As I mentioned a while back in the Pacific Rim thread - Hellboy 2 is what gave me such high hopes for Pacific Rim.  The balance between insane action eye candy and interesting characters whose surprising but understandable choices drive the plot was beautifully done in Hellboy 2.   

But then in Pacific Rim the eye candy won.  Was some damn tasty eye candy, though.

Don't confuse crappy movies with crappy performances.   She's adorable in Speed 2.   And The Lake House.   And was also great in in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Shameless Oscar Bait. 

Also, The Heat is the most successful live-action comedy of 2013 so far.   So she's having a good year.

Ditto.  Who didn't already know Sandra Bullock was awesome?   She's that rare thing we've talked about often on the show - an Oscar-caliber actress who'll do genre movies.   

I bet Streep would be awesome to watch all by herself in a Soyuz capsule too... but she doesn't do that kind of movie.   

Fortunately we have Sandra, Jodie, Naomi, and a few others who will. 

All my PALs are in Europe.

Saw it.   Jeezus.

As You Know, there are nitpicks to be made but the only one that really took me out of the movie was the Clooney tether business.   Wish they'd spent just a little more effort justifying that.

But otherwise, cripes. If there's any justice, we got a contender for Most Oscar Nominations of 2013 right here.

If so, I sure hope he manages an American-style restaurant called "The Chicken Brothers".