Star Trek (Non cesspool of Asshat thread)

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I thought the jamming was a side-effect of the drilling, but I can't remember anything in the movie backing that up. Sometimes, especially with ships designed by government contractors (as I assume a Romulan-built mining vessel is constructed), things do not function well/make sense.
Actually, by the same token, it makes no sense to have a structure to project that mining beam. A beam-generator housed in the ship makes much more sense.

Now. I say this with love. You are straddling the line between legitimate plot complaints and tedious nerd complaints. It's almost at the point where I heard a friend of mine say: "They should have aborted the baby!" in reference to the movie Knocked Up. When it gets to that point, I tend to just role my eyes at the complainer instead of listening on. And if you really want to get right down to it, the mining blaster is there so they can have a few quick-cut action sequences with some dude getting vaporized in a giant waterfall of fire. I realize that's cynical and kind of ruins the, i don't know, the symmetry of the world they are portraying. But this is a movie about people who can teleport and destroy entire planets and have casual sex with aliens. I'm all for everything making sense, I'm all for plot holes being exposed and mocked. But at a certain point, where legitimate observation turns to embittered nitpicking, I think the discussion becomes lost in pettiness.

EDIT: Well, while I was typing that novel, Ethan answered the whole thing.

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LENS FLARES: THE MOVIE

Why on Earth did JJ Abrams turn Star Trek  into a two-hour commercial for lens flare plugins?  I have to admit, upon my second viewing of the film I found this visual motif to be highly distracting and irritating.  Flares, reflections and luminous ghosts simply appear everywhere, even without any obvious sources.  The reason?  JJ wanted a visual metaphor that stated “we have a bright future ahead of us.”   No, I’m not making this up.

Christ what a fucking faggot.

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After the incident with the USS Kelvin, did Nero and his crew really just hang around the black hole for 25 years, playing Fizbin and waiting for Spock to emerge?  Couldn’t they have used that time to, say, help Romulus avert eventual disaster?  Turns out a major cut scene explains what happened during that time frame.  After being rammed by the Kelvin, Nero’s ship was crippled; a convoy of Klingon Warbirds captured the crew and held them in a prison camp for all those years.  Eventually the Romulans escaped, reclaimed their ship, blew up 47 Klingon vessels and returned to their mission (some of this is discussed in dialog which remains in the film).  The good news is that these scenes were  completed and there is hope they may surface on the DVD.

OH OK. I forgot that a movie is only good if you have to do research afterwards to understand the damn thing (See: Donnie Darko).

Of course these are nerd complaints Seth, I already said I liked the movie. But things that are dumb are dumb, regardless of whether they are good.

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I understand that. I'm just saying that there comes a point where people stop listening to your questions and opinions because you've passed a certain level of nerditry and moved on into close-mindedness. I did it with Watchmen. It's kind of the reason I have trouble taking anything Michael Moore or Rush Limbaugh say seriously, but on a much smaller scale.

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The ship was always very windy. Fans complained this made some of the dialogue hard to hear and made Scotty less likable since he was constantly hollering at the very top of his lungs. This is because J.J. Abrams decided to put large fans blowing upon his actors in different directions at all time. This was done DELIBERATELY and is meant to convey the message that the future will be a breathe of fresh air.

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Thread bump.

Back when the movie was in production, they were debating given Shatner an appearance in the film. Billy boy said something along the lines of he doesn't do cameos, and JJ Abrams had a hell of a time figuring out a way to include the original Kirk in a way that would make sense, so the idea was eventually scrapped. However, there was a scene written for Shatner, and I am totally unashamed to say, I got a little misty eyed while reading it. Of course this is coming from the girl who gets choked up watching the flashback in Search for Spock of Spock's death in Wrath of Khan. I guess I am just a sucker for the original bromantic love shared bewteen Kirk and Spock. It was deep and real, folks. Deep and real.

Nerd out with your cock out.