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Star Trek Nemesis Preview Online
T-Kir writes "Originally from a news link at Trekweb, iFilm has a preview of Star Trek Nemesis in WMP, Real and Quicktime formats, it is also recommended you view with a broadband connection. [ed. snip] All in all a nice piece of eye candy until the films release on December 13th." This is a long trailer with lots of spoilers - you've been warned.
How cool is that - the anti Picard. Wonder if that can be used to power some kind of warp drive....
"A long trailer with lots of spoilers"
Sounds like a NASCARedneck fixed hisself a mobile home that's ultra-stable on the freeway.
You can never equivocate too much.
Dammit, dammit, dammit. I have no control. Must - watch - trailer - or - brain - will - collapse.
Did it. Are you happy now? No use to go see it.
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I'm surprised that I haven't seen more (any really) previews on television for Nemesis. Maybe I just haven't caught them but I usually catch at least one television preview for any given big-budget movie during it's marketing time. The only advertisements for Nemesis that I've seen have been posters in theaters when I'm out seeing some other movie. Am I the only one who thinks that this film may suffer from a poor marketing campaign? Heck, I didn't even know when this film was slated to come out until this ./ story!
As with the sun's light
My mom was magnificent
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I saw this trailer in the cinema last night, as it happens, and boy, do the effects look good on a big screen...
But isn't it about time the Next Gen crew went off into quiet retirement and someone else got a shot at a Trek movie? At least this one looks darker and more interesting than some of the recent output...
Oh no... I hope they don't really make it to earth and kill everything!
Wait, Enterprise could just sling-shot around the sun for a do-over... never mind.
You know what that means, get your questions ready! Slashdot interview with Patrick Stewart in 7 years!!
You forgot the, "What does God need with a Starship??" one...
-gerbik
Enjoy.....
I'll field the first question, but really, I get the feeling you're just being trite.
/. story? Hey, I'm gonna post the Apple quicktime area as a "story."
So:
> How does the preview of a movie rate a
It answers this in the header: "News for nerds." Last I heard, the jocks were still leaving most of the seats in any given theatre showing a Star Trek movie empty, thoughtfully leaving them for the nerds.
"Old man yells at systemd"
Exactly. Star Trek is good because it's in that nasty combined 'sci fi/fantasy' genre, and because it's got action and the occasional intrigue (sounds like this one is full of it, but I'm not watching any trailers). Everyone who wants action will go to Bond when it opens, and everyone who wants sci fi/fantasy will just wait for a movie that's guaranteed to be good no matter whether it's an even or odd numbered one in the sequence.
I didn't notice you in the trailer ... did they edit you out of the movie or something ;-p
Seriously - what was your characters role in the plot, since they decided they cut remove him?
We do not live in the 21st century. We live in the 20 second century.
The minute I saw the unknown man at the console (helm?), I knew he was dead. Welshy!!!!
(could be just me, of course)
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Is anyone else sick of trailers giving away key plot developments. To me a perfect trailer is more of a teaser. It should entice you. It should make you want to see the movie. But it shouldn't tell the whole story.
Just my 2 cents (or non-cents *groan*)
~ "When I'm of that age I'm just going to live up a tree."
Let's see: a big bad something threatens the Earth/Galaxy and Picard and Data and some other guys have to beat up the big bad guy and save the day.
Along the way, various minor cast members will have short/throwaway scenes, but most of the real meat of the plot will involve Picard and Data.
There will be a Worf joke.
Not like we haven't seen 3 of these already, you know.
Vincent J. Murphy
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As of right NOW... its not working... i get a page not found error when trying to load the trailor or the preview...... So... did slashdot /. ifilm? will this mean the mpaa going after the evil slashdot hackers for DoS'ing ifilm's website?
Criticizing the plot of a Star Trek movie is like going out and buying a "Fat Chicks with Huge Jugs" magazine and complaining about the lack of literary value.
:).
It's a Star Trek movie. Of course it's going to be mindless action and sci-fi. Duh. Doesn't mean it's not worth seeing (though it may well not be
But damnit Jim I just can't take another Startrek movie or series!
:)
Damnit Jeff, I just can't take any more of you repeatedly calling it "Startrek"..
For those that don't already know... this movie is rumored to be the starting point for a new series ("Fall of the Federation") to star Riker, Troi, etc (no Picard or Data)... Read about it here...which would explain the comment Picard makes in one of trailers...
