| User | Comment |
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| Amanda |
I don't watch movies like this, so I don't care one way or the other. |
| hypersky |
I like Matt Damon and I think he'd be good as Kirk. Shatner should have played Capt Pike. The three blinking lights on Pike's wheelchair displayed more emotional range than Shatner could ever muster.
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gambler   |
What is this new obsession with Hollywood, making Prequels???....... I like Matt damon in the Bourne series, I do not think I would like him starting another one |
| RGirl |
They shouldn't remake the original Star Trek, no one but Will Shatner should ever play Kirk. I thought this was obvious to everyone? |
| ausfox |
I couldn't care less |
romkey  | | (reply to hypersky) posted 4-Mar-2007 7:23pm |
I hadn't really realized how much David Caruso looks like Capt Pike till now... |
Zang  |
I don't know who Matt Damon is. Gary Sinise as Dr. McCoy, actually sounds pretty appropriate. |
| cabinfever |
I'm not sure what I think... and I don't really care. I do think that Gary Sinise would be a good McCoy. They'd better do a damn good job with it... I don't think they should be remake these films, even as a pre-quel. |
Iseult  |
I guess. Can't really recall who Captain Kirk was - was that William Shatner? |
| Enigma |
Just keep that ass Tom Cruise out of it... oh and no Brad Pitt or Angela Git-Yer-Jollies either. Of course there is no Captain Kirk without Shatner but hey he can try I like him.
Who's going to play the green woman? |
| Enigma | | (reply to hypersky) posted 4-Mar-2007 8:51pm |
How.............. could................. you.................... say such a............. thing? |
| Enheduanna | | posted 4-Mar-2007 10:33pm |
They probably just shouldn't make another Star Trek movie, and they definitely shouldn't allow J. J. Abrams to write it. He'll have the Enterprise crash on some mysterious planet populated with some weird cultish group of people who take Kirk and Spock hostage for no discernible reason, and the rest of the crew will spend the two hours of the movie getting absolutely nowhere. |
LJD   | | posted 4-Mar-2007 11:07pm |
I think Matt Damon will do a good job. I never did watch Star Trek, but I have seen Damon in some movies, and he is a good actor. |
| icurok |
Matt Damon is older now than Shatner was when Star Trek started. How is it supposed to be set 15 years before TOS? Not that I give a crap. |
| Frostbrand |
I feel it's still just a rumor at this point, but regardless, the fact that XI is going to directed by the guy who did M:I 3 (which I had no interest in), Lost (which sucks), Alias (which didn't interest me either), and Felicity (which was painful to look at) does not fill me with hope. |
| Kristal_Rose |
Sounds fine to me. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to hypersky) posted 5-Mar-2007 7:08am |
LOL
I don't think Shatner could even play Kirk anymore. His role as a womanizing drunkard space commander on '3rd Rock' seemed more up his alley.
Actually he did a fair job on that Bostan Legal series, but it wasn't the role of someone who would pilot a star ship. |
| CarlHalling |
I'm sorry, but I've never been a fan. |
| bill |
I'm interested ... The amateur Star Trek episodes feature some other guy playing Kirk and it works. I think Shatner can't even play Kirk anymore.
Honestly, I'm more concerned over JJ Abrams' involvement. I think he's a bit over-hyped. Many of the "hit" projects he has launched, have faltered.
I've said this before, but I'd rather see a show or movie about Captain Sulu. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to bill) posted 5-Mar-2007 7:23am |
Captain Sulu, now that makes good sense.
I've had in mind writing at least a pilot for Star Trek Dimensions, taking place just before the Prime Time Directive.
I thought Lost was awesome, but I'm not familiar with his other stuff. Hopefully the show is more supernatural and emotional than military. |
| bill |
Alias and Lost were both exciting, but then... I'm still hoping lost can pull out of its quagmire (the soap opera stuff between the characters is tedious). |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to bill) posted 5-Mar-2007 7:51am |
They ran out of original inspired script, and it was a soap opera from the start anyhow. If you saw the DVD extras, their production schedule was crazy, shipping jumbo jet parts and filming the first season within weeks of having a script, everything up to the wire. In a sense, production mirrored story, so now that they can take their time, so will the story.
