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Special Effects Lessons From JJ Abrams' Star Trek

Posted by timothy on from the know-where-the-release-valves-are dept.

brumgrunt writes "JJ Abram's hugely successful — on many levels — reboot of Star Trek has, for Den Of Geek, brought to the fore a lesson about special effects that many movie makers have been missing. Surely it's time now that special effects were actually used properly?" (The new film is not without some goofs, though only a few of the ones listed by Movie Mistakes' nitpickers are sciency.)

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  1. I'm sick by camperdave · · Score: 0, Troll

    I'm sick of people calling this a "successful reboot of the Star Trek franchise". They made one cotton-picking movie, for crying out loud. You can call it a successful reboot after they've made maybe a couple of movies, or gotten a second highly rated season of TV out of it. Until then, it is just marketing hype.

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  2. Demographics? by hyades1 · · Score: 1, Troll

    I assume this movie was made for your basic young adult male, since that's supposed to be the most desirable segment of the audience, especially for this genre. Abrams and company obviously believe such people are lobotomized morons, since that's the level they pitched the movie to. Most of the young people I know are brighter than that. They might turn out for this movie, but I doubt very much whether they'll be back en masse for the sequel.

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  3. Re:summarizing the article for you... by jollyreaper · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh come now... Transformers is a decent movie.

    You're missing a sarcasm tag I hope?

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