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This is not an invitation to rile up controversy. Iam Trekbuff sent something he wrote expressing his feelings about the latest Trek movies. Here is Iam's most amusing, and probably spot-on analysis -
>>I really like good chili. I have worked on 'our' recipe for over 20 years to get it the way we both like it. I also like sweet and sour chicken and we also have our own recipe for that dish. If I had to choose one dish over the other there would be no hesitation in selecting chili.
Parody follows...
Orci is said to really like chili (Trek), but he has never cooked it before. Orci was hired to write a chili recipe. He knew chili has ground beef (characters), some kind of tomato 'stuff' (space ships) and spices (drama), but his best hope of writing a chili recipe was to get bowls of the stuff from a couple of restaurants and try to copy it and, somehow. In Orci's attempt to replicate the deep, rich brown color of the chili, Orci, not knowing that color and much of the flavor came from pureed dark red fancy kidney beans ("The Star Trek Writers/Directors Guide"), used food coloring (really bad science). He wasn't sure what spices to use so he used black pepper and salt (so much flavor missing). Orci made a small pot of his chili. It looked good to Orci.
Abrams was hired to actually make the chili, both to order the ingredients (producer) and to cook the chili (direct). The problem here was Abrams doesn't and has never liked chili (Trek), but he really likes sweet and sour chicken (Star Wars). Abrams ordered the ingredients in Orci's recipe, but he also ordered the ingredients to make sweet and sour sauce and the batter for chicken.
The final dish was served up at a grand opening of a new restaurant. The name of the restaurant was, simply, Chili (Star Trek).
A lot of folks who really like chili immediately thought how weird the chili looked. It kind of looked like chili (Trek), but there were odd lumps of ground beef deep fried in some kind of batter. The chili didn't taste bad, but it certainly wasn't chili.
There were a lot of folks who had rarely had chili who were told about the new restaurant and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. They were told the restaurant was serving chili, but it wasn't the (talkie geekfest) chili their fathers liked nor was it the same old chili everyone else liked (purist).
What bothered a lot of people was how bright it was in the restaurant. There was even a flood light right in the middle of each table and waiters would walk by people as they were eating and shine spotlights at their sides. As people were eating waiters would often take their spoons and drinks and move them around the table.
Many of the chili lovers complained Abrams' chili was like a bad copy of the chili from one of their favorite restaurants. It wasn't a bad dish, but it simply wasn't chili. Most of the new folks thought it wasn't bad as well, but they had no desire to go back to Abrams' chili restaurant. What was good is some of the new folks heard some of the chili lovers comments, went to the established chili restaurant, and really liked their chili.
Abrams, Orci, and Church (the sous chef) fired back at the chili lovers complaints. Orci and one of the waiters (Pegg) even cursed the patrons for not liking Abrams' chili.<<
Especially on the 'even the people who liked the chili never returned to the restaurant'. In 5 years these movies will be forgotten while ST II: The Wrath of Khan will still be remembered as a good movie.
and they added additional flavor packets and said it tasted awesome and anyone who says otherwise has no taste.
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Chili ones from the new restaurant was enough for me too. But now there's going to be this new Orci Chili, probably I should expect Mexican Jambalaya and not quite Chili.
On a side note, how Abrams does with SW 7 will a weigh a lot, since he blamed his Trek movies on him not liking Trek really, now that he likes SW, he better deliver or ...
The 2009 Movie was well played in my eyes, it had a decent story however the art direction, ship design, the lens flairs and the whole alternate reality BS really let it down and almost ruined prime timeline (STO is still picking up the pieces after that).
Problem was with Into Darkness, once the characters had been established there isnt much left to go on, so it seems they started recycling bits here and there from other movies, and the inconsistencies grew from that point.
I recommend watching Mr Plinketts Star Trek Into Reference review on Youtube.
Prototype_No.98 wrote:The 2009 Movie was well played in my eyes, it had a decent story
I will have to disagree with you on the 'good story' part. Nero was one-dimensional and a boring villain. The story had big holes in it, the first and biggest being that after Nero appears and killed Kirk's dad, he did nothing for 20 years*. Nothing stopped him from going to Romulus and give the Romulans a warning about the supernova, advanced tech and knowledge of the future. That would have made a lot more sense considering Nero's motivations, and he could have come back for Spock after doing all that.
*I know comics exist that explains what Nero was doing during that interval. It should have been shown on screen. The story would have made a lot more sense to me when I saw the movie.
