Harry Potter ...

Ok, I was not going to write this as a note, but whatever, it is irritating me. How have I seen three movies in the past couple of months, two of which I had no interest in, and all of which were bad, and, worst of all, all of which were popular?!

X Men? The best word I have to describe this movie is prissy. Everything about it is prissy. All of the actors just prissed around thinking they were hotter than they were. The fights were prissy. The love scenes were prissy. The movie was based on total visual stimulation. There was no interesting story. I did not care when the girlfriend died. I did not care when she was alive. I did not care when she died again. The movie would have been predictable if I weren't too bored to even attempt it.

Star Trek. Did they even watch the original series? I guess they didn't have to, considering that it seemed that the whole premise of the movie is saying that the original series never really happened, anyway. How bizarre is that? And then the numerous problems within the movie, itself. Oh, and the movie felt like a Star Wars movie. Oh, and point singularity projectors (black hole guns) are an Andromeda creation.

And then Harry Potter. In the movie's defense, the book was worse, because it wasted more of my time. The fifth and sixth books were just filler material to get to the seventh book, which fizzled more than any book, movie, or tv show has ever fizzled. Nothing happens, nothing happens, but in the end, nothing happens! And you will care, because along the way, a lot of people die meaningless, but dramatic deaths which the reader is supposed to care about. It was funny, as soon as Hedwig died in the seventh book, my brother and I started discussing who would die in the rest of the book. He bet it would be Fred. I bet it would be Dobby. You should never be able to do that with a book. Snape and Malfoy could get into a competition for which character fizzled the most. Was it Snape, the guy who had been a spy for one side or the other for years, dying before he could actually do anything interesting? Or was it Malfoy, who may or may not have had a change of heart, oh wait, he didn't have a change of heart, he's just a coward. I guess if they got into a competition, they could both just stop fighting as soon as anyone took any interest. And Lily and James potter. How am I supposed to care about such horrid people? I guess that at least explains why Harry is such a terrible person. So Lily got married to the guy who ostracized, bullied, and pretty much destroyed her best friend, because the years of constant torment had actually taken a toll on him? Wow, they are so wonderful. And Tom Riddle is the only character in the movie who acts of his own volition. Yes, what he wants to do is horrible, but no one actually opposes his ideas, they just oppose him because harry opposes him (which is because he killed his parents), and they like Harry better than they like him. There does not seem to be any true, deep moral conviction on the part of any of the characters. And dumbledore, blah. So he was a dark wizard who killed his sister and then decided that maybe he should be a better person? Great. In short, three great movies, with lots and lots of great previews for other great movies, indicating that the forseeable future is going to be filled with interesting, powerful, thought provoking movies. If I remember correctly, the last good movie that came out was in 2005. The last good non independent movie which came out was in, what, 2003?