MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: I don't necessarily want to do physical harm to J.J. Abrams

> But I wouldn't mind lowering him down into a well and bitching at him for 2 days
> while drinking and pissing on his head. The fact that he doesn't know jack fuck all
> shit about Star Trek combined with his audacity to be the first person to wreck the
> timeline in a Hollyweird reboot just to pimp the Kirk character, just bothers me more
> and more as time passes and I feel the need to let Abrams know this while I piss on
> his head in a semi-drunken state.

I actually thought it was a decent idea. The original cast is too old (or in some cases, too dead) to continue playing the same roles. So you get younger people to take over the roles, but this means you have to make prequels, because it would make no sense for everyone to suddenly get 40 years younger and keep on like nothing happened. The problem with prequels is that the timeline is already pretty well fleshed out, which means the stories get increasingly hackneyed as they try to shoehorn them into the existing canon.

Rebooting it the way they did doesn't negate any of the original series or movies, having Leonard Nimoy's Spock makes that clear, but at the same time it gives them the ability to start from a clean slate and tell new stories. I guess you could question why we need new ST:TOS stories at all, but if you accept that, I think they managed to do it in the least awful way possible.

> Also I would have to tell that asshole that Winona
> Ryder as Spock's mom is the biggest miscast I've ever seen and putting her in aging
> makeup was the act of a retard. I haven't seen anything look so fake and stupid since
> they put Sharon Stone in a fatsuit for Alpha Dog.

Nope, the worst and most pointless age makeup in the history of cinema is Guy Pearce playing Peter Weyland in Prometheus.