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Judging by the weekend releases of Thor and The 5urious 5ive (also, Something Borrowed. For the ladies.) it is clear that SUMMER HAS SPRUNG! Not really, but you can hardly blame Hollywood movie studio executives for not having time to take a break from closing that big deal and peek outside their marble-coated tanning booth/Botox injector/personal cocaine lab to see what season it is and whether or not they should be releasing a particular genre of movies commonly regulated to the summer season. And since the film industry is essentially one inescapably huge publicity machine bent on inducing mass suspension of belief about both what is important and what is possible, we might as well just unthinkingly embrace it. What I’m trying to say is, THE SUMMER MOVIE SEASON IS HERE AT LAST! A time where we can sort of shelve our own artistic integrity and just put our eyeballs on a roller coaster. On Wednesday, Godsauce will give you his Thor review. Until then, let’s just get pumped about this summer’s movie blockbusters!
Personally, I love superheroes, so I’m writing this from the X-Men: First Class and Captain America midnight premiere ticket lines outside my local Fandango. Also, there’s Super 8, which is directed by some no-talent hack and stars a C-lister from a soon-to-be-canceled cable show that has definitely never had me, a grown man, on my feet crying and cheering like a lunatic and it will probably just get ho-hum reviews and fizzle from the public eye without much fuss. Rare miss, Hollywood.
I’ve said my peace and that’s my cue. What a wonderful adventure. Thanks, Scott and Amrit, for fielding all my panicked emails. Thanks, Werttrew, for being a bottomless source of information and encouragement. Thanks, Monsters, for being such cool Internet friends. And thanks, Gabe, for giving us such a great toy in the first place. This corner of the Internet may not look like much, but it’s our corner, and, in some way I don’t really understand, it does matter.
And enough from me. I’m gonna get off the podium and get back with you guys, where the action is. Let’s talk summer movies! Together! Like a family.
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Great job today, Huckabeast! You nailed it!!!
Great job, Huck! Your blogging muscles really impressed me.
I’m sorry I can’t be excited about anything other than the November release of Twilight 4.
Truthfully though, I’m really excited about the following films:
Harry Potter, X-Men, Super-8, bridesmaids, hangover part II, & 30 minutes or less.
Cool blogging today, Huckabeast!
“SUMMER HAS SPRUNG”? Is Gwenyth’s Goop ghostwriter ghostwriting this?
Summer Movies that I want to see…I won’t lie I want to see Transformers and the Pirates of the Caribbean. I have no excuse, I think they are fun! Also, I want to see Super 8. Lastly, Crazy, Stupid, Love because it stars my boyfriend Ryan Gosling.
I think that “Melancholia” and “The Tree of Life” are going to be great blockbuster hits for the whole family.
Christopher Plummer being gay dad to Ewan McGregor whilst wearing a red bandana (left means top, right means bottom) and reading Tom Wolfe looks so good!
But seriously, can’t wait for Beginners…it’s got Mélanie Laurent!
I am glad the Godsauce biopic is finally happening
That skyline is kind of funnily accurate. That little part of Jersey that is right across the river from the financial district! The weird little islands between Jersey and Staten!
I THINK YOU MEANT TO TYPE RELEGATED.
Crazy, Stupid, Love proves that people, who write movies, don’t know where to, put comma,s.
seriously though I will not list all the movies I want to see this summer since there are a lot, I really like movies
I’ve been swamped with final exams today.
Where my college students at?!
Anyways…. Zookeeper…. Kevin James
Who thought another Kevin James movie was a good idea?
Kevin James? I am not even sure about that one actually
i passed in my last project today. done with college forever!
now, somebody hand me a beer.
congrats!
…Did you mean “job application”?
FTFY
Thor was fucking great. No joke.
I loved it too!
Just got home from seeing it and I can confirm that this is true. So much fun.
It’s only downhill from here (sup, Transformers and Green Hornet).
Whoops, meant Green Lantern. Guess the terribleness of whatever it was that Seth Rogen did in that movie is still with me. I CAN’T SHAKE IT.
