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Star Trek

I am not a Star Trek fan, by any means. I was never a fan of the television series, and I never really watched it enough to know anything about the Star Trek universe, its characters, or its plots. And the science in the movie may be flawed, the movie itself was a pretty exciting event.

There was plenty of action and suspense in this movie to make it feel like an epic space movie spanning the amount of time in-storyline that it did. And while it jumps around in the beginning, never does it lose its audience.

And thanks to the time jumping in the storyline, the slate for the series (if any) here-after is wiped clean and ready for Abrams (or whoever may pick it up) to take it in bold new directions.

Posted: May 15th 2009
Category: Movies
Tags: Abrams, flawed

S. Darko

There’s a reason this wasn’t a theater release. Quite simply put, it just wasn’t theater material. While it did hold true to the feeling that was Darko, it didn’t quite capture it like the original did.

There is a lot of familiarity in this sequel that one could find comforting, and nothing in it [...]

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My insides are boiling

Unfamiliar places with familiar faces.
Sharp objects with intentional targets.
A piece of the flesh comes off so easily.
Sectional cutting, almost like a machine.
The container opens up,
and I’m filled with molten liquid.
Can’t tip or tilt my arm or I will spill out…
and lose everything.
It’s so hot – burning hot. Why is it like this?
Where is the tissue, [...]

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