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rockmarooned

It must be summers

Apr 29, 2011 08:35

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 ( Read more... )

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2000: Further Booooos maggith April 29 2011, 19:10:04 UTC

Of these, I distinctly remember the summer of 2000 as the summer that movies let me down, big time. Fourth of July I wanted to do a triple feature and ended up with this uninspiring trio: Chicken Run*, Titan AE, and Me Myself & Irene. The thought of repeating that hours-long ordeal makes me claustrophobic. Later I remember being bored and miserable and going to the movies to escape and being forced to see Space Cowboys. SPACE COWBOYS. My vehemence about 2000 may have been because I really needed movies; I was getting ready to go to college and super angsty and bored. I had nothing else going on and was just waiting it out.

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.

Re: 2000: Further Booooos maggith April 29 2011, 19:13:04 UTC

Though, to be fair, for senior ditch day I did do a double-feature of Gladiator and Center Stage (BY MYSELF, oh jeeeeeez, so SAAAAD) and half of that double feature remains one of my favorite movies ever.

I am the best goddamn dancer in the American Ballet Academy! Who the hell are you!?

Re: 2000: Further Booooos slightlyoffaxis April 29 2011, 19:22:18 UTC

I worked at a day camp that summer with four-year-olds, and the thought of Chicken Run made them so excited they couldn't speak. It was adorable.

Re: 2000: Further Booooos rockmarooned April 29 2011, 19:27:38 UTC

Oh, I actually forgot about Space Cowboys which I would list as an unquestionable HIGHLIGHT of that summer. I really like that movie. One of my favorite Eastwoods of that decade. Screw you, Mystic River!

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).

slightlyoffaxis April 29 2011, 19:18:47 UTC

If you remembered about Wet Hot American Summer, would that push 2001 to a B?

rockmarooned April 29 2011, 19:24:40 UTC

Oh, wow, maybe. Summer 2001 also reflects its entire movie year: a few absolutely AMAZING movies and a lot, a lot of junk.

freakjaw May 6 2011, 21:28:01 UTC

Gonna come back and read through all those summers again, but for now I just wanted to go on record, before seeing Thor tonight and starting this summer's movie season, to throw in my list for Most Anticipated of Summer 2011. We can compare relative satisfaction levels at the end of the summer.

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 ( ... )

freakjaw October 7 2011, 19:29:24 UTC

About to chime in on your Fall/Winter movie post, but first I thought I'd check back here and see how my list worked out this summer.

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 ( ... )

rockmarooned October 24 2011, 16:07:42 UTC

Hmmm, I hadn't thought much about ranking summer-only releases, but I guess it would shake out like this for me:

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)