This is a poster from the new
J.J. Abrams Star Trek "reboot." I used to be a Trek fan - never a full-on Trekkie cause those people are sad - but by now I've totally lost interest. Somewhere along the line it went from being a cute little TV show and movie franchise to a "mythos," and that's the station I get off at. You can't take shit like that so damn seriously...I know it impresses the little creepy fanboys with their costumes and their plastic Vulcan ears but us layfolk who just want a chuckle can't stomach that. This is why I can't stand
M. Night Shyamalan. He comes up with neat little B-movie ideas and treats them like he's doing
Ibsen. Does every character in every movie have to be in the midst of a complete nervous breakdown M. Night? Is anyone in your little dipshit universe ever happy or just in a relatively decent mood?
Abrams isn't nearly as bad as Shyamalan from what I've seen so far...which isn't much (never watched
Lost, saw
Cloverfield and kind of liked it, sort of enjoyed that one
Mission: Impossible flick he directed unless I'm mistaking him for someone else). It's possible he will take the Trek stuff and put a new twist on it that doesn't seem like a total jerk-off and the movie will be perfectly enjoyable. Actually, the most desirable outcome would be for Abrams to totally go off the reservation, and make a movie that so violates the vaunted Trek tradition that all the fans want to have him tarred and feathered. I'd laugh for a day straight if that happened.
