#score 8.5

Alright ya'lls, Movie Noob number who-knows-what-number.  This is focused on Star Trek: Into Darkness.  To be completely honest I started this movie on Netflix, like, a year ago and I just never got around to finishing it.  I honestly started watching it and just couldn't convince myself to finish it.  I started and it was all just too intense.  I stopped watching it because my brain couldn't handle frikin' Khan.  And I had a hard time that my Benedict was the bad guy.  I finally finished it today in an attempt to get it off my Netflix list.  So glad I finished it!!!  It was magnificent!  Despite my iffy beginning, I did rather enjoy it in the end.  I think I probably give it an 8.5 with a bonus point for all my favorite actors that happened to accrue into this film.  So, an 8.5 +1

Score 8.5 +1

This movie.  Oh Heavens.  Not at all what I was expecting, but in a good way.  I like what actually happened much better than what I was expecting.

I really hate movies where it feels like we're just trying to meet "word count" by causing problem after problem to obstruct the victory of the good guys.  This movie only had one moment where I felt we were just trying for one more problem.  Other than that it just continued to move!  And each problem wasn't just a rehashing of the previous problem.  Each issue was a genuinely new issue, separate from the other ways they obstructed the pathway to victory.

I also love the relationship between Wolverine and Rogue.  The fact that she is so dear to him, so quickly, and not in a romantic matter makes me very happy.  Many would say he cared about her too much, too quickly but I disagree.  I could go into my reasons for this feeling, but that's not why we're here.  Suffice it to say I adore the big brother/little sister feel of it:)

However it was not quite what I've come to expect from Marvel movies.  It fell just a little below what I want in a superhero movie.  But that is probably my fault.  I started with the modern movies, with modern technology.  Had I watched this when it first came out I probably would have loved it as much as I obsess over Iron Man and The Hulk.

Score 8.5

Okay, so I saw TFiOS before this movie and though I knew that both Hazel and Augustus were in Divergent, you cannot imagine the loop I was thrown for to hear Hazel Grace explaining the factions in the opening voice over.  SO MUCH BRAIN CONFUSION!  Like, I knew it was just the same actress, but without having Triss's character and face (especially the hair) in front of me with the voice all I could see was a pixie cut, canula-ed face of my favorite character ever.

Also, the dude who plays Four bares a striking resemblence to one of my friends, in facial structure and scruff, but much sexier and I love his voice sooooooo much!

All in all I really enjoyed this movie and found myself freaking out over Triss passing the test and Four and her fighting and stuff even though I've read the books and know exactly what happens.  Not exactly to the book and some parts that were missing disappointed me, but I totally understand the limitations of book-to-movie transitions.

On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being Eragon and 10 being TFiOS, I would place this movie around a 9, maybe an 8.5.  I think they did a really good job on turning a book that is written so much in the brain of the main character into a movie that didn't have one of those gosh-forsaken eternal self-narrating-monologue happening in voice over the entire movie.