Thor: So I wasn't really excited about Thor but I'm still working my way through the Avengers movies.I really like Kenneth Branagh but this movie...it was kinda like the cliff notes version. So much of the plot was cut short, especially for those with no knowledge of Thor, Norse mythology, etc. I was also very unimpressed by the transformation of Thor from a stuck up young punk to a hero just by meeting a pretty girl. All that being said it did make some more sense of Agents of SHEILD and Captain America.

Despicable Me 2: I just saw this at the dollar theater with some friends the other night. It was pretty good, I haven't been able to decide which was better, 1 or 2, they were both pretty good. This movie was not just the same plot line recycled from the first one. I think there's something for different senses of humor too, there were parts that made me laugh quite hard and different parts where my friends were laughing very hard, so that's a good thing I guess.

Despicable Me: I'm late to the party on this one, this was the first time I've seen it. It's pretty good and funny, maybe not quite up to the hype though.

Iron Man 2: I don't know if I liked this better than the first, it was on par I guess. I wasn't a fan of Don Cheadle playing Rhody, Cheadle is of course very talented but I preferred the previous actor.

The Incredible Hulk: As I may have mentioned, I'm watching my way through the Avengers movies. From Iron Man I went on to the Hulk, to clarify this is the more recent Hulk movie. I started watching this movie one evening when I was quite tired and I was having a hard time getting into it. I stopped maybe a third of the way in and really debated whether or not I would finish the movie, eventually I did finish but I don't feel the need to ever watch it again. I guess... Bruce Banner/the Hulk is a nice guy (when he's not the Hulk) and has mystery and a sad situation but he's not really charismatic which I think is something that draws us, me anyway, to superheros, like Iron Man, I have some very negative feelings about Tony Stark but he's charismatic and that draws me in.

Iron Man: I thought I'd posted about this already but apparently not. I had mixed feelings about this movie, I quite enjoyed parts of the movie and other parts made me want to stop the movie and not continue. Tony Stark is charming and likeable but he's also somewhat of a pompous, arrogant, jerk...

Invitation to the Dance: This was an interesting movie, a pet project of Gene Kelly's. There's no dialogue in the movie, it's three filmed ballets, beautiful ones.

The Cover Girl: Another Gene Kelly movie, apparently it was a break out role for him. It was a kind of hokey musical, but there were some really ground breaking (for the time) scenes.

The Seven Samurai: I've been wanting to see this movie since I saw the Magnificent Seven, which I learned was based on The Seven Samurai. The two movies are very similar and I wish that I'd watched the two movies in the opposite order. It was a bit hard to want to finish Samurai because it was so similar to the Seven, to the point that I could say, oh this is that same character etc. Samurai is very long and while it's well made, that's a lot of subtitles to read and it's also more crude than I remember the Seven being. I find my self over all drawn more to the Seven over the Samurai, both are good but in the Seven are actors I know, and a paradigm I understand much better, it's more accessible to me.