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Steve Klare
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From: Long Island, NY, USA
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posted July 30, 2016 12:45 PM
We went to see Star Trek Beyond at the late show last night. (How late? When we got out our car was basically there all by itself!)
This one has reached the point where it's almost more an action picture than Science Fiction. The action comes so hot and heavy in the first half I'll need the DVD and multiple viewings to be completely sure what happens.
I think people in the future will be much tougher than we are. They keep falling off cliffs worthy of a Road Runner cartoon, smacking into rocks all the way down, get up with a couple of cuts on their faces and then go into hand to hand combat!
You or I would do months in the hospital it we were lucky!
-but it's a Star Trek Feature! The crew is challenged by a single, obsessive villain. All hope seems lost, but by virtue of the Enterprise Crew's character and loyalty they rise to the impossible challenge and at the end the villain...
(You know!...the usual!)
Someone upstairs grabbed the volume knob and twisted it 'til it broke off! The sound was so loud I heard something I've never heard before in a theatrical audio system: hum! You not only heard the battle scenes, but felt them! (-ENOUGH, guys!)
Leonard Nimoy's passing was dealt with very warmly and sensitively, and a dedication was made for Anton Yelchin, who died post-production.
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Steve Klare
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posted August 03, 2016 01:03 PM
I have a feeling Chekhov will be reassigned to another ship before the next one comes out.
A very long time ago, we took our 3 year old to see his first theatrical movie.
-Pooh's Heffalump Movie, it was!
Now, the average age in the auditorium couldn't have been as high as ten years old, but hey! -We were all going to see Winnie the Pooh and Piglet figure out the world once again: the most violent thing we saw that day should have been Tigger! What could ever go wrong?!
-but then the trailers rolled...
Flaming cars spiraled through the skies and were blown up mid air by missiles! Buildings exploded and the screen was full of flames and shrapnel! Men carrying six machine guns each dove through the air and cut each other down. Explosions were exploded by even bigger explosions! The air pulsated with about 100,000 watts of violent sound track, and the floor quaked beneath our feet.
-The assault died down and most of the theater was crying: not all of them were children!
My little boy looked at me and said "Daddy, I want to go home!".
Oh, bother!
(WHAT were they thinking???)
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