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Group: alt.startrek · Group Profile
Author: Anybody
Date: Jul 19, 2008 17:26

In article news.west.cox.net>,
Anim8rFSK cox.net> wrote:
> In article
> f63g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>,
> SLWatson gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> From Creation.com:
>>
>> Filmmaker J.J. Abrams has made it clear he's boldly going where no
>> "Star Trek" has gone before with his upcoming big-screen saga of
>> Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew's early days, while reportedly
>> promising, "We're serving the people who are completely enamored with
>> Star Trek."
>>
>> Be that as it may, Clifton Collins warns die-hard fans of the original
>> series that this ain't your grandmama's "Star Trek" for sure.
>>
>> "He's totally reinvented the whole thing and taken the cheese out of
>> it," says Collins, who co-stars in the film with Chris Pine, Eric
>> Bana, Winona Ryder, Zoe Saldana and Zachary Quinto. "I tried to watch
>> some of the old 'Star Treks,' and with all due respect, they were
>> probably cool at the time, but I couldn't watch them."
>>
>> He says of the new "Star Trek," "This is the real deal. It's just got
>> a lot of reality. It's not corny at all."
>>
>> --
>>
>> How much of it's hearsay when the people who are in the film, and the
>> director of the film, are saying things that totally make my heart
>> sink? No, really. I would like to know that. How exactly is that
>> heresay?
>
> Yep. Abrahms didn't do his homework, and this is being made by people
> who don't LIKE the real show. The first time this happened was when
> they put little Freddy Freiberger in charge of 3rd season. The last
> time was Brannon Braga.

Another example was Jonathan Frakes helming the so-called
"Thunderbirds" movie when he had no idea what Thunderbirds actually
was. He then watched a few episodes and magically knew everything ...
and produced utter garbage that didn't remotely fit with the original
show. It was purely a "Spy Kids" clone from start to finish. :-(
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