1.   http://flixchatter.wordpress.com/ is one of the coolest movie blogs that I have seen recently.  I don’t know much about the blog but I stumbled across a really cool article that was linked on IMDB about movie accents.  I would highly suggest checking it out.

2.   I am not sure how I feel about having 10 Best Picture Nominees this year.  I have seen about half of the films nominated at this point (Up, Inglorious Basterds, District 9, Avatar, The Hurt Locker) and I want to see the majority of the remaining films.  I just think that having to many nominations takes away a little from the prestige of being a best picture nominee.  If I were to choose right now and only based off of the films that I have seen I would choose Inglorious Basterds.  My reason is that it was a serious achievement in film-making.  The acting, direction and technical parts of the film were all spot on and the film was easily Tarantinos best! Being on the watch for more coverage of the Oscar to come here at “The Bottle City of Reed!”

3.  I am extremely annoyed at the new trend that everything new coming out of Hollywood now is supposedly going to now be in 3D.  I can appreciate Avatar as a phenomenal technical achievement and I think you should see it in 3D but I do not think that just because Avatar was one of the most successful movies of all time that every new movie has to be 3D.  To explore the world best 3D worked I don’t know if it will translate as well to other films and I don’t know if I would even want it to.  I would rather filmmakers to concentrate on quality storylines and high quality images (like IMAX).  In addition I hate that people want 3D technology to enter the home.  I have enough of an argument against the implementation of this technology that I will save that for a future entry.

4.  I have wanted to get into LOST for the past few years and this year I finally did when my wife purchased the first 5 seasons for me this Christmas.  We have got through the first 4 seasons but tonight is the start of the 6th and last season.  I wish we were caught up but I am just going to have to watch out for spoilers on Facebook and the different forums that I visit.

Hope you had fun with my random thought!  Now it is time to go watch Zombieland!

Again please check out http://flixchatter.wordpress.com/ it is a cool site!

Later!

Adam

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It has been about 8 months since the release of J.J. Abrams re-imagining of the Star Trek franchise.   I have never been much of a Star Trek fan and have always been a little more interested in Star Wars but when I saw the first teaser trailer of this new Star Trek movie about a year before it’s initial release I knew it was going to be awesome! What follows will give just a little hint of what I liked about Abrams reboot but be warned it is filled with potential spoilers.

Unlike other similar reboots Abrams Star Trek does not try to ignore past continuity (and piss off hardcore Trekkers).  The film uses time travel to create a pocket universe separate from the original Star Trek universe. The story begins with a new bad guy,  Nero attacking a Federation ship in deep space.  What we as the viewers discover is that this bad guy, Nero is from the future and he has accidentally traveled through a black hole in pursuit of him nemesis Spock (he himself a older version of the Spock we know from the Original Series, played brilliantly by Leonard Nimoy).  Since Nero and his crew have travel through time to a place that they do not belong they change how future events were suppose to occur most notably causing the death of George Kirk the father of the most famous Star Trek Captain, James Kirk .  What follows can only be described as the new origin story of what happens in this parallel universe and to the characters from the original series.  In this new film James Kirk is played by a young actor named Chris Pine who is already starting to make a name for himself and has been selected to also helm the new incarnation of the Jack Ryan Series.  Kirk’s First Officer Spock is played by Zachary Quinto who many geeks will already know as Sylar from the NBC Superhero Drama, Heroes.  There are many things that make this story work so well but these two actors and their characters are the heart of the story.  What follows his an action packed Sci-Fi thriller!

The reason why I believe people will enjoy this movie is that it is written for everyone to enjoy and not just fans of past Star Trek incarnations.  The movie does not get caught up in continuity and instead embraces what it is which is a smart, well-designed space opera.  I would suggest this to Sci-Fi fans and non-Sci-Fi fans alike because I think this movie is for everyone! It is available on Blu-Ray (the preferred choice) or DVD.

There is a podcast commentary track by some friends of mine available at http://www.hhwlod.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=504:lod-movie-commentary-star-trek&catid=55:lod&Itemid=61.

Let me know what you think of the movie and also comment if you have any suggestions for what you would like reviewed next!

So who am I?  I am at this point a 27-year-old guy living in Northern Kentucky with my lovely wife Amanda and my two beautiful children Gabriel (3) and Abigail (1).  I am a graduate of Northern Kentucky University with a Bachelors of Arts in History.  I have spent the past three years as Project Specialist with The Nielsen Company (something I will rarely talk about because it wouldn’t be to exciting).   As far as interests are concerned I am a huge movie, comic book, and video game geek.  I won’t really get into any specifics in this initial blog but hopefully I can explore those parts of my life individually because they will be a little easier to explain as I go along.

I think that is enough of an introduction for tonight.  I hope some of you find this at least a little interesting and hopefully it will get much better.  Regardless your in for a ride!