I received this message on my '100 Reasons' video the other day:
"I just have to say.. F**k you. You useless pustule.
Rather than finding these pointless reasons to drag down this fantastic movie, you should see the difficulties of making this."
I decided not to delete it, but have blocked the 'useless' user. However, I will put him to use here. I just have to say...is that all they can say in virtually every case? "Fuck You?" Why so angry? He certainly didn't have to watch a video he knew he'd disagree with....now I get it, a year later, yes, I get it... I have made them angry. My reasons become so obvious they are hard to take. They make fans angry. It never occurred to me that my specific and silly points make them so angry because you can't really shy away from them.
He says I should 'see the difficulties of making this.' I've heard that a few hundred times (haven't we all)...which for one, makes no sense, no critic if he thinks a movie is bad is going to 'consider' "how hard it is to make a movie." Making a movie is a JOB, you get paid for it, it isn't climbing a mountain, and the level of difficulty is only comparable to its budget. The less the budget, the more difficult. STAR TREK XI had quite a hefty budget with plenty of professionals getting paid very well to make it. Which brings me to my next point, if these people had this much money, and all these professionals, you'd think they could afford a tripod or a steady-cam, or how about a good writer. Perhaps this is the 101st reason why it sucks, professionals made this movie...and there are at least three cheapo fan films out there (starring original cast members) which are ten times better than this piece of garbage.
Alas, and until the fanboys who worship this film come up with a mere couple of reasons WHY THIS MOVIE IS SO GOOD, there is no reason in the world to stop criticizing it. They have not...ever.
It makes me happy that ONE YEAR LATER, the videos are having the SAME EFFECT they were having when I uploaded them. (If only the fanboys who hate me would see how difficult it was to make them....heh heh heh).
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Hi Phil. You say "if these people had this much money, and all these professionals, you'd think they could afford a tripod or a steady-cam, or how about a good writer. Perhaps this is the 101st reason why it sucks,"
ReplyDeleteHow about affording materials to build some starship interior sets instead of shooting directly in some boiler room or brewery?
Well. I suppose the most of this movie's budget gone into the "professionals" paychecks.
...lest we forget we're supposed to pay to see this garbage, its not a 'free' TV show anymore, don't we have a perfect right to criticize a product that we think is 'defective?' Or a product which claims to be one thing, but is another entirely different thing. Its a con, and I don't care how much work went into the con, it is of no concern of mine. They got paid for it, no matter what the quality of work was...
ReplyDeleteHey Phil. My take on this, after a year of being pissed off, is this: if you can't do it right, DON'T DO IT. Yet, JJ took everyone's money, flushed it down the toilet on "special effects" (eg lens flare) and a shit "script) to supposedly hit the Star Trek franchise and its fans base with a hypospray full of crack cut with bullshit.
ReplyDeleteTrek 2k9 in a word: vacuous.
I fail to see why supposedly professional producers, writers and directors who are paid a fortune for their alleged expertise should find it so difficult to make a 2 hour movie that's well written and decently produced. After it, it isn't that long ago that Berman, Piller et. al were routinely producing 30-odd hours worth of "Star Trek" every year, most of it (at least for the first ten years or so) of extremely high quality, and doing so on a fraction of the money Abrams got to piss away.
ReplyDeleteTo say we should consider the difficulty of making this film is surely to acknowledge that the film is not actually that good?
One year later & I'm still mad as hell for
ReplyDeletethis brainless movie, I still don't understand how people that watch this movie and refuse to see how badly this film is. I meen more stupid than this is impossible to make even the movie spaceballs is incredibly well made compared to this. Well I'm backing you up the 100 reason
is far better than JJ wannabe joke.
It is sort of funny, I hate Enterprise but I hate Star Trek (2009) even more.
ReplyDeleteWhy?
With Enterprise it was just that I hated all the retcons and the weakly written stories and characters, I felt that it added nothing to the mythos, it in fact made the mythos seem weak as Archer had encounters with the Ferengi and the Borg, and no one ever happened to mention that later in TNG where these two species truly first made their appearance.
The original sales speech was that the producers wanted to move away from the 24th Century as they felt it was to well known, to crowded, but only a few episodes in their prequel series (which I BTW feel they had to do because Star Wars was also doing prequels at the time) and they already bring back the 24th century stuff, and adding an arc they had not even planned out yet.
This to me made it clear that stories in the past should be told in comics, books or games, and that the movies and the series should move forwards, rather than just go back and re tell old stories and pretend they are new.
I hate Star Trek 2009 for a whole different reason, because it feels like a big '#### you' to my passionate years of fandom, sticking by Star Trek even during some of the worst moments, buying comics, games, toys and so on as I cared about its universe.
I honestly feel that when Moore succeeded with his reimagined Battlestar Galactica, that the heads of Paramount said to each other "Lets re imagine the classic Star Trek so that we can milk the famous characters out again, and hey lets make it gritty"
To make it more current with today's fads there also had to be product placement in it and current day music, which with probably be archaic in a decade or so (but then again, so is the music of classic Star Trek).
All we needed was some scene in which the actor playing Kirk breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that he always uses a Nokia mobile telephone for all his interstellar calls.
What really pisses meoff is the weak story which is yet another excuse for time travel and a villain who is so two dimensional that he sounds more like a stereotype from a political cartoon, and main characters rewritten that they are completely unlikeable.
Kirk was suppose to be the guy who was so heroic and leader material, you wanted to follow him as he was the type of guy who inspired that in you, even if he is not your superior officer.
He is a genuine destructive prick in this movie that shows no leadership quality whatsoever, he is an asshole who gets away with all kinds of acts that are either childish or just plain dick moves, and he can because he is James T Kirk.
Not even his position as captain of the Enterprise is deserved as he violated order after order.
The only way he got it was because his counterpart in the other reality had it.
I think casting young actors and young looking actors to play the main cast was a counterproductive decision.
Not only because of the Star Trek 90210 jokes but also because it is a hard thing to take these people serious as space explorers, just as I had difficulty with taking Archer and his gang serious for other reasons.
It is clear from the start that this movie was not intended for the fans of the 40 year old franchise, if they would hook up, fine, but this was intended for the masses who never had any interest in Star Trek because it was to 'nerdy' and not 'cool'.
They finally got a Star Trek version catered to their taste, full of hot young actors, overdone sexual innuendo, explosions, popular current trends and products, and a weak ass story that doesn't require much thought.
And the producers got to flip the bird to all the old fans.
The movie is just a bunch of people acting like 10 year old children. And the best counter-argument the handfull of desperate anonymous defenders can come up with is "hur hur yer a virgin" in their sig lines. Never mind the fact that their troll posting on Trek sites EVERY SINGLE DAY trying to defend that sloppy mess of a movie is just delicious irony of said sig lines.
ReplyDeleteBright side, at least he spelled 'pustule' correctly.
ReplyDeleteHe may have a dictionary.