The newest trailer for Star Trek Into Darkness was attached to showings of Oz The Great And Powerful this weekend, but it looks more like TRON 2: LOUD NOISES than a Star Trek movie to us. Not that we’re complaining. At least it looks entertaining, with a reasonable number of lens flares and a reference to the scene from Star Wars where Luke Skywalker flies toward the Death Star’s exhaust port.
We also learned which character Peter Weller is playing. Spoiler alert: it’s not RoboCop.
Peter Weller is playing a Starfleet Admiral that goes by the name of Marcus. The father of Carole Marcus, Alice Eve’s character? That remains to be clarified, but it sounds like a reasonable bet. [Bleeding Cool]
This information was revealed to a group of journalists who got to watch 30 minutes of footage from the movie with J.J. Abrams last week. We weren’t invited, probably because we opened some box with a question mark on it last time he invited us to something, and then he got so mad, you guys. Sheesh. It was just a box filled with cheap magic tricks. It’s not like we tricked him into watching six seasons of an enthralling TV show which ultimately answered almost none of his questions. That would be terrible.
NOSTRIL LENS FLARE! GRRR, CINEMA!
[Sources: The Playlist, Bleeding Cool, and The Film Stage]
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I was critical at first, but man, Episode VII looks great!
The shot of the Enterprise rising out of the water had me thinking of Futurama.
Fry: How many atmospheres can the ship withstand?
Professor: Well, it was built for space travel, so anywhere between zero and one.
And it’s one thing to have a cool Enterprise rising out of something shot but to do it in back to back films is kinda lazy. Ah well, just keep shoving popcorn in your faces and everything will be okay.
Was NOT attached to 3D Oz at my theater….would much rather have watched this than back-to-back trailers of Tom Cruise and Will Smith rebuilding the Earth after the Thetans came back.
At first I was annoyed that the Enterprise doesn’t even make an appearance until 3/4 of the way through the trailer. Then I remembered that Star Trek IV only has about 30 seconds of Enterprisey Goodness and is still second-best in the original set (DON’T EVEN ARGUE- 1. WRATH OF KHAN, 2. WHALES, 3. SEARCH FOR SPOCK).
If you have too much Enterprise you get those excessively long and boring panning shots from the first movie.
I don’t know what this is, but it isn’t Star Trek. It’s a generic popcorn lowest-common-denominator flick with a thin Star Trek veneer slapped on it.
Fuck you, JJ Abrams.
Still better than any ST movie after IV
Um, hello? Undiscovered Country? First Contact?