Day five of my vacation, and I have to admit, I finally broke down and briefly checked my work e-mail. Of course, then I went and saw the new Mission Impossible movie, so it’s not like it was all work for me today. I also read a little, wrapped some Christmas presents, and then this evening watched another movie: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan. Which, amazingly, I’d never seen before. It’s not perfect, and the effects sure are dated, but it’s genuinely quite entertaining. No spoilers, even some thirty years later but that ending must have blown Trekkies’ minds back in 1982.
Oh, and Ghost Protocol is pretty good, too. Well staged action and at least as good as the one right before it…which, actually, I only barely remember. (Say what you will about Brian de Palm’s muddled first outing, it’s memorable.) Aside from some really annoying technical glitches in the theater — a dark screen for almost twenty minutes, then a picture with no sound, and then trailers superimposed on the screen during the last five minutes — the movie was quite fun.
And that was…Wednesday, right? Yep, a decent enough day.
Tsk! No more work email for you.
Glad you’re having a good holiday. I’m counting down to Friday at noon…I’ve been saving True Grit for Friday night.
Which one? Both versions are well worth watching, in my opinion.
You’d never seen The Wrath of Khan?! How do I even know you? 🙂 Seriously, though, it’s still very possibly my all-time favorite movie. I find it infinitely re-watchable, even though I can pretty much recite all the dialog verbatim by now.
In my defense, I was five years old in 1982.
Considering how often it’s been run on TV, never mind DVD and VHS, I’m not sure that’s an excuse. 🙂
It was on HBO the day after I watched it, so yeah.