Batman Begins sucked; The Dark Knight wasn't that good; Star Wars is an overrated turd, and a perfect example of everything that is wrong with 'science' fiction (and arguably did more to damage SF's reputation than any other franchise or combination of franchises - ever); Once Upon a Time in America is a similarly over-estimated stain on the otherwise well-populated crowd of mid-late-20th century gangster films by sole dint of its intolerably long, plodding narrative and dearth of meaningful thematic content (other than, I suppose, the bizarre misogyny and meticulousness of the director), not the acting; Croupier was absolutely atrocious, laugh-out-loud garbage; the popularity of Indiana Jones (or, I suppose, that of anything ever so much as touched by George Lucas) is utterly bewildering to me; as a mordant parody and scathing comment, Watchmen was, surprisingly, more-or-less superb; Raimi's Spider-Man was tedious (and often embarrassing) to watch; the X-Men franchise wasn't much better, with the possible exception of First Class, mainly due to the quality of the performances therein; The Social Network was OK, nothing more, nothing less; Cronenberg's A History of Violence was a hackneyed disaster, but Eastern Promises ultimately redeemed him for me, and then some; I didn't think Scott had it in him until I saw Prometheus, which, together with Blade Crawler, has cemented my image of him as a competent (nay, often virtuosic) sci-fi director who periodically fucks up and fumbles his best material for reasons unknown; Adam Sandler is the most perfect disgrace to big-budget cinema since George Lucas; Ben Stiller isn't much better, but at least there was Tropic Thunder, which was pretty funny, I guess; from what I've seen of him, Woody Allen kinda sucks (but Midnight in Paris was alright, I suppose); pretty much every 'action movie' and comic-book superhero film are unwatchable exercises in determining how much mindless sensationalism, absurdity, and repetition can be foisted upon and sold to an eager audience of what I can only presume consists of children and the severely regressed; Pineapple Express was pretty lame.