The Long Star Trek preview in front of The Hobbit

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Anyone else see it?
Besides me?
The short trailer is out now. That bothered me because it seemed like a Christopher Nolan movie with the BHAUUUUUUUUUM! BHAUUUUUUUUM! soundtrack and the Bane voice over. Actually the new poster is a bit similar to the last Batman poster.
Now this new trailer sucks ass. It is just plain stupid. Forget the pointless set up in London. The scene from Indiana Jones “in space” was just plain dumb. OK so in the last movie, the Romulan sun was going to supernova so Spock had to drop some “red matter” in it to stop the explosion. No a volcano is going to go up and we have Spock going to drop a super ice cube in it to keep it from going off. Why do we have to stop this particular volcano from erupting? Because it will destroy the planet! So for some reason Kirk is off distracting the natives so he steals a sacred scroll and runs from the temple to get them all to chase him out. Ends up he and McCoy jumping off a cliff and swimming down to the Enterprise which is underwater! No air tanks or weights needed for them to swim down a few hundred feet. 'cause it’s the future! Spock gets stuck in the volcano and the only way to beam him out would be to be directly over the volcano. Spock says “Don’t do it! It will violate the Prime Directive!”

Ummmmm… then why are you stopping the volcano?

And why did you hide the Enterprise in the water? These are primitive people, They can’t see the Enterprise if it is in ORBIT! Where Space Ships belong!

Jesus H Christ that was stupid.

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That doesn’t sound anything like the Star Trek trailer in front of The Hobbit that I saw.

Are you, perchance, from some sort of mirror universe?

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Only a few places have a 9 minute version.

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Check him for a goatee!

And the poster is the latest in a long line of tributes to Wanderer In A Sea of Fog. See also the posters for David Tennant’s Hamlet–& Paul Gross’s back in 2000. Then there was the shot of Cumberbatch’s Sherlock, posing atop a Dartmoor tor in that story about a hound…

(I haven’t caught *The Hobbit *but plan to see the version with the Trek preview.)

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The 9 minutes were on the IMAX prints. If only they were at 48fps…

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  1. Maybe the Enterprise had to land because it was damaged or ran out of power. Else why not jump in the water and then beam them in?
  2. They had special suits in the Animated series that projected a force field. Maybe it also can make them heavier.
  3. Saving someone without them knowing doesn’t violate the Prime Directive, as we’ve seen before. (Mostly in TNG, as neither Kirk nor Spock gave a crap.) Plus there’s a big villain in this who wants revenge–maybe he caused the problem with the volcano in the first place.
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Scotty complains about “hiding the ship in the ocean.” It’s not a mechanical problem and the Enterprise doesn’t “jump” or at least it didn’t used to that.

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I saw it last night.

Pointless? It introduces the villain. Are you aware that this isn’t a trailer, it’s the first nine minutes of the movie.

It’s an* in media res* beginning that probably has nothing to do with the overall film. It’s likely to show that they’ve been having space adventures since the last film.

He stole the scroll to get the inhabitants out of the temple so they wouldn’t be killed by the ice cube. That’s why he left it before jumping off the cliff.

They have high tech suits that clearly propel them underwater.

Remember Miramani? Kirk’s American Indian wife? They helped those primitives by saving their planet as well.

I don’t know why they submerged it in story, I’d assume that for whatever reason the aliens could detect the Enterprise in orbit, maybe because they do astronomical observations. Maybe they needed to be near the volcano to take sensor readings, and being over the volcano would have been visible to the natives.

The actual reason they submerged the ship is so it can credibly have it crash land in water on Earth as shown in the other previews.

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“How many atmospheres of pressure can the ship take?”
“Well, it’s a spaceship, so I’d say anywhere between 0 and 1.”
Good old Futurama

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To be somewhat nitpicky, this is incorrect; the 9 minute spots were only on IMAX digital screens. Actual IMAX film theaters (those with prints) did not have enough space on the platters to add the trailer.

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Oh, and incidentally, The Hobbit is playing in IMAX, at 48fps (digital only), at these theaters

US/Canada

Alaska
Regal Tikahtnu Commons Stadium 16 & IMAX - Anchorage

Alberta
Scotiabank Chinook & IMAX - Calgary

California
Edwards Aliso Viejo Stadium 20 & IMAX - Aliso Viejo
AMC Burbank 16 & IMAX - Burbank
AMC Century City 15 & IMAX - Century City
Edwards Mira Mesa Stadium 18 & IMAX - San Diego
Regal Hacienda Crossings Stadium 21 & IMAX - Dublin
AMC Mercado 20 & IMAX - Santa Clara
AMC Del Amo 18 & IMAX - Del Amo

