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Excellent review @NeonKazma. I really love your first paragraph. It sums up my thoughts rather well. America has taken a plunge into the realm of idiocy and there's no light at the end of the tunnel. I mean, when I society decides to try and impeach a president cause of an affair which has no influence/effect on national security, then that nation's intelligence has fallen far below the bar. I wrote an offshoot of this on a forum titled "Why So Serious" under "The Dark Knight" film page. I need to extrapolate on it some more. Great review again.

@Zak-Lee-Ferguson: I'm gonna have to see the first one again, then 5 & 6. Those look to be the best three.

@kbelliveau: I've had to study this type of stuff in college. It's intriguing the way the marketers approach it, but I agree with your review. It doesn't really make for great entertainment besides whomever they cast to play the lead. Good one.

I can't imagine any of these films packing any emotional punch. They alls seem like cheesy (though cool) action movies.

@brian: Don't enable the review movie function on a film until it's been released somewhere, like if it's released internationally before the US, then enable the review function, cause there are too many reviews on this site by people who couldn't possibly have even seen the films they're reviewing since they've not even been released yet.

@ghostman @themoviefanatic: The reason they wouldn't put out an official street date just yet, is because they don't want people to react like @2movieguys did, and wait to rent it. They want people to be left in the dark as to when it's released so they can get people to go and see it multiple times. So in the end it could still be released on 8/27, but I'm thinking it'll either be released on either 9/24, 10/1, or 10/29 right before "Thor2" is released to get people hyped for that. If indeed it does come out on 8/27, I'll be very surprised.

@ghostman: It's a toss up. They released all three of their pirate films in late november/early december, then put out the 4th one in mid october despite it made the most bank. So I expect it'll be one of the two dates you mentioned for the same reasons.

@ghostman: Eh, not really. The Klingons were always played up as the enemy of the Federation, and they really only took the villain role in ST3, in which the Enterprise returns to Ceti Alpha 5 to find Spock, but are confronted by Klingons who also covet the Genesis Terraforming Device, and the movie is basically Kirk and Klingon captain Christopher Lloyd bucking heads as they compete against each other. And the Klingons were allies in "The Next Generation" I'm pretty sure. Khan was always the end all for Star Trek villains, even though when reviewing "space seed" and "wrath of khan," he wasn't all that bad. Much worse and darker in "into darkness" actually, and he didn't really get to play the lead villain in that either.

@ghostman: http://screencrush.com/iron-man-3-blu-ray-dvd-release-date/

@ghostman: Not to mention that Khan didn't really have an appropriate end to his storyline. It just kinda ended mid-fight. No dramatic closing for him like in ST2.

Disney says this isn't accurate, so I'd stick with their word seeing as they own the franchise.

@ghostman: I never liked the idea of killing Spock in ST2 either. Considering that Spock took such a backseat in that film, his death had no dramatic weight to it either. They originally intended him to be dead for good, but it didn't play well with test audiences, so they implied Spock could survive at the end of the film. Either way, the last ten minutes of ST2 completely undermined the rest of the film since it was just setting up a sequel and was a complete departure from the story they just told. Had they setup Spock's death like they did Kirk's with their spat over violating the prime directive to save Spock in the beginning of this film, then it could have worked. And yes, they should never have mentioned Khan's regenerative DNA cause that gave away the fact that you knew it would be used to save Kirk. Not knowing that would've added at least some tension to the moment.

@ghostman: Yeah I hate it when movies do that. It never works. Fan fiction at its worst there. Like when Charlton Heston played the ape leader in Tim Burton's remake, and said the famous line "Damn them all to hell!" That actually worked to an extent, but still, that's why Kirk's death doesn't work at all. It was completely forced and while it relates to the subplot of Kirk saving Spock's life in the beginning and the headache Spock caused afterwards, it didn't warrant an exact ripoff of the same moment from ST2. The moment Kirk entered the chamber, I knew where they were going with that. They should've rewritten it to make it totally original.

Good one @sardinas. This accurately sums up all the negative feedback in a reasonable length review of it.