Recently Watched Films

This wouldn't have been my first choice to check out since it's not one of the best regarded ones, but it was the one they put on TV this week. Actually I quite enjoyed it, though some parts were especially corny. 

Why?

Why does this exist?

Why did I watch it? 

Why didn't I listen when everything I ever read said this was dreadful?

I do have very vague memories of seeing this as a child.

I quite enjoyed this too, though it's basically Stockholm Syndrome in space and IIRC the media focussed on that. Probably put a lot of potential audience off. But I think even Jennifer Lawrence pointed out that if the roles has been reversed people would have had less problem with the exact same story. 

Still, it is often the case that movies critics absolutely slam make tons of money at the box office and critical darlings flounder. 

Sci-fi movies are often in a weak position in this because of the amount of money poured into special effects. Blade Runner 2049 is one of the most well loved and critically received movies of the last decade, yet a box office bomb. 

It has it's moments, but most of the cricket action is so bloody thoroughly unconvincing it's not funny! It seems like they cast the only damn males in Australia who have never played cricket! Hugo Weaving plays a wonderfully malicious Douglas Jardine though.

Huh? What in the actual fuck was that? Spock's rocket boots? Uhura's sexy fan dance? The God shit? A confused mess of a movie. On the bright side, Bones has some great comedic lines.