The trilogy completed

This is quite possibly the best thing I've seen in a long time! Recently I rewatched Toy Story 2 and I fell in love with it all over again.

Now I just have to wait a year.

No code of conduct, no interest

These days, superhero movies are almost guaranteed to be a box office hit. This modern revival of the age of superheroes is partly in thanks to X-Men. Back in 2000 when the movie X-Men came out, it opened to $54 million, which was decent. Each subsequent sequel opened to even more.

And it might be safe to say that America sort of fell in love with Hugh Jackman at that point. As Wolverine, an already popular character, Jackman was a central figure to the first movie and the second one revolved around his character even more. It only made sense that he should get his own deal.

It sure seemed as if X-Men Origins: Wolverine was going to be the first summer blockbuster movie. However, after some bad early reviews and the movie being leaked online a month early, that early prediction seemed to be less secure.

That being said, Wolverine by all rights shouldn't be counted as the first summer blockbuster. The movie is bad. I say this with complete disappoint because I went in thinking the movie was going to be awesome. I know superhero movies don't always get good reviews even when they are good, so I didn't pay much attention to the critics.

I should have.

What you will see if you watch Wolverine is two hours of sloppy plotline, pointless characters and a bad guy at the end that no one really cares about.

The format for the movie sort of feels like this: Logan is little and this happens. He and his brother do this. They get involved with this. Then this happens to him so he does this. Then something else happens so he does another thing in response. Then he finds out this. Then he searches for so-and-so. Then he finds the thing he was looking for. Oh, by the way, big boss battle. Also, we need to tie this up so it fits in, sort of, with the first X-Men movie.

Yawn.

Jackman has corny lines and he doesn't seem as interesting as Wolverine as he did for the X-Men movies. This isn't necessarily his fault. This is whoever wrote the script and whoever thought it seemed interesting. Instead of actually giving an interesting back story to one of the most complex characters of X-Men, they threw together a sloppy film to try and bank on Wolverine's popularity. In all seriousness, this movie could have been broken into at least two, possibly three, good, well thought out films.

In the movie we meet Logan as a boy when he first discovers he's a mutant. He and his brother, Victor, run away together and, as a result of their healing abilities, live a very long time, fighting in multiple wars until they get thrown in jail and are rescued by William Stryker (Danny Huston, 30 Days of Night), who we should remember from X2. Stryker recruits the two of them for his team of mutants that we don't really understand what it is they do, just that eventually Logan gets on his moral horse and leaves.


A few years later, Logan is settled down with a lovely woman. That can't last. So after he's disrupted from his cozy life, he gets the metal claws we all know and love, courtesy of Stryker and goes only by the name Wolverine. But, he goes AWOL and starts attacking Stryker and his operation. Turns out brother dear, Victor, aka Sabretooth, has been looking for Logan. Somewhere along the line, Victor stopped being protective of Logan and now wants to kill him. It makes very little sense.

In an attempt to make the fanboys (and girls) happy, they threw in a lot of characters from the comic books: the Blob, Bolt, Silver Fox, Gambit, Agent Zero, Deadpool, young Scott Summers aka Cyclops and young Emma Frost. Now, some were necessary but most were pointless and aggravating.

Gambit was totally unnecessary and was probably only put in because he is also a popular character. And young Scott and Emma, who later become the leaders of the X-Men and lovers, were almost ridiculous. Why were they needed? How did they further the plot? Oh, right, to make the end bad guy more bad.

The only good thing about the entire movie was Sabretooth (Liev Schreiber, Defiance). He gives a gritty performance as Logan's brother. He truly becomes a man obsessed with finding his brother and proving that Logan was wrong for leaving. Schreiber is interesting and ammoral, and maybe the movie should have been X-Men Origins: Sabretooth.

A Superhero for the Adoring Geeks

I have been reading the comic Kick-Ass since it first started months ago and I have to say, it is the best comic I've read in a long time (not that I've been reading them all that long, but still). Also, I think this is a comic that non-comic book fans can appreciate.

So I was completely unsurprised when I heard it was being made into a movie. Today, comics are box office gold. People will go to see them and the studios know this. However, the studios have also been producing some really first-rate movies based on comics, so I'm expecting the same from Kick-Ass.

