With all the big summer movies just over the horizon ... I figured instead of creating a new thread for each one that we could instead have one multipurpose thread for them all. Consider this your Swiss Army Knife of movie threads. Whatever you've watched that's good... be it on DVD or up on the big screen.
I'll kick things off with the new
Star Trek picture. I was a little hesitant going into this one. Quite frankly I've never been a fan of the original TV series. I've never understood why people were so fascinated with it ... it was just as (if not more) campy then the Adam West
Batman TV series. Sure it had its humor value of William Shatner ... but not even that could keep me interested in it.
Never seen any of the other Trek pictures. Never seen the new TV show with the bald guy and the black guy who looked like he had a waffle for a forehead. Basically I had no expectations going into the film.
And you know what? I ended up quite enjoying it. Like ... really quite enjoying it. Defiantly one of the better films I've seen this year.
The Watchmen is still my number one ... but I think I've got to rank this one a strong number two candidate.
Its high on action. Full of really good actors. Has an interesting plot. And above all else ... has Simon Pegg in it! What other reason do you need to go see this movie?
I've got Valkyrie and My Bloody Valentine on DVD that I'll be watching when I get off work tonight.