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Spoilers STAR TREK: SECTION 31 - Grading & Discussion
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I think that is the source.
Is it supposed to be a comedy?
It just occurred to me this is almost equally far in the future as TOS and the movies were when they came out.
The only ones I'm aware of are,
- Iaponius (title alluding to Empress Sato)
- Trip & Trip 2 (named of Fuzz and Wisp’s hatchlings, though the other hatchlings were named after diseases, so not sure what that’s implying)
- Denobula on a star chart (think it’s the same star chart from PIC)
- a Xindi-Insectoid visiting the Baraam space station
- Maybe the portal. Much like how the ISS Enterprise jumped from mirror 2155 to prime 2268, maybe it’s implied that San jumped from the mirror late 2250s to prime 2324, though that’s not actually explained in the movie.
- Maybe the Wisp name is intended to be a callback to the Wisp aliens from "The Crossing"
I think that's the extent of it.
Captain Trips from The Stand?
Very curious about the ten people who gave this a 10 or 9. Are you guys okay?
Maybe they thought 10 was the worst and 1 was the best?
I gave it a 9. I'm entirely unashamed.
Hey, if it's your kind of thing it's your kind of thing, no reason to be ashamed for being entertained.
Of course certain internet hive minds do try and dictate what must be liked or disliked with no dissent.
Hey, I liked Howard the Duck.
I gave it a six, because I would prefer to watch it than to do nothing given a period of time where those are my only options. Anything below a five, by my scale, has "just sitting on the couch" preferable to watching it.
I haven't posted in here in over a month. Maybe two months, I don't remember. For the Hell of it, I decided to look at the trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy, Mission: Impossible 4, Suicide Squad, and Hunger Games. I don't normally do comic book movies and I've never seen Hunger Games, and I don't want to watch the movies themselves, so I figure the trailers would do to get a feel for what these inspirations for Section 31 are like.
Yeah. I can see how Section 31 is like Guardians of the Galaxy. If this had come out when I was a teenager, I could've seen myself liking it.
Suicide Squad doesn't seem like my type of movie either. BUT what I do like is the government's rationale for using Suicide Squad. If something goes wrong, they can use these members of this team as scapegoats and have plausible deniability. Much like Section 31's relationship with the Federation.
I'd say the idea of Section 31 is closer to Suicide Squad, but the execution is more like Guardians of the Galaxy.
And this has nothing to do with S31, I just have to say it just to say it: Jared Leto looks like he makes for a shit Joker compared to Heath Ledger, Joaquin Pheonix, and Jack Nicholson.
Wow. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol actually looks good. I've seen several episodes of the '60s-'70s TV Series. I saw the first three movies. I didn't like the movies as much as the series, but Ghost Protocol looks like something I might watch for real. High-risk mission, everyone disavowed, and if they fail, they'll be labelled as terrorists. The common theme here between this and Suicide Squad is they need to do what the nation needs them to do or they'll be treated like pariahs or worse.
Yeah. Everyone who said the beginning of Section 31 is a rip-off of Hunger Games was right. As far as Hunger Games, this trailer reminds me of whenever I go to the movies, they play the trailers, then I'm bound to see one that makes me think, "That looks interesting! Maybe I'll see it when it comes out," and then I never do.
All of these, even with just watching the trailers, give me more of a sense of what they were trying to go for with Section 31.
Yeah. I can see how Section 31 is like Guardians of the Galaxy. If this had come out when I was a teenager, I could've seen myself liking it.
Suicide Squad doesn't seem like my type of movie either. BUT what I do like is the government's rationale for using Suicide Squad. If something goes wrong, they can use these members of this team as scapegoats and have plausible deniability. Much like Section 31's relationship with the Federation.
I'd say the idea of Section 31 is closer to Suicide Squad, but the execution is more like Guardians of the Galaxy.
And this has nothing to do with S31, I just have to say it just to say it: Jared Leto looks like he makes for a shit Joker compared to Heath Ledger, Joaquin Pheonix, and Jack Nicholson.
Wow. Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol actually looks good. I've seen several episodes of the '60s-'70s TV Series. I saw the first three movies. I didn't like the movies as much as the series, but Ghost Protocol looks like something I might watch for real. High-risk mission, everyone disavowed, and if they fail, they'll be labelled as terrorists. The common theme here between this and Suicide Squad is they need to do what the nation needs them to do or they'll be treated like pariahs or worse.
Yeah. Everyone who said the beginning of Section 31 is a rip-off of Hunger Games was right. As far as Hunger Games, this trailer reminds me of whenever I go to the movies, they play the trailers, then I'm bound to see one that makes me think, "That looks interesting! Maybe I'll see it when it comes out," and then I never do.
All of these, even with just watching the trailers, give me more of a sense of what they were trying to go for with Section 31.
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