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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 / Star Trek: Nemesis

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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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film | Report this post to moderator
By: Uroboros (Odo's file, contact) @ 15:33:36 on Sep 19, 2008

OK..I'm going to go out on a limb here. Actually I take it back, if there is a a safer bet; take it. But the new Star Trek movie and The Dark Knight in the same sentence? I think not!

I mean really..what else that JJ Abrams and/or his team of writers have done can compare to The Dark Knight? And we're suppose to believe that his Star Trek is suddenly going to be on that level? WTF..how long before someone compares the new Trek movie to the Second Coming?

I know it's too early to say how good or bad the new Trek movie will be. But it seems that the people involved (and people like Smith) are trying way too hard to sell this movie to us.

Oh it's right up there with "The Wrath of Khan", It compares to "The Dark Knight". It's right up there with Jesus AND Buddha. :)

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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by cdydatzigs @ 16:00:15 on Sep 19
    RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film by Rayna Kapec @ 22:12:52 on Sep 19

RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film | Report this post to moderator
By: johncarpenterfan (Odo's file, contact) @ 09:29:30 on Sep 21, 2008

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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.

As much as I love Kevin Smith, it has to be noted that he is indeed a good friend of J.J. Abrams', which is probably how he got to sit in on a screening of it! Something to keep in mind when you're reading all this praise from him (although hopefully what he's saying is indeed from the heart and not just to "help a brother out"!).

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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film | Report this post to moderator
By: sb2004 (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:19:11 on Sep 19, 2008

He's actually coming to my city in a few weeks - I look forward to seeing him talk about the film (which no doubt he will) in person.

Al

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