I just read on Empires website that TPTB at Paramount have released the plot synopsis for the next Trek movie. Yes, the one with the dumb name. It's here if you'd like to read it, and probably everywhere across the web too by now:
Could (considering the other potential spoilers from cast and crew plus the odd rumour here-and-there) this be good news? Or should we be getting out our peril sensitve glases? Not sure, but at least it's some brand new Trek!
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Yeah, there's a lot of talk of what "detonating the fleet" means. By itself, the phrase would suggest the destruction of a fleet of starships. But reading the rest of the synopsis, you get the sense of some sort of coup or uprising occurring in the Federation.
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I'm still looking forward to it, but the synopsis puts me into a typical complaining Trek fan mode.
It sounds like a very entertaining thrill ride, but not something that lives up to the words "star trek". I look forward to seeing 23rd century Earth, but I was really hoping this movie would be hurtling through the final frontier, taking full advantage of the freedom that the budget and technical capabilities have given the creators. Instead it sounds like we could have a very Earth-centric movie that's all about war, without scratching the surface of what's out there in the vast expanse of the universe. I'm having visions of a Transformers/Avengers style final showdown in a city on earth. But I fully accept that this press release is just a short paragraph that doesn't give a lot to go on, so my first impressions may be way off.
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So the Enterprise will once again be the only ship available, as it'll be the only ship left and of course, Kirk will get promoted to admiral....
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I assume that's a building, but it kind of looks like the outer wall of a Borg cube. Having one crashed on earth would be novel, but a bit premature in this era.
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I'm guessing that it's someone, let's call him Mary Gitchell, escaping from some sort of building, lets say some sort of facility for cracking alkali metals, using (dah dun dun da dun) HIS SUPER MIND POWERS.
Oh, and he's nicked Morpheus's coat, and the planet seems to have stolen tower blocks from Shaghai, London and Middle Earth.
Anyway, it looks a bit Dark Knight-y, I agree, and tells you about as much. I'm setting my face to worried.
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I can see the whole Batman thing in the poster.
In a some what unrelated note, that's how I feel about the Iron Man 3 trailer. The whole defeated hero thing. It's like the IM3 guys basically did their version of a The Dark Knight Rises trailer starring Tony Stark.
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quote:Originally posted by Hobbes: I can see the whole Batman thing in the poster.
In a some what unrelated note, that's how I feel about the Iron Man 3 trailer. The whole defeated hero thing. It's like the IM3 guys basically did their version of a The Dark Knight Rises trailer starring Tony Stark.
Nonsense- Iron Man is the ultimate in "hero rebuilds his life after staggering fall from grace". Hell, Tony was a drunk living on the street for like three years back in the 80's...lost the company and everything. Rhodey became Iron Man. Just a few years back he ended up destroying his own companies to prevent a terrorist from weaponizing the repulsor tech in them into massive bombs.
In the 90's he got shot and paralized by a psycho ex-girlfriend. In the late 90's he made the Iron Man armor act as a means to walk again, but doing so gave him nerve damage...and he died. Rhodey became Iron Man.
Then he was revived a year later wih the introduction of an artificial nervous system and had to go through a year or so of painful physical therapy- useing a Telepresense rig to be Iron Man remotely (it's in the IM3 trailer!). Rhodey beame War Machine.
Then he got beaten neraly to death (in the armor!) and had to use the experimmental extremis Enhancile to save himself, becoming as much nanaotech machine as man.
Then he got made Secretary of Defense, only to have his reputation destroyed by the (insane) Scarlet Witch -making him drunk in front of the United Nations.
Then there was the whole Civil War, where he got to play facist thug, got made SHIELD's Director, had to blow off his own heel to stop the Mandarin from killing 95% of the human race....
Oh, and he deleted his own mind so the government cold not torture him and get all the heroes' secret identities from him.... Rhodey became Iron Man 2.0
Then he had his mind re-installed, but with none of the memories he had prior to Civil war and had to learn second hand why everyone hated his guts...
What's having your back broken compared to all that?
Bruce Wayne is a total pussy.
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That's what I thought, since a previous part of the trailer showed it rising from an ocean. It certainly looks action packed...won't tempt me to view it at the cinema though. Last film I saw at the big screen was Episode II, wait for everything to be shown on TV now and if I like - DVD.
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