I saw Star Trek Into the Lens Flare tonight and it was okay. I was confused about the whole Spock and Kirk aruging over violating the Prime Directive when stopping the volcano was violating the Prime Directive.

Also I thought the combo of Spock's single tear of Human Manpain and yelling of KHANN!! was over the top and me wonder if Spock was going to have some kind of revelation about his One True Love. I'm sure there's fic out there.

Before the movie I was killing time in Best Buy and one of the associates said he 1) hated Iron Man because it deviated from the comic books! 2) hated Star Trek and he threw in something about how JJ Abrams only took the directing job because he hates Paramount and wanted to take control of Star Trek away from Paramount. But Paramount produced it so I didn't really follow that.

And someone in line behind us said that their friends hated Iron Man 3 because there was NO ACTION! At all. It was just Tony Stark sulking. and no action.

Her boyfriend didn't know that the Star Trek movie was a sequel. And was surprised there was a Fast and the Furious movie. I'm not sure what they were going to see.

We saw trailers for Now You See It, Man of Steel, World War Z, and something else.

There was also a sign listing all the movies that were sold out - the only one was Great Gatsby.

Oh the Best Buy guy didn't like the Star Trek movie because of the way it was rebooted. It wasn't the same! He wanted it to be exactly the same as the series, or possibly the books, but just with different actors. But playing them exactly as they were played in TOS and the movies.

We saw trailers for Now You See It, Man of Steel, World War Z, and something else.

We got all those for F&F6. I really want Now You See Me to be awesome, but I have a feeling it's not as cool as the trailer. I hope I'm wrong, though, because it looks really cool.

According to Will's son Now You See Me has to be cool because Morgan Freeman is in it.

Make him sit through Dreamcatcher and see if he still holds to that maxim.

Just saw "Stories We Tell" the Sarah Polley documentary. Very well and thoughtfully done. I was enthralled the whole time.

I don't know if he's seen that. He might like it, who knows. He's 18.

So after thinking more about Star Trek. I think my expectations were too high. I think if the same basic premise was shown in a non Star Trek format (but with the same actors) I would have enjoyed it more. And lens flare showed up once. Instead I was expecting...I wanted to have the same feeling as when I saw The Avengers. and then Iron Man 3.

Just saw "Stories We Tell" the Sarah Polley documentary. Very well and thoughtfully done. I was enthralled the whole time.

Oo, I want to see that.

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When did the SyFy Friday night monstermash folks start sending movies to the fucking Cannes?

That just makes me worry that John Heard has big medical bills or a gambling problem.