Here are the first pictures from the movie:

Hit Girl

Kick-Ass aka Dave Lizewski

I think Dave is looking pretty kick-ass, butI'm not sure how I'm feeling about the first picture of Hit Girl. Considering the first time we meet her she takes out some gangsters, decapitates a dude and is covered in blood (which is the picture from the comic), I don't think the school girl outfit with a gun does her any justice.

I'm reserving judgement for now, though.

It's freaking ME out!

Okay, I'll admit that I'm a 21-year-old woman with a slight crush on Zac Efron. It didn't help that he's ridiculously funny in 17 Again. And while I've never watched any of the High School Musicals (except for part of the first before my little cousin fell asleep), there's no denying that Efron's a talented actor.

It was with surprisingly little struggle that I got my boyfriend to go see 17 Again; but it was even more surprising afterwards when he told me that he had liked the movie.

Admittedly, the plot line is a little corny: Mike O'Donnell (Matthew Perry, Friends) is unhappy with his life at age 37 and after a strange encounter with a creepy janitor, he finds that he is 17 again (the title of the movie!).

Now, Mike has a lot of problems to fix with his life, and it probably didn't help him that he's in his 17-year-old body while going through a divorce from his high school sweetheart. And not just any high school sweetheart, but the one for whom he left the most important basketball game of his life to chase after.

Figuring out, thanks to his nerdy best friend Ned (Thomas Lennon, I Love You, Man), that this transformation is supposed to help him figure out his path in life, Mike realizes that he has to fix things with his wife, Scarlett (Leslie Mann, Knocked Up) and get closer to his kids.

Efron plays young Mike as almost a young Chandler Bing (that's Perry's character from Friends if you didn't know). The awkward laughs and actions show that Efron probably studied up on Perry. So even though it's a bit of a stretch to imagine that Perry looked like Efron in high school, it's made considerably easier when Efron captures Perry's actions so well. And there is an undeniable chemistry between Mann and Efron as he tries to subtly woo his wife.


Amidst the high school antics comes a scene stealer of a couple: Lennon and Melora Hardin (The Office) as Principal Jane Masterson. As Mike's closest and oldest friend, Ned is the only one who knows the truth about Mike's transformation. Acting as his father, Ned meets Jane and makes a fool out of himself trying to get her to go on a date with him. As principal of the school, Jane will have nothing to do with it, until they realize their undying love of Lord of the Rings. Some of the funniest scenes in the movie come from Ned "peacocking" and the two of them speaking Elvish.

However, this comedy has it's eye-roll inducing moments. Since Mike got Scarlett pregnant while the two were still in high school, there is the obligatory scene where teenage Mike makes a long speech in health class about staying abstinent and all the girls swoon.

Even though most people will want to write off 17 Again as a comedy geared toward the tween group, it's really a lot of fun for everyone. In fact, there were many scenes that had my boyfriend and I laughing, but some of the teenagers didn't quite get the humor.

Jai Ho

If you haven't seen the little movie that could, Slumdog Millionaire, I suggest you run out and rent it right about ... five minutes ago.

Still not convinced?

This movie combines Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (the Indian version), love and brotherhood in one movie and gripes your heart tight while it pulls on the strings. Of course, it starts out with Jamal Malik (Dev Patel, British TV show Skins) being tortured for possibly cheating on the show. After all, how could a "slumdog" - a person who grew up in India's slums - possibly have gotten farther in Who Wants to be a Millionaire? than professors and scientists?


This is where the movie's magic enters. Jamal, who will be back on the show the next day to answer the final few questions, recounts parts of his life to explain why he knows some of the answers. The audience follows young Jamal (Ayush Mahesh Khedekar) and his brother Salim (Azharuddin Mohammed Ismail). We are shown what life is like in the slums for these two fun-loving trouble makers, who are best known as Athos and Porthos, from the Three Musketeers, a book they were reading in class. However, when their mother dies, the two find Latika (Rubiana Ali). Jamal calls her the third musketeer, even though he never knew the third one's name. The three live on their own for a while before Jamal and Salim are separated from Latika. Despite having left Latika, Jamal never stops thinking about her or hoping to find her.


The film gives us an amazing glimpse into what hardships Jamal and Salim survive and overcome. The entire country of India also becomes engrossed in the young slumdog who has a shot at winning the 20,000,000 rupees.

