Since there’s been so many highly anticipated films that have come out recently, my family’s been on a bit of a movie watching binge.  Luckily, my theater’s first showings of the day are only $4.00 — even for a new film!  We’re sci-fi nuts at our house, so we’ve been anxiously awaiting these three films. I’m not going to give full reviews on these, but I would like to briefly state my thoughts on each.

Star Trek. Grade: A+

Absolutely loved this.  Casting was perfect, and I loved the storyline.  One of my sons has a problem with movies and books that have time travel involved, so he didn’t care as much for the story as the rest of us.  I, however, loved it!  Even my sister, who’s not really into Star Trek at all, really liked the movie.

X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Grade: A

This movie definitely answers all your questions about the origins of Wolverine.  Jackman was awesome, and so was Liev Schreiber.  The opening sequence of the movie is really great.  I liked this movie much better than the third X-Men film.

Terminator Salvation. Grade: B-

Disappointed.  I actually almost gave this a C+.  I love all the Terminator films and we’ve also seen all of the Terminator: Sarah Connor Chronicles episodes on TV.  This was our (and I mean all four of us!) favorite show on television, but sadly, it got cancelled.  So I was really excited that the fourth installment of the films was coming out.

Christian Bale is absolutely one of my favorite actors, so it pains me to say I really didn’t like him in this.  He acted it well, but there was really no heart to the story.  The only heart I saw came from the characters Marcus Wright and Blair.  Some of the machines were particularly cool, like the ‘motorcycle’ terminators.  However, I really despised some of the sound in the film.  Terminators are machines, not animals.  Some of the sounds coming from them were almost like the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park.  Didn’t care for that at all.  One more thing — some of the terminators in LA were wearing bandanas.  Campy. Just dumb.  This is my least favorite film of the franchise, and I must say that the TV series is also better.  That makes me sad because I really wanted to love this.

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So if you’re in the market for a movie this weekend and you’re into sci-fi, I’d choose Star Trek or Wolverine over Terminator Salvation.