Went to see Cowboys & Aliens this morning... awesome **MODERATED** movie, it certainly gets my vote for brainless fun with a few bits that pushes it into "better movie" territory...

Cowboys & Spacehulk... there is a sequence where I swear the characters were counting squares....

It did seem like Harrison Ford wished that he was elsewhere though, and his [spoiler]heel-face turn[/spoiler] was not all that believable.

Fun, but....

The Auld Grump, coulda been at a local brown coats meeting, but noooo, I thought C&A would have some of that same buzz....

I also enjoyed District 9, very much.

as to Cowboys & Aliens: a fun romp, lots of boom, but as others said don't look for a lot of thought. My SoD broke down when I saw that the aliens' structural metal could handle the stress of takeoff thrust on moving struts, but fell apart when shot by a 750 ft/sec. .45 lead slug. Ah, oh well, if I want an attempt at physical realism I'll reread the Lost Fleet.

Excellent fun, highly recommended. and Battleship looked LAME!

But Captain America rocked

This Cracked article making fun of the Battleship trailer nearly made me fall off my chair laughing a couple of times:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/novelizatio ... attleship/