The casting is excellent because the actors and actresses all slightly resemble their younger and older counterparts. All of the characters have been cast three times for separate times in the characters' lives. The young actors and actresses were actually picked from the slums by director Danny Boyle (28 Days Later and Millions).

One character, who was probably overlooked as a result of Jamal and Latika's romance, is Salim, who is possibly the most layered of the three. As a typical older brother, Salim picks on and teases Jamal, sometimes cruelly. However, he is also a typical older brother in the way that he worries about, takes care over and looks out for Jamal. He makes difficult decisions to protect his younger brother, and while Jamal always worries about finding Latika again, all Salim wants is for it to be the two of them. His character is troubled, but when Jamal needs help, his older brother is usually there.

The host of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? and the police are curious as to how Jamal could possibly know the answers to such difficult questions, aren't you?

Slumdog Millionaire was released on DVD today, March 31. The movie's special features are typical: deleted scenes, making of the movie and commentary by director Danny Boyle and Dev Patel.

Slappin' the bass, man

The bromance is the new thing for guys and media is acknowledging that. MTV recently had a series entitled Bromance, in which a guy from The Hills looked for a new friend, or something like that. Shows like House and Scrubs have infamous bromances between the guy friends of each show.


And now we have a whole movie dedicated to the bromance: I Love You, Man. Unfortunately, the idea of the movie is actually better than the movie itself. When Peter (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up) proposes to his girlfriend Zooey (Rashida Jones, The Office) they quickly realize that while she has six bridesmaids he has no groomsmen.

His family prods him to try and find a best man, even if that means going out on some mandates with guys he barely knows. With the help of his family he goes to a soccer game with a guy who he can’t stand and a mandate that turns into a real date without Peter’s approval. He also gets ridiculously drunk and pukes all over the husband of Zooey’s friend.

And then he finds Sidney Fife (Jason Segel, Forgetting Sarah Marshall). Or, well, Sidney finds Peter’s open house. The two sort of hit it off and then begins the … well, courtship. Like a nervous boy asking a girl to the dance, Peter sets up a night of food and drinks with Sidney. And then they meet at the boardwalk and hang out in Sidney’s “man cave” (which is just the shed in back of his house). Soon enough the two are hanging out all the time.

There are more aspects about this movie that I didn’t like than ones I did like. I normally adore Rudd because of his sarcasm and his facial expressions that convey more than words ever could. Normally, he can play handsomely awkward without blinking, but in I Love You, Man Rudd just portrays awkward. The kind of awkward that exasperates your friends. The scenes can be painful to watch while he bumbles through social exchanges, spouting out nonsense in his attempt to be liked. Even Zooey finds Peter's antics annoying, pleading with him to stop.

Segel is okay, but he's nothing to elaborate on and Jones is adorable in her patience and understanding. The other character that stood out was Sarah Burns, who plays the single bridesmaid Hailey. Burns is a relative newcomer with I Love You, Man being her first big role. While she does a good job with the character, she falls short. Hailey seems as if she was written for a specific actress in mind: Kristen Wiig. Wiig would have nailed the performance with her under-the-breath comments and neediness. Burns, while funny, just seems a bit like a pale imitation of the Saturday Night Live scene-stealer.

In fact, the funniest part of the movie was probably the interactions with Jaime Pressly and Jon Favreau, who play a couple that bickers and exchanges sexual favors for an everyday favor. The two had just enough screen time because any more and they would have also lost their charm.

The movie is fun but overrated. To see Rudd and Segel at their best, rent or buy their previous movies, because I Love You, Man just isn't as good as it should be with the talent on screen.

A DVD for diehard fans

On March 24 a Watchmen DVD was released. Those who are fans of the comic know that a large part was missing from the movie: that comic book the guy was reading. Well, don't fear, a special DVD was made with the Tales of the Black Freighter. The tale is interesting and I love the ending of it, but I was glad it wasn't included in the movie. It would have made a long movie even longer and it would break up the action too much. I applaud whoever thought to make this into a separate DVD.

Plus, the DVD also has Under the Hood. I thought this was an important part of the comic book, because it gave us a lot of insight into who the Watchmen were when they first formed. Under the Hood was a tell-all autobiography written by Hollis Mason, the first Nite Owl.

