Star Trek Beyond

 

I'm no where near a Trekkie, I grew up as a big Star Wars fan and basically denounced anything Trekkie.  The USS Enterprise couldn't hold a torch to the Millennium Falcon, and well still doesn't...BUT with the reboot by JJ Abrams a few years ago and Into the Darkness I've started to enjoy the stories.  Today hit up Star Trek Beyond, the 3rd in this series.  Really good popcorn summer flick.  Has the scifi stuff to be all Trekkie but this one adds in more on the ground action too.  Think that's a lil from Justin Lin and his Fast & Furious days.  Really like the development of Bones and Spock's relationship and Bones over all.  I felt he was underused in the sequel.  Also the nod back to the past was really great!  Hope they keep it up with this group and create more stories. 

7/10 Stars

Ghostbusters

Had no kids tonight, and thought I'd hit Ghostbusters at the 540 showing.  I'll preface this with having watched, and loved, the original I was going to compare it to that no matter what. Now there were some funny moments, and some good one liners, but I felt most of it was all shown in the trailers. The movie felt more like fillers for what we already saw.  The graphics and effects were a lot better than the originals, which came to be expected and the cameos were great too and nods back to the orignals.  The girls were good, Wig and McCarthy and new comers, but Chris Hemsworth and his humor over shadowed the girls. I'm sure there will be a sequel, and I'll prob go see it too.  

4/10 stars