So Whee­z­ley and I have actu­ally been to the movies a cou­ple of times already this sum­mer. Here’s what we’ve seen so far:

X-Men Ori­gins: Wolver­ine: Just aver­age. The story was okay, but I don’t know, it just didn’t have the spark that some of the other X-Men movies have had. That being said, there was a lot of man candy to look at (I had no idea Ryan Reynolds was so buff!), and I did like the fight scene with Wolver­ine and Gam­bit (Tay­lor Kitsch from Fri­day Night Lights).

But I didn’t really care about the love inter­est or the whole Sabretooth-brother plot. And, as Whee­z­ley pointed out, there were a few too many scenes of Hugh Jack­man scream­ing at the heav­ens. And the CGI at the end wasn’t that great. (Was that really Patrick Stewart?) Overall, just meh.

Star Trek: It totally rocked. I’ve never seen a sin­gle episode of the TV series or any of the movies, so I’m not really a Trekkie at all. But I thought the movie was excel­lent. It was a really well-done ori­gin story that had a lot of things in there for the fans and non-fans alike (I loved Bones chas­ing Kirk around the ship and giv­ing him shot after shot).

The time-travel sto­ry­line made my head hurt a lit­tle, but then again, it always does. It was nice see­ing Zachary Quinto in a non-Sylar role, and Chris Pine did an excel­lent job as Kirk. Over­all, it was every­thing a sum­mer movie should be — smart and fun with some cool effects.

Ter­mi­na­tor Sal­va­tion: It sucked. I didn’t have high hopes for it, but it was just not good. I think one of the main prob­lems was just the lack of any kind of humor or light­ness what­so­ever. That’s what made T2 and T3 so enter­tain­ing. Yeah, the world was end­ing, but Arnold still had some funny lines along the way. T4 was just … depress­ing. And again, the time travel stuff made my head hurt.

And how many peo­ple have to die before folks real­ize that maybe get­ting into a car/plane/helicopter/whatever with Chris­t­ian Bale will lead to their untimely demise? Just a thought. Every­body who got in any kind of mov­ing vehi­cle with him ended up get­ting shot down or eaten by killer water robots.

So there you have it. My take of the sum­mer movies so far. What about you guys? What movies have you enjoyed this sum­mer? Share in the comments.