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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds: Subspace Rhapsody (2023)
Almost as good as the musical episode of The Sopranos
I'm a huge fan of Star Trek The Original Series and most of the rest of Star Trek does not really exist for me because it isn't Star Trek. This show (and specifically this episode) being in a guy called James T. Kirk which bothered me a bit until I realized he's just Jim Carrey and doesn't even have any similarities to TOS. This made this episode even better because I'm OK with that Kirk being a jerk. I do like the characters playing Spock and Uhura and even Pike is pretty cool, but if I was afraid this would be anything like TOS in the first season, I have now breathed a giant sigh of relief. The songs were interesting and well done. The bumpy headed Klingons have stopped bothering me. It's like when I REALLY enjoyed the nostalgia of the first two JJ Abrams reboots. I didn't want to, but they were almost as good as the original because they brought so much from them. This goes completely the other direction. It has no scientific plot. It's completely silly. It doesn't really advance any character arcs. It's like a Christmas Special on All in the Family or maybe a fund drive episode of The Twilight Zone? This episode was a lot of work, but I could watch it a few times and not get bored. It's better than Andrew Lloyd Webber or Hamilton, but not quite as good as Little Shop of Horrors or Rocky Picture. Kudos to something different!
Skyfall (2012)
Worst Bond Movie Ever
Contrived setups for action scenes. No plot and all actions are completely unbelievable. Unfortunate with such a great director, great writers from previous Bond movies and great actors. Javier Bardem is such a great bad guy, but there's no way anyone will believe his back story or that someone who has been "away" for more than 10 years would know anything about the current security of a secret service. Bond "missing" for the time before the movie starts is also unbelievable. Why was this movie made? Free money from the captive audience after 2 good stories. Waste of time watching this trash. Just see From Russia With Love or even Casino Royale (Daniel Craig) again.