Mr & Mrs Smith was the first film I saw. The audience consisted of young males with their gameboys and manga and "senior" women. Not too hard to figure out why they were there. And the film? It was fun, mindless fun. Mindless, action-filled fun. With Angelina and Brad. And they did have a chemistry that worked. Even better was that the film ended with a nice premise for a sequel, namely to get back at their bosses who wanted them both dead. I'd give the film a B+ for fun and Angelina.

Land of the Dead was the second film I saw and I enjoyed it too. I've likd all of George Romero's zombie films because he doesn't try to scare you out of your seat. Yes, there's tremendous gore but the scare, especially in the earlier films, is that the zombies just keep coming. With this film, he's setting up the ideas that the zombies aren't goin away so you better start to learn to live with them and that the zombies are able to learn. So I'm wondering if the next zombie film will focus on a world where the living and the dead have kind of figured out how to co-habitate. WIll the living use the dead as free labor? What about zombie rights? There could be a camp classic in the making here. I give this film a B. No Angelina, no +.

The final film, one I finished seeing about 15 minutes ago, was Spielberg's War of the Worlds. I'll say this: Tom Cruise has improved as an actor. Dakota Fanning did a great job as the screaming terrified kid. The effects were tremendous and after 20 minutes or so in to the film, you begin to fear the aliens. This film scared me more than Land of the Dead. If there were problems with the film one was the predictable ending - happy, happy - and that the destruction of the aliens wasn't due to Tom Cruise's character. You're just along for the ride. Cruise is a hero but not THE hero, not a Stallone saves the world hero. Still I give this film a solid B+ and if I never see those tripods again...