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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) @ 08:37:47 on Sep 20, 2008

You gotta love the American Idol crowd. A movie is a "borefest" when it doesn't contain enough exposions or light saber duels for their liking. This is the same kind of person who didn't know why 2001: A Space Odyssey was ranked higher than Star Wars on that 'Best Sci-Fi Movies of All Time' list a few months ago...

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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

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By: DixonHill (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:17:15 on Sep 20, 2008

TDK is one of the greatest films ever. You're opinion is welcome but it is that of a very very small minority. Most people have been stunned by the movie. I've seen it 8 times in theatre and counting...it's a cinematic orgasm beyond compare...

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RE: I love Smith's quotes about this film | Report this post to moderator
By: Rayna Kapec (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 22:16:38 on Sep 19, 2008

Agreed!

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