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First Official Photos From New Star Trek Movie
Philias Fog writes "The most secret project in Hollywood is finally lifting its skirt. Today Paramount released a number of images for their new Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams. Shots include images of the bridge of the Enterprise, the villain Nero, a ship (not the Enterprise) and all of the crew in uniform. TrekMovie.com has a complete set of photos and links to all the new shots."
leaves me wondering why they put a kid in charge of a space ship...
OK, here ya go:
:-)
How on earth can the entire command staff of the Enterprise be that young? They don't require people to have serious experience (time in the field) before they can get to positions of that much responsibility?
An adolescent captain just looks wrong...
At least they got that right in (most) of the other Treks.
Other than that, nice pics; love the angry Spock one
It's JJ Abrams, which means we get to start out in the middle of the story, backtrack to "where it all began," and finish up with a fun-filled exciting resolution!
MI:III I'm betting was just a rehash of an unused ALIAS script.
Not that he does bad work, it's just a little repetitive after a while.
I assume you're referring to the pic of the shot-up starship. Couldn't the fires be feeding on oxygen escaping from hull breaches?
It looks like High School Space Capades. These kids are way too young and they all look way too much the same. AND William Shatner IS Captain Kirk. There is no way you can cast anybody as Kirk but Shatner. Why even go there? If they want to appeal to new younger croud, then just call it Star Trek: ABC or something. They don't know Kirk anyway. I don't think any trekkies will be happy with that.
I seriously had to check if it was April 1.
Are there any beloved childhood memories that Hollywood hasn't raped the corpse of yet?
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Star Trek: check
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As someone who watched TOS on a black and white 9" TV with a towel under the door to hide the light from my parents (it was on after bed time)...I welcome a "refreshing" of the Star Trek ensemble. The key to success will be the script, not the special effects, a lesson not learned in a few previous Star Trek and most Sci-Fi movies...
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That honestly depends on how good of an actor he is.
I had no idea that I would end up loving Leonardo DiCaprio as much as I do now when I saw him in Titanic. But after seeing movies like Catch Me if You Can and The Aviator, you'll understand how simply being a good actor can negate these kinds of labels.
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Try to think of it as Star Trek: 90210.
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Actually, this is what is known as a "movie", bpjk. So I guess the more pertinent question is "are they all capable actors?" Anything is possible in a movie, whether they are too young or not is open for debate but again refer to the first sentence. You're worse than a lot of the Trekkies drooling over this. Sure I'm excited but I'm going to take it at base value, it's a movie and it has Nimoy's voice, cool. Always enjoyed the Star Trek movies more anyway. Can't wait. I'm also not going to get over-critical with this, it's a fucking movie. Get a fucking life.
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Adolescent?! The guy's 28 years old. Check IMDB, at 28, he's the youngest member of the cast which averages in the mid-30s.
You've been watching too much 90210, and may have actually come to believe that good looking mid-to-late 20s actors are teens. ;-)
The problem is that they put him (and the 90210 people) in a lot of makeup so that they don't look like 28 year olds. They don't look like real people at all. Why is it that in movies made after the 1980s people main characters can't look real? Even when the main character is supposed to be some sort of grungy curmudgeon, say Jack Black playing a pseudo-bum, he's caked in makeup so that he's a bum with the skin of an adolescent.
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You'd be suprised how little time it takes for the air to escape from a relatively small container such as the Enterprise into a practically infinite vacuum through a hole a few inch in diameter.
What bothers me more is the smoke in the left side of the picture. Anyone here knows how smoke 'should' behave in space?
I looked at the vidcaps and didn't see Picard. This movie has failed already.
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if large clouds of gas (nebulae) can float around in space, then why can't smaller pockets of gas? and a photo captures a split-second view of an event, so even if the oxygen escaped very quickly, it could still combust before it becomes too dispersed.
and since smoke is just a cloud of very fine particulates (solid, liquid, and gases) it would probably behave the same way as comet comas & tails, which are composed of similar physical particles. if there was a significant amount of smoke, it would surely be visible in space. it just wouldn't be disperse by wind like it would in an a gaseous atmosphere.
By last episode are you talking about the episode with a faction of human xenophobis, or the TNG episode that masquraded as an Enterprise episode with Riker playing make believe in order to resolve a moral conflict? Ugh, Trip pantomiming his death scene, and the entire Enterprise crew remaining stagnant for almost a decade? I'm about ready to accept the fanfics that claim it was all a pointless ruse by Section 31.
So if we made the next James Bond movie and had him played by Dakota Fanning it'd be ok as long as she put in a good performance?
It's just a movie after all. I hear 50 Cent is still into acting, maybe we can remake Schindler's List since Indian Jones already got the new Speilburg treatment.
Theoretically, that should work.
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All of that is assuming no one thinks to close the fucking blast doors.
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