I remember reading the article and I did not take his comment to be negative toward JJ or the movie at the time. I think he is a concerned as we are all are. Perhaps some fans took it out of context. However, if I were Wil I would not have reacted and call myself vilified. Whether he was or was not it just adds gasoline (at ~$4/gal) to the flame. I think he might have learned by now that no matter what he says, someone will comment about it (positive and negative).
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"Life's tough. It's tougher if you're stupid." -- John Wayne
"In the counsels of Government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the Military Industrial Complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together." --Dright D. Eisenhower Farewell Address, 1961
"Frank O'Connor, the Irish writer, tells in one of his books how, as a boy, he and his friends would make their way across the countryside, and when they came to an orchard wall that seemed too high and too doubtful to try and too difficult to permit their voyage to continue, they took off their hats and tossed them over the wall--and then they had no choice but to follow them. This Nation has tossed its cap over the wall of space, and we have no choice but to follow it. Whatever the difficulties, they will be overcome. Whatever the hazards, they must be guarded against...."
" -- John F. Kennedy 21 November, 1963
That's dumb. Who wouldn't? I did take issue with him saying that most of the movies are "unwatchable". And I don't think the fact that he was on one of the shows makes him any more qualified to say that than any other fanboy. But in this community, Will Wheaton is "cool" because he says stuff like that and he "knows" stuff we don't.
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It's time to separate the weak from the chafed, the men from the boys, the awkwardly feminine from the possibly Canadian.
Quit whining Wuss-ley!
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GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show!.... You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME! -- William Shatner on Saturday Night Live (1986)
(which will probably get me vilified around here :p )
...shut up, Wesley!
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In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
-Harry Lime (Orson Welles), "The Third Man"
Political tags-such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth-are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Samuel T. Cogley, Attorney at Law
[q]Wheaton said "I recently wrote that I was worried about the new Star Trek movie being good, and I was vilified by Star Trek fans for having the temerity for expressing an opinion about this. Like I don't deserve to have an opinion about this."
You weren't vilified for your opinions. Some of us just think you're a douche.
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I just don't like his claim to be a Star Wars fan but condems all the prequel stuff and says all the fans thinks the way he does, which is NOT true.
Actually, almost all fans of Star Wars that I have talked to that are older than 21, agree that the last three "CGI-fest" films that Lucas churrned out don't hold a candle to the original three. This is a common opinion I think we all share, so Wil Wheaton was just stating what we all know deep down.
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-- Steve
My film Normal Heights is in: Pre-production (writing screenplay)
I can't say I felt one way or another about Wil Wheaton's opinion. It's probably because he knows just as much about the next movie as I do.
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"Let's make sure history never forgets the name Enterprise."
Jean-Luc Picard, Yesterday's Enterprise
Relax, Wil. It's the internet. Every yahoo can have their say.
"Vilified"? That's kinda harsh. You're the only Star Trek alum that posts an opinion often, so it makes you a venting point more than others. Ignore the people who're peeing on your parade and keep posting.
The problem was not his opinion, it was he was stating that many fans are in his camp that he included in his opinion. Saying most STAR TREK films are unwatchable WAS setting himself up for attack.
Of all the Star Trek movies out there only one is really hard to watch.
I am surprised that he is upset when he is always trying to start something.
Still, if he has real talent as a writer we will see. If not, he needs to rethink his career choice, like many of the fans have to do. Many of us feel
that we have a great Sci-fi story just waiting to be made but it never happens but we still enjoy most of what comes out. I just don't like his claim to be a Star Wars fan but condems all the prequel stuff and says all the fans thinks the way he does, which is NOT true. AND that is my opinion.
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