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Originally Posted by blueerica (Post 282649)

Okay, I'm not sure if it was supposed to be 96% of filmgoers, but didn't rottentomatoes.com have it rated at 96%?

95% as of today; but that figure is from the reviews of the bloggers and critics that are affiliated with Rotten Tomatoes. Based on the reviews of just normal everyday RT members, it’s only 88%.

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 282653)

Can we at least agree about Kirk in his underwear? :D

Yes.

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 282664)

It's the internet, bad reviews almost always outnumber good, especially in early going. People are far more motivated to bitch online than praise. An 8.6 out of 10 at imdb puts it in the top 40 movies of ALL TIME on imdb. The highest rated is a 9.1.

Not that I put much stock in imdb ratings seeing that that 9.1 is Shawshank Redmption (an enjoyable flick, but highest rated movie of all time? Seriously?) But even so, a 96% from the critics and an 88% from the community at RT? iSm's 96% might have been an out of thin air number, but it's not much of an exageration. Hell, Citizen Kane only has 90% from the community at RT. So yeah, I don't think it's much hyperbole to say, "Nearly everyone who's seen this movie has liked it."

I'm not saying it isn't popular. I was just pointing out that iSm's claim was… Um… inflated a bit.

Honestly, I wouldn’t give a damn if it was getting a 99.9999% approval rating. It would still be a piece of shyt movie as far as I’m concerned.

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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight (Post 282666)

I just chatted with the biggest Trek geek I know (he contributed to the Star Trek Encyclopedia and worked on StarTrek.com). He loved it.

And one of the biggest Star Trek fans I know hates it. So?

(So far, I haven’t heard Bjo Trimble’s opinion yet. It will be interesting to hear; she’s the T’Pau Trek fandom.)

There's a new Star Trek movie? ;)

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Originally Posted by mousepod (Post 282631)

If Earth-2 Spock hadn't come back, and Nero had exacted his revenge on Earth-1 Spock, then I might have let it go... but the showdown wasn't a showdown and the anomaly served only to let Abrams and crew reboot the series.

So I felt manipulated and cheated. And I was mad.

I realized this as well, and it was all I could do to stay in my seat instead of jumping up and screaming in joy, "THEY DID IT!!! THEY REBOOTED THE SERIES!!!"

Each to his own. :)

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Originally Posted by JWBear (Post 282683)

Honestly, I wouldn’t give a damn if it was getting a 99.9999% approval rating. It would still be a piece of shyt movie as far as I’m concerned.

Can't argue that your reaction to it is your reaction, just pointing out that iSm was not wildly off the mark with his guesstimate.

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And one of the biggest Star Trek fans I know hates it. So?

(So far, I haven’t heard Bjo Trimble’s opinion yet. It will be interesting to hear; she’s the T’Pau Trek fandom.)

Neither carries any more weight than the other. And one of my friend's colleagues who also worked on the Encyclopedia and website and other stuff walked out on it. I didn't post that as an attempt to call it an authoritative view on the quality of the movie. I guess my point is that one can argue whether you enjoy the movie on whole or not, but when someone who literally wrote the book on what is "canon" is okay with it, I personally take that as license to ignore appeals to canon as a reason to hate it (which I don't think anyone here really has done, so not aimed at anyone here who didn't like the movie for their own reasons).

OMG. Have I been living under a rock? I just found out that the writers I've been lambasting are the same guys who wrote the Transformers movie, which I hated. I guess I just don't like their writing style. Oh well.

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Originally Posted by mousepod (Post 282689)

See, I thought Transformers was the biggest piece of crap movie to come out in the past few years, but loved Star Trek.

Yep, HaTEd Transformers. Loved Star Trek, go figure.

Of course, I never played with Transformers, but have loved Star Trek for 41 years.

What does it all mean!?!?! :D

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Originally Posted by innerSpaceman (Post 282694)

What does it all mean!?!?! :D

That you're old? I dunno. ;)

I'm so happy to have lived in the 60's, you have no idea. Totally worth it to be old now.