Dude, watch it. It's a really compelling story.

A second trailer for Star Trek Beyond was released:

Looks like just another space action movie. Oh well... I'll go see it anyway.

An overview of all US home video releases:

(Nathan Butler's "From The Star Wars Home Video Library" playlist is a must-see for obsessive-compulsive Star Wars video collectors. It covers all American Star Wars releases and the most prominent foreign ones.)

There's also an Honest Trailer:

This time J.J. didn't even bother to record an audio commentary for the movie

The DVD/Blu-ray will come out in April... with some extras only as retailer exclusives. It won't be as bad as STID, but still... Was it your idea, J.J.?

http://www.starwars.com/news/its-true-a … oming-home

Holy fuck. This is what I've been waiting for: a great Mars movie.

A while back, I mentioned that I don't like most Mars movies that have been thrown at us. Mission To Mars, Red Planet, Doom, The Last Days On Mars, John Carter and Ghosts Of Mars were all unsatisfying to me. The Martian, on the other hand, fires on all cylinders - there's some humor, lots of thrills and magnificent scenery porn. Ridley Scott is cool again.

Highly recommended.

The Abramsverse movies are much easier to swallow if we forget that they're supposed to be a part of the pre-existing Star Trek franchise. They require a suspension of disbelief on par with the Marvel movies (and even if we give them that, there are some other fridge logic issues).

The ending of ST '09 exemplifies the difference between the old ST and the new one.

Hopefully the new TV show will avoid this.

Hopefully we'll get a DIF/WAYDM reunion commentary once the movie comes out on home video.

I was cautiously optimistic and I got exactly what I expected - a fairly enjoyable J.J. Abrams space adventure movie ("J.J. Abrams space adventure movies" are now almost a genre unto themselves) with some "fridge logic" issues.

Instead of having a truly original story, they decided to play it safe by rehashing the first movie (with some elements from TESB and ROTJ); obviously that's a pretty big flaw. But most of the other elements work just fine. The acting is solid, the banter is funny and the entire thing is fun to watch. Finally we got a Star Wars movie that's FUN TO WATCH. While TFA is no masterpiece, it's a step in the right direction.

And yes, "Snoke" is a retarded name (but the character design itself dosen't bother me much).

The trailer for the sequel is out:

The Kepler Telescope has found... something

Too late

It's hard to believe that Goldman and Kasdan wrote the screenplay. Some of the character stuff is OK (it felt consistent with other Stephen King adaptations, so it probably comes from the original novel), but the rest is worthless.