Kelly and the kids and I actually saw Star Trek in the theater about a month ago when he returned from Taiwan, but I am just now blogging about it. I enjoyed this movie, even though I thought I would have trouble with Sylar, the Heroes television character, who played Spock. The Captain Kirk character was a doll. I was highly annoyed by the reference to inappropriate relationships with farm animals, which seemed completely unnecessary, but good old Hollywood is trying to do us all a favor by throwing in trash, thinking it's what the people want. Aside from a few other incidents along this line, I still liked it and give it an 7 out of 10. Kelly has always been a fan of the TV show, so he had a lot of anticipation built up for the movie and liked it, so that might have influenced my judgment a bit. Edited to agree with Greg's comment, to a 7 out of 10 instead of 8.
Hopefully this title, Book of Mormon Stories Pool Party , does not sound irreverent, because as an Activity Days leader, I felt compelled to come up with a fun end-of-the-summer event that is also uplifting, and after all, who doesn't love a splash in the pool on a hot day in August? My current church calling, or official role that I volunteer for, allows me to plan two activities each month for girls ages 8 to 11, that will encourage them to learn and live the gospel, serve others, and use the talents Heavenly Father has given them, to learn to do many good things. This year's seminary course of study for high school students is The Book of Mormon, and since I am a huge fan of this inspired book of scripture, I came up with this idea to have each girl show up to my house with a written summary of one of her favorite stories from within its many pages, and share it with the rest of the girls, while outside in our swimsuits near our backyard swimming pool! As each girl shares
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With Star Trek, I didn't like Spock being so pompous and at odds with Kirk, even though later they fixed all of that. I hated seeing him as an immature Spock, kind of goes against the grain of the all wise Spock that we always knew and loved. I know that is the point they were trying to make with this prequel, that these guys were "young" and "immature" at one time, but I just didn't like Spock being lowered to that. And I think they way over-used the word "illogical". In a weekly show where you hear it 1-3 times, it can be annoying but tolerable. But I just think he said it too many times in this movie. And again it didn't help that I really don't like Gabriel Gray (Syler) which just made anything he said annoying to me.
Other than that, the movie was pretty good actually, and I'd recommend it (maybe a 7).