Josh and I podcasted tonight. We watched the sixth movie in the Trek franchise (sixth! So many movies!)…and it was good. Really good. I’ve always enjoyed it, and it was really, really cool to sit next to Josh and watch him experience it, too. I think he was surprised, actually, with how good it was. It kind of bowled him over, blew his mind.
It IS rather amazing to watch those first six movies, the films we get with the old crew all together, and see how many of them are solid, and even great. I’d say they have two truly GREAT films in those six, Wrath and Voyage, and three more classic Sci-Fi flicks in Motion Picture, Search, and Undiscovered.
Undiscovered Country, the one we watched tonight, I’d actually say is a cut above those other two, somewhere right in between Wrath/Voyage, and Motion Picture/Search for Spock. If we do a star rating, II and IV are five stars, I and III are four stars, and VI is four-and-a-half. It’s really, really good, and it’s *stunning* that five of the six movies range from well-above average to truly great.
Stunning.
What other film franchise does that? Over the course of SIX movies. I can’t think of one, actually. Star Wars certainly doesn’t do it. I’m not sure you can grade horrors films on the same scale. Bond movies, maybe? But, how long was it before we got to Diamonds Are Forever with even that, and things started to go downhill? Had to be around movie five or so, and then slid from there. Here, Trek hit five, and then went back UP.
Nick Meyer, man. He’s a certified genius, and VI proves that II was not fluke. It was all him.
Writing was tough today, again. This week has been…tough. I’m hoping I rally tomorrow. I *will* rally tomorrow.
Wish me luck. I really want to get some solid work done this week, and I haven’t yet. I hate these “transition” weeks where I don’t get shit done. Hate them. I wish I were better at them.
Night!