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

2013 Summer Movie Awards

School starts tomorrow, which is a sign summer is over.  This is the 5th annual summer movie awards that I've done.  Some people and movies are moving into some prestigious territory, looking at 2 time winners and movie franchises taking home more hardware too! 

This summer also movies are coming out and hitting DVD quicker then usual so some movies may have been seen on DVD.  

Movies seen this summer:

GI Joe Retaliation, The Croods, Iron Man 3, Epic, Star Trek: Into Darkness, Man of Steel, Fast and Furious 6, The Heat, 42, The Wolverine, Red 2, Olympus Has Fallen, Mud, Planes

  

Best Movie – Star Trek : Into Darkness

Star Trek won 2009 Best Movie

Best Dude – Harrison Ford : Branch Rickey : 42

Best Dudette –  Melissa McCarthy : Mullins : The Heat 

Won Best Dudette in 2011 for BridesMaids

Best Scene – Spock and Kirk while Kirk lays in the Enterprises reactor : Star Trek: Into Darkness

Best Fight –  Mike Bannig going John McClane through the White House for about the last hour of Olympus Has Fallen

Biggest Dud –  Iron Man 3 – There are little parts where I would have changed things differently.  I didn’t like the changing how they used the Mandarin, Ben Kingsley would have made a great villian himself.  He is supposed to be someone that is like the Joker to Tony, and it started out that way.  I also didn’t like all the suits, it reminded me of Tranformers 2 with all the extra Decepticons that you didn’t know who were getting blown up.  It’s cool to see all the tech Tony has in making the all the suits BUT nothing beats the old red and gold suit. This had a different flair from the previous 2 Jon Favereu directed flicks.

Anticipated Sequel – Star Trek 3

Summer movie not seen that I want too – Now You See Me & Despicable Me 2

2009 Summer Movie Awards

With the smell of football in the air, the summer in my mind not calendar, is coming to an end, and with that the summer blockbusters. And usually I try to get to the biggies in the theater, with kids and life I don’t. I’ve seen 5 movies this summer and have rankings below. The movies I’ve seen in chronological order; Wolverine…Star Trek…Transformers 2…Ice Age 3…GI Joe: Rise of Cobra.

Best Movie – Star Trek

Best Dude – Chris Pine : Captain Kirk : Star Trek

Best Dudette – Sienna Miller : Baroness : GI Joe

Best Scene – new Kirk meets old Spock : Star Trek

Best Fight – Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow : GI Joe

Biggest Dud – Transformers 2

Anticipated Sequel – GI Joe

Summer movie not seen that I want too – Terminator 4