Colorado
AMC Westminster Promenade 24 & IMAX – Denver

Delaware

Penn Cinema Riverfront & IMAX - Wilmington

Florida
AMC Aventura 24 & IMAX – Aventura
AMC Altamonte Mall 18 & IMAX - Altamonte Springs
Muvico Parisian & IMAX - West Palm Beach

Georgia
AMC Avenue Forsyth 12 & IMAX - Cumming

Illinois
AMC South Barrington 30 & IMAX - South Barrington

Kansas
AMC Studio 30 & IMAX - Olathe

Maryland
AMC Columbia 14 & IMAX – Columbia

New Jersey
AMC New Brunswick 18 & IMAX - New Brunswick
AMC Garden State 16 & IMAX - Paramus

New York
AMC Loews 34th Street 14 & IMAX - New York

Nevada
Regal Red Rock Stadium 16 & IMAX - Las Vegas

Ontario
Cineplex Odeon Courtney Park & IMAX - Mississauga
Empire Empress Walk 10 Cinemas & IMAX - North York

Empire Theatres Kingston & IMAX - Kingston

Oregon
Regal Bridgeport Village Stadium 18 & IMAX – Tigard

Pennsylvania
UA King Of Prussia Stadium 16 & IMAX - King Of Prussia

Quebec
Mega-Plex Taschereau 18 & IMAX - Greenfield Park
Mega-Plex Marche Central 18 & IMAX - Montreal

Tennessee
Regal Pinnacle Stadium 18 & IMAX - Knoxville

Texas
AMC Northpark 15 & IMAX – Dallas
Santikos Palladium IMAX - San Antonio

Utah
Megaplex 17 & IMAX, Jordan Commons - Sandy

Virginia
AMC Hoffman Center 22 & IMAX – Alexandria
AMC Tysons Corner 16 & IMAX - McLean

Washington
IMAX Lincoln Square Cinemas - Bellevue

International

CineplexX Donau Plex IMAX Vienna - Vienna, AT
Hoyts Carousel & IMAX - Perth, AU
Cinepolis JK Iguatemi Sao Paulo - Sao Paulo, BR
Cinema Pathe Quai d’Ivry & IMAX - Paris, FR
UA i-Square & IMAX - Hong Kong, CH
United Cinemas Canal City 13 - Fukuoka, JP
109 Cinemas Kawasaki & IMAX – Kawasaki, JP
109 Cinemas Nagoya & IMAX - Nagoya, JP
United Cinemas Sapporo Factory & IMAX - Saporro, JP
109 Cinemas Shonan & IMAX – Shonan, JP
United Cinemas Toshimaen & IMAX – Tokyo, JP
CGV Sangam & IMAX - Seoul, KR
CGV Wangsimni IMAX – Seoul, KR
Pathe Arena & IMAX – Amsterdam, NL
Shaw Theatres Lido & IMAX - Singapore-Orchard Road, SG
Vieshow Banqiao Mega City Mall IMAX – Banqiao, TW
Cineworld Dublin & IMAX - Dublin, IR
ODEON Manchester & IMAX – Manchester, UK
Cineworld Nottingham & IMAX – Nottingham, UK
Cineworld Sheffield & IMAX - Sheffield, UK

ODEON Swiss Cottage & IMAX - London, UK

Cinepolis Universidad & IMAX - Mexico City

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I saw The Hobbit over the weekend in 48 fps 3D, but not in IMAX and I didn’t get any sort of preview of the new Star Trek film. I tried to find the nine-minute trailer on YouTube but couldn’t find it. Does anyone know if it’s available online?

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How did that “introduce the villain”? We see his face. He says one line. This is a guy who is going to “blow up the fleet” and all we get that he can save sick children.

That’s not an introduction.

I know that they are showing the end of one adventure. There is no need to mimic scenes from Indy Jones or from the last Star Trek film.

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You know, the first time we see Khan, he’s asleep in a pod, right? I’m sorry the first scene of the bad guy wasn’t one where he was eating the brains right out of a man’s head.

There is also no need for them to film it in the exact way you want. You’ve seen nine minutes of a film, you are making complaints with no information.

I don’t know if it will be good, but what was on the screen was done very well.

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I didn’t say anything about the Enterprise jumping. I was assuming a reason why they wouldn’t just beam people from land, instead making them swim to the Enterprise–which would require the people to “jump” into the water. that reason was that people might see them.

If the power was working on the ship, then I wonder why they couldn’t just beam the people onto the ship after they’d jumped into the water, where no one would be able to see them. We’ve seen the old Enterprise beam people up from poisonous atmospheres, and they don’t get enough of the gas to even nee the transporter chief to wear a mask. So, while they might be wet, they should still be able to be beamed out of the water.

I was assuming this was a trailer, and not the first nine minutes of the movie, and thus you wouldn’t have known if the ship had power while the swimming was taking place.