I liked it too. It was uneven but it took some swings and might have turned into something very good, given the chance. 

I still remember early on before the movie came out where there was that theory Cumberbatch was going to be playing a version of Gary Mitchell who got away and the crew was tracking him back to Earth to stop him. That could have been so much more interesting and wouldn’t have required much of a change in the script…

The needle drop was unnecessary, and a blatant callback to the first movie. If you’re rehashing yourself, you’re doing something wrong (which is a fundamental reason why the Jurassic World movies are terrible).

Not the only one, but close...

I just bought BSG on Blu-ray a week or two ago because I was hankering for a rewatch and it wasn’t on streaming. I watched this show weekly since the beginning and had to take a long break after the ending. Season 1 was perfect. I’m curious how I’ll have found it aged now that it is 20 years old.

Agreed. Which is why I don’t get all the love for Beyond. It had potential but was ultimately just as dumb as the other movies in the JJ-verse.

That energy, combined with a still-incredible needle drop

Fundamentally, Khan didn’t work because Khan doesn’t mean anything to the cast. Wrath of Khan’s entire premise is based on the previous encounter, here we have no previous encounter.

There are a lot of factors you could take into account for why Into Darkness wasn’t very good, but the main one is that one of the writers is a complete fucking loon.

SO SAY WE ALL!

“Well casted + good production design + incoherent plot” sums up all JJ Abrams

At this point the only way a Star Trek movie could be successful is to fill a gap that the recent slate of shows couldn’t, but the current/recent lineup on Paramount+ kind of crushed it in terms of giving everyone what they wanted in at least one of the shows.

No, Into Darkness’s biggest mistake was the misdirection about Khan’s identity. Everyone knew who Cumberbatch was playing long before the movie came out, but they insisted on the stupid misdirect that wasn’t really a misdirect. You want to make a movie about Khan, just say you’re making a movie about Khan.

Still mad they blew up Romulus. Yeah, I’m that bitch.

Genuinely sad to see him go. That man was incredible in the role as Theoden. Its not an easy character, and yet I cannot imagine any other human as him.

Several people in the commentaries note that his being able to keep it together until he says “No parent should have to bury their child” adds a ton to the emotion.

As much as I love the LOTR films, and I do, for a lot of it you’re being asked to care about things that are by their nature abstract: magic rings, battles between imaginary kingdoms, supernatural evil. Theoden, when he’s mourning the loss of his son, brings it back down to something real and visceral, and my God did…

Ender’s Game and Speaker for the Dead had so much influence on my young life it hurts me that Card has become such an asshole 

The fact that Radcliffe does weird, sometimes kind of fucked-up indie movies he finds interesting because he can afford to due to the financial safety cushion of his Potter money speaks nothing but well of him. Glad he’s doing something like the film the above image is from rather than “Christmas Prince” romcoms or…

I wasn’t suggesting “love on social media” be the only metric for determining happiness, and neither should anyone else. No one knows what’s really down in the heart of anyone else, so we can only go by the evidence we can see. And what I see when I look at Radcliffe is a young actor who has matured into a successful…