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Patrick Stewart Says He Loved J.J. Abrams Star Trek Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 19:24, 10 June 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis

The Yorkshire Post posted a new interview with Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart and here are few excerpts of the article.

"Yesterday, I took my grandchildren to see the new Star Trek movie. There were three movie trailers, one for the new Terminator movie, one for the new Harry Potter and one for a Pixar animated movie. All the trailers sounded and looked the same. Full of standardised levels of noise, violence and special effects and I thought, 'My God, nothing would attract me to any of these'.

"I love animated movies and I especially love Pixar but I weary of standardisation. I don't know what's happened... but I better not go on, you never know, they might want to cast me in one of them."

He might want to leave it there, but given he spent seven years playing Captain Picard, what did he think of the 21st-century version of Star Trek?

"I loved it. I absolutely loved it," he proclaims. "It was a very, very odd experience to be in the cinema watching a new Star Trek movie that I wasn't in. Not only that, but with the exception of Leonard Nimoy I didn't know any of the cast... but, it's Star Trek. They've taken some quite innovative decisions but it's absolutely essential, right down the middle Star Trek. I got a great kick out of it."

He also says of Chris Pine, the young actor playing Captain Kirk: "He's brilliant. He is charming, truthful, funny and utterly delightful."

The full article is here.



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RE: Wait...what did he say about Pixar?!? | Report this post to moderator
By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 12:39:24 on Jun 11, 2009

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This is a really awkward interview.

No, it was an honest and candid interview. You're not used to the actors who play these iconic characters give their normal, human opinions very much. I welcomed this actually.

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And from what I've heard about Up it isn't going to be an especially violent or noisy movie.

If you actually read his response, the "violence and noise" he mentions were descriptive of the other two trailers. When it came to Up he was remarking at how stanardized many of the animated CGI flicks have become. I mean, talking animals? He has a point.

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And I haven't heard that it's supposed to be 'standardized' either, whatever that's supposed to mean.

See above.

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And obviously he hasn't read much Harry Potter or he'd realize there's a LOT more to the new movie than any of those things.

He never said he did read the books -- he was solely commenting on the latest Harry Potter trailer which is very dark in tone and in feel. Hell, it's as if all of the Potter flicks are shot with a thick, blue-tinted lens now.

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Sorry, I'm glad he liked the movie. I just think that some of the other things he said weren't thought through very well.

He was candid and honest. I think it was your response to his remarks that weren't thought through very well. No offense.

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"If a sixth Star Trek television series is ever realized, it will be set in the new universe." -- cdydatzigs, June 15, 2009.

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RE: Wait...what did he say about Pixar?!? by AX @ 22:50:53 on Jun 11
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