Europa Report 7/10

Pretty good, could have done without the aliens, but pretty good. Especially liked what they did with the fragmented plotline, what with the cameras and so on. Kept you guessing. Also, they captured that sense of claustrophobic space dread real well.

This movie should scare the shit out of Hollywood, it's a perfect example of a small budget production being miles better than anything the big studios have to offer. Special effects no longer need high powered computers these days and if you get a decent cameraman and script writer they don't really matter anyway. Wonder what their distribution model was and how much it cost to make...

A possible explanation as to why many recent movies feel so generic/formulaic while having interchangeable places and people.

Pacific Rim = 5.5/10 - Not horrible, not great and I'd seriously bet my left testicle that Guillermo del Toro's wish of relighting people's interest in Godzilla-type movies will fail horribly. But with today's audiences being incredibly tolerant of retarded films, maybe...but I doubt it.

The film has a really long boring stretch in the middle where they try to make you care for the characters, but it's a waste of time as there really are no characters and no real acting in the whole movie and oh-my-god is Charlie Hunnam a horrible actor. He really should work only on Sons Of Anarchy, where his lip-biting scowl can be appreciated properly.

If you're gonna see it, see it in the theatre where the "epicness" of the battle scenes can be done proper on the big screen with a thumping sound system. It's certainly not the worst movie to come out this summer...not by a fucking long shot...and probably only because of the huge battle scenes.

*strokes beard*

So you're gay for Jeff Bridges ey?
Interesting, daddy issues, apparently...
*strokes beard*

Wolverine - 7/10

I liked it, but I haven't read the original story. It was an entertaining action movie, but nowhere as good as X-MEN First Class.

I was actually thinking of seeing Wolverine simply because it tells the story of his Japanese history/connections...which was probably the single greatest comic short series in history. However, I have a feeling it's not even about that and simply set in Japan...done on purpose so that morons like me who read the comic will blindly flock in to watch...so I'll probably skip it. And since you said it wasn't as good as X-Men First Class - which was not just fucking horrible, but cynically fucking horrible - I'll probably be happy I didn't see it.