I am no great fan of the Fast/Furious franchise, so imagine my delight at my utter enjoyment of Fast Five, as detailed in my
review. I liked the trailer a lot for this movie, but I had been down this road before with the trailer for Fast and Furious (aka 4 Fastness 4 Furiousness), and that movie was disappointingly boring. But Fast Five is the
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This list is making me nostalgic! We are so very very old!!
*Chicken Run is great but not great enough to make up for the tiredness of the other two.
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I am the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy! Who the hell are you!?
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I think I know how you arrived at that triple feature of movies I also totally saw (though not in a single day): the big Fourth of July movies opening that weekend were The Perfect Storm and The Patriot. At least those three others you saw have FUN in them. Perfect Storm is more of a downer drama than an action movie, and Patriot is just all-out awful (though I didn't see it until video, blessedly).
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1. Super 8
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - Pretty confident that this will work, right?
3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - Might be my favorite currently active movie series, and I like all of the elements they've got here, but...just waiting to see how much I miss Verbinski/how Marshall manages.
4. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Really excited for this. Please don't mess it up, Fox. Pleeeease. Slightly more scared of this than Pirates, but I'm mostly optimistic about both. Project Nim gets an honorable mention here thanks to thematic similarity.
5. Cowboys & Aliens
6. Bridesmaids
7. The Tree of Life
8. Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
9. The Trollhunter
10. Maybe Captain America? I haven't seen trailers for ( ... )
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Rough Post Summer Re-Ranking:
1. Rise of the Planet of the Apes - Holy cow, I'm an easy Apes-mark and I still was surprised by how much I liked this one.
2. Attack the Block - I didn't have this on the list before, but since it was a summer release, I'll throw it on here. Excellent genre picture that had got extra credit (a la the Apes films, actually) for actually being about something and having some interesting subtext.
3. Bridesmaids
4. Tree of Life
5. Super 8 - Still pretty much loved this, but it didn't come together as well as I'd hoped as a narrative (or thematically). A pretty thoroughly excellent time, though.
6. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 - It did work! As a series of films it's a pretty incredible accomplishment, and I think they stuck the landing.
7. Midnight in Paris - Look, I've enjoyed many of his other recent films and I'm still surprised a Woody Allen movie was a ( ... )
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1. Super 8 (despite some JJ flaws, nothing I've seen this year has jazzed me up as much as this movie)
2. The Tree of Life
3. X-Men: First Class (note: I will rewatch this Blu-Ray way more often than Tree of Life and it may leapfrog over it in the final year rankings)
4. The Future
5. Rise of the Planet of the Apes
6. Bridesmaids
7. Submarine
8. Our Idiot Brother (wound up outperforming most of the bigger comedies, even though I liked most of them)
9. Midnight in Paris
10. Captain America (well done, Joe Johnston; did not expect this to be better than Cowboys & Aliens)
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