3. Abrams Can Keep A Secret
As much as we nerds may want to know, I'm glad the identity of Benedict Cumberbatch's character in Star Trek Into Darkness remains unknown. Hopefully, I'll still be in the dark about who he is when I go see Star Trek Into Darkness on opening day. Between the scourge of leaked scripts, internet spoilers, and modern trailers that show the final set-piece (Prometheus, I'm looking at you...), it's hard to be surprised by movies these days. J.J. Abrams is one few people left in Hollywood who realizes that spoilers diminish the effect of a film. He wisely keeps some secrets from the audience, and he's able to keep his movies under a veil of secrecy until their release. I don't know how he does it, either. I imagine men with baseball bats - and names like Jimmy The Fish - are involved. Half-Life, like Cloverfield, needs to surprise audiences in theaters if it's going to work. If J.J. Abrams makes a Half-Life movie, he'll be smart enough to make audiences wait till Christmas morning to open their presents.
Jeremy Wickett
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Jeremy Wickett was raised from an early age in one of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma's classier opium dens. A graduate of The University of Oklahoma, he now resides in Phoenix, Arizona - where the desert heat is oppressive enough to make him hallucinate that he's a character in Star Wars.
And of course he can speak Bocce - it's like a second language to him.
His so-called musings can be found here: http://geekemporium.blogspot.com/
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