For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies – IOTW Report

For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies

NYPost: Fifty years on, the “Star Trek” franchise is still fresh: It keeps coming up with new ways to suck. From the corny sermonizing and furniture-quality acting of the original TV series to the senseless ker-blammo of 2013’s “Star Trek Into Darkness,” we now coast on the fumes of lackluster comedy that power “Star Trek Beyond.”

They should have called it “Star Trek Into Drowsiness.”

A menopausal James T. Kirk (Chris Pine), having lost his groove when attacked by poodle-sized gremlins, is in a reflective phase: “It can be a challenge to feel grounded when even gravity is artificial,” he says. Deep, bro. Meanwhile, Spock (Zachary Quinto), and the franchise itself, are in mourning for Spock Prime (Leonard Nimoy). Spock’s relationship with Uhura (Zoe Saldana) is on hold: “If an Earth girl says ‘It’s me, not you,’ it’s definitely you,” Bones (Karl Urban) tells him. Hey kids, it’s “Seinfeld” in space: a blockbuster about nothing.  read more

35 Comments on For the love of God, stop making ‘Star Trek’ movies

  1. It was the first in this series with Chris Pine as Kirk that finished me for CGI forever. Probably just a coincidence, but in all those ‘terrifying’ scenes where Kirk nearly fell into oblivion I couldn’t feel any fear that he actually would. I knew that CGI would save him, impossibly.

  2. Forget it. There is little imagination in the film industry today. Remakes and sequels then remakes of sequels and so on. Nothing new, no ground breaking, no originality, just bland trite acting lines and automatic weapons fire with explosions wedged in between boobies and swinging half naked behinds. Just maybe there will be another ‘Cape Fear’ soon.

    Could it be that people younger than I have had their imaginations stolen?

  3. I watched a lot of Star Trek as a kid. Never did like it. That’s what you get in a home that required repositioning the TeeVee antenna on top of the house to pick up any other show, but Dad didn’t allow it.

  4. As a kid in the 60’s I was ticked that NBC cancelled The Man From Uncle and replaced it with Star Trek. Star Trek was at best cheesy early on but it quickly became a cult classic. Having said that Star Trek is OK but I like British scifi like Dr. Who more. It’s also been around for 50 years on the BBC.

  5. We are the Borg. You will be accessoried. Resistance is futile, but struggle anyway. We like that. Immediately beam over the one you call Sulu. He’s intriguing.

  6. I’m a Boomer who grew up loving the original series. Never could like the various TV series spinoffs. Too bad the various movie versions were not made until the original cast had aged far beyond their prime.
    And I don’t like any of J J Abrams’ crappy “reboots”, least of all his ST.
    Karl Urban does a fine DeForest Kelly impression. Chris Pine has moments, but he’s too young & immature, and the rest of the casting is just horribly wrong– a gay lisping Spock, a BLM Uhura, and now a gay Sulu?
    And nonexistent scripts.

    Aaaagh. Pass.

  7. Up next? A remake of The Magnificent Seven. The Creature from the Black Lagoon. War Games. Death Wish. Escape from New York. Highlander. Scarface. The Wild Bunch. Ben Hur.

    Sheesh guys

    I watched Peck’s Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid last night-James Coburn was great. Dylan too. A remake of Peck’s the Wild Bunch??? Without Bill Holden or Warren Oates??? Man, I’m really getting up there.

  8. There’s a remake of The Magnificent Seven…..It’s got Denzel in Yul’s role, Chris Pratt as Mcqueen….and a at least one of every race on the planet…

  9. I still enjoy Star Trek. They reboot et ivery generation or so with a good show and ride it into the dirt, getting crappier and crappier. The reboots start out great though. Still a fan.

  10. bcattin,
    I have copies of “The Magnificent Seven”, “The Seven Samurai”, and “Samurai Seven” (extended anime, pretty good).

    Enough. No more. No. Fuckin’. More. This sounds as bad as the frame-for-frame copy that some young twerp did of Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. May Hollyweird collapse under the weight of its own hubris.

  11. Loved the original Star Trek and orginal cast movies. Next generation wasn’t too bad, but the other Trek spin offs – meh. The Abram’s Trek franchise is unbearable.

  12. Gonna have 60″ flat screen next week that someone made us a deal on. I’ve never had one before, not even a small one. The first thing I’m going to watch on it?

    ZULU.

  13. I like Star Trek but will be skipping this one. This one is chock full of left wing political messages. The bad guy is anti-collectivism. Hello! The Borg, (and democrat party) are about the collective. I have read that the original “Sulu” is ticked because they have him come out as gay in this movie.
    Besides, a number of them flipped the bird to Trump and made disparaging comments.
    Too bad. Karl Urban does a great job as “Bones”.
    He won’t make as much money on this one because of his idiot co stars.

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