June Blockbusters

[Jeremy Ackerman-Yost]

There really needs to be a "None" option in these polls.

That is NOT a bumper crop.

 

[Mark]

I think I might see Land of the Lost this weekend. Anyone else still in, or perhaps now planning to see it since this poll was made?

 

[FunkBGR]

I saw Moon at SXSW this year!

Man am I glad I went to SXSW . . .

We kept making jokes into it that Space Oddity was going to start playing during it, or something stupid like that (Duncan Jones = David Bowie's son).

ANYWAY -

Moon is good. It's about a joe-schmoe in Space who maintains a facility for The Company, harvesting some whatsit from the Moon, when all of the sudden something goes wrong. The rest of the movie is Sam Rockwell talking to . . . himself (in so many ways) . . ., and HAL9000 wannabe GERTY, played by Kevin Spacey.

The above makes it sound bad, but it's actually pretty good. They did a good job at building tension, and having fun dialogue. I don't know, I don't want to say its predictable, because I think they play up on some of the stuff you think and deliberately switch it around. Some stuff they play at is exactly what you think it is though, too.

FYI, GERTY is not HAL9000.

I think I'm really spoiling it if I go into much more, unfortunately. I liked it, and the people I went with enjoyed it too.

 

[Plane Sailing]

I'll not see any of those. Transformers might have been a possibility apart from Michael Bay whose approach I can't stand

Ah well.

 

[Hand of Evil]

That's all for June "blockbusters"? Yikes...

That would be a big: None.

Wait unit July, it looks like a wasteland; all you got is Ice Age and Harry Potter.

I find myself very attacted to Land of the Lost.

 

[Arnwyn]

Wait unit July, it looks like a wasteland; all you got is Ice Age and Harry Potter.

Yeah, I already groaned about it in the July thread.

It would have been a "big none" too if my wife wasn't taking me to Harry Potter (of which I'm not a big fan).

 

[Krug]

Boy Land of the Lost crashed.. #3 at the box office. But it was good to see Up at #1 and Star Trek still hovering around. Guess quality still does count.

 

[Mark]

Boy Land of the Lost crashed.. #3 at the box office. But it was good to see Up at #1

I managed both. Land of the lost had some good (dumb) humor and some "big" CGI that made it worthwhile for an early showing big screen price, IMO.

I'm also glad I added Up to the list of Summer movies. It had a much more ageless message than I expected. Cross my heart.

 

[Hand of Evil]

Guess you can remove Land of the Lost from the blockbuster list!

 

[Arnwyn]

Boy Land of the Lost crashed.

Hopefully the studios will be less enamored with Will Farrell. (Yeah yeah, I know...)