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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/24/14 2:30 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   > "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"  wrote:   
   >> On 1/24/14 12:53 PM, Greg Goss wrote:   
   >   
   >>> I think that DT was trying to educate the source of that money, rather   
   >>> than the recipient.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> 	The source is people going to see a movie and obviously many or most of   
   >> them enjoying it as their buzz didn't kill the movie flat, which happens   
   >> if most or all of your moviegoers hate the experience.   
   >>   
   >> 	So anything someone says about the movie is unlikely to "educate" anyone.   
   >>   
   >> 	Me, I enjoyed both Trek 2009 and the sequel Into Darkness.   
   >   
   > There were many things that annoyed me about 2009, including the stuff   
   > that DT mentions.  As required by the "even numbers" rule, Into   
   > Darkness was much better.   
   >   
      
   	I would agree that Into Darkness was overall much better, but that was   
   partly because they had got the setup out of the way in the first movie.   
   All origin story movies have parts that will kinda drag. I wrote up my   
   own fairly detailed review of it a little while back.   
      
      
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