Just found this via Swissmiss, touching.

Last night I went to go and see the new Star Trek movie and I was seriously impressed. Good acting, gripping action, edge of your seat special effects and a solid plot with some very subtle nods to the early series. I am still and always will be a bigger fan of Star Wars (May the fourth be with you, always), but I agree with BrockleyBoyo:

“THAT, Mr Lucas, is how you make a prequel!”

“… for the rest of us, learn to read subtitles”

— Mark Kermode, on accents in films. I agree with him that films really ought to be made in the language most relevant to the film, rather than the one most relevant to the audience.

“I went to the cinema after the session and found that the Curzon Soho’s wireless extends throughout the building, including covering the screens themselves. I twittered as such from the 5th row, wondering aloud whether we could have a silent collaborative viewing of a film, communicating through networked text alone. This does, of course, ignore the annoyance of the tapping of keys and the light of screens, but until we get ocular implants…”

If you want to read a (very, very long) webpage with some interesting comments ranging from the geeky to the technical with everything in between (except for the flaming kind thankfully), see this pandora’s box-opening post on empire on how to organise your movie collection.

Who said reviewing movies was all about gut instincts anyway?