I am Shiva the destroyer, your harbinger of doom this evening

I am biased toward Anne Hathaway, probably because people tell me I look like her (it's flattering, though I don't see it), but she makes things easier for me because she's a really talented actress. The girl who was a high-school-student-turned-princess at the beginning of her career made an amazing transformation into the troubled Kym in Rachel Getting Married.

Not all is well in Kym's family, which is made immediately made apparent. Kym is sitting on a bench next with a pyromaniac and a nurse, waiting for her father to pick her up. The pyro, twitchy as he is, gives us some important information: Kym has killed someone with a car. We won't find out until much later in the film about what happened exactly, and the circumstances surrounding Kym's rehab lurks in the background while she is home.

Hathaway (The Princess Diaries, Becoming Jane) plays a much different role than I've ever seen of her. She isn't America's sweetheart. Instead, she is a snarky, bitter young woman who purposely makes things difficult. For instance, when she says she's thirsty, her step-mom offers her a diet Coke. Kym's response: "I prefer Pepsi, from a fountain."

Her character quickly cycles through emotions. When Kym first sees her sister Rachel the two are giddy, giggling and finishing each other's sentences; however, a few hours later have the two sniping at each other when Kym takes offense at something. She's constantly on the outside, sitting away from people, being told not to do something and being kept in the dark about things. Kym also isolates herself, unable to step aside and let the spotlight shine on her sister. Instead, everything has to be about her recovery and return, which causes fighting.

It isn't until Kym predictably hits rock bottom that she and her sister come together again and make amends for the fighting of the past few days. Kym isn't just going to rehab anymore, it's really working at this point in the movie.

The movie feels less like a movie and more like we are watching a few days in their lives. This is mostly because of how the movie is shot - the shaky, moving camera and minimal soundtrack make it seem like a documentary - and because the actors are so natural in the way they interact with one another.

The fun thing about this movie is that even though it is so realistic in the way it's shot and acted, it still seems like looking at another world. The dad acts more like a mom, fussing and worrying over Kym, doing the dishes and making food; Kym is self-destructive and can't just let things be nice; there are musicians constantly playing music around the house because they're there for the wedding; and the wedding itself is more a traditional Indian wedding, which makes you feel as if you're not watching a white woman and a black man getting married in Connecticut.

The movie is touching but slow moving. There are long periods of quiet and the plot moves forward an inch at a time. Also, try not to be confused by thinking Hathaway is Rachel. I had to keep reminding myself that Rachel was the sister and Hathaway was Kym. This is probably because Hathaway is the main character, but it isn't her name in the title. For some, this is a movie to skip, but I thought it was worth a rental, just to see it once. But probably one time only.

Rachel Getting Married was released on DVD on March 10. The DVD has the usual extras - deleted scenes, cast and crew commentary, and behind the scenes - but it also has a piece on the wedding band, which was nice because the band was present throughout most of the movie.

Has anyone seen this? I'm having wonderful flashbacks to my childhood and I want to see this movie right about ... now.

Go see this.

No model for children

My first DVD purchase of 2009 was Role Models, and it was the easiest decision I'd ever made. This movie took a ludicrous storyline and made it believable, funny and just a little heartwarming.

There's something in this movie for everyone: geeks have Augie Farks (Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Superbad), who is involved with live action role playing and joins large battles where the people dress up; troublemakers have Wheeler (Seann William Scott, American Pie) and his smaller version, Ronnie Shields (Bobb'e J. Thompson, The Tracy Morgan Show), with their potty mouths and obsession with the female form; and the bored and disappointed with life have Danny Donahue (Paul Rudd, Knocked Up), with his deadpan delivery and comical facial expressions.

It sounds ridiculous, but the entire plot is based on the premise that Wheeler and Danny got in trouble with the law, but instead of getting jail time, Danny's lawyer girlfriend works a deal so they just have to complete 150 hours of community service at Sturdy Wings, a Big Brother-type program. It's silly, but it works.

Predictably, the adults learn something from the children and the kids grow a little thanks to the men. However, it's the journey there and the characters themselves who make the movie watchable and enjoyable.

The movie would be a dud for me if not for Rudd. His doubletakes, droll humor and facial expressions make Danny the most interesting character. He is the most adult, although he is having trouble being happy and his girlfriend left him as a result.

