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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lee: [QB] I should really pay more attention to the little voice in my head that's saying "Why are you arguing the merits of a film you haven't seen yet with someone who clamis they will never see the film?" I guess I'm just a glutton for punishment (which is what I always thought the next status-line category below "Tim-like" should be). I was watching Star Trek in 1973. Nineteen-seventy fucking three. Thirty-five years ago. Sam Tyler territory. Being three years old at the time, I'd be hard-pressed to express what it was about the show I liked. Spaceships, phaser battles, fights, the coolness of Kirk & Spock, the nice pretty patterns they made when standing on the transporter pads in their different coloured uniforms (three years old, remember?). The well-craftedness of the scripts and the intelligence and depth of the philosophical concepts expressed in the show didn't get a look in. My point? That I'm as well-placed as anybody to decide what Star Trek is, and I don't have a problem with what I've seen so far. Yes, the look of the film diverges wildly from that established on the show. But what did you expect? Iconic though they may be, the show's visuals have not aged well. New Voyages etc. may have proved that note-perfect (well, except for the acting) recreations of the look'n'feel of the show are possible, but no-one is rushing to watch them and no-one is offering James Cawley et al $200m budgets for their next outing. Try to do that on a big Hollywood film and it would be received with derision, you might as well have cast Wilson & Stiller as Kirk & Spock. The fact that Abrams is doing it, with his track record, makes me feel much happier than I'd be than if it was McG or Michael Bay directing. Worst case scenario? The film does badly across the board and is a sad epitaph for an already-dead franchise. Best case? It reinvigorates the franchise, and though it may only lead to a handful of movies over the next deade or so, at some point a new show is created, done by someone willing to take risks, to think about pushing the envelope that's outside the box, to mix a metaphor. I'd love it if it was one of the cable channels - HBO, Showtime, AMC. The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Mad Men - these are all shows I love and which are unlike anything you've seen on TV. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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