Star Trek 6/10 - OK action flick. It did nail a few of the characters down well, Kirk and Spock. Certainly much more action packed than trek usually is. Having said this you will likely be disappointed if you are a trek fan. Overall the film is thematically thin and the dialogue forgettable. Aside from the good performances by Kirk and Spock the other characters are largely just there for nostalgia's sake. I miss Patrick Stewart
Wolverine 5/10 - Better than X3 but that's not saying much. This film hangs almost entirely on Hugh Jackman and luckily he manages to pull the movie up by its boot straps somewhat. The supporting cast of mutants are fun to watch in the opening scenes for sure but they are quickly dispatched to make room for the Sabertooth/Wolverine conflict. Unfortunately this is poorly done and one feels little if any emotional connection with the charcters despite the fact that they actually changed the original ethos by making the two brothers. Then there's Gambit who's character seems to have been poorly grafted onto the script by the writers at the last second. The final fight scenes with Deadpool look more like they have been drawn from Japanese anime (fine by me as I'm a fan) and certainly look cool, but like the rest of the movie its flashy and holds no weight.
The Fountain - 7/10 (Not quite sure what to give this actually) - Ok I saw this with really low expectations given Rotten Tomatoe's reviews and other things I'd heard. I was pleasantly surprised by some of it and agreed about the crapiness of other parts. First and foremost this is a visual and aural experience not so much a deep mental one. Despite what the director was trying to achieve this ends up being mentally something of a shallow and silly movie. It's heavy with metaphor, eastern mysticism imagery, fore and pre shadowing (given the timeline) etc etc.. It's too heavy with this stuff. The love story between Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz actually well developed, not played too over the top and not too melodramatic. The star of this film though is the imagery, sound/music, and editing. If you can forgo the movie for it's over the top metaphors and plot you will enjoy the visual/aural experience. I did.
Star Gate Continuum - 5/10 Meh Just another Star Gate episode, this one just happens to be movie length. Nice to see all the actors together again but nothing else stands out here.
Frost Nixon - 8/10 Fantastic acting on the part of Frank Langella as Nixon! Michael Sheen as David Frost is also very very good. Supporting cast are all excellent with the exception of Kevin Bacon who's more of a distraction than anything else. This is supposed to be set in the 70s and Ron Howard for the most part does an excellent job of putting us right there, then suddenly boom there's Kevin Bacon, not the right choice if you ask me. It's surprising how Howard was able to maintain a feeling of suspense and momentum throughout despite the subject matter being what it is, Hans Zimmer's music helps here.
The Wrestler - 6/10 Over ratted. Yes Mickey Rourke does give a good performance here but it's a bit maudlin if you ask me. In fact the whole movie is a bit maudlin. Nice change of pace for Aronofsky, if he did anything more like the fountain he was heading in a bad direction. The ending you could see coming from a mile away and didn't move me all that much.