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Warning: rant ahead.
I'm writing this because you, friends in my head, will probably be the few to actually understand this. If not, you'll at least tell me I'm full of it. Either way, I think I'll feel better.

First of all, I am so frustrated by Star Trek: Into Darkness discussion. No because of spoilers-that doesn't bother me. Not even that it might be a bad movie because I haven't seen it and will reserve judgement until I (FINALLY!) see it. But, it seems that the discussion on the movie can't go five sentences without hate speech of some kind (on the Internet? Surely I jest). Not on this forum-this forum is, well...moving on...

I keep seeing something that makes me hem and haw on seeing the movie, to the point that I want to throw up my hands and say "Screw it! Why bother?" That feeling comes and goes and I really don't know what to do with it.

I want to go see it, but the discussion is wearing me out. I kind of want to see Fast 6 or GI Joe Retaliation just to have some fun...

Am I crazy?

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Not many people here are actually saying it is a bad movie, though. It is fun, it is just that there are some points that certain people have problems with. You should go and see it if you want to, those points may not bother you smile

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Jimmy: yuppity yup yup

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not long to go now...

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I've been mostly okay with this second Abrams trek because I consider it to be the big dumb fun movie that I didn't know the first one was (not to say that Nemesis wasn't stupid). This time, I knew what I was going in for and enjoyed myself a lot more than when I watched Trek09.

As long as one doesn't go in expecting the usual cerebral quality of Star Trek, it's great fun. It's not Prometheus.

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Given how much folks seem to like IM3, the distaste for this film leaves me a little baffled.

Anyway, it's only a film. None of this is worth a fight over.

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not long to go now...

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4/10, that's... a bit harsh surely?

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. - Carl Sagan

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"Life is about movies; anything else is a bonus!"- Me   cool

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Good article, and I agree with the writer's thoughts on why it wasn't so successful, they managed to dilute the Star Trek brand to such an extent that Star Trek Into Darkness isn't really distinguishable from any other 'evil terrrorist blows up stuff on Earth' movie (with a few fan service moments grafted on).

And this is the part where I lament that we had yet another Khan or analogous antagonist, and that Cumberbatch wasn't playing Gary Mitchell.

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I think, in the next Trek film, the villain should be The Borg.

*runs and hides*

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Make it R rated and you've got me on board.

if you're gonna do the Borg, it needs to be fucking terrifying and body horror to the max.

Plus, I would love to that version of the Borg.

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I'm calling it now: Matt Reeves (Cloverfield, Let Me In) will direct Star Trek 3. He's already got a relationship with Abrams producing his stuff, and he's got geek cred from previous projects. If his Rise of the Planet of the Apes sequel is good, I think that the franchise is in the bag for him.

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I'd worry that someone like that would essentially become a puppet for a Paramount committee.

Just thinking about it, I'd like to see an Enterprise era movie. You know, a film about mankind meeting new aliens, fumbling about in new places, seeing spacial anomalies that baffle them, and doing stuff an exploration ship would do using new technology that they don't really know how to use and which half the time isn't working properly.

And I like to see a crew that's actually developing their relationships on screen.

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