- Uggh! Stephie just shattered the picture frame that housed our combined family wedding portrait.
- Down to the last 2 episodes of 24; Kim has always been an easy PLAY against Jack; ‘shoulda seen that one coming!
- Happy Mothers’ Day to all!
- Panera’s for Breakfast, then Jen gets to pick out out her Coach HandBag!
- Correction – 2 handbags!
- Check out my Star Trek Movie Rankings @ http://tinyurl.com/TrekMovieRanks
OK – so we’ve just gotten our 11th installment of Star Trek on the big screen and I’m ready to give a fairly definitive personal ranking of the entire set to date. The only asterisk I’ll put on this list will be next to JJ Abrams’ film – which I reserve the right to change after a few more viewings. I welcome any comments on this list below (starting from the bottom):
- 11th: The Final Frontier (Movie # 5) – The very premise of injecting an evil-half brother of Spock to go along with the search for God is almost laughable; The fact that the writers would actually put Nichelle Nichols into a fig-leaf costume and expect us to be aroused was silly. Bad line after bad line, numerous consistency flaws and William Shatner as director all added up to a total disappointment. I dare you to watch it again! You too will be screaming for Spock to shoot his half-brother!
- 10th: Insurrection (Movie # 9) – Not a bad story; it would have been an acceptable 2-part tv serial. By this time however, the plot device of making Lt. Cmdr. Data temporarily evil had gotten quite old for me. Throw in a very mediocre antagonist (Ru’afo) and a very forgettable performance by Patrick Stewart and you’ve got something that seemed to have gotten swallowed up by the big-screen format.
- 9th: The Motion Picture (Movie # 1) – A dramtically better film than the previous 2; the major criticism I have with The Motion Picture was that it suffered from long periods of painfully slow story and character exposition. I never quite sympathized with Illea, and never quite grew to like Decker (which I think was Roddenberry’s intention). However, I’ll never forget how I first felt when I saw the Enterprise on the Big Screen for the first time.
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- Tickets for Star Trek are secured, but unfortunately the IMAX version was completely SOLD OUT!
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