Star Trek: Into Darkness

Fuck it, new thread. Prompted by The Trek Darkness Rises:

http://pixel.nymag.com/imgs/daily/vulture/2012/12/03/03_star-wars.o.jpg/a_560x0.jpg

Dantestraw
Boy, they must have really liked the logo-shaped hole motif from the Dark Knight Rises posters, huh?

are they bringing the borg in already? at least they could wait till they reboot TNG

i'm sorry but that poster is not very "star trek" imo

yeah I don't like TDKR v2

grim desolation not really ST's forte imo

It's representative of the wasteland left behind after Tyler Perry strides through the landscape.

The only way this could work if it was like 'Sisko Begins'.

snoball otm

Almost lifelike:

http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/star-trek-2-imax.jpg

First nine minutes due to run on IMAX showings of The Hobbit:

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/11/14/star-trek-into-darkness-imax-preview/

The only way this could work if it was like 'Sisko Begins'.

― Paul McCartney, the Gary Barlow of The Beatles (snoball), Monday, 3 December 2012 18:36 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://s3.amazonaws.com/sites.wpengine/scelebs/wp-content/old_pictures/wenn2702469.jpg

oh i hate you for that

"Set phasers to thong-th-thong-thong-thong!"

am i the only one who thinks 'star trek into darkness' is the funniest title ever

clunkiest, maybe?

Star Trek Into Dark Chocolate With Nougat.

yeah it sounds like a Stephen King series or something

Star Trek Into Darkness coming to SyFy this fall starring Kevin Sorbo and Shannen Doherty

someone create a dance called the Star Trek and we'll have the foundation for a stunning viral video

xp: why would you do that to poor Kevin Sorbo ;_;

hee hee

Star Trek InTO CHAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIINNNNNNZZZZZZZZ

what would be the star trek versions of midichlorians and jar jar binks?

something Vulcan-related and Tribbles

star trek versions of (...) jar jar binks
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Neelix.jpg

who was it who said they wanted the bad guy in the Trek sequel to be an evil Tribble

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRYNYb30nxU

Star Trek...Into...D...a...r...k...n.......e........s........s..........s

using trek that way just makes me think of Star Trekkin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

Hi I'm Star Trek. I'm really into darkness. It's my favorite thing.

Star Trek III: Turning The Lights On

first image result for goth star trek
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lhq59d3w601qb9vsro1_500.jpg

Abrams really took that need more lens flare thing personally.

Star Trek N2 Fast 2 Dark

the darkness = evil spock

LEGION OF STARHEROES GREAT TREK INTO DARKNESS SAGA

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/bc/Great_Darkness_Saga_TPB.jpg/250px-Great_Darkness_Saga_TPB.jpg

darkness
imprisoning me
all that i see
william shatner

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-C6xkvEhr1Is/T3NU5sJ9IFI/AAAAAAAABg8/ESlWyADT5Rw/s1600/Voltaire_-_Banned_On_Vulcan.jpg

bonnie 'prince' bill shatner
i see into darkness

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/48/IseeaDarkness.jpg

ok guys

come on, "into darkness" NAGL for trek

Jump starting the lucrative market for Star Trek / Twilight crossover slashfic...

into dark of moon the

star trek: into ponies

c+f "into dorkness"

"Phrase not found"

smdh at you all

Star Trek: Into Dark Helmet

Into Dickness

star trek just not that into you

http://static2.fjcdn.com/thumbnails/comments/Yo+dawg+we+heard+you+liked+memes+_19d7fa6f8b0e1e5c329814bf1c2e1aeb.jpg
"Yo dawg, we heard you were into Star Trek, so we put Star Trek in your Star Trek so you can Star Trek while you Star Trek."

I don't go into movies looking to criticize, tbh. I wouldn't have seen this is I didn't want to see it.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 June 2013 18:23

I went to see it cos the first was a great looking blast.
― posters who have figured how to priv (darraghmac), Monday, 10 June 2013 18:29

I went to it with not great expectations (went with friends who wanted to) because I am not a huge Star Trek fan to begin with and thought the previous one was just ok*, but I thoroughly enjoyed this one, plot was silly and annoying in places but a great looking blast it was indeed

* saw #1 on a small screen and #2 in 3d on a big screen, would probably have liked #1 more on a bigger screen

PS was totally distracted by one scene where Khhhaaaaanberbatch was talking but his hairline was offscreen and from the forehead down he looked unnervingly like Data. maybe I just need new glasses

Yep. But Don't be too quick to let JJ "I was never a big Star Trek fan" Abrams off the hook.

― schwantz, Monday, June 10, 2013

Ha. To keep it simple I actually deleted a parenthetical that began "which is not to let Abrams off the hook..." He's like the anti-Whedon.

He's so middlebrow it's dizzying. He's like Spielberg if Spielberg were just a studio gun for hire. But middlebrow can seal the deal if the words are right. Lindelof's track record of shoddy, sloppy, contemptuous work speaks for itself.

I mean, man:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/damon-lindelof-alice-eve-underwear-scene-star-trek_n_3314471.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_qxcafA9Ws

Have you seen enterprise, or that gi joe movie?

I want to see that GI Joe movie!

It has Jinx in it!

is that really a plus?

DUH!

you don't want to see that gi joe movie!

You're not the boss of me!

Rachel Nicholls in leather- check

Nice one Huffington Post. A discussion about whether an underwear scene is gratuitous with a picture at the top that is, er, gratuitous.

Every piece addressing the same thing uses the same still. I jus assume, per H. Post, that they just took the idea/graphic from someone else, like Jezebel.

