/Film posted up Charlie Rose's interview with the Star Trek director. Personally, I'm just not sold on JJ Abrams or his partners Orci & Kurtzman. While the first season of "Lost" was amazing, I hated where they went with it and was gone by the third season. "Fringe" is to "X-Files" what "Castle" is to "Murder, She Wrote" - watchable but very very missable. "Fringe" also has a lot of nonsense in it and is already repeating storylines in its very first season. I've tried to commit to it twice now but it just doesn't have it. I was not a fan of Mission: Impossible III and never really got into any of is other stuff (and I'm going to let him off of the hook for "Cloverfield" since he just produced it).

I'm definitely going to see Star Trek but the reviews do note that the film's plot is problematic which scares me. Maybe the FX and characters are strong enough to gloss it over but Abrams' films and shows almost always use plot as a tease more than a foundation and there is often holes in it that really bother me. Nothing is worse than "Fringe" in which crazy shit is happening in Boston all the time and many times Anna Torv's main character is a target yet she still gladly lets her sister and niece move in like nothing's wrong. I also could never get over the fact that the biggest heist in MI3 was basically glossed over. We spend 10 minutes listening to how difficult it's going to be to break in and then it basically cuts to Tom Cruise escaping.

Then again, I've never been a huge fan of Star Trek so it should be too hard for this film to top the past flicks.