We've been watching blurays on the new telly (our first HD telly).
Transformers - this is crap. I look forward to seeing the sequel. Hopefully it is less plot and more splodeys. Sometimes I have very simple, base tastes.
Star Trek - I've never been a Star Trek watcher, except for the occasional episode and movie. This movie I enjoyed very much, because I enjoyed it more than I expected. Spock was quite wonderful.
Hellboy II - I liked this, but then I liked the first one. I suspect I miss much, not having read the...comics?...as there are scenes that seem intentionally taken from that media and pushed into place. I don't mind this - I think it's good to honour that - but I think it might make for a less "smooth" sense of direction. Still, I liked it.
WALL-E - I've actually seen this before. I like this movie. I like the dialogue-without-dialogue for so much of it. I'm not that interested in the human story, though being Disney it's not like I didn't expect to be beaten over the head with that aspect.
Terminator Salvation - Okay. It felt somewhat nonsensical at times, and the end was pretty ordinary (and not in a "left open for a sequel" way, which I'm okay with, but in a forced-plot way that just irritated a bit. The suggested alternate ending was even less feasible, though I did like its inherent twist). Still, splodeys, big mean machines, CRASH, BANG, POW! I'm okay with that. I've always liked the franchise, and I look forward to the next ones.
The Warlords - Not very good. Simple war and bloodthirst. It felt fairly simplistic in plot, as if written for a young, unsophisticated crowd, while pretending to be sophisticated
Art of War stuff. This may seem like hypocrisy, in light of my Transformers comments, but I just feel that this movie wasn't what it was trying to be, which felt like a war-based
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon (a movie I do enjoy).
Note that the above is not meant to be complicated commentary and critique. None of these movies are ones I'd pick as "all-time favourites", but were picked by others as something we all might watch. I'd pick them on that basis, but would probably have picked something else if it was just for me. So, this was more being watched out of simple hedonism than for any edifying experience. If
Star Trek was "wrong", or I missed some point in
The Warlords, or
Transformers was "stupid, mindless, product placement", that's okay. I wasn't watching with a critic's eyes. Please don't feel insulted by my simplistic opinions, as they are simplistic.
Cheers,
Marc