{"id":38139,"date":"2013-07-04T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/movie-review-star-trek-into-darkness-2013.html"},"modified":"2013-07-05T17:50:47","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T23:50:47","slug":"movie-review-star-trek-into-darkness-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/04\/movie-review-star-trek-into-darkness-2013.html","title":{"rendered":"Movie Review: "Star Trek: Into Darkness" (2013)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Kay's been on a movie-watching kick while spending time with the grandparents, so I was both amused and pleased that the new ST film had been at the top of her list to see (it's been busy around here, folks).<\/p>\n

Margie and I finally took the opportunity to see it last night. \u00a0And I'm glad we did. \u00a0And, unlike most of my reviews, I do have to warn of SPOILERS.<\/p><\/div>\n

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A \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 review of Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)<\/a>
\n So, SPOILERS, because it’s impossible to discuss this movie without including them (or leaving out some serious discussion). Let me start with what I didn’t like about this movie, just to get it out of the way: 1. The sense of setting, space, time, distance in this movie is pretty screwed up. People are talking by communicator across the galaxy. The Klingon homeworld feels like it’s in the same neighborhood as Earth. Everything feels compressed, …\n <\/p>\n

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Kay's been on a movie-watching kick while spending time with the grandparents, so I was both amused and pleased that the new ST film had been at the top of her list to see (it's been busy around here, folks). Margie and I finally took the opportunity to see it last night. \u00a0And I'm glad … Continue reading “Movie Review: "Star Trek: Into Darkness" (2013)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,41,360],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-movies","category-media-tv-star-trek"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":127830,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/08\/28\/movie-review-star-trek-iii-the-search-for-spock-1984.html","url_meta":{"origin":38139,"position":0},"title":"Movie Review: "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock" (1984)","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 28-Aug-15 4:45am","format":false,"excerpt":"It's an odd-numbered Star Trek movie. 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