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Finished Star Trek: Into Darkness
Wow. Did I hit the nail on the head with my starter review. Recycled old plot with long references to and one entire scene from one of the original series movies. Cute, but not satisfying. It gets a 2 out of 5. And had I known the plot line, I wouldn't have watched it at all. Between my starter review and this one, I have thought about the Star Trek Franchise. I realize I have a romanticized vision of it because the original series was very important to me.
However, the original series was pretty damn bad. TNG was, in my opinion, the best series although several characters where really horrible. Deep Space 9 could have top honors for me except that after season 3, I think, they were in a war. Got boring very, very fast. Didn't make it through season 4. The rest, Voyager and Enterprise, were just pitiable at best and laughable in general.
So the franchise hasn't a good track record for being good. I'll watch the next one, but I really don't expect much.
The other movie we watched, entirely for nostalgia, was the 1963 "Move Over, Darling" romantic comedy. I've always loved James Garner (fell in love as a boy when he was on Maverick in the 50s). And I have a special place For Doris Day. It has a wonderful cast of character actors that I love to watch work. One of the most interesting things about the movie is the morals assumptions. The laughable morals of tv and movies in the 50s and 60s. Those assumptions were not in the movies of the 30s and 40s and certainly gone again by the 70s. It was fun, but so seriously dated that it was fun in ways not intended. And like many movies of the era, it didn't really have an ending. They just slapped on a 2-minute happy ending. It didn't fit well. We watched it all the way through, so it gets a 2. Not recommended for anyone under 60 years of age. :)
Reminded me of an earlier movie "Cheaper by the Dozen." That movie didn't even have the slapped on ending. It just stopped. As much as I am a fan of Clifton Webb, that movie really sucked. He best work was the fantasy biography of the March King, John Philip Sousa.
Wow. Did I hit the nail on the head with my starter review. Recycled old plot with long references to and one entire scene from one of the original series movies. Cute, but not satisfying. It gets a 2 out of 5. And had I known the plot line, I wouldn't have watched it at all. Between my starter review and this one, I have thought about the Star Trek Franchise. I realize I have a romanticized vision of it because the original series was very important to me.
However, the original series was pretty damn bad. TNG was, in my opinion, the best series although several characters where really horrible. Deep Space 9 could have top honors for me except that after season 3, I think, they were in a war. Got boring very, very fast. Didn't make it through season 4. The rest, Voyager and Enterprise, were just pitiable at best and laughable in general.
So the franchise hasn't a good track record for being good. I'll watch the next one, but I really don't expect much.
The other movie we watched, entirely for nostalgia, was the 1963 "Move Over, Darling" romantic comedy. I've always loved James Garner (fell in love as a boy when he was on Maverick in the 50s). And I have a special place For Doris Day. It has a wonderful cast of character actors that I love to watch work. One of the most interesting things about the movie is the morals assumptions. The laughable morals of tv and movies in the 50s and 60s. Those assumptions were not in the movies of the 30s and 40s and certainly gone again by the 70s. It was fun, but so seriously dated that it was fun in ways not intended. And like many movies of the era, it didn't really have an ending. They just slapped on a 2-minute happy ending. It didn't fit well. We watched it all the way through, so it gets a 2. Not recommended for anyone under 60 years of age. :)
Reminded me of an earlier movie "Cheaper by the Dozen." That movie didn't even have the slapped on ending. It just stopped. As much as I am a fan of Clifton Webb, that movie really sucked. He best work was the fantasy biography of the March King, John Philip Sousa.
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