I dunno. I reckon that's a pretty tough one to call. They both look pretty freakin' cool to me at the moment. I bow to your judgement, but I can't really pick one over the other...

Um. No?

I disagree with you. Granted, the TS spot looks extremely cool, but I am really diggin' the new Trek approach. I think they're gonna nail it.

Although injecting it with hard rock guitar riffs does seem a little irresponsible.

I have a kid and babysitter fees have forced me to be VERY selective in choosing the films I see in the theater. Right now, I'm losing the Star Trek battle because my wife A. loathes spaceships, and B. loves Christian Bale (she's one of those geek-haters who I'm convinced took me on as a charity case). So Terminator better be darned good because it's shaping up to be my "if you see one film this summer."

But I'm also such an unabashed Abrams fan that I'm not ruling out calling in sick to work just to buy the necessary time to see the reboot.

No one will ever see either movie. Buecause DBE is dropping this week. So every movie theater in the world will implode causing wide spread panic and death.

The good part is the DB movie will be like the squid in watchmen it will unite all nations to fight against one common foe that caused untold evil

I think the Star Trek trailer automatically loses in this competition because of the heavy guitar music they put all over the trailer. Is this a Star Trek film or something from Michael Bay?

@ Matt: she "loathes spaceships"? What the fuck is she, some kind of luddite? I'd understand if she didn't like science fiction as a genre, but that's a weird ass thing to loathe, considering they don't actually exist.

I'm looking forward to both films, and I intend on seeing both in theaters. I don't have any particular opinion on the trailers, although both are decent. The ST one is mostly annoying just because of the way they edited it, the other trailers looked amazing and I think it'll still be good. TS looks BANGING as usual, although I'm kinda getting jaded from the continual ads, whereas ST has been kept under a sort of veil of secrecy.

Although I have to say, calling it a Michael Bay film is one step below "retard brother Pilo", since he'd include Linkin Park. Plus, it has an actual soundtrack, not a pop music compilation.

I just wanted to point out that the Trek trailer above is not the regular tv spot. It was created specifically for showings during wrestling programs to appeal to wrestling fans. There are many other Trek TV spots that appeal to different demographics (including a kid friendly spot create for the Nickelodean Kid's Choice awards).

So that's why there are guitar riffs and fist fights in this specific spot.

Looking forward to both. These are going to be the two best films of the summer. A shame, really, because then it'll all be over after May 22. Yeah I'll still go see TF2, but now we know what we're getting, and you ain't draggin' me to Wolvie or GIJoe.

Something I often find in breathless nerd anticipation where we nerds pick apart trailers is that we fail to remember that they are marketing material. They are not an artistic extension of the themes of the movie, they are not a "sampler platter" of what you can expect of the movie. They are very often the most "exciting" no-context images taken from the film, set to fast-tempo music.

They have no artistic intent besides to put asses in seats. I've seem the same movie cut into trailers to look like 3 or more distinct genres. They are meant to appeal to the broadest common denominator across as many markets as possible.

So all putting rock music over a Star Trek trailer tells me about the movie is that the marketing people think rock music appeals to folks, and they want the movie to be commercially successful.

I think I'm probably gonna like this reboot of Trek. (this coming from a die hand Trek fan too) However, I loathe what the marketing dept. or trailer making dept. is doing with the trailers. They shots they pick, the music, its like they're trying to win non-Trek fans over by saying, "Hey look! Its not for dorks anymore! We got girls taking off their shirts, things that go varoom, and base jumping extreme action! Come to the theatre and let's get the chest bumping started! Woooooo!!!!!!!!"

The actual movie probably isn't anywhere near this attitude the trailer gives off, but man, I wanna slap the guys in charge of it in face with Roddenberry's severed right corpse hand.

I have a feeling the "powers that be" are doing their damndest to release previews and tv spots for Star Trek that strike the right balance between enticing tease of the movie and not giving away too much of the plot. Which is funny because really, all us Trekkies know basically what happens after the movie takes place anyway.

Also I agree with Violence Jack. I secretly hope, maybe for a future Trek movie, that someone would have the balls to make a movie PURELY for the die-hard fans, and fill it with in-jokes and continuations of storylines from the tv series, ones that only those of us who have seen every single episode 5x will understand.

Front Toward Everybody:

Yes, thank you. Exactly. Thank you for your thoughtful post.

While I agree that commercials are marketing material, and do not represent the final product, I bet you there's some rock music playing in that bar when Kirk takes on four fucking guys in a bar fight. That makes me love Kirk even more, especially since previous trailers make it seem like he goads Spock into the bridge fight, too. And the fact that he's pretty much dared to join Starfleet, then rides his motorcycle up, gives it away to some dude and hops on a shuttlecraft? Bad. Ass.

Meanwhile, Batman fights a Transformer in a grim future we've all seen a dozen times, where there are SELF-RIDING MOTORCYCLES. I threw up in my mouth a little bit when I found myself agreeing with Michael Bay that the inclusion of a Transformer-sized Terminator was shameless. It kinda is. And this is coming from me, who loves McG's Charlie's Angels movies and hates Con Air.

Star Trek wins, and I've never even seen an entire episode of Voyager.

C'mon, we're all gonna see them both. Immediately. And then flock here to complain about/praise them.

That being said, I love the self-riding motorcycles. Love 'em to little bitty motorcycle bits. If the whole movie is nothing but Batman fighting self-riding motorcycles, they'll find me dead in the theater from multiple nerdgasms.

I think Trek looks good, too, but think the earlier spots are a thousand times better. They had a sense of awareness that this is a venerable franchise and felt like there was something epic about the action. That WWE spot looks like mindless crap. I can't even hear the three or four lines of dialog over the guitar track and the cutting on the action stuff is so quick that you can barely register the fights. But then again, I'm no wrestling fan, so it ain't my demo.

So Wolverine comes out May 1st,Star Trek May 8th, and Terminator May 21. Besides the obvious math problem of these not all being a Friday, what the hell am I supposed to be watching the weekend of the 15th?

C'mon, we're all gonna see them both. Immediately. And then flock here to complain about/praise them.