“Wanna see a film this weekend?” She asked.
“I dunno. What’s playing?” I replied.
“Lemme look…Wolverine’s out. And there’s that Star Trek movie.”
Rolling my eyes at the idea of suffering through a Star Trek film, “Wolverine, maybe?”
“Reviews are shitty.”
“Alright. Star Trek, then.”
I’m not a Star Trek fan. I’d “seen” Star Trek film and while they weren’t terrible, they were all pretty much “meh” in my opinion, heavy on technobabble, light on anything resembling exciting action. I wasn’t expecting much at all, really. Learning that J.J. Abrams was the director didn’t make things any better either. I don’t care for Lost. Alias was good for the first two seaons and then crapped out. Cloverfield was a fun film, but it wasn’t a “great film”. I fully expected to come out saying, “it’s okay.”
I was wrong…and I had a joy-gasm! Yay me!
I hope you didn’t have that joy-gasm in the theater. That sounds messy.
The wife and I loved the movie as well. She hated original Trek and I tolerated it, so we had low expectations. There was so much to enjoy about this movie if people (i.e. uber-Trekkies) would let themselves enjoy something.
Comment by Anjin — May 15, 2009 @ 12:29 pm