Cuz even in the 24th century, they still can't handle a good, old-fashioned slashdotting...
"Nerds" I understood, yeah, okay. "News" I don't see in this post. There's been a Nemesis trailer on Apple's site for a long while now.
There's a poor ST movie every year and a half. When someone develops a way to set networked time agents based on the predictable arrival of yet another weak Star Trek movie, or if the next y2k scare is that the internet backbone may go down whenever there's every another good ST movie, that will be "news."
"Fundamentalism" isn't about divine morality. It's about human authority.
The last Star Trek movie, Resurrection, was released in 1998! That's a 4-years gap! All the previous movies were released every 1 or 2 years.
Why the huge time gap?
would it kill you to use the same codec that 99% of the population uses?
I mean, really, its APPLE QUICKTIME!! its not like its RealPlayer (which is demon spawn, if I might add), so its not Microsoft sleaze...
I dont use certain players, and realize that I cant view certain things. But its my CHOICE. These players are available to me, and I COULD use them, but I dont, so I dont complan.
grow up.
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I'm surprised that I haven't seen more (any really) previews on television for Nemesis.
I've been thinking the same thing but I'm starting to worry if the studio thinks the movie is going to be a bomb. As others have mentioned, there is stiff competition in the action/adventure genre from Bond and LotR. Perhaps they are worried that it just won't be able to keep pace and they are cutting their losses by not spending much on advertisting. The die-hard Trek fans will go to see it anyhow. A lot of people will go see any film just because they are tired of holiday shopping. The number-crunchers at Paramount may have calculated that negative word-of-mouth will override any benefit obtained by an aggressive marketing campaign.
Just my thoughts. But I have already read one review for the movie that suggests that this film will not even come close to fulfilling expectations for a film billed as the "final TNG adventure".
GMD
watch this
Going by the Trek Movie LAW, your assumption is irrelevent.
Odd numbered movies are inferior, and will be assimilated.
The DVD and VHS will be added to our Collection.
Resistance of Even numbered movies is futile.
I'll go see ST 11 if, and only if 7 of 9 is present, and is scantily clad.
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
GEE THANK YOU FOR SETTING ME STRAIGHT! I guess since 99% of the population uses it it MUST be good!
From where I'm sitting there is no significant difference between "APPLE QUICKTIME", "RealPlayer demon spawn" and "Microsoft sleaze". It's the same tune sung by different vocalists.
Silently not using certain players pointless. In my experience not using certain players and requesting media in other formats is not.
Oh, and when you actually take the time out of your busy day to spell out "thanks" you're a lot more convincing when you tell people to grow up.
no where did I say that proprietary codecs were good, I merely said that if a product is released in X format, and you dont have X format, than you are SOL. There are things like real player which will NOT touch my hard drive, and as such I cant hear things that use it, but I dont complain, I just dont use those sites. If you really wanted to see the trailer (or whatever) you'd get off your high horse and install QT (or whatever).
so go back to your little cubicle and pray to the linux gods or scrawling M$ sux over and over or whatever it is you do, and miss out on life because of some "ideals" that if its not on linux its bad, and let the rest of us use the bandwidth you arent worthy of to actually watch the trailer.
wanker.
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A warp drive that goes to 11.
have you watched any of the Star Wreck Episodes... they are rather funny.
They evolved over time - so the newest ones are the best. Another thing by some crazy Fin.
Star Wreck!
The link is an interesting read. However I was struck by two things. First he claims he is turning 30. Second he says his child is 13. 30 - 13 = 17. IMHO thats a wee bit young to be a dad. Then again him and his kid could sit around playing PS2 games and snarfing cheetos.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
1. The Holodeck is strictly off limits. It may not be metioned, alluded to, or featured as a plot element.
2. Only the badguys quote Shakespear.
3. NOBODY quotes or signs songs from musicals. Not Rogers and Hammerstein. Not Andrew Lloyd Webber. ESPECIALLY not Gilbert and Sullivan!
4. Everybody who dies stays dead.
5. Time-travel is permitted, but must be used as a humourous plot element, and not as part of the denoument.
6. Villans must be sane, intelligent, calculating and preferrably vengeful. Regardless, all villans must have beleivable motivation. Insane, god-like beings need not appear.
7. Little or no new technology should be introduced in the course of the movie, epecially technology relating to time-travel or the holodeck. If technology is introduced it should be treated with care-- do not show a knife on screen unless it's going to end up in someone's back!
8. Redshirts must die by the score.
9. There must be at least 25 minutes of space battle footage in which at least one ship is violently and graphically ripped apart.
and
10. The Enterprise must suffer heavy, even crippling damage in the course of the fight. It may even be destroyed.
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They were actually going on a real life mission...(like in Galaxy Quest)
:)
They had to go fight klingons on uranus.
(I'm sorry...I've been up for 36 hours working on this asm program, and I think I broke something in my brain.)
nbfn
We'll be able to see the Weaton's part that got cut out on the DVD.
Technoli
Go to Apple's site to get a better viewing of the Trailer. http://www.apple.com/trailers/paramount/star_trek_ nemesis/
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Personally, I prefer Babylon 5 to any of them
Technoli
someone else on /. is married? wow, and I thought I was the only one.
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I am a long time sci-fi fan.
I seen almost all of the Star Trek movies in the Theater, except the last few of old ST movies. The movies got so badly written, I could not bare to watch, even on video.
Even with the TNG movies, Generations was maybe the best. I think from the trailer, that I watched before Harry Potter 2. I need not watch the movie, since the plot and everything we given it.
The only really cool space shows of late have been Babylon 5, Farscape, first season the Andromeda, Lex (though it is just a bit weird) reminds me of some of the old British sci-fi shows.
I do not know why TV executives think shows need to be dumb down, but to me it is killing sci-fi not helping it and nether does being over PC help.....
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http://anon.ifilm.speedera.net/anon.ifilm/qt/porta l/2457975_200.mov
they might change it but it's working now
Gees, I'm not sure how my original post got a "+5 Informative" because I didn't even include the link to the review I read! I mean, "+3 Insightful" or "+4 Interesting" I can understand...
Anyhow, here's the review I mentioned. Needless to say, plot spoilers are featured. Like I said, the review makes Nemesis sound like an okay, but not great, Trek flick.
GMD
watch this
The numbering system doesn't work for the movies if you're interested in space babes, though:
1: Sexy bald chick2: Space skanks
3: Were there any chicks in this one besides Savvak and Uhura?
4: Kinda sexy whale-lovin' mama
5: Muscle-bound klingon
6: Iman. 'Nuff said.
7: Whoopi Goldberg? Gees...
8: When chicks do that abdomen wrigging thing, it's sexier if they're actually connected to their hips at the time...
9: Sexy mature quail who's read one to many "live life to the fullest" self-help books
10: Who knows? But originally 7 of 9 was going to cameo and they decided to go with Janeway. Doesn't look good...
GMD
watch this
http://anon.ifilm.speedera.net/anon.ifilm/qt/porta l/2446661_200.movq t-libwine-howto.txt
http://mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/tech/
watch for speed bumps : "...qt/porta l/22..." (remove space)
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
BTW this is downloadable, and not just a stream (which is unlike the asf).
Im not here now... Im out KILLING pepperoni
They crash and destroy the ship again? These guys are never going to be able to get insurance now.
StoneTrek
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Funny that they're using the same limitations that were claimed for the speed of light.
Well considering that we're stuck back here in the 21st century, stretching, bending, and hammering our current theories is really the only way to approximate 25th century theories, don't you think?
I would very much prefer to download this trailer to a file on disk, why? my connection is erratic, sometimes quick and sometimes slow, and my route to a server halfway across the world doesnt help much.
watching video in such conditions would be very annoying, but downloading it to watch later wouldnt bother me atall. So then, why dont any of these sites offer an option to do that?
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Well, now that we've reduced ourselves to the point where the 13 year olds playing on CS servers would feel at home, lets go over the facts: 1) Apple is hosting the sight, and they did the preview in quicktime. Quicktime is free. The sight is free. You can use it, or not use it. No where does it say that they have to put it up in a non proprietary format. They ARE promoting the use of their software, after all. If you don't like the format, then dont use it. 2) the -1 flamebait hit you as well as me, and I have karma to burn. 3) You are an idiot. A simple minded, living in a cave, racist, mother needs to die in a car accident but not until after 14 hours of excruciating pain, man-humping, zealot. Take those two things on the insides of your hand, yes, the thing we civilized people call "thumbs" and shove them up your rear. I wash my hands of you. Wanker.
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