The Battle for 8th Place

Battle for Terra, has intestinal fortitude fortified by steel brass and titanium, or distributor Lionsgate has the worst marketing and scheduling department ever assembled. “Battle for Terra“you say? Yeah, that’s the other movie (besides Ghosts of Girlfriends Past— which is also going to be torn asunder) opening up against Wolverine. The one that’s about humans coming to kick alien trash up and down a hospitable planet so they can live on it– the one that’s actually being mostly well-reviewed.

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Snikt! Wolverine Takes Critical Licks, But You Probably Don’t Care

After a number of screenings, reviews are coming in for this weekend’s Summer Opener: X-men Origins: Wolverine… and they’re pretty much what you would have expected from a crown spoiled by two previous X-Men films by Bryan Singer: slightly worse than middling. Which is fine, considering tracking date knows you better than you know yourself and demands a super high probability that most everyone who likes watching explosions in the dark will see this one no matter what critics say.

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USA Today Exclusive Character Trailer: X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Word on the streets is X-Men Origins: Wolverine is all kinds of shabby– bloated, loosey-goosey and vapid. You know, just like the rest of our favorite summer movies. Of course, those streets may be populated with mouth-breathing comic book purists, but they’re streets nonetheless. I’m going to wait and see– and while this trailer is somewhat trite in the way it’s cribbed from a sweaty locker room full of sport icon/rehydration drink commercials, I couldn’t help but feel some gid.

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