Star Trek Into Darkness

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First teaser for the new Trek film has been released, with a full trailer being attached to non-IMAX showings of The Hobbit next week. IMAX showings of The Hobbit supposedly are going to have the first 9 minutes of the film in 3D shown before the movie.

Teaser here: http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/para ... odarkness/


So what does everyone else think? I hope its at least as good as the previous one, which I felt was a clever way to reboot Star Trek with a younger cast and not have to simply remake the original show episodes/movies.

i won't go out to see any more movies until they start filming them like how the new hobbit movie was filmed, at high-frame-rates for smooth motion. the new hobbit movie was shot at 48 frames per second, giving this movie a seamless liveness and smooth motion immediacy not seen outside of hidef [48 frame] IMAX or 60 frame Showscan. moving images magnified upon the big screen have an intolerable judder at normal 24 frame rates.

Most people are actually complaining about the 48fps release of The Hobbit. I've seen complaints about it looking too real, comparisons to documentaries, comparisons to soap operas, and other lame comments. I personally have not seen anything in 48fps yet, but I do wish they had released a 2D version of The Hobbit in that format instead of just the High Framerate 3D version. I plan to see it multiple times though so I shall do a comparison with its release.

However, I did see that James Cameron is considering filming Avatar 2 in 48 frames per second if The Hobbit does well, and he was praising Peter Jackson for actually trying to push technology forward and try something new because progress won't be made if everyone just sticks to what is considered standard.

the people complaining about it being "too real" are the same people who think compressed mp3s played over monophonic ipod docks are the ultimate in sound quality.

I don't like the way movies look in blue ray; they look too real, like I'm standing there on the set and I can see everyone's makeup and realize how fake it all is. How come blue ray looks like that but I never saw them that way on the big screen?

likely your tv set has some sort of judder reduction scheme working in the background by default.

Gosh, I guess my brain is just wired for lo-fi audio/visual...

Occasionally, I notice a bit of judder, but mostly not...

Heck, I even like watching SD DVDs on my HDTV.

As for the new Trek flick, I just can't rustle up any enthusiasm... It's not that I have anything against the reboot, but it just seems like so much sound and fury.

I haven't heard anything about comparisons to anything. I have just heard about people feeling sick, vomiting, or getting migraines while watching The Hobbit.

The new Star Trek? Yeah, sign me up.

more likely than not, those are the same types of folks who, back in the days of acoustic phonograph recording, thought the new electrical recordings were "shrill" and "too bright" and "unnatural" compared to the older acoustic phonograph recordings [the kind recorded with a great big horn]- and who thought of the new LP "high fidelity" records as "shrill" and "too bright" and "unnatural" compared to 78 rpm electrical recording - and thought of CDs as "shrill" and "too bright" and "unnatural" compared with LP phonographic discs.

I agree. People are making such a big deal over a different approach to filming The Hobbit that Peter Jackson and the studio wanted to try.


As for the new Star Trek movie, I can't wait and am looking forward to it!

Why do sequels always have to be "darker and grittier"?

What the hell happened to "fun"? Remember that?

I feel old.

It may be good, but I dunno. To me, it doesn't look like Star Trek. When I think of Star Trek, I think of tech babble, Captain Kirk talking like "We...must...find out...where we are...Mr. Spock", Mr. Sulu going "Warp 5, Captain!", and sexy aliens...and uniforms, of course.

Who is the villain? Is he human? Could it be a re-imagined Finnegan?

My guess is that since in the revised timeline, Kirk's Enterprise wasn't sent out to the edge of the galaxy, another ship was sent instead. Only this time, instead of Jim's old buddy Gary Mitchell getting the would-be psychic god treatment, it happened to someone else, and there was no Spock there to advise the captain to kill the victim before it was too late. Now the affected party (can't remember the character's name) has returned to Earth, to assert his rule over mere humans...

I hope its not that barrier-induced god transformation story again. It is basically a recycling of an old plot. There was even an underground fan-made episode about a re-imagined Gary Mitchell into the future story line, which you probably know about already?