Every year the summer movie season is the thing I most look forward to during the cold winter months. It’s something I can visualize better than any of the other activities that come with the warm weather. And although this summer doesn’t conjure up the going to the theatre every week that last year did, there are still some bright spots up ahead this year. Here’s where I’ll be the following weekends this season,
May 1st Wolverine
Although my hopes aren’t very high for the film, I still would love a good solo Wolverine film. My fear is that Tom Rothman who is poison to 20th Century Fox has ruined what could have been a great film. I will go, but if it ends up being mediocre I won’t be suprised.
May 8th, Star Trek
There is not a film all summer that has my excitement level tipped overboard like this one. JJ Abrams has the cred to make this work and it looks better than any previous incarnation of Trek before it. I’m not a big believer in canon as a bible, so all you complainers please don’t talk to me. This looks fun and that is just what Star Trek has needed. Can not wait.
May 22nd. I’m skipping Angels & Demons as I hated the first movie and going to see if we really need another Terminator movie. Early trailers look decent and it will be good if they at least get the feeling of T2 right and stay far away from T3 territory.
May 29th UP! It will be hard to top my favorite film of 2008 Wall-E, but even coming close to that artistic success will make me very happy with Up. The new trailer has a great line in Squirrel! and I can see this being a fun adventure. The question becomes do I see this in 3-d or regular?
June 5th Land of the Lost My hopes aren’t super high for this, but if it turns out to be a decent family flick with good comedy and not overly annoying Will Ferrell it could be this years Get Smart.
June 19th Year One. (No Poster Out) Jack Black and Michael Cera in Year ONE. Why not?
June 26th. Transformers 2. O.k. Michael Bay, blow stuff up. It’s Transformers, were you expecting a story?
July 3rd. Public Enemies. A strange choice for July 4th weekend but Michael Mann directing Johnny Depp and Christian Bale in a period John Dillinger piece. Awesome.
July 17th Harry Potter. I kind of feel like this series needs to end as soon as possible. Out of what I know I’ll see it’s my least looked forward to movie of the summer.
August 7th. Oh no this is going to be bad. Stephen Sommers has yet to prove to me he can direct. But they will get my eight bucks on popcorn value and Ray Park as Snake Eyes anyway.
August 21st Inglorious Bastards. Rounding out my summer with Quentin Tarantino seems about right as this could be great, or could be as bad as Death Proof. Kind of like most of these films this summer.
I’m sure there are other movies I will see as they sneak in and some comedies that I haven’t listed but so far it’s going to be mighty hard for 2009 to top 2008.