Role Models was released on DVD on March 10. Some of its special features include alternate and deleted scenes and on the set. Also included are bloopers which show the actors stumbling over lines and improving when they forget or can't say the lines. Once again Paul Rudd shines with his quick wit and self-deprecation.

Milk will recruit you

Even though Sean Penn was the only actor to win for his role in Milk, the entire cast was what made the movie. The expert handling of the supporting actors turned Dustin Lance Black's screenplay into a touching and inspirational story for the big screen.

The story is straightforward. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged homosexual who is still in the closet when he meets Scott Smith (James Franco, Spider-man). The two leave New York and travel to San Francisco. Dismayed by how homosexuals are being treated (bullied and beaten by police and unable to meet in public), Harvey runs for city supervisor three times before winning in 1977.

Black's screenplay unravels the story in a unique way. The film uses real footage from San Francisco at the time Harvey was running for office. These clips show gay men being corralled and piled into the back of police vans. Also, the movie is mostly told in flashbacks. At the beginning Harvey is speaking into a tape recorder, recounting his journey from New York and his election to office as the first openly gay elected official. However, he is foreshadowing his own death: the purpose of the tape is in the event he is assassinated.

The movie would not be the Oscar-worthy film it is if not for the cast. Penn, a usually dark and brooding actor, takes a turn as the smiling and flamboyant Harvey. However, he isn't the only shining star. All of the people involved in the campaign are fully fleshed characters brought to life by the ministrations of the cast.















Cleve Jones (Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild) is initially lost to the cause, but eventually joins the campaign as one of the most outspoken supporters. He becomes Harvey's righthand man and is there through thick and thin when the losses and continuing campaigns take a toll on Harvey's relationship with Scott. After Scott, Harvey meets Jack Lira (Diego Luna, The Terminal), a clingy, dependent, disturbed individual who often causes trouble for Harvey. However, Luna encompasses the characters flaws and makes the audience invest in him as Harvey is invested in Jack.

Amidst the stellar cast is one other standout: Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men). As city superviser Dan White, Brolin plays opposite Penn as the upstanding, family man. The chemistry between the two actors is undeniable. Harvey finds himself gravitating toward Dan because he believes Dan is a closet homosexual, as Harvey once was. Dan also tries to keep a working relationship with Harvey, but it falls apart. One of the best scenes is when Dan, drunk and confused, shows up at Harvey's birthday party. It is a revealing look at the characters and the relationship between the two city supervisors who, despite trying, just can't seem to work together.

I recommend seeing Milk. It is an enlightening look at the struggles and triumphs the gay community has gone through. The characters' stories will touch anyone's heart and the actors' talent makes it possible.

Milk was released on DVD on March 10, 2009. It includes features that look further into the movement. Harvey Milk's closest friends speak about him in one feature, key figures from Harvey's life reflect the many marches that took place in search for equality, and cast and crew share their stories from making the movie.

Who Watches the Watchmen?

At 12:01 on Friday, March 7, it would have been easier to answer the question, “Who doesn’t watch the Watchmen?” The extra $3 didn’t discourage college students from packing the IMAX theater to watch the unfilmable comic book on film at last.

The 12 issues of Watchmen were released in the late ’80s and portrayed an alternative history where superheroes emerged a few decades earlier in history and after the war in Vietnam was considered a win, Richard Nixon is still president. However, during 1985 these superheroes are now outlawed with only Dr. Manhattan (the only one who has superpowers) and the Comedian working for the government.

We begin with the Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Grey’s Anatomy), aka the Comedian, who, despite his early demise, is the center of the films plotline. He is shown exiting his apartment via the window with a little help from a shadowed figure who just spent the first few minutes brutally beating the Comedian.


One of the most interesting Watchmen, Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children), can’t fathom a regular burglar killing the Comedian and so, armed with the belief there is a mask killer on the loose, he warns the remaining Watchmen: Daniel Dreiberg (the second Nite Owl), Laurie Juspeczyk (the second Silk Spectre), Dr. Manhattan and Adrian Veidt (Ozymandius).

