Re: Official Trek XI Website Has Teaser Trailer

"Steven L." <sdlitvin@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> RuPEDski wrote:
>
>> Well as I mentioned, I've got an extremely limited sample and I have no

>> idea how much his influence as central to Cloverfield but I can say
that 
>> it was just...plain...awful. I snorted out loud a few times and I
looked 
>> around the packed theatre several times. There were many teens and they

>> laughed at the 1 liners...thought maybe it was aimed at them and
somehow 
>> they could enjoy it despite it being SO fundamentally flawed....but at 
>> the end, the general feeling seemed to be serious disappointment. Clear

>> grumbling as we all filed out of the theatre. Even the fat ADD 14 yr
old 
>> beside me who had VOCALLY supported the movie 3 or 4 times during was
the 
>> first to speak up as the credits rolled and many of us sat 
>> dumbstruck...."that was RETARDED!!!".
>
> Well, some folks must like "Cloverfield."  Out of some 25,000 votes on 
> www.imdb.com, it's scored an average rating of 8.1, which is pretty
good.
> Just for comparison, ST II: TWOK scored 7.7, "The Day The Earth Stood 
> Still" scored 8.1, and "Back to the Future" scored 8.2.  And those are 
> considered to be damn good movies.
>
> Is it some deep, meaningful movie with a profound message? No.  But many

> "message" movies have flopped this year, including most of the Iraq War 
> movies.

No. I wasn't expecting any of that. HOWEVER, I did notice the critics from

rotton tomatoes giving it a majority positive rating....I...am....simply 
dumbfounded by that. As was a few other viewers I talked to. Again, the 
crowd at my theatre seemed pretty grumpy after....remember that internet 
samples are about as biased as you could possibly get. In this case, it
did 
show me that Abrams and company do know how to play nerds and pull a scam!
I 
am sure the marketing technique was in large part to hide the product and 
attempt to get a quick initial cash grab(even more so than the usual 
Hollywood formula). With the relatively low budget, they were pretty much 
guaranteed success by all the eagerly anticipating marketing victims who 
were determined to go no matter what!

Anyways, again, I felt this movie was a disaster on every level......EVERY

LEVEL....you can all make up your own minds, but I strongly recommend you 
not pay for it.