As far as films go I can get behind some Indie movies and maybe a blockbuster or two every once in a while. I'm not the die hard Sci-Fi fan I am being made out to be.* For example, PACIFIC RIM sucked. I am disappointed that such a creative mind as Guillermo Del Toro made a movie about giant robots versus extra-dimensional monsters and had both look so boring. Why didn't the robots fly? Why do the monsters from another plane of existence or far away planet or whatever look so much like Westernized** monsters?
That being said Iron Man 3 was awesome because I love buddy cop movies and I give props to a big budget hero movie for going in that direction. Despite the obvious KISS KISS BANG BANG narrative device. Ben Kingsley's Mandarin was entertaining and Guy Pearce is a personal favorite of mine (I recommend THE PROPOSITION. MEMENTO is alright, but gimmicky.) Was Pearce supposed to be Fin Fang Foom? Anyone else with me on that one? He did breathe fire and had a dragon tattoo on his back.
My favorite movies of the summer were THE WAY, WAY BACK(Jim Rash and Nat Faxon wrote this, see below) and THE SPECTACULAR NOW. This is because I love the coming of age tale, and these two pulled off that common trope in a unique and fully entertaining way. Shailene Woodley was great of course, as she was in THE DESCENDANTS(Alexander Payne, Jim Rash and Nat Faxon also wrote this) and is in the now-filming THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. TFIOS is about kids with cancer who hate being treated special because they have cancer and then go to great lengths to take advantage of the situation through cancer perks. It has a great cast so maybe they'll carry that story a little bit.
To conclude here's a list of movies that will be boring***, but make a ton of money. Coming soon to a theater near you:
THOR: EVEN THORIER
THE HUNGER GAMES: WE KNOW IT SHOULD JUST BE ONE MOVIE BUT WE LOVE MONEY
OLD MAN AND THE SEA starring Robert Redford
THE BLOND DIES IN THE END
THE HOBBIT: DEUS EX BARDICA
*This is a lie.
**Oh yeah, a capital "W." I went there.
***"Boring" here is used in the Millenial sense where it means "Maybe it's good, but I'm not interested at this moment and thus my opinion on it is extremely negative."
I think I kept referring to you as a lover of Sci-Fi or dragon-having fantasy movies because we just had a conversation about something where you said "I'm not going to watch it because there are no dragons in it." Although, you showed very little interest in TH:TDOS so we're on the same page there. But you're right, a lot of these movies are very possibly going to be shitty, but they warranted mention because they'll be high profile nonetheless. I have no interest in the Old Man And The Sea movie or the Tom Hanks on a boat movie but they will be Wednesday nightmares for us. I am genuinely excited to see a lot of those though, as these stupid previews I do are just self serving pieces to write out the conversations I have with myself when deciding whether or not to watch something. I don't expect anyone to make their decisions based on or really even care about my opinions. By the way, we should do a piece on the whole book to movie or play to movie or whatever other kind of work to movie adaptation thing that always comes up. I have some residual feelings about the whole Jack Reacher debacle that we can explore.
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