It's a bit late, but I was thinking to send them the suggestion that the company behind the islands local techies was around planning the pyramids and such, and was a global conspiracy spanning millenia on the verge of interstellar teleportation and such. The mystical integrity of the show went downhill with season three. |
| Tommyturtle40 |
wrong. it is just wrong. |
| bill |
Yeah, that's what I want... I want them to get into the mythos of the island and Dharma, etc. Basically, I want them to wrap the show up. I think they need to drop the format of flashing back on a character's past. |
| jettles |
i think the casting sounds great!! |
| jettles | | (reply to romkey) posted 5-Mar-2007 9:58am |
> I hadn't really realized how much David Caruso looks like Capt Pike
> till now... and he has the same emotional range as those 3 lights as well!!!
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| Cain | | posted 5-Mar-2007 12:16pm |
They're moving the wrong way - new Star trek movies are fine but don't go back in time, it's never believable. Adrian Brody as Spock? What?! |
| mandy | | posted 5-Mar-2007 12:36pm |
Treading on sacred ground here. Hands off. |
| judgescratch |
I think Matt Damon will make a good Kirk, but my gut is telling me there may be someone more appropriate out there....
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| judgescratch |
I think what's bugging me a little about Damon playing the role is that he's too good looking. I'd like to see someone like Peter MacNichol (the guy from Ally McBeal, Numbers, and now 24) play the role. |
| judgescratch |
Or maybe even Craig Kilborne, he'd ham it up real good...but I still think he'd be better as Bob Barker's replacement on TPIR. |
| Biggles |
I could actually see that working - he could be suitably stilted! Adrien Brody as Spock sounds great, but having someone with a real Scottish accent playing Scotty? Wouldn't that take some of the fun out of it? 
I do think a Star Trek film with JJ Abrams at the helm would be really good - the last couple have been lacklustre, a real disappointment after First Contact. |
| kirst |
Not a Star Trek fan, won't see the movie...Thus, I really do not care. |
| cerealkiller |
I've seen/heard of Damon and Sinise. Don't know the others. I don't do Star Trek so I don't care. |
| hypersky | | (reply to romkey) posted 5-Mar-2007 7:37pm |
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| hypersky | | (reply to Enigma) posted 5-Mar-2007 7:41pm |
Using...........my............fingers..........and...........my...........keyboard. |
| hypersky |
I don't even think Shatner was a good Kirk in the original series. His...annoying...way...of...breaking...a sentence...into bites...for dram....-atic effect...kinda....bothered me. |
| Enigma | | (reply to hypersky) posted 5-Mar-2007 9:54pm |
It's so funny when you say it "Shatner's way" |
| blondie20 | | posted 5-Mar-2007 10:27pm |
I think Matt Damon will make a great Kirk. |
| guido |
I don't like Star Trek. |
| hypersky | | (reply to Enigma) posted 6-Mar-2007 5:48pm |
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cloudhugger  |
No more remakes......pleeeeaassse |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to hypersky) posted 7-Mar-2007 3:12am |
Yeah, ok, he sucked. Every other Star trek commander was more plausable. |
| they |
I don't really care...
Though I will say this. The Departed SUCKED. Martin Scorsese has a way of making great actors seem like ametuers. I fell asleep halfway through.... I was sick to death of it. Besides the acting, the editing was crap.
Mark Wahlburg, Matt Damon, Leo Dicaprio, Jack Nicholson, and that dumb broad playing the shrink all sucked. None of their acting was at all believable.
And I like Matt Damn... dammit. I like most of those guys. |
| hypersky |
Yup. I'm not much of a sci-fi fan, but for my money Picard was the best. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to hypersky) posted 7-Mar-2007 6:41pm |
Unquestionably.
Kirk never struck me as ambassador for 1000 planets. He was just out to mud wrestle green women in his intergalactic hot rod. |
| hypersky |
Kirk was a space stud though. I have to give him that. |
| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to hypersky) posted 8-Mar-2007 10:29pm |
When I was a young teen, there were many Star trek spoofs on a radio show called Dr. Demento. One ended like this:
Kirk: "Well, Spock, now you'll have what you always wanted."
Spock: "Captain?"
Kirk: "Command of the Enterprise."
Spock: "And you'll have what you always wanted"
Kirk: "And what's that?"
Spock: "A bleach blond in red convertible on planet Schwartz" |
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| Kristal_Rose | | (reply to hypersky) posted 8-Mar-2007 11:00pm |
That was fun. That could be appropriated as a survey: are you a 'kirk or picard?' |
| hypersky |
Here's your chance to shine...Go Girl!!! |
| lildonz07 | | posted 14-Mar-2007 9:07am |
umm really dont know. |
| thecomic22 | | posted 14-Mar-2007 3:08pm |
I dont care for space movies |
| docgbrown | | posted 17-Mar-2007 1:36pm |
I really don't care but, who is Matt Damon? |
