Dan Brown's books do not impress me, and the first of the two movies was not good enough to entice me to see the second. Moreover, Tom Hanks, great as he is, is too old for the part, and Opie is simply not a strong enough director to get a really menacing feel to the DaVinci Code movie, and, I would guess (since I will not see it), to the A&D movie.
But I did see ST, and it was pretty damned good. Spock was excellent, and, my word, but Uhura sizzled! Bones was really good. Simon Pegg as Scotty was OK. I did, however, have some trouble buying Kirk as a young man. The idea was to show young Kirk as an unconventional and original thinker, but unfortunately, the movie instead presented him as an egotistical, rude, smug, reckless, uncaring, self-centred, smart-alecky, smarmy, snotty, know-all, pain-in-the-neck who would have been much improved had he been soundly spanked on a regular basis, who should be allowed nowhere near civilized people, and who would surely have been THE LAST to be handed control of a big expensive space ship. However, he was not a bad Kirk once you got by this!
