Three movies and the usual foolishness.

“Ghostbusters” is better than its predecessor on nearly every point. The script is better, the pacing is better, the cast is on a par, but the current cast takes direction better. I’m still not sure this movie needed to be made at all, but we enjoyed it.

“Star Trek Beyond” is better than the last entry in this series by a fair margin. It also points out how lucky the TV shows were to NOT have movie sized effects budgets; it saved them from the visual absurdity of the current movie’s space station. Star Trek’s strength has always been the characters, and when the characters are allowed to shine here, this is a wonderful movie. When the plot gets tangled up in idiotic pseudo-tech, the movie suffers. We enjoyed it anyway.

“Jason Bourne” may be one movie too many in this series. Damon’s Bourne is still solid, but the world is increasingly silly. (Did you know that the CIA has ten man black ops go teams available on two minutes notice in every major city in the world? This movie implies it…) It still works, mostly, and (third time in a row, if you’re counting) we enjoyed it, mostly.

Along the way… I have now been to Bristol six times, finally did full Ren Faire Drag on Saturday. It went over well enough (and I got asked to pose for a picture for the first time in my life; not sure what I think of that). Finally got the van back after driving a loaner for a week. Still haven’t got the intracacies of mounting the canoe figured out.

Life goes on.

Uncle Hyena