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Here's the Entertainment Weekly article:

^Guys, that stuff was in a part of the article tagged as spoilers. Could you please mark it with spoiler tags?
I honestly don't see anything in that quote which is terribly spoilerish, but I've fixed it anyway.

You gearing up for a Mod comeback, Koinek?
Heh heh...we've already established in Misc. that nobody responds to me. :p I'm one of those closet freaks who doesn't mind seeing pics but hates to hear anything story-related beyond the trailer or plot synopsis.

PS. I should add that I am a closet dashingly handsome freak.
 
This part of the article cracked me the hell up. :rommie: The TRUE reason why Chris Pine, who really doesn't look all that much like Shatner, got the role of Kirk:

Abrams was impressed by Pine's charisma and invited him back, along with two other Kirk candidates, to test with Quinto. The duo's chemistry was undeniably bromantic, and Pine was offered the role.

K/S slash trumps all! Why let Heroes have all the fun of deliberately egging this sort of thing on, in a hilariously blatant and calculated manner?
 
^Guys, that stuff was in a part of the article tagged as spoilers. Could you please mark it with spoiler tags?
I thought about it but didn't see anything in the quote that is particularly "spoilerish". There are no details about who is in the scene, what happens or even why. It just says "something" happens and people may not like it.
 
It just says "something" happens and people may not like it.

I guess it's a spoiler that some people might get pissed by something Star Trek does? :rommie: They're already getting pissed, and have been doing so for how long, about a year now? Some spoiler!
 
However this quote pleased me immensely:
That ethos may seem cornball to an America darkened by a decade's worth of catastrophe, but after an election season that has seen both presidential nominees run on ''hope'' and ''change,'' Star Trek just may find itself on the leading wave of a zeitgeist shift — away from bleak, brooding blockbusters and toward the light. ''In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,'' Abrams says. ''It was important to me that optimism be cool again.'
I couldn't stand Dark Knight's dreary outlook and the amount of people that subscribed to it. I'm very glad that this movie may blow that away.

I agree, I'm happy they decided to challenge the dark and gloomy bandwagon.
 
However this quote pleased me immensely:
That ethos may seem cornball to an America darkened by a decade's worth of catastrophe, but after an election season that has seen both presidential nominees run on ''hope'' and ''change,'' Star Trek just may find itself on the leading wave of a zeitgeist shift — away from bleak, brooding blockbusters and toward the light. ''In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,'' Abrams says. ''It was important to me that optimism be cool again.'
I couldn't stand Dark Knight's dreary outlook and the amount of people that subscribed to it. I'm very glad that this movie may blow that away.

I agree, I'm happy they decided to challenge the dark and gloomy bandwagon.

No, instead they are joining the reboot/remake bandwagon.
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.
Hmmm....your ideas intrigue me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

:D

And I agree, BTW.
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.

In other words, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.

Yep. In life, a predisposition to enjoy things is...enjoyable. :lol:
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.

In other words, "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"

I must say, my reality really is best.
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.

Yep. In life, a predisposition to enjoy things is...enjoyable. :lol:

So I better not see you ever get cranky, Mr. Happy. ;)
 
The article doesn't tell us much.

If you were already predisposed to like it, you'll like it even more.

If you were already predisposed to dislike it, you'll dislike it even more.

So we strengthen our preconceptions/misconceptions, based less on additional facts than on our pre-existing tendencies.

Sort of like life.

Yep. In life, a predisposition to enjoy things is...enjoyable. :lol:

So I better not see you ever get cranky, Mr. Happy. ;)

Well I'm impressed. I thought it was going to be lots darker, especially when Orci said it wasn't your father's Star Trek.. Hmm he used that line for Transformers also..

Orci needs new material :D
 
The "heresy" moment is actually when the audience first realizes Star Trek is adding a music soundtrack, and the first song you hear at the beginning starts "It's been a long road getting from here to there..."
 
However this quote pleased me immensely:
That ethos may seem cornball to an America darkened by a decade's worth of catastrophe, but after an election season that has seen both presidential nominees run on ''hope'' and ''change,'' Star Trek just may find itself on the leading wave of a zeitgeist shift — away from bleak, brooding blockbusters and toward the light. ''In a world where a movie as incredibly produced as The Dark Knight is raking in gazillions of dollars, Star Trek stands in stark contrast,'' Abrams says. ''It was important to me that optimism be cool again.'
I couldn't stand Dark Knight's dreary outlook and the amount of people that subscribed to it. I'm very glad that this movie may blow that away.

I agree, I'm happy they decided to challenge the dark and gloomy bandwagon.
I've been accosted on here occasionally because I never liked the dark and gloomy feel of certain shows. Darn, it's good to be right! :vulcan:
 
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