Star Trek: Beyond
 

Paramount just released the trailer to Star Trek Beyond. I am less than pleased overall.

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Justin Lin, the director of the last 3 F&F movies, is at the helm of this bullshit and from the tiny snippet of Simon Pegg jumping out of a pod and hanging off the side of a cliff... it looks equally as campy as F&F.

Justin Lin, the director of nothing but remakes and sequels, is also the guy in charge of the reshooting (because there won't be anything new about it) of the Highlander movie.

I love Trek but this new movie series has been largely garbage. Little to no rewatchability at all for either movie. For the first time ever... I am more excited for something Star Wars related than Trek.

Ugh. WTF? They just destroy their brand new ship? Whaaaa?

Sure hope he doesn't ruin Star Wars.

I liked the 2009 Star Trek movie.

Into Darkness was god awful.

This looks even worse.

Paramount is going to really feel this one in their wallets. People will see this opening weekend and then shit will dry up fast. They're going to lose money on this movie. Guaranteed.

This looks awful, IMO.

This also does not bode well for the new series, since it's the same writer and producer.

Abrams produced this, which doesn't mean much. He didn't write it, didn't cast or direct it.

I fully acknowledge the Khan business was pretty bad. But if the original didn't exist it wouldn't be a completely unenjoyable movie. This looks bad.

2009 was a fun movie, but it wasn't Star Trek. Nothing in the reboot has been, it's just action movies in space. STD was shit, and this looks even worse.

Ugh. Didn't realize that.

In fairness, Orci's script for this was rewritten by Simon Pegg and another writer.

Of course he did direct Into Darkness...

So instead of the good old days, where the odd # Star Trek movies were not good/awful and the even # were good/awesome, now they start good and progressively get worse.

They're putting a series together? With this cast or what?

It looks like they're taking on a horde of Dark Elves.

That's where I am.

The 2nd movie wasn't bad. It wasn't as good as the reboot, but that's only because the reboot is really good, IMO.

This movie, OTOH, looks horrific. It had an unshakable 'direct to DVD' feel to it. If the budget for this one was anywhere near the last one, they'll lose their ass (well, probably not because international markets will probably eat it up, but it'll get smoked domestically).

Robert Orci is creating a new Star Trek series that will be broadcast only on the new streaming CBS website, which will cost $5.99 per month.

It's just another dumb Star Trek idea.