Each character has his or her flaws: Daniel (Patrick Wilson, Lakeview Terrace) is middle-aged and seems to have had no trouble falling into the life of a common man; Laurie (Malin Akerman, 27 Dresses) is in an empty relationship with Dr. Manhattan, (Billy Crudup, Big Fish) who she finds is more and more detached from humanity; Adrian (Matthew Goode, Brideshead Revisited) is the world’s smartest man and a ruthless businessman who revealed his identity as Ozymandius; and Rorschach is paranoid, dangerous and unshakably certain.

Rorschach narrates the movie because he is the one man interested in the Comedian’s murder, who could have done it and what was coming next. Although Dr. Manhattan has the power to make people explode, Rorschach is scary and dangerous in his own way, witnessed when he shouts in prison “I’m not locked up in here with you! You’re locked up in here with me!” He propels the plot with his untiring search to find out what happened to the Comedian.

The movie does a good job showing aging and retired superheroes who can’t quite seem to let go of the glory days, not when there’s a hint of something afoot. Director Zack Snyder filmed the movie in normal colors, unlike his previous project 300, but he kept the slow-motion fight scenes. These helped showing the superheroes as super again and showed the audience just why the Watchmen were people to be afraid of.

The actors didn’t have easy characters to play, but they managed to embody each troubled superhero. Crudup was believable as the godlike Dr. Manhattan, spewing lines about seeing time differently from humans in his soft, emotionless voice. However, the most surprising turn was Morgan. The Comedian is a very different role from Morgan’s stint on Grey’s Anatomy, and he pulls of the gun totting, trigger-happy, warmongering Comedian believably and with a dash of dark humor. However, it is Haley’s performance as Rorschach that drives the film as the central focus of the plot. He touched on the character’s insanity and ruthless drive.

Along the ride the movie hits some bumps that makes it feel like its two-hour length. The flashbacks, while helpfully giving insight into who the Comedian was to each of the remaining Watchmen, doesn’t help to move the plot forward much. They break the already slow action of the beginning and probably cause some to lose interest. It’s only in retrospect that the purpose of the flashbacks gains meaning: this isn’t just a superhero movie about good guys fighting bad guys. This movie has ambiguous good guys and ambiguous bad guys, and the comic was more about the characters and who each one was, rather than the end storyline.

One serious gripe is that the film was obviously aimed toward the fanboy out there. Case in point: the sex scene. It is corny and really only serves to gratify the fanboys who cheered when Laurie is finally shown naked and then giggled and guffawed when an inadvertently hit button activates a flamethrower, an obvious symbol of ejaculation that was eye-roll inducing in the book and even more so in a movie.

Although the story takes place during an alternative version of America’s history, the opening credits recreate the new history. As Bob Dylan sings “The Times They Are A-Changin’” we see the original Watchmen, who they were and what they were to the country, and, eventually, how they fell apart and to the wayside. This new history shows the superheroes in memorable roles in our history.

The movie is just another step away from campy superheroes toward the more human and fallible ones. Superheroes don’t come any more flawed than the Watchmen.

Is anybody out there?

Hello!

So the initial purpose of this blog is to complete an assignment for my English course, Reviewing and Publishing. Hopefully, I will become compelled to continue writing here beyond graduation. In the meantime, I will be posting at least once a week about movies. They will mostly be reviews about new movies, but one some weeks I will review newly released DVDs. And maybe I will comment on new trailers or information about upcoming movies that I find.

The next post will be a (delayed) review of Watchmen, which I saw in IMAX for the midnight showing. After that I will post some small reviews of various DVDs that came out this week because there are a lot: Milk, Rachel Getting Married, Role Models, Happy-Go-Lucky, and Cadillac Records. The week of March 16 I will be seeing I Love You, Man that Friday, because who doesn't love a good buddy flick? The Quantum of Solace is released on DVD on March 24. Adventureland and Sunshine Cleaning will be released on April 3 (Sunshine Cleaning will be released a few weeks prior, but only in New York and Los Angeles). Doubt, which I saw a few months ago in theaters, will be on DVD April 7. Then I will go see 17 Again on April 17, which I thought had a funny trailer. On April 21 The Wrestler will be released on DVD and that Friday The Soloist is in theaters. X-Men Origins: Wolverine is in theaters on May 1, the last day of classes for my undergraduate career. And to cap off the school year, I will post one last definite time about Star Trek, which will be interesting for me since I had no interest in the show or previous movies, but I'm oddly excited for the new one.

So, if anyone's out there, now you know what to expect in the weeks to come.