Well, everyone bashed the Trek trailer when it was shown. To a point for me which was nothing but pure irritation. Now that the movie is out, only the purists are holding on to their laurels and not moving on. Pfffft...nerds.

Take BSG for instance. Holy crap did I bash it heavily (probably not on this board), but there was a time I was following Richarch Hatch and his view of how BSG should be. I was hoping the producers were going give his project the green light. So when it didn't, I was pissed and bashed this new vision of BSG. Well, I'll admit that no matter how you marinate it, or how much BBQ sauce you put on it...crow tastes really bad.

Star Trek and even the new Terminator, won't go the way most die hard fans will want it to be. (Hell, i don't even know if this new Terminator is going to address what's going on in the Sarach Conner Chronicles - that'd be cool if it did). Once it's franchised and a sure money maker, you won't be getting a "Blade Runner" or "Dune". I think the days of huge budgets going into "cult" style sci-fi motion pictures is gone. TV might be the only hope. What's probably needed is for some director or producer to pick up on a new franchise that not too many people know about, then do their own thing. I've heard rumors of board games like"Warhammer" and "Battletech" being brought into consideration.

I thought the new Trek (and BSG) were great homages to the originals. I didn't want a complete redo copy of the old Trek after learning my lesson with BSG. What I wanted was just some aknowledgements to all of the series. And I did see it. That's one of the main reasons why I'm very satisfied with it.

I have a friend who was the visual effects director for T3 (the truck chase was ALL her). She said that the point to actually having the war happen in the third movie was to allow them to get out of the confines of "today" and get into the stuff most T fans want: lots of big nasty machines and endless action. So this movie was in the planning stages as late as the release of T2. My bet is that Terminator fans will actually like it better than the other films.

As for Sarah Connor, they didn't want to step on this movie which is why they slipped it in between T2 and T3. The whole point was to explain the time span between the two movies and how John got to be a loner badass.

I liked the updates of Scooby Doo and Brady bunch, both for different reasons. I loved the first two Aadams family movies, but the disasters after that were pretty much repugnant. Technically, every Alien movie was a genre sift / update. The first was a tension shocker, the second and action thriller, the third a mystery, the fourth... I have no idea.

I disagree that a Trek movie can't be bright and optimistic, that was the general idea of the original series. It was Ira Behr taht introduced the darker side of trek. Once DS9 ended we were done with him.

I'm not against re-makes / reboots. There has to be a story that hooks me, if the filmmakers are just using established situations to make an action flick (like the ST trailers made it look) then I'm not interested. BSG took the basics of the 1970's program and re-worked the details, sometime to my irritation, but in the end the story won out and it was a good series.

I've seen the trailers for Land of the Lost and thus far, I am highly disappointed. I was really, really hoping that they would do the film seriously instead we get Will Farrel in yet another comedy. ugh!!

I admit I LOVED Land of the Lost as a kid, it was ingrained in my psyche along with Journey to the Center of the Earth, Doc Savage, and John Carter of Mars. I've just always thought a serious remake would be nice ah well..

Now a movie I seriously want to see re-done is "When Worlds Collide"!!!! Start the movie off at the end of Book A and move directly into Book B when the survivors of earth land on the second planet that takes over earths orbit. Great action, conflict etc. etc. WOOT the special effects could be awesome!