Mini Review - Star Trek

Let me tell you about my experiences with Star Trek

Yeah, whilst it took me until I was in my 20s before I watched Star Wars for the firs time, I never watched Star Trek. I think I had an old VHS of it, but it never caught my attention. But in 2009 they decided to reboot the franchise in bring it in the New direction, brought to us by the guy who directed the Force Awakens and Mission Impossible 3, JJ Abrams.

The movie was modestly successful, earning $385m on a $150m budget, not that great, but enough to kickstart this franchise anew leading to a new TV series on Netflix. Look, my schedule’s pretty packed, I may get to discovery some-when down the line but not in the near future.

Guilty Pleasures #6 Iron Man 3

The Iron Man franchise was the beginning of great things for Marvel as their partnership with Paramount allowed the creation of a Marvel Cinematic Universe, which eventually cumulated into the Avengers.

But Iron Man sequels themselves never quite had the popularity of the first. Iron Man 2 was criticised for particularly its lack of Iron Man himself and its ending, where Tony created an impossible to synthesise element in a matter of minutes. Still it enjoys a 73% rotten tomatoes rating and made a decent $600 million at the box office, so a 3^rd instalment was inevitable.

Also note-worthy is that this is the last movie distributed by Paramount Studios. Following Marvel Comics Acquisition by Disney, Disney themselves handled the distribution of the films that followed this.

There are loud critics for Iron Man, despite its incredible box office performance, managing $1.2 billion at the box office, and its favourable 78% rotten tomatoes. I don’t consider this movie that brilliant, it’s flawed and I’ll be spending the remainder of the review explaining it. But for all its problems, I find, like most Marvel movies, it’s fun and enjoyable. So let’s dig into Iron Man 3 and discover all that it can be.