This is just me, now,

but I was blown away by the new Star Trek movie.

Turtar was not so thrilled, but I think it is the best action movie I've ever seen. I was figuratively biting my nails the whole time. I couldn't believe it when Spock ejected Kirk from the Enterprise. I was enthralled and entertained. I wish I had a reason to see it in the theater again.

I'll admit, I used to watch Star Trek with my dad when I was younger. It wasn't exactly interactive, but it was something we shared, I suppose. I got to stay up past bedtime to watch it, I guess because my mom didn't want to cut short my 'shared time with Daddy'. (I might have watched anything to stay up an extra hour for 'shared time'.) But that was Next Generation... Anyway, Turtar thinks this means I'm predisposed to like this movie, what with the Trekky jargon and sci-fi-ness. He may be right. Though, I didn't even see Nemesis and the only Star Trek movie I remember liking before this was First Contact. I'm also predisposed to like Chris Pine... Did you see him in Blind Dating? aDOORable. And eating three reese's cups during the previews probably didn't hurt my mood either.

Whatever my predisposition, I loved this movie. I loved it from the first moment. I loved it all the way through. I even loved it after Turtar confessed that he was bored by the end and started pointing out holes in the script. I didn't disagree with him, but I can't remember ever enjoying seeing a movie so much. I wished we'd seen it in a full theater of fans. *sigh*

We saw Hot Fuzz in a full theater with a very responsive audience and that was awesome (so was that movie... tightest script and editing of a film I've ever seen, at least for a non-art film). We saw X-Men 3 (which was dreadful) with his grad school pals and compared mutant ranking system in the movie to the class struggle in French Revolution afterwards, which was hilarious and awesome--definitely a singular experience. We saw The Dark Knight in I-Max and the flipping of the semi (the rest of that experience was more impressive to Turtar than me) was awesome. My point is, I've had lots of fun at the movies before, but this was something new, something out of the ordinary, for me at least. As Rhino (you know... from "Bolt"?!) would say, it was beyond awesome. It was BeAwesome!