Monday
Apr302007
My iPod tells me summer's coming ...
Monday, April 30, 2007 at 11:45PM I was fooling around with my Mac's iCal program, and I was trying to add US holidays. Apple's website has a great library, including a great a calendar subscription about movie releases. Unfortunately, it only goes out 30 days (or maybe its 2 months, I won't be sure till next week ... Kartik, any ideas?)
Anyway, I thought I'd list some of the movie releases I hope to be seeing over this summer. I say "hopefully" because, quite frankly, the Lady has some serious hangups about my choice of movies.
- Spiderman 3, May 4th: Ah, the Friendly Neighborhood Spiderman. Catches thieves just like flies, apparently.
- Shrek the Third, May 18th: The second movie was a bit of a disappointment compared to the sheer exhilarating originality of the first. The trailer to the last installment doesn't offer me much hope, but the glass is always half-full, I always say!
- Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End, May 25th: Following the disappointment that was Dead Man's Chest, I'm hoping that this movie will offer fans "more Gore, and less Verbinski" (to quote the Ninja)
- Ocean's Thirteen, June 8th: Does anyone detect a trend of excellent first movies, mediocre second movies, with the third & final installment this summer?
- Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer, June 15th: To be fair, I thought the first FF movie was pretty crap. But what the heck, this is the only movie to open this weekend that I considered putting on this list.
- Evan Almighty, June 22nd: Two words. Steve Carrell rules. OK, that's three words.
- Ratatouille, June 29th: Can Pixar boounce back from the ignomy of losing an Academy Award? Their movies are innovative in plot and setting, to say the least.
- Live Free and Die Hard, June 29th: Refer above, regarding strong first movies in a franchise. The thing that really irks me about the Die Hard series is that the producers seem to have forgotten what makes a good Die Hard film. One man + A closed environment = Die Hard. Not running around New York City, or Chicago. That's any run of the mill action flick.
- Transformers, July 6th: I played a lot with these toys as a kid, though I can never remember which action figures I had, or what they turned into. Hopefully, this movie will not be part of the "Wreck your childhood dreams" camp (ref: any Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie)
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, July 13th: Admittedly, I thought Book 5 was pretty darned crap. Yeah, he's going through puberty. Yeah, he has emotional turbulence wrought by hormonal imbalances & stuff. Someone smack this kid along the ears and tell him to stop sniveling, please?! The last few movies have been pretty good though. Hopefully, the writers for this movie installment can edit out the emotional crap we had to endure over 500 pages.
- The Simpsons Movie, July 27th: I love anything Matt Groening has done. Long live Futurama! Oh wait ... this is The Simpsons. Ah well, still good stuff. The writing of the show kinda flopped around a bit over the last few years, but this last season has been very strong in political and social satire. Hopefully, the movie producers kept the same writers around.
- The Bourne Ultimatum, August 3rd: Hmm ... yet another trilogy with a weak middle part. But Matt Damon really owns this character, and I do look forward to this movie.
- Rush Hour 3, August 10th: Verbal constipation meets verbal diarrhea for the third time. But I'm a fan of Jackie Chan and his crazy ass stunts.
- Mr. Bean's Holiday, August 31st: A big hit across the pond, this movie spawned an essay examinging why Bean was the cultural ambassador to the rest of the world.
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