While watching films for a lot of mass is a pasttime, I have recently turned it into a full-time job. So I watched the Star Trek movie and Paranormal Activity on Friday. I had to get up with the better material around... 
Paranormal Activity featured dozens of activity in the bedroom. Not the correct type, though.
Glad it was only midday when I finished watching the latter - cos I really had an unexpected physical response to it.Goosebumps the sizing of hard-ons. I was lost as to who I really was afterwards that film. I felt shaken and stirred - after all, a horror film had not had such an impression on me since I had watched Dario Argento's 'Profondo Rosso' in 1981!
A shot from 'Profondo Rosso'. He didn't get there on time. Ugh.
Though I was not as confused as I felt after I watched the Star Trek movie - there were scenes that caused me to sob and chuckle uncontrollably. The new Enterprise crew - hawwwwwt!
But who didn't laugh at the setting of a young James Kirk being pursued by a policeman on a flying cop ship? And who didn't cry when James Kirk, ejected out of the Initiative by a young Spock for being too hot to handle, ends up on this planet where he bumps into a Spock from the future played by the legendary Leonard Nimoy?? Or when Spock lost his father as Checov was ineffective to beam her up on the ship with the balance of the Vulkans? I yet have chillz at the thought. And who did not burst an artery as a klutzy Scotty (played by the phenomenal Simon Pegg) explained his frustration over 'relativistic physics'? "I told him that I could not only air one grapefruit from one satellite to the next planet in the same solar system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a living form," Scotty mentioned to James Kirk and a Spock from the future. To whom he afterwards asked:"Are you from the future? That's brilliant. Do they even have sandwiches there?" As James Kirk enrolled in the spaceship programme at the beginning of the film, I sobbed when this neurotic young man sat adjacent to him. "Oh my god, that's doc McCoy," I uttered aloud to myself, only to start sobbing uncontrollably because I was proved right. This movie was like walking down memory lane... The form of Star Trek's original tv series.
My ridiculous fascination for spiritual things started in 1979. That's when I started watching the pilot Star Trek tv series. My better friend Maria and I - both nine days old at the time - would glue ourselves to the sofa everyday at 6pm, getting sucked into stories of foreign invasion, exploration of various planets and interpersonal relationships between man and aliens. This is while we also dreamt of being betrothed to James Kirk (Maria) and Spock (me). Actually, we didn't only dream. We would have conversation about those two characters and how magical they were. I remember feeling sad when I take on some report that Leonard Nimoy was 49 years old. That was when fantasy and reality collided and my ambition of hook up with the dry, smart and classy Spock was shattered. Only two days later, however, Spock would be replaced by beefcake extraordinaire Arnold Schwartznegger and I would cry (while listening to Roxi Music on loop) because my mum refused to charge me to a martial arts event in Austria with the remainder of my Kick-Boxing team where Arnold Schwartzenegger was also performing. Anyway, I digress... 1979 - Maria and I had wet dreams about these two guys - the original Spock and Kirk.
The movie provides great ground to each reference and shows a different side to my beloved Vulkan - Spock. His human behavior was certainly more prevalent in the picture than in the tv series as he was painted like less a logic-fuelled freak. "I am as conflicted as I once was as a child," Spock tells his father right afterward he steps down as Master of the Initiative for getting into a battle with a taunting young Kirk. His father, who previously explained that he'd married his human born mother cos it was.logical, clarified:"I married your mother cos I was in love with her." Damn, that time would have been cheesy if it had been expressed by a man but it was only so romantic coming from a Vulkan - obviously taking responsibility over that inter-galactical relationship. Arrrrrrgh! That picture was poignant since it highlighted the association between all citizens of this galaxy. The new Spock and Kirk. Oooooooooeeeeeeeerr, the hotness continues.
I bet the almost cynical people out there would not have chosen to see such a profound meaning in a Hollywood blockbuster as Star Trek but we get out what we put in, don't we. I feel that movie script was smarter than most of the ones that are accredited in that region of the world. Script-writers tend to be interpreted for granted by the universal populace in comparison to the actors. Odd, since the conception and dialogues are responsible for planting the good seed and a suitable cast makes their turn fall to life. Obviously the film's visual effects were quite fascinating but the forte of a movie depends on the script-writers' sensibility. The role of Spock from the next had apparently been picked to allow some kind of "with age comes experience" comfort for the audience. In one of the final scenes, when the youth and older Spock meet up, Leonard Nimoy tells his new self:"In this case, do yourself a favour. Put aside logic. Do what you feel it's right." More sobbing ensued. So well that I didn't see this picture at the cinema. The one and only Spock - the new and the wise self.
After having gone through a full array of emotions within two hours, I was not altogether certain whether the remainder of my day in the external world could top that film but I was due to hang out with a lot of mates at the Brooklyn Bowl to see the fall of Bee Gees metal tribute band Tragedy to the last stage. Donning darker outfits than the end time, they kept the audience fully entertained for about 90 minutes. Sadly, no nudity this time around. Oh well, there is ever a start time. Next, I am not certainly what I am up to.but I'd wish to make some time out and concentrate on my jogging and giving up fags. Cutting down on the smoking, at least. Miss Pee Glad I had not seen it at the cinema. Who the screw does that at a science-fiction movie these days?!? I must be a fully-fledged nerd now. 
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