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Brief update....SUMMER MOVIE SPOILER ALERT, NO CUTS!
A quick run down of movies I've seen lately:

Up (Prescreening with the staff of Channel 5 News Nashville, thanks to Jason): Excellent movie. Touching and exciting, with some of my favorite things: Old people in movies, fat kids, prehistoric giant birds, zeppelins. It's hard to compare Pixar movies, since they are all so different. It's not my favorite one though, but it's probably in the top....four?

Terminator Salvation: Fun movie. The ending is relatively weak, but there are more than enough nods to the three previous films without being overly cheesy. Easy to follow direction and good exciting explosions. Major kudos: handling time traveling and previous storylines delicately and with reason, unlike another more successful Sci-Fi franchise film that just came out. Major gripe: Can someone tell Christian Bale to stop with the smoker's whisper? It made "some" sense in Batman, but what the hell? What happened to talking like a normal person and being a badass, ala American Psycho? Also, Helena Bonham Carter: overrated hacky actress, or the most overrated hacky actress? Discuss amongst yourselves.

Star Trek: Great casting. That's really all the movie had to do, in order to be successful. Cast people who can embody some seriously already established characters. Unfortunately, after successfully doing that they decided not to push it any further. Major kudos: Great special effects without totally shitting on the original series and other films. It's all modernized, but it still feels like Star Trek. Major gripes: I understand that the characters all embrace the idea that they are now starting on some kind of altered reality time line, which is basically like them turning to the camera to say: "okay, now we're going to be different Star Trek, but do not worry, we are in an alternate dimension from original Star Trek, do not freak out!", but the idea that Old Spock (not to be confused with Old Spice) would be so calm and collected about living his elder days out in a past where his mother is dead and his race is basically extinct seems incredibly out of character. He's been traveling through time since like, the fourth episode of the first season, not to mention going back to save Whales to satisfy a big space dildo, but the idea of just going back and preventing two entire space races from genocide is just too much of a hassle. However, making sure that alternate reality him, and alternate reality Kirk are still bosom buddies, now, that requires the up most amount of effort. I'm sorry, I liked this movie a lot. Like I said, I thought the acting and everything was really good, it's just sad to me that the plot is so incredibly weak. But then again, I'm a "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" fan, living in a "Wraith of Khan" world. Also, huge waste of Eric Bana.