J. J. Abram's Enterprise

I have been a geek and a Trekkie for a very long time so I peed a little when I heard about the new film. At the same time I recognize that, to the uninitiated, Star Trek movies generally make no sense and are boring as hell. For that I would hope the franchise, thus far, would offer absolutely no apologies. The new Trek however promised to appeal to a more general audience by being fun. I was curious to see if and how they would achieve that. It turns out that Star Trek is actually fun. It moves fast, the visuals are stunning, the characters are young and sexy and the sound track is ok. They abandoned the semi-intellectual plot lines and the underlying societal commentaries and replaced them with explosions and green boobs. Trek sold out and it’s fantastic! (more…)

Dead In 3 Days

I really wanted to kick this off by bitching about something but Dead In 3 Days wasn’t actually that bad. Granted, I’ve become a little jaded as of late from watching garbage but all things considered I was a little surprised by this movie. It was late and I was a little bit tired and I still had some work to do so I set out to find something mindless I could ignore while I finished my stuff, some noise to keep me awake. I found  one copy of “Dead in 3 Days” on the bottom shelf at Blockbuster and thought the cover art was funny. (more…)