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I've been meaning to watch this for quite a while, and it didn't disappoint. Now I want to go watch Plan 9 from Outer Space again.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Ed Wood > The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Ed Wood > Mystery Men
Ed Wood < Shoot the Piano Player
Ed Wood > When Harry Met Sally...
Ed Wood < Gerald McBoing Boing
Ed Wood > Ran
Ed Wood > The Sting
Ed Wood > The Dot and the Line
Ed Wood > Cat People
Ed Wood < Wrong
Ed Wood < Gerald McBoing Boing

Final ranking 549 out of 3341

Bernie < Bridget Jones Diaries
Bernie > The Ham What Am
Bernie > The Hiding Place
Bernie > Capote
Bernie < Cash on Demand
Bernie > Thirteen
Bernie > Black Death
Bernie > Lord of the Flies
Bernie < Shrek
Bernie > Nightmare Alley
Bernie > Mickey One

Final 1782 out of 3340

How it entered my Flickchart:

Fort Apache > The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Fort Apache > Mystery Men
Fort Apache < Shoot the Piano Player
Fort Apache > Bullets Over Broadway
Fort Apache < The Best Years of Our Lives
Fort Apache < When Harry Met Sally...
Fort Apache > The Big Knife
Fort Apache < Blow Up
Fort Apache > A Trip to the Moon
Fort Apache > Moon
Fort Apache > The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Fort Apache < Maria Full of Grace

Final ranking: 588 out of 3339

I enjoyed JJ Abrams' second actionified Star Trek movie, but the fact remains that most of the actually interesting questions and potential thoughtfulness were elided by ever-escalating action sequences and mostly shallow character moments.

Every second Cumberbatch was on screen was magic, and the most intense and riveting parts were whenever another character simply had a conversation with him. So why not do more of THAT, really have a battle of the wills, of the intellects, see who can mentally out-maneuver one another and who will be able to remain themselves and not become villains when faced with such an adversary (a concept that Kirk touches on in his final speech to Starfleet, but that was almost non-existant in the actual story), rather than spend so much time on a single centerpiece action sequence that got less interesting and felt like it had less stakes the longer it went on? I don't know.

Anyway, it was a decent way to spend a couple of hours, but that's about it.

How it entered my Flickchart:

Star Trek Into Darkness > The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Star Trek Into Darkness < Mystery Men
Star Trek Into Darkness < Time Freak
Star Trek Into Darkness < Halloween
Star Trek Into Darkness < Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
Star Trek Into Darkness > State and Main
Star Trek Into Darkness < Good WIll Hunting
Star Trek Into Darkness > Fruit of Paradise
Star Trek Into Darkness < A Matter of Loaf and Death
Star Trek Into Darkness > Batman Forever
Star Trek Into Darkness > Road to Rio

Final 1598 out of 3338