Since finals are now officially over, I made my way to the theatre tonight for the 96% rated Star Trek. Directed by J.J. Abrams, the producer/director of ABC's "Lost", I expected it to be a fairly good film -- which it was. But a 96% rating from Rottentomatoes.com? I'm not so sure. I suppose with the great amount of terrible movies on the big screen, when a decent one comes along it immediately receives a 90% + rating. My favorite part was Nyota Uhura's words to Spock before Spock was transported to Nero's ship: "I'll be monitoring your frequency." Those who watched know what I'm talking about. (silent LOL)
And did anyone else see Kumar (from Harold and Kumar) in a short scene? I'm 99% sure he played a cameo for 1.0001 seconds. I looked it up, but couldn't find anything official, other than a "YahooAnswers" thread informally confirming it. Also, Eric Bana plays Nero... I knew he had some Hulk-ish features. Something else I found kinda funny: anyone recognize the dark-colored (African American) man on the panel, the one who congratulated James Kirk with a medal? Yeah, that was Tyler Perry, the same Tyler Perry who created "Tlyer Perry's House of Payne" and other similar shows on TBS. "Very Funny".
Ok, one last thing abut Star Trek, hooray for Sylar on the big-screen! Oh, and one more thing, J.J. Abrams can't seem to loosen his grasp on time travel, the man loves that stuff.
Star Trek ended around 12:30, and it was the last day of school, so I felt like I was obligated to go and watch another movie! I drove to McDonald's, waited in the drive-thru line for about 10 minutes, witnessed a cop pull someone over, payed $1.08 for a large coke with no ice, and intended to rent Role Models at the RedBox. But they didn't have it at the time, so I settled for Doubt instead. I wasn't really in the mood for another drama/non-comedy, being that I've watched Appaloosa, Gran Torino, W., Changeling, Frost/Nixon (excellent movie), Memento, Babel (for the 2nd time), 7 Pounds, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button all in the course of one week.
Anyhoo, I popped in the movie and started sippin' my Coke... and to my surprise, the film was more engaging than expected. The only reason I rented it was because... 1) it received a 78% rating 2) Philip Seymour Hoffman is decent actor 3) Meryl Streep caught my attention in The Devil Wears Prada (love that movie, btw). Next up is Milk and Role Models. And for the record, here are my rating predictions for some upcoming movies... Terminator: Salvation (66%), Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: (52%), and Pixar's UP: (87%).
We'll come back to this, farewell, and stay thirsty my friends.
Comments (1)
Spock?
...I don't really understand what frequency are you silently LOLing to?
And yes, I think his name is John Cho? But Harold is in the movie indeedy.