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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: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:00:15 on Sep 19, 2008

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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?

Well for one, Kevein Smith (who screened the film and has deep connections with the comic industry) made the comparison here, not Abrams and Co. Second, Smith was probably comparing them in the sense that Christopher Nolan's films are a wildly successful reboot of a Batman franchise that had gone astray. He prolly views Abrams' film as being so revolutionary in style (for a Star Trek film) that it could very well have the same effect. I don't think that is much of a reach at all.

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WTF..how long before someone compares the new Trek movie to the Second Coming?

There will be no Second Coming as Jesus died two millennia ago, remember? The only way he is coming back to life is in a comic book, a la Superman. :)

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