Forum Overview :: Peter Molyneux's The Movies :: Re: What would a good Star Trek movie look like, anyway?

[quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="fucking newbie"]I don't hate star trek, I want to love it and find myself looking at things like MacLeod's hit-and-miss Culture series for something better - but MacLeod is only capable of brilliance as much as he's capable of being a pretentious piece of shit with troublesome execution. He does manage to ape literature every now and again, which is something space opera as a genre has failed to do many times since 1940. My problem with Star Trek is that even if the technology and political situation and other surface shit wasn't an issue it'd still be very much something with substance at one tenth of its potential because of marketing stomping on the brakes. If you took whoever wrote Black Mirror, told them to make anything else on television (and not just sci-fi) look bumbling in comparison and that nothing was off the table, and made them fear failure like grim death, they might write a Star Trek I'd watch for a lot of seasons. ...But I can honestly do better for myself elsewhere, because visual entertainment that claims to be smart sci-fi is a sham :([/quote] I bring up JJ Abrams' horrid franchise murder and you're talking about literature and smart sci-fi. I'll settle for something that isn't relentlessly stupid in almost every single scene. From Spock making out with chicks to UGH THE FARRAGUT???!!! to dropping Spock off on a nearby planet and he can see the planet vulcan implode during the day on wherever the hell he is, Kirk coincidentally gets dropped off at the same planet, Scotty coincidentally is chilling on that planet, the steampunk bullshit engine room . . . I don't want to remember the rest. It was the worst movie ever. Generations was better. If Generations ruined everything according to Redletter Media, this one did all that AND also ruined Redletter Media. Easier to list the scenes I liked. Spock telling off the Vulcan Science Academy. That might be it, actually. :( Well, killing off Wynona Ryder. Here's a great quote: "Not that Star Trek: Insurrection or First Contact aren't good titles," he [some guy named Lindelof] said, "it's just that everything that people are turned off about when it comes to Trek is represented by the colon." They don't want a colon in the title, because that's what's wrong with Star Trek. I'm surprised they know the names of other Star Trek movies. If they don't want to make a Star Trek movie, THAT'S OKAY. MAKE SOME OTHER MOVIE, THEN. Call it "Luke Starwars and the Events or Happenings" (and pay Ryan North some royalties). The actual title is "Star Trek Into Darkness". Irony?[/quote]