I still can’t get over how handsome that movie is. so handsome.
Verily it was awesome, but i laughed my ass both times someone yelled “Get him to the healing chamber!”
Super 8 had me at Coach Taylor.
Clear eyes. Full hearts. JJ Abrams. CAN’T.FUCKING.LOSE.
tyler, i am so proud of the job you did today that i want to punch you in the face a bunch of times. i have a hard time expressing emotions appropriately.
also, p.s. why are kyle chandler’s eyes so smoldery? kyle, you need to settle down with that. i’m not made of stone.
Uh… Does this help you visually express your emotions?
Cowboys and Aliens and Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford!
Huckabeast makes me want to..hug…a…beast…
See, all the wit! He’s taken it all!
Huckabeast, we have the same first name. I bet we have a ton of other things in common, too. What size of shirt do you wear? I’m a medium, which–and I’m not trying to brag–is a pretty popular size. Also, I get emotional during FNL just like you. Can eyes brimmed with tears still be considered clear eyes?
does “passion play” count?
“It does if I get paid”
- Mickey Rourke
If I could I’d waste a lot of time in theaters this summer (really, any time of the year, but the summer is where all the Hollywood fat cats want to make their money, SO), but I know I won’t be able to see all of them.
I’ll probably get around to seeing all the bombastic comic book movies (Thor, Green Lantern, X-Men: First Class, Captain America: The First Avenger, ) as I am a person raised on comic books. Super 8 is a MUST. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2. There’s a lot of hubbub about Tree of Life, but I don’t kow much about it. There’s a couple dinosaurs on a poster I saw, and I’m not talking about Sean Penn and Brad Pitt (HEY-OH!).
The rest of these I would go to if I had the cash+time and/or someone else invited me to veg out in a theater with them.
Bridesmaids
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Hangover Part II
Kung Fu Panda 2
The Troll Hunter
The Trip
Cars 2
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
Terri
Horrible Bosses (Charlie Day, Jason Bateman and Jason Sudeikis? has potential)
Winnie the Pooh (why not?)
Another Earth
Cowboys & Aliens
Crazy Stupid Love
The Devil’s Double
30 Minutes or Less
Conan the Barbarian
Aaaaaand… that’s everything through August.
Addendum: If I have to watch any of these in 3-D then I won’t be seeing them. Not a fan of 3-D, over here.
Shit just got real.
I’ve already seen Bridesmaids, Horrible Bosses and 30 Minutes Or Less. I’ve also seen all major comedies released up to this point this year, and I’ve seen a movie called Wanderlust starring Paul Rudd that won’t be out till October.
Horrible Bosses is EASILY the funniest movie of the year unless Hangover 2 beats it (I doubt that). This movie should do for Charlie Day what The Hangover did for Galifinakis. He’s that good in this. Bridesmaids is a solid B movie. Not particularly hilarious, but surprisingly honest and heartfelt, so worth a look. 30 Minutes Or Less is funny if you’re a fan of Aziz Ansari and Danny McBride. If not I would imagine you might not enjoy it. Oh, and Wanderlust was pretty great!
As for the rest, I want to see:
The Tree Of Life
Super 8
Harry Potter 7.5 (yikes!)
Winnie The Pooh
The Hangover 2
Attack The Block
Cars 2
Beginners
Cowboys & Aliens
Crazy, Stupid, Love
Submarine
Captain America
Another Earth
X-Men First Class
The Devil’s Double
OH! I forgot about Attack the Block!
Everyone, go see Bridesmaids! I saw a screener a few weeks ago thinking that in the herstory of herstories, I have never seen a female comedy claiming to be “as gross as men’s” that 1) lived up to the premise and 2) still held it together with a pretty good story. Bridesmaids is that movie, ladeez!
Cereally, go see it. If nothing else because Kirsten Wiig is adorbs and kinda messy-sexy (amiright fellas?) and you get to see Jon Hamm doing it vigorously for about 3 minutes (amiright EVERYONE?!)