I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not much of a Trek fan, in spite of my love of geek culture and claiming to be a member of it. I grew up with “The Next Generation”, although I didn’t watch it religiously; a few episodes here or there, and maybe a movie or two. I saw a few episodes of the “Original Star-Trek” as re-runs, and my interest in the series tapered off with “Deep Space 9”. In general, the series hasn’t held much interest with me. I don’t keep track of continuity, and I know only a little about the universe Trek takes place in. I was sad to see the series go after “Enterprise” (which I never saw), but only as a status-quo of geek culture.

Essentially the movie is a cinematic version of the ACT test. Except instead of those pointless prep courses for which anxious parents shell out tons of dollars only for their teens to be told to guess if they don't know the answer-- a viewer well-versed in film noir figures they'll be more than prepared for The Perfect Sleep no guessing required.

Unfortunately, this week I made the promise in the attempts to become more "pop culturally" aware to watch something relating to UFC to satisfy my big brother's wish which coincides with his new obsession involving the extreme sport that I'm only familiar with from seeing Jon Favreau mindlessly attempt it on TV's Friends. However, the last time I watched anything having to do with wrestling aside from a certain film with Mickey Rourke was when it was the only way I could stop a group of neighborhood boys from screaming as an in-over-my-head young babysitter.

Although admittedly I never quite got the appeal of the overly theatrical sport that didn't seem to have the same sort of rules or discipline of boxing or kick-boxing-- it's been fascinating since the popularity of the man formerly known as The Rock who now goes by Dwayne Johnson to see more and more superstars of WWE make the jump to feature films.