I'm already compiling all the ripoffa references
So, there are short advance preview clips of Star Trek all over American television right now. They aired one during Lost last night (LOST AAAGGGH DANIEL AGGGGGGGHHHHH EPISODE MADE MY BRAIN MELT AGGGHHH TOTALLY DID NOT SEE THAT COMING). The clip showed Chris Pine!Kirk standing in an icy wasteland, wearing a stupid parka that looked like something you could pick up at The North Face rather than something from the 23rd century, and listening to ethereal and spooky sounds -- something like a song sung by alien beasts -- emanate from some mysterious source. Okay, I will say this: the sound effects were great; they were haunting and sounded exactly like something you would have heard in the original series.
Then a furry thing straight out of Dan Simmons' Endymion cantos, specifically the sapient ice beasties from Sol Draconi Septem, starts chasing Kirk and then gets broadsided by a bigger and nastier red hot meanie, who also chases Kirk after an impressive display of fivefold dentition, and that's about it. The whole thing is a complete ripoff from various chapters of Star Wars and Cloverfield. (What the hell is a bright red animal doing living in an arctic wasteland? Even if it's an alpha predator, it's ridiculous.)
The clip would have been much better if it'd just been Pine!Kirk standing there for a while, communing with the audio track provided by the sound editors, and then walking away forever changed by the experience. That would be ripe fodder for an older and more philosophical Kirk to spout anecdotes tempered about how humbling and wondrous this little planet was/is.
Am I the only one that has to leave the room in revulsion every time Chris Pine opens his mouth as Kirk? He makes Kirk sound like an arrogant frat boy. Not even Eric Bana is going to save this film for me.
I'm so sick of presentism in my sci-fi films. If you truly can't concoct a 37th century world or whatever in your film, if you have to fill your film with references to the 20th and 21st century, you're doing it wrong. Period.
Then a furry thing straight out of Dan Simmons' Endymion cantos, specifically the sapient ice beasties from Sol Draconi Septem, starts chasing Kirk and then gets broadsided by a bigger and nastier red hot meanie, who also chases Kirk after an impressive display of fivefold dentition, and that's about it. The whole thing is a complete ripoff from various chapters of Star Wars and Cloverfield. (What the hell is a bright red animal doing living in an arctic wasteland? Even if it's an alpha predator, it's ridiculous.)
The clip would have been much better if it'd just been Pine!Kirk standing there for a while, communing with the audio track provided by the sound editors, and then walking away forever changed by the experience. That would be ripe fodder for an older and more philosophical Kirk to spout anecdotes tempered about how humbling and wondrous this little planet was/is.
Am I the only one that has to leave the room in revulsion every time Chris Pine opens his mouth as Kirk? He makes Kirk sound like an arrogant frat boy. Not even Eric Bana is going to save this film for me.
I'm so sick of presentism in my sci-fi films. If you truly can't concoct a 37th century world or whatever in your film, if you have to fill your film with references to the 20th and 21st century, you're doing it wrong. Period.