Latest Terminator - what a load of rubbish. First two were pretty good, but this one just sucks. Maybe it'd be more acceptable as a comedy-thriller if the first two hadn't been so ground-breaking, but this one pissed on the grave of the first two. It's even more a shame bcos the plot concept was just brilliant (tying up the logical hole of T2) and a competent director could really have made something special of it. Instead they got Jonathan Mostow who's not made a good film in his life, and the whole thing turned into Batman & Robin (or insert your most hated trash film here).

I'll second (or third) the hatred of the latest Star Wars films. Lord of the Rings is a great example of how to put effects seamlessly into a movie (with very few exceptions), and the reissued original Star Wars trilogy managed to digitally add stuff pretty well too. In the new Star Wars films though, every other scene screams "FAKE!!" at the top of its lungs. Although even those were better than Final Fantasy which was made by animators who'd apparently never seen a living human being.

The Matrix didn't do too much for me either. I suppose there was some good stuff, but it was stomped so comprehensively by Crouching Tiger a couple of months later that I can't now remember anything impressive about it.

Junk I do like: God help me, but I have to own up to Top Gun, Tango & Cash, and the old classic swordfighting films like Captain Blood or Zorro. I'm a sucker for action films, but unless you care about the characters then you might as well be watching paint dry.

Graham.