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I SAW STAR TREK
Star Trek in 2009 – a summer blockbuster for us all. Sorry it took me so long to let you know if this movie is good or not. I had to shlep my ass down to the Times Square theater and wade through the hooligans and savages to pay my $12.50. It’s the best theater in the area though – so it’s a trade off.
I had never seen a full episode of Star Trek or seen any previous Star Trek movies before seeing this film. As a Star Wars superfan, having the two worlds collide and being a fan of both just didn’t seem right. So I will be giving you a review from an unbiased point of view – a nerd point of view – but still unbiased.
Star Trek (2009) stars Chris Pine (left) as Captain James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock. Directed by famed television mastermind J.J. Abrams (Lost, Alias), it becomes evident about 20 minutes into this quickly-moving blockbuster that Abrams is a specialist at keeping your attention, and cramming a lot of sensory information into a short amount of time -something he has been known to perfect in 43-minute episodes of Lost.
His background in television shows through on the big screen, which in some ways is both good and bad. It keeps the movie on track and fast-paced, but can also be extremely over-the-top and overdone in certain aspects.
This movie is riddled with lens flares and flashing lights, non-stop action and rarely stable camera work. It’s high on entertainment, but low on depth. By the end of the movie, I found myself not caring.
But Chris Pine’s acting and the dimension that he brought to the film took it to that next level. He was flawless, and made the movie watchable from an artistry standpoint.
All-in-all, you could have taken the Star Trek emblems off their jumpsuits and this movie could have been a better sequal to Starship Troopers. It currently sits at position #71 on the IMDB.com Top 250 movies list, which is pretty ridiculous.
High entertainment value? Yes. Worth your hard-earned money? Probably. 7/10
No commentsWEEKLY POP CULTURE UPDATE (10.28.08)
GUESS WHO’S BACK?
Vibe magazine recently named Eminem the best rapper of all time. I agree one-hundred percent. The guy is phenomenal and everyone else is trying to keep up. His first two albums, The Slim Shady LP and The Marshall Mathers LP, will forever be two of the best albums the hip-hop genre has ever seen.
It’s also interesting to note that four of the biggest rappers of all-time are caucasian. The Beastie Boys (consisting of Mike Diamon, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz) released 1986’s License To Ill which was the first hip-hop album to ever go platinum (sell one million+ copies). Some may say “yeah, because they’re white” – I don’t care if they’re green, it’s a platinum selling rap album in 1986. The fourth on that list mentioned at the beginning of this paragraph would be none other than Marshall Mathers, who took the hip-hop genre by storm in 1998 with The Slim Shady LP.
my personal favorite Eminem song, “Superman“
Eminem is back after a four-year hiatus and the complete story is told in his new 200+ page memoir chronicling every step of the way.
The book kicks off with a prologue that provides one of the reasons Eminem has shunned the spotlight for the past few years. He describes in-depth just how difficult it has been for him to come to grips with the loss of his longtime best friend and fellow rapper Proof (Deshaun Holton), who was gunned down at a Detroit after-hours club in April 2006.
“After he passed, it was a year before I could really do anything normally again,” Eminem writes. “It was tough for me to even get out of bed, and I had days when I couldn’t walk, let alone write a rhyme.”
“I have never felt so much pain in my life. It’s a pain that is with me to this day. A pain that has become a part of who I am.”
read more HERE.
SONG OF THE WEEK
“Leave The Biker” by Fountains of Wayne
RANDOM THOUGHTS OF THE WEEK
95% of all content on television right now must lower your IQ at least one point while watching it. For example, I found myself watching True Life: I’m A Sumo Wrestler on MTV and Scream Queens on VH1 on Sunday night. WTF has my life come to? Scream Queens is like 10 chicks in a contest competing to get a role in the upcoming Saw VI movie. I’d love to say only jackasses watch that kind of shit but then I’d be calling myself a jackass. But seriously, only jackasses watch that kind of shit.
Sorry I was a little late with the Weekly Pop Culture Update today – I was too busy late last night watching the best team in the NFL take it to the Colts – the Tennessee Titans.
Beyonce and Britney Spears still with the top two songs on iTunes. Hello 2001.
WHITE PEOPLE VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Them white folk is crazed.
PICTURES OF THE WEEK
The picture below is probably alienating most of my audience because there’s no way you’d get it unless you’ve seen Star Wars: A New Hope – and paid attention. If so, then this is hilarious:
