Star Hollywood Trek

It's getting harder and harder to keep this blog more... updated! :) Sometimes I think about micro-blogging like Twitter... but the problem is I write too much! eheh

Anyway, I've started my summer blockbuster movie tour with the latest movie from JJ Abrams "Star Trek".
Honestly I was expecting more. I know the first reviews are very positive, most of the fans are happy with this new version... but I believe this is a typical Hollywood reboot of an old franchise.
You take a young cast, rock music, lots of action.... some popcorns, et voilá! Even the bad guys weren't bad enough to convince me! eheh

It's interesting to see how they tell the Star Trek origins, how do they get all together... still everything goes too fast. Let's put this differently: several kids finish university in different field in engineering, maths, etc... and they are asked to control a nuclear power plant which is about to "explode". But, hey, it's cinema... anything goes! eheheh

I enjoyed the story as a whole, the opening sequence, the effects, some shaky-cam action sequences (others look like coming from a Power Rangers episode), the "real" Leonard "Spock" Nimoy... but it's a movie targeting the new generations of moviegoers! :)

After "Mission Impossible III", "Cloverfield" or even some "Lost" episodes, I was expecting that "something else" à la JJ Abrams ;)
I was waiting to go "where no man has gone before"... maybe for the sequel! eheh

I recommend you to watch this on a big screen, as a summer blockbuster movie with popcorns.

Beam me up, Scotty!

And they all continue... Lost

Once upon a time, in an island far far away...

Tonight starts, in USA, the new season of one of the most intriguing/curious/sensational TV shows of the last years.

Everyone has their own favorite shows, but my "passion" for Lost started two days before I left Portugal, back in 2006. I was packing everything and suddently I looked at the TV and I saw I plane crashing.
After a few minutes I completely forgot what I was doing and I stood there, like I was being hypnotized by the TV (something like the movie "Poltergeist" but in a good way! eheh).

But I have to thank my brother, that offered gave me some DVDs with all the episodes from the 1st season, as a have-a-nice-trip-and-don't-come-back-soon (eheh, just kidding bro!).
After my arrival in France, in my first temporary apartment on the hills of Sophia-Antipolis, I didn't have many interesting things to do. So I remembered about that amazing TV show and how curious I was to know what happened to all those passengers.

It was like that I started to be a Lost fan... literally lost, because the way the story was written gave me more doubts than clues! eheheh
The creator of the show, J.J. Abrams, got all the attention for his creativity and he convinced me too, specially when he managed to deliver a good Mission: Impossible movie and a great-great Cloverfield (but this is another story).

Well, by now you all have already heard about this TV show and certainly there are good and bad things about it. Season 1 was very good, season 2 so-so, and for season 3 only the second half of the season was interesting.
In a few hours the next adventures will begin... and I can't wait to watch it too...

Hmm... I wonder... when will this new episode be available to download? In a legal, way of course! Like my brother did! O:-)