I'll still see it. Trailers are supposed to make a movie seem bigger than it really is. It did enough to make me want to see it.

And with any luck, we'll see it in 5 - 10 years with fewer jokes and storylines than were originally promised. This is like the Duke Nukem of fan films.

Beautiful. It captured many of those quick memories that we remember later on. It may not relate to everyone because they (including me) may not relate to ALL of the shorts. I loved it.

There is no way that can be real! I can't imagine such a terrible thing being produced. The Voiceover sounds like some guy they picked up off the street with a "deep enough" voice. Most of the "action" takes place in a single location (grocery store). Even the text used for the credits looks like the standard text that comes with Windows Movie Editor. Has anyone checked those "critics" to see if they are real?

This feels like a put-on. Like one of those fake trailers that are becoming more common before movies (see Grindhouse, Tropic Thunder, and (potentially) Funny People)

Even the trailer is boring. I can't imagine sitting through 2 hours of that.

-Bullshit ending, but perfect. For awhile, I thought this could be the series finale as it had all of the signs (revisiting old stories, saying goodbye to old characters, certain death, etc. etc.)

-I'm still trying to figure out why the asshole is dark rim glasses looks so familiar. As though he is an important figure in later mythology.

-I knew, the moment they walked up, what the other people on the plane where carrying in their crate. Suddenly, it was all completely clear why Locke had been on his quest from the beginning of these last few episodes. What does that mean for the story? Locke is indeed dead. Everything, every single action from the beginning of the show's storyline, has been plotted and planned by these two immortals. I'm going to refer to the as yet unknown other immortal as "Cain". After some time on the island, Cain was banished (Garden of Eden-ish?) for whatever reason. Either that or his jealousy over a man he could not kill over came him and he wandered the world looking for his "loophole". Cain has been setting courses in motion for hundreds of years to lead up to this exact moment of Jacob's death. However, Jacob had expected this and set out on his own course to counteract Cain's actions. He's nurtured and poked and prodded each original member of the Oceanic folks into a course of action that would lead them to his aid later on. Cain's maneuvers were solely centered around Ben. He is likely the force behind Charles Widmore that gave Ben an adversary to fight against and build hatred against his own "God" (Jacob). This would include smaller events (his daughter's death, loss of control of the "others", etc.) which would force his hand in choosing death for Jacob.

Jacob takes an alternate route. Instead of lining up direct opposition to Cain's forces, Jacob manipulates our star characters into an ultimate collision course with each other on the plane and in subsequent events. His end-game is to have our crew blow up the nuclear weapon, thus reversing Cain's actions in a non-violent and passively benevolent way. Suddenly, the flashbacks of "chance encounters" between characters seem all too obviously coordinated events that led them onto that plane together.

Determinism - every single event (including conscious thought) is predetermined by a series of events or an omniscient being outside of our empirical world (God if you will).

In this case, the omniscient beings are Jacob and Cain.

I apologize for my thoughts being random. It's 2am, I'm tired, and I'm trying to process everything I just saw.

I was surprised by the outpouring of support for Taken. I watched it originally based on the trailer, which was AWESOME. The film itself seemed like an exercise down Bourne-lane, but I enjoyed it. I enjoyed it in a guilty pleasure way. Not a great movie, but fun to watch.

Shutter Island looks better and better by the minute.

I'm finding it really hard to get excited about A Christmas Carol. I just can't have high expectations for it.

Ebert's review is less about the film and more about the series.

"I understand the Star Trek science has never been intended as plausible. I understand this is not science fiction but an Ark movie using a starship. I understand that the character types are as familiar as your favorite slippers. But the franchise has become much of a muchness."

We don't know where Abrams intends his vision of the story to go. We simply don't. My assumption is that this is merely a necessary bridge film from the old series to the new in order to avoid the jarring shock of the differences fanboys laud when the "history" in one film differs from the established timeline. I, for one, can't wait to see where Abrams plans to take the series.

I couldn't figure out how to reply because our responses have become hidden on my screen. I even registered for IntenseDebate and I can't find it.

Let me clarify my position as it apparently has become muddled. My original position is that the article posted on CHUD is not quality work. The author states many thesis, but never follows up on them, making his writing hollow and pointless.