Battle: Los Angeles is fucking stupid. How’s that for an opening? I don’t mean that it’s horrible, I mean that it has absolutely no brain at any time. In order to talk about this movie, I need to talk about what happens. MOST of what happens. So you probably don’t want to read past the spoiler warning if you want to be fresh going into this.

Here’s the non-spoiler version: Battle: Los Angeles is SUPPOSED to be Black Hawk Down mixed with ID4. Which is such an awesome idea. The problem is that it doesn’t even begin to live up to the potential of that idea. I give this movie a 4/10.

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The first X-Men movie was all like, ka-kow, but the new X-Men movie is all like KA-KOW. Here it is:

Looks amazing. Love the retro vibe. Love the new suits. Beast looks stupid as always. I’m also not a fan of the X-Men in this movie. Havok? Beast? Banshee? Lame. Lame. Lame. Too bad they burned off all the classic guys in the first/modern X-Men movie. Retro Cyclops would have been sick. Oh well, this is Fassbender’s show and he looks like he kicks all kinds of ass as Magneto.

Watch this. My boy Quellipsis points out that the movie is scored by Thomas Bangalter—half of Daft Punk (though this music is pretty F’ing boring).
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Wow. I wasn’t expecting them to go old-school TRON. Pretty cool actually. (Thanks, Gizmod0)

I got to see TRON:Legacy last week courtesy of my friend Ian at ScreenJunkies and what kind of benevolent webmaster would I be if I didn’t tell you if it was total trash or super awesome? (hint: I think it’s the latter).

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