Aw geez, not this @#$@ again

[lazypadawan]

With New!Trek upon us, the ugliest rivalry since the Yankees and the Red Sox could flare up again. First to light a fire and throw in some kerosene is our old buddy Simon Pegg, who plays Scotty in the flick. Pegg is famously a PT basher but now he thinks SW has no integrity!! From an interview with New York Timeout's website:

Star Trek, in the end, seems to have won the war, because it maintained its integrity, and now the effects are catching up as well. So you sort of get your Star Trek cake and eat it, too. I'm sure Star Wars fans around the world will want to kill me for saying that, and see me as a traitor, because I've always been a very outspoken fan of Star Wars, but I've never been publicly keen on the new ones.

It makes you want to look up at the ceiling and yell, "KHAAAAAAN!!!" Integrity? WTF is he talking about? Lucas made the movies he wanted to make, not kowtowing to fanboy nation or movie critics or internet dweebs. That's integrity.

Please tell me again why do people at Lucasfilm suck up to this guy?

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[sabreman64.livejournal.com]

Star Trek has maintained its integrity while Star Wars has lost its integrity? What the hell is he on about?

I've seen a couple of the TV adverts for the new Star Trek film, and I get the impression that with this new film Abrams is aping Star Wars. The brief shots in the adverts look more like something from Star Wars than Star Trek. It's as if Abrams wants to make a Star Wars film, but as he knows he can't make a genuine Star Wars film he decides to make a Star Trek film that merely apes Star Wars. I may be completely wrong about this but that's the impression of the film I get. An impression that is strengthened by the fact that the actor playing the new Kirk supposedly claims that he based his portrayal of Kirk on Han Solo.

I grew up watching the original Star Trek on TV over and over again. I've been a fan of the original Kirk and Spock for about as long as I've been a Star Wars fan (about 30 years). But I have no intention of seeing Abrams's new film. There are several reasons for this. One is Simon Pegg. Another is that the filmmakers seem to have contradicted a lot of the already established backstory of Kirk, Spock and co (if what I've heard about the film is true). And one major reason is that I feel that Kirk and Spock are such iconic characters that recasting the roles is wrong. Hell, can you imagine Luke, Han and Leia being recast and having the original Star Wars trilogy remade? I feel it's a bit like that.

Anyway, rant over. Sorry about that.

[lazypadawan.livejournal.com]

I also get the impression this is a SW fan's idea of what Trek should be like, although some of the ads remind me of Independence Day too (itself a SW knockoff).

As for casting, I see your point, which is why this movie doesn't seem like a prequel in the same sense as TPM but a reboot with a hip young cast. In other words, it is closer to recasting ANH with Zac Efron as Luke, Hugh Jackman as Han, and Anne Hathaway as Princess Leia than to having Ewan McGregor play a significantly younger Obi-Wan Kenobi. The interesting thing will be to see how Chris Pine plays Kirk. Shatner owns that role and you can't convey Shatnerness without descending into parody. But if it doesn't feel anything like the Shat, it won't be Kirk.