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Director Kevin Smith Compares New Trek Movie with The Dark Knight and Watchmen

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By GustavoLeao / 13:43, 19 September 2008 / Feature Films

FirstShowing.net posted a new interview with director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back), in which he talks more about the new Star Trek movie, since he was given an early screening of an early cut of J.J. Abrams movie, as reported before. Here are excerpts of the article.
 
Smith was asked to compare the new Trek movie with The Dark Knight and Watchmen and here is what he said "Watchmen and Star Trek are amazing too, but Dark Knight, I think, it's just an imminently watchable film [...]."
 
"But man, those other two, Watchmen and Star Trek, come close. I mean, I'm not a huge Trekkie, so I'm not like, oh man, you must see this before you die. But for what it is, in terms of a reboot, he did a fantastic job with it. Because it sounded like, when they announced it, 'why do you want to go back and do little Kirk and little Spock?' But man he did it and it made it viable and it doesn't get rid of anything that it had before, it kind of makes way for the continuity, so it all fits in that world still. It doesn't negate the series, the series of movies, anything, it's all part and parcel with it."

The full article is here.



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By: rassmguy (Odo's file, contact) @ 20:52:34 on Sep 20, 2008

Rayna wrote:
"you have absolutely no idea what I meant about the planned fanbased gigantic titanic sized boycott, which shall be forthcoming soon"

I wish the five of you luck. Perhaps you can get your group together with the "Daniel Craig Is Not Bond" boycott crowd and have enough people between you to play a game of baseball.


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By: The One (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:02:48 on Sep 20, 2008

If a cynic like Kevin Smith has nothing but good stuff to say about the new Trek, then that carries a lot of weight with me. Can't wait for next May!


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By: jimbtnp (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:09:42 on Sep 19, 2008

TDK? Great

an overrated bore fest


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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by cdydatzigs @ 08:37:47 on Sep 20
    RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by TRexx @ 17:09:47 on Sep 20
    RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by Rayna Kapec @ 08:43:46 on Sep 20
       RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by cdydatzigs @ 16:13:11 on Sep 20
          RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by Rayna Kapec @ 16:33:29 on Sep 20
RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by DixonHill @ 03:17:15 on Sep 20
RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by Rayna Kapec @ 22:16:38 on Sep 19

sounds terrible | Report this post to moderator
By: Rayna Kapec (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 22:00:58 on Sep 19, 2008

and there shall be a huge boycott about this so calld tos trek reboot without William Shatner in it!

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RE: sounds terrible by HotStove @ 13:39:54 on Sep 20
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RE: by rassmguy @ 22:06:29 on Sep 19
    RE: by Rayna Kapec @ 22:28:38 on Sep 19

I love Smith's quotes about this film | Report this post to moderator
By: rassmguy (Odo's file, contact) @ 13:50:11 on Sep 19, 2008

For some reason, Kevin Smith's quotes about this film are the ones I look most forward to. I think it's because he seems the most sincere, having no personal stake in the film's success. When he dislikes another filmmaker's work, he makes no bones about it, so I tend to think he really is as enthusiastic about this one as he seems to be in interviews.


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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by johncarpenterfan @ 09:29:30 on Sep 21
RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by sb2004 @ 21:19:11 on Sep 19
RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by Uroboros @ 15:33:36 on Sep 19
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