You already know a lot of my feelings on the film (and the more I see it the more I'm able to put my head in the sand about the stuff I didn't like and concentrate on the stuff I did), but this:
Unless you're the writers of STID, in which case, I honestly think, you're too excited about getting to write something you love in a way you want to write it. They wrote fanfiction, not new material, and while I respect that as an idea (obvs), I wish somebody had stopped them before it went to production. Because it wasn't a bad movie, by any means. But it feels to me--and to many of us, it seems--that it could've been so much more.
pretty much sums it up for me. And I acknowledge that I'd lost sight of the fact that they were always going to just write a blockbuster sci-fi ratings-winner, but like you say, with all the secrecy and promises and stuff, the build up promised something they were never going to realistically be able to deliver. And I will never forgive them for Pike. NEVER. Although the wetsuits went a small way to offsetting their debt...
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Date: 2013-05-22 08:15 pm (UTC)Unless you're the writers of STID, in which case, I honestly think, you're too excited about getting to write something you love in a way you want to write it. They wrote fanfiction, not new material, and while I respect that as an idea (obvs), I wish somebody had stopped them before it went to production. Because it wasn't a bad movie, by any means. But it feels to me--and to many of us, it seems--that it could've been so much more.
pretty much sums it up for me. And I acknowledge that I'd lost sight of the fact that they were always going to just write a blockbuster sci-fi ratings-winner, but like you say, with all the secrecy and promises and stuff, the build up promised something they were never going to realistically be able to deliver. And I will never forgive them for Pike. NEVER. Although the wetsuits went a small way to offsetting their debt...