Vern, F&F6 has been out here in the UK for a few days. Can’t wait for your review, which I assume will be pretty quick after it’s US release. I loved it.

i think these two new Star Trek movies work as a origin story. i don`t see see a reason for third one though.
Into darkness sets it up for future adventures to be set in the actual Trek trough space, which i think would be more suitable for a tv series, rather than a stand alone film or film series.

When the long foot chase happened afterward, I gave them credit for showing something simple, that for any reason never happened in STAR TREK before! Seriously! They never seem to run after each other! But to be honest, after the shit that happened before, I just couldn’t enjoy it. Maybe I like that part better on 2nd viewing.

Apparently many viewers have a problem with how Kirk gets re-animated, while to me it makes sense. We see what the blood can do right in the beginning (and seriously. Producing super soldiers whose blood can cure anything makes an awful lot of sense to me) and I know real-life stories of people, who got re-animated up to 15 minutes after their death. Okay, they got a brain damage, but you can’t tell me that superblood can’t fix that too. Not to mention that Bones was smart enough to put Kirk on ice. So yeah, I was okay with that one.

But I wasn’t okay with how its death defying qualities were introduced. If you remember, there was a scene when Kirk was holding Con at gunpoint and then Bones apparently got bored and decided to do some shit with a dead Tribble. You can’t tell me that their wasn’t a better, more organic moment available to show him doing Frankenstein shit with dead aliens.

I really, really loved the new Beastie Boys moment though. A wonderful FUCK YOU to the people, who hated it in the last movie, only that back then Kirk just turned on the radio and accidently SABOTAGE was playing. Here he is playing a vinyl! How awesome is this? I mentioned here a few times how much I like the idea that in the new timeline, people are not just listening to Bach, Beethoven & Co when it comes to “classic” music, but also to the Beastie Boys. After all what is for us classic music, was the popmusic of its time, so why can’t our popmusic be the classic music of the future? And in this timeline, Kirk is apparently a collector of classic music from the late 20th century and the devices that were used to play it. (And I love that not just the Beastie Boys, but also Fatboy Slim won’t be forgotten in the future! )

But also because the premise is not quite as flimsy as the original. Instead of having a bunch of generic teens partying out in the woods, there is an actual believable reason for them to be there. I appreciated that.
It made them much less douchbags than in most 80´s slasher/horrormovies
where you can´t wait for those annoying pricks to die. I never felt that about these bunch. Granted,
the actors are not good and some performances made me cringe but not a dealbreaker for me.

It´s a bit less atmospheric than the original despite some nice cinematography in places and perhaps not as kinetic as Raimi´s original with the cameramovements.

Also, who the hell name their dog Grandpa?

I’d say I got as much out of it as I did from CHOCOLATE. I appreciated how the plot continued to become more absurd as the film went on. Unfortunately, that seemed to require gradually building up the melodrama too. At least there were no endless trips to the hospital for Mom’s chemotherapy. Plenty of sad piano, though.

JeeJa (JiJa?) was pretty cute in this. She was like Alison Lohman in MATCHSTICK MEN except she kicked people in the face, so I appreciated that. Also, the bodybuilder villain chick was kinda hot too. I’m a guy so I notice that type of thing and appreciate it.

Wasn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen. It didn’t kick my pants off or anything, which probably isn’t physically possible anyway but I bet they could get away with it in Thailand. I was entertained.

The pogo stick knife legs were pretty crazy.

But wont that producer/Seagal problem get in the way?

Maybe the only actor that Joss has attempted to spotlight who doesn’t have much range is Eliza Dushku. She’s great as the slightly damaged bad girl, but she can’t do much beyond that archetype. That isn’t much of a problem, since plenty of actors who have limited range go on to parlay that into a nice little career. But it was probably a mistake to cast her in the lead on a TV show where she had to play a drastically different person every week.

“Just talked to STEVEN S. in Moscow …Sounds great and says he wants to be in EX3, if the part fits….”

I so hope they get Seagal 3X!