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Comment: Re:JJ Abram's FAILED Star Trek reboot. (Score 1) 507

by camperdave (#43760039) Attached to: Review: <em>Star Trek: Into Darkness</em>
But they could have "rebooted" the franchise without resorting to shenanigans like Red Matter. For example, they should have used the Guardian of Forever from the episode "City on the Edge of Forever" to create the alternate time stream, not a drop of red paint.

The problem is that JJ Abrams didn't make a movie for Star Trek fans. He made a movie for movie fans. So let's stop calling it a "reboot", or a "reimagining", because it is nothing of the sort.

Comment: JJ Abram's FAILED Star Trek reboot. (Score 2, Insightful) 507

by camperdave (#43756255) Attached to: Review: <em>Star Trek: Into Darkness</em>
The Star Trek movie, although it may have been a financial success, was a failure in several key areas, like believable physics (Red matter?), faithfulness to Trek canon (Spock and Uhura? Spock is mated to T'Pring), cinematography (lens flare overkill), and most especially, franchise continuity (it's been four years, where's the new TV series? We should be waiting on the third movie by now)

JJ may have made a popular movie, but it wasn't Trek, and it wasn't a successful reboot.

Comment: Re:What is the point of this? (Score 1) 217

by camperdave (#43754683) Attached to: I typically receive X pieces of misdelivered (postal) mail ...

The polls are obviously crucial market research being conducted by Dice.com in order to formulate their next marketing campaign.

Guess they should read their own disclaimers at the bottom of the survey, like This whole thing is wildly inaccurate. Rounding errors, ballot stuffers, dynamic IPs, firewalls. If you're using these numbers to do anything important, you're insane.

So, in other words, no worse than any other sources of information that market researches use.

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