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Kevin Smith says ST09 almost as good as The Dark Knight |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Thursday, 02 October 2008
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 Depending on whether you like movies or if you’re dead, you may or may not take director Kevin Smith’s declaration of love for The Dark Knight and positive comparison to the as-of-yet unreleased Star Trek (2009) as a good thing. Smith, the director of the cult hit Clerks, was interviewed by First Showing, who asked him to compare mega-hit The Dark Knight with two of the most-anticipated films of 2009: The Watchmen and ST09, which Smith has seen rough cuts of each. While he rated The Dark Knight as the better of the three, he said that ST09 and The Watchmen were a close second.
 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, [Abrams] 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. |
Before that, Smith spoke with MTV, where he also lauded the movie. In particularly, he pointed to the performance of Chris Pine (James T. Kirk) as “star-making.” He also said that Zoe Saldana was great as Uhura and “made Uhura really interesting.”
So, do you trust Kevin Smith’s judgment on these matters?
[via: First Showing and MTV]
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