Summer Movies
When working at camp during the middle of a busy summer, it can be a fun personal challenge to find the best ways of using my little time off. Along with sitting in a Starbucks and goofing around online, catching late night weekend movies was something that became a fairly regular habit last year. From “The Bourne Ultimatum” to “The Simpsons Movie” heading over to Yelm Cinemas became one of my favorite hobbies of the summer. I did some homework last month in preparation for the upcoming movie season and found a nice long list of movies that look pretty good. I’ll update this list as I see movies and add to it films not listed, and perhaps chime in any extraordinary thoughts that I have to share.
I’ve also listed a number of DVDs that I’m looking forward to coming out over the next few weeks and months.
In the Theaters:
√ Iron Man – May 2 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian – May 16 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
√ Indiana Jones 4 – May 22 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
The Promotion – June 6 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Get Smart – June 20 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Hancock – July 2 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Batman 2 – The Dark Knight – July 18th (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Step Brothers – July 25 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Traitor – Aug 29 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
DVD
The Hammer – June 24 (Amazon.com | Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
John Adams – June 10 (Amazon.com | Trailer)
Recount (HBO.com | Trailer)
War, Inc – July 1 (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Noise (Rotten Tomatoes | Trailer)
Surprises so far….
Iron Man wasn’t a movie that I was planning on seeing but after hearing such amazing reviews, I saw it a few weeks ago and thought that it was really good. For the last few years these big summer blockbusters have been cleverly written, and haven’t been over the top. I’ve been looking forward to Mike Meyers’ new move “The Love Guru” for the last few years since I heard they were working on it, but after seeing the trailer its not making it onto my list this year. Also not quite making it onto my “must see” list is “The Rocker” staring Office star Rainn Wilson. There are a few other goofy comedies that look fairly funny, but there are plenty of other good movies out there, and you have to save something for fall DVD rentals.
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Iron Man was great, Robert Downey Junior hammed it up with great skill. Besides, its a movie about a guy with a kickass metal suite who fights terrorists– what’s not to like?
Ditto on “The Love Guru”. I saw the trailer for that at Iron Man and I didn’t laugh once, I didn’t even crack a smile. Are these the jokes that weren’t good enough for Austin Powers? I’ll pass.
Indy. I was pretty underwhelmed by the trailer, nothing about it made me sit up in my seat. I also heard the rumors that early reviews were trashing it, but so far its got a fresh rating at RT so I think it’ll move back up on my list.
Aside from that, “The Dark Night” and “Prince Caspian” are some of my most anticipated. Now that I’m done with school, I might actually have time to watch these AND make a dent in my Netflix queue (which has been neglected for months now).
I’m glad to see you didn’t even mention the Zohan. I definitely won’t mess with it.
I see Get Smart is on your list. That seems funny to me, but I keep seeing these posters for it where like his tie is blowing in front of her face, or her hair in front of his, and it seems like it’s supposed to be a joke? I guess? It made me a little worried that I’d feel the same way about the jokes in the movie.
Oh, yeah, and Iron Man was the bomb-freakin-diggity!