Sunday, May 19, 2013

Heading to "boldly go" - Star Trek into darkness


Went to see the new Star Trek "Into Darkness".  The Star Trek TV show started while I was in college.  As I mentioned before, we were about to go to the Moon at the time so we figured that what was being shown on Star Trek would be normal life by the time I was sixty.  I did not figure in  several more wars and the society becoming so selfish that any idea of doing something as a nation or planet became the real science fiction.

The new movie is excellent if you are a fan.  This is the second chapter in the reboot of the story and re-introduces us to the ultimate villain, "Kane".   Effects are good and dialogue is fun.  A great popcorn movie with familiar friends to watch.  One nod to great science fiction writers was the naming of one of the new Star Ships, USS Bradbury.  Cool move.

It the end Kirk once again states:  "these are the voyages of the Star Ship Enterprise on a 5 year mission to BOLDLY Go where no man has gone before..........

As Henry Cho's redneck friends once said: "Wheres Boldly GO?"

I give it ***1/2 stars    2013 Movie #18

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