Star Trek and Wolverine

Having seen both new “blockbuster” movies, the new Star Trek and Wolverine, I must say that I was not impressed.
However, the reasons are very different. Wolverine is a movie that deserved to be much longer while Star Trek was just rather pointless to a fan. It showed us something that does not add anything to, or play a role in, all the previous events we have seen in any movie or series.

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For Star Trek, the creation of an alternate time line makes all knowledge of who Kirk and his crew were in reality (by reality I am referring to the actual time line of the universe) irrelevant. The change of events does not even limit the differences to Kirk because Nero is active in this movie and he affects events that would not have happened otherwise. Even Old Spok says so, in his question “Are you not the captain?” when New Kirk tell him that New Spok marooned him for mutiny.
So we have some info about the actual timeline from Old Spok (Kirk was captain at that stardate, he and Spok were friends) which are sufficient for us to say that we don’t really know what happened to the original characters in their original timeline.

Having said that, the movie is fun and engaging, but it fails to provide people that love the universe with more relevant info about the characters and that is a major flaw in my humble opinion.
As for Wolverine, the flaw in that movie is that it only has one viewpoint, that of Wolverine. So many characters and events are discussed in the movie but not given any background or substance. Hence we are left with a feeling of lost info, wondering what happened there or there, who that is, why did he did that etc. This is a movie that deserved many more hours of storytelling but we did not get that. Also, what is wrong with naming the characters with the aliases that Marvel gave them? So many of them are not called by their better known aliases.

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