Top Summer Film of 2011

[vynsane]

I'm laughing that GL had such a huge dropoff and all the DC apologists over tni are grousing that there's a 'Critics Conspiracy' devised by Disney to explain why their beloved GLs shitty movie is doing pisspoor at the BoxOffice. Occam's Razor would suggest its because the film is mediocre and got poor word of mouth. But no, it has to be one of several other explanations because the movie wuz awesum!!!!1!

yeah, except you could replace 'GL' here with 'Speed Racer' and count at least three denizens of the asylum as... i dunno, watchowski apologists, i guess?

[Rollo Tomassi]

But that's totally different! Because Speed Racer was and IS a totally awesome flick!
Whereas GL is like the DC version of the Fantastic Four movies. Underwhelming and completely failing its potential to be a bitchin' comic film.

[Rollo Tomassi]

Went to Cowboys and Aliens today. It was alright. I think Damon Lindelof, JJ Abrams, and Matt Reaves all have the same notion of what a scary alien is like because I swear, the Cloverfield monster, the Super8 monster, and the Aliens in this film are all interchangeable, apart from their size. (I say Lindelof and not Favreau because Lindelof was a writer on the film and he's in tight with Reaves and Abrams. I'm sure they all have game night with each other.) What would have been a perfectly nice shot of Olivia Wilde's bare ass was obscured by some CGI flames, so that was lame. And it might have been a stunt bottom and not her bare ass at all, but I prefer my version. Goddamn she's hot. The movie itself did some fairly disappointing BoxOffice. And as it is a fairly mundane film despite its acting pedigree (Any movie that has David O'Hara, the Kurgan, James Bond, Han Solo, Olivia Wilde, and Sam Rockwell in it has half its work done for it already.) I don't see it being anything but an also ran this year.


But anyway, the Summer Season is drawing to a close. As of right now Transformers is winning with $339M and Harry Potter is coming up behind it with $325M. Though I'll bet Potter can scrape together $14M more in the next few weeks to come out ahead as predicted.

Thor, X-Men, and Cap all did well in the Comic Movies race. Green Lantern sucked donkey ass. Thats probably why DC is closing up shop forever this month. Can you imagine? DC just upped and cancelled all their books and fired their staff and are never making comics again after August? Crazy.

[Senor JabbaJohnL]

Harry Potter was awesome.

Super 8 was really good.

Cowboys and Aliens was meh.

That is all.

[anarky]

Kung Fu Panda 2 came and went without me hearing much about it. The first one was quite good. I want to see the second, but how quickly it faded can't be a good sign.

Cars 2 was lambasted by critics as being Pixar's first misstep. Personally, I think their first misstep was Cars, and Cars 2 is like a big apology for Cars. Better score, better animation, better characters, better writing... and the whole "why do cars have buildings" thing was just sort of played up for silliness this time, and it worked better that way.

[Sleazer]

I might have to vote for Planet of the Apes...I know it's not on this list but man, that was a fun flick. Surprisingly good.

[Slicker]

I enjoyed Planet of the Apes as well. It was a bit strange looking back at it now and I expected more action and fighting but, from what I gather, they didn't really take over the planet by warring they instead "took it over" by disease.