02-28-2007, 08:38 AM
(This post was last modified: 02-28-2007, 09:04 AM by Hammerskjold.)
>Matt Damon as James T. Kirk
Adrien Brody as Mr. Spock
Gary Sinise as Dr. McCoy
I kind of see some resemblance at least from those shots, but I think I'm more interested in how well the story is told and how well the characters are done.
My thinking and belief on the whole current trek thing is pretty much summed up much better by this guy,
http://www.space.com/sciencefiction/tv/moo...ger_001207.html
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/tvnews.php?id=17154
Now to be clear I'm not saying which franchise is better etc, since that's about as interesting to me as debating which is better McDonalds vs Burgerking. A lot of it depends on personal taste. What I am saying is sometimes nostalgia becomes too much of a blinder. I'm a big fan of the current remake of Galactica, but I remember during the very early days some of the 'controversy' if you can even call it that by some of the fans, claiming it's a travesty to the original. (This was before the series even premiered.) But let's get some perspective. The 70's Galactica had a lot of cheese in it. Anyone claiming it doesn't probably needs to see it again, without the nostalgia propping it up.
I think there's a lot of interesting ideas left in the trek universe. There's also a lot of things that are the product of it's respective era, and sometimes they're kind of embarassing by today's standard. And I don't mean the technical special effects.
Is it really worth preserving some things strictly because they're 'trek'? Maybe it's just me, but one of my favourite trek movie Wrath of Khan, didn't really suffer at all from the absence of singing space hippies present in one of the tv episodes.
So if this new trek film does come out and it treats the story and characters without the excuse of 'ah who cares, the nerds will eat up whatever we'll throw at em' as long as we have the brand name.' I'll certainly be interested. If it's the same old song with trek technobabble to the rescue with some sci fi T&A, and some major named actors along with some sfx moneyshots I'll pass or wait until it's free on tv. And I'm saying this as a geeky fan of Vulcan priestesses.