What's with J.J. Abrams and time travel/alternate dimensions? Lost, Fringe, now Star Trek!
Even Felicity goes back in time!
It's a love-hate relationship with J.J. As much as I love Lost, it's been a heart-wrenching (Daniel Faraday's murder), frustrating (who is Jacob??), five-year, 100+ hour, tortuous path to figuring out the island. My Lost-based nightmares will be able to subside in 2010 after its final season. Thankfully, J.J. has created a self-contained, merely two-hour feature that is 2009's Star Trek. I've never been big on the series, but I enjoyed this film! This movie has tipped the love/hate scale in J.J.'s favor.
My favorite scenes were with Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy as New and Old Spock, who gave great performances. (They appeared together on Jimmy Fallon's Late Night show, available online if you care to watch. Leonard is a funny old dude.) I won't give away any revealing details, but the film was definitely an exciting introduction to new Trekkies and included enough old school references to satisfy hardcore Trekkies. I have a newfound crush on emotionally-unavailable half-Vulcan half-humans, i.e. Spock.
Warning: Times Square AMC "IMAX" will rip you off. The screen is nowhere near as large as it should be. IMAX is associating its name with theaters that aren't actually IMAX. They can go suck it.
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-Angela
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