[Morgana]

R2D2 is moonlighting these days.

[Perdogg]

Due to Obamacare, he can only get part-time roles.

[corlorde]

Bookmarked to view all the anger later-—>haha.

[staytrue]

Funny comment from the comments section:

“This isn’t the droid you’re looking for..?”

I am going to say that all “the next generation” star trek movies were worse.

And Galaxy Quest was pretty good.

[SIDENET]

R2, you little whore.

[DFG]

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[a fool in paradise]

[Morgana]

[Patton@Bastogne]

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There's a second very ugly cinematic moment in the latest Star Trek "Into Darkness" with respect to it's rival Star Wars.


There is a very brief musical interlude where a snippet of the Star Trek sound track is played ...

Obviously, I can't musically describe it here, but that musical snippet appears in EVERY Star Wars movie made, often 2-3 or times in each movie.

The best way I can describe it is that's a flute-solo that has an errie quality to it.


I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Star Trek fan, with myself and my children (now adults) being able to speak in code to each other via memorized Star Trek movie dialog (from all seven TOS movies).

"Into Darkness" had incredible special effects, and the new cast does an excellent job as the TOS series actors, adding their own appreciated nuances to their roles.

But there was one-too-many parallels and quasi-spoofs to the "Wrath of Khan".



"No One" ... will EVER ... duplicate Spock's last moments in the original "Wrath of Khan".




All I can hope is that J.J. Abrams doesn't FUBAR his remaining Star Trek movies like those "idiot" brothers who did a great job on Matrix One, and then cosmically screwed-the-pooch on Matrix 2 and 3.

It was so baaaadd ... that perhaps even Putin's "Monkey with a Hand Grenade" could have done better.

And that's frightening.



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[Fledermaus]

Fans are becoming idiots. The “worst” Trek movie? Not even close. V was awful and X (Nemesis) is unwatchable.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Abrams is to the Trek franchise what Zero is to the Presidency.

[yawningotter]

Industrial Light and Magic did the special effects, and apparently they have made it a game to sneak in something from their most famous works into Star Trek. The Millenium Falcon helped fight the Borg Cube in First Contact, so this kind of thing is nothing new.

[Tanniker Smith]

Don’t be dissin’ Galaxy Quest! It’s the third-best Star Trek movie ever!

[Political Junkie Too]

...Abrams' film was voted the worst Star Trek film in the entire canon by "Trekkers".

I thought it was a wasted opportunity.

It wasn't a story that needed retelling. They had a blank canvas to set a new direction after the first movie, and they blew it.

What's the third movie going to do, have the crew find a ship where someone is inexplicably frozen in a shower?

-PJ

[Vaquero]

R2 is the mouse’s beyotch now.

[Rebelbase]

I just watched the entire sequence where stuff gets blown into space and freeze framed several spots. There is one scene that might qualify as R2 but it’s no longer than a fleeting second and of questionable clarity.

[longtermmemmory]

[Vanders9]

Although both franchises are cultural icons, and the new entries of both have gotten progressively weaker over the years, Star Wars has always been MUCH better than Star Trek.

[Seruzawa]

My wife and I are sci-fi fans and have tend to like most sci-fi movies and TV shows. That said we were both insulted by the stupidity of Abram’s reboots. The total ripoff of STII in “Into Darkness” (which had no “darkness”) put us off badly. The entire Trek idea has been beaten and worn to death to the point where it should be retired. 12 movies and 5 TV shows are enough.

However, Hollywood, having lost completely any idea of creativity, will keep foisting endless remakes on us. Star Trek, Terminator and Alien will run forever.

For every “District9” expect 5 or 6 mediocrities like “Avatar”.

[Rightly Biased]

Marking for my daughter the SCI FI fan...

[SolidRedState]

My son was at that convention and this is what he has to say when I asked him...

Yes, apparently an extremely drunk "fan" made an emotional plea to the room and they basically dropped Into Darkness to the bottom of the list to shut him up. The real fans had it somewhere in the median. I wasn't in that session, thank God!

Also, fans upset about R2D2 in the debris? Are you telling me out of the thousands of Starfleet officers on board it isn't possible that one could have been a Star Wars fan and had an R2 in his quarters?

William Shatner said it best, "Get a life, people!"