In what way is everything else in this move not gratuitous

still probably part of movie press package

Rachel Nicholls in leather- check

I'm talking about the sequel, not the first one. Or did you just spoil me? Next, you're going to say that Channing Tatum's character was originally like off in the first act but the film was reshot with him in it, causing half a year's delay!

SW shit talk got me to thinking about this one and what an uninspired movie this is, albeit with some impressive FX. but i mean everything has impressive FX so whatever. cannot believe the laziness of just repurposing and flipping the script on the wrath of khan ending, it's probably worse fan service than anything i saw in the SW prequels. i'll give lucas this much, the prequels weren't lazy.

laziest thing of all - movie ends with 20 minute fistfight (is why superman sucked as well)

The lazy TNG movies all ended with fistfights or one-on-one gun battles with the captain vs the baddie

I think Training Day was the first movie I saw to be scuppered by the modern malady of "We don't know how to end the movie, let's just fight for 20 minutes, way beyond a point where actual human beings would be dead or at least have sustained serious brain damage".

Never bothered seeing this after all.

well if you're ever hard up for lens flares, it's got some

laziest thing of all - movie ends with 20 minute fistfight (is why superman sucked as well)

This was like the final nail in the coffin that proved that Abrams and his crew don't know or care about Star Trek at all... If you really think you should end a Star Trek movie with a lengthy fistfight between the good guy and the baddie, you shouldn't be directing it. Even more than the previous one, this felt like a generic SF action movie with a bit of Star Trek frosting and fanservice on top. So it's a good thing Abrams left for Star Wars (which his action-oriented approach suits much better), let's just hope whoever replaces him will have some idea of what makes ST special.

he's been replaced by Roberto Orci. The only way is down

Yeah, looking at Orci's filmography, it doesn't sound good.

I liked that it showed a lot of Earth, which we haven't seen much of in previous Trek series.

otherwise THPPTPHTPHPHHPH

re Orci: another case of everyone involved with Transformers getting credit for its success, said success being due to having big shiny toy robots smashing shit.

there are many non-treky things in it but khan fistfight is canon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OxIrADjiHo

Almost every ST movie from '94 on ends with either a fistfight or a one-on-one gun battle between the captain and the main baddie. So the films' descent into what RedLetterMedia's Mike Stoklasa has termed "action schlock" reached back into the Berman/Braga era.

Star Trek is one of those things where it's infuriating to be a fan of due to the wide gulf of what it can be v. how they often manage to either piddle it away or fuck it up royally.

It's one of things where the greatest examples of what it should be doing are instead done by others either mocking it, or who grew up obsessed and are making their own version

i.e. Galaxy Quest, Mass Effect 2

again, though, star trek iii ends with <spoilers> kirk booting christopher lloyd into a volcano. action schlock is built into ST DNA.
it's the absence of anything else that makes nu-trek not-trek.

Am I the only person here whose memories of TOS are 80% Kirk alternating between boning aliens and punching/phasering the shit out of someone shortly after saying "we are peaceful observers"?

yeah, kirk dropped about 150 double axe handles in TOS alone

haha xpost

I have the sneaking suspicion that the ppl complaining that there's too much fighting in the new movies are actually mad that nu-Kirk doesn't spend 45 minutes sexing up aliens

haha apparently we went down this road before:

I kind of don't know what people were expecting from this movie.

― they are either militarists (ugh) or kangaroos (?) (DJP), Monday, June 10, 2013 11:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Sex.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, June 10, 2013 11:13 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The second TOS pilot (the first TOS episode with Kirk in it) ends with Kirk having a fist fight with a superhuman.

The TOS episode where they go to the 'leisure park planet' has an extended sequence where Kirk beats the shit out of a guy who used to bully him as a cadet. Having fistfights with people is what Kirk thinks about for relaxation.

The best summary of the Orci-era I think we might hve even mentioned on this thread, that this is Star Trek for people who hate Star Trek.

I think Abrams w/this series is crippled both by the terror of trying anything new (from all the performances that are just faint echoes of the ones in TOS to stories that are winking to previously told ones) as well as the inability to do anything that feels like it belongs in the ST universe. plus the fact that so many previous treks were filled with actual lived-in adults (and william shatner) performing the roles as opposed to a bunch of walking airbrush examples (and Simon Pegg.) plus I think one of the things proven with previous trek series and films was that this story universe is pretty welcoming to new groups of characters and stories, like its entirely possible for a good filmmaker to come up with something fresh which is why this kind of reboot is more than a little disappointing. And it also possesses almost zero intelligence while previous treks have at least given the impression that there was something going on beyond all the phasers and fistfights and earwigs and spaceship battles.

also I think Abrams is crippled by being actually a pretty bad filmmaker. and his use of two skateboard comeback era beastie boys tracks in the films as music cues for Kirk seems hopelessly dated and corny.

i keep, probably intentionally, forgetting that he did that

beastie boys in a star trek movie. ffs.

Kirk is clearly a Filter dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZJczZ6gbVU

But I think this works as a bit of comedy, and "Look how cool our awesome and cool hero is!!!1"

Correction: And NOT how cool our hero is, etc

mccoy got his name from his fervent bone thugs fandom.

bone,thugs,thou-shalt-do-no-harmony

dammit Jim I'm a spin doctor

dude you're writing to a guy who probably gives his own children treasure maps and a pair of plane tickets to find their christmas presents

jesus. simmer the fuck down already

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, December 12, 2012 4:55 PM bookmarkflaglink

:D