now and it's clear they have $$$ on the brain rather than any sense of fan loyalty.

Kana · #3 November 13th, 2007, 06:48 PM

I'm alittle disappointed it isn't a bit more of a prequel than actually running along with the TOS. If it is a remake of an episode, then I really think they are doing a diservice.

Randallw · #4 November 13th, 2007, 09:44 PM

You can see Spock here

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/34774

I'm also surprised at your "Romulus, my father" reference. I would have thought only Australians would know about it.

Harlan Ellison by the way is being a jerk about their plan to use one of his ideas. Great writer I gather, but a jerk. Mind you the original ST makers didn't know the difference between ruins and runes

narf poit chez BOOM · #5 November 13th, 2007, 11:10 PM

I tried going there, but there was an annoying, un-closeable advertisement.

Randallw · #6 November 14th, 2007, 12:12 AM

Sorry about that. Maybe I have it blocked. I'll put 2 of the pictures in my photobucket.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...intoSpock1.jpg
http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i1...intoSpock3.jpg

AgentZero · #7 November 14th, 2007, 12:28 AM

Are they up to 11 already? Jasus. I'll go see it though, just because it is Star Trek. I'm hoping and praying that they'll get back to the original spirit of TOS, without all that moral preachy bull**** that's frankly been ruining the series.

Renegade 13 · #8 November 14th, 2007, 05:21 AM

I definitely won't be going to see this in theater. Then again...I rarely see ANY movie in theater, they charge too damn much. I'll watch it when it comes to Pay Per View most likely, and only then if I see reviews (from you guys perhaps?

).

I've become rather disillusioned about Star Trek...the last good movie was (in my opinion) First Contact, and it had it's bad points as well. Insurrection made me want to gag, and Nemesis wasn't a hell of a lot better.

Give me a realistic look at the future, with all the strife, war, heroes and villains on both sides, and I might hop back on the bandwagon, rather than (as others have said) idealistic unrealistic crap.

Randallw · #9 November 14th, 2007, 05:40 AM

I plan to see it but then again I may end up not. Going to the movies isn't much of a priority. I usually only bother once, maybe twice, a year. It's not that I'm not interested in movies but I'm not motivated enough to bother. One thing I discovered was that we actually have a rather brief opening for movies down here. On the mainland they have multiplexes with the same movie for 6 months but the local cinemas chuck them on one after the other, only lasting a month maybe two. Usually they stop being shown before I get around to it. I only saw the first Fantastic 4 film last week. a Friend of mine said you get a better experience watching big films on a screen but I'm happy to see them on tv or maybe a hand full of times a year hiring a dvd. I've never seen the latest Superman movie or the last X-men movie and I'm a pretty big comics fan.

Atrocities · #10 November 14th, 2007, 06:04 AM

I just like good star trek. I don't care if it reflects on moder day issues or not. I love it when it works and regret it when it does not. STMP didn't work, STTWOK did work.

TOS was far more military minded than the later incarnations. Kirk wasn't afraid to kick someones *** or employ a gambit. Picard, while one of my favorites depended upon the "lets talk it out" approach more than Gun Boat diplomacy.

When they finally were put together in that especially crappy script, generations, I felt sick over how horrible it had been done. But the chemistry was there, and I would have paid real money to see more of that on screen.

The last Star Trek movie, Nemesis, was a fantastic script, widdled down to a mind numbingly anti-star trek movie. Fans responded to this movie with an allergic reaction. No wonder given how many times the director re-wrote the script.

One thing I have noticed about movies of old compared to movies of now, the intelligence is deliberately written out of them now.