I think I may retract that statement a little later in the season. Perhaps a more accurate assessment would be, "I love late spring and early summer", but that doesn't make for as clean a blog title. =)
Seasonally, May is one of my favorites. I also really enjoy September. But May just has so much...potential. Starting to get warm, drifting toward the languid summer nights were you sit on your porch and talk or listen to music and just enjoy life.
Thus, I believe I picked the perfect time to move out. I was sitting on my back porch last night talking to Melissa, and it literally was perfect. I had just gotten back from Taekwondo, so I felt good about myself and life in general. Wunderbar.
I particularly love the summer movie season. I've already seen three of the movies on my summer list, which (a la Gregorio) I shall enumerate below.
The Soloist. Now playing. This movie was somewhat strange, but I nevertheless enjoyed the performances of Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx. Perhaps running a little too long, I liked the resolution (and lack thereof) for the characters.
Battle for Terra now playing. I was more excited about this when I first heard about it, especially because there are several good names attached. However, my interest is diminishing the more I hear about it, so we'll see.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine Now playing. As I stated in an earlier blog, I didn't much care for this movie. It was visually appealing, but the story and characters were weak. And a bit too much action for action's sake.
Star Trek Now playing. An absolutely engaging and enjoyable flick. Not much in the way of depth, but the charisma of these fresh new actors completely made up for it in my mind. Loved Bones!
Angels and Demons opening this week. I've never read the books and I'm not a fanatic, but it looks interesting.
Terminator Salvation the first Terminator to earn a PG-13 rating. Is it less R-rated or have we grown desensitized? Anyway, I got interested almost solely because of Christian Bale, but I've done a little reading, and I'm actually interested in seeing the previous incarnations of the Terminator. Something about the predestination paradox intrigues me.
Night at the Museum 2 The first one was, I'll admit, rather amusing. I have little hope for the second Ben Stiller romp, so we'll see if this ends up as a Netflix request instead.
Up because it's Pixar and it has the "Squirrel!" dog that makes me laugh every time I see the preview.
Away We Go because it has Allison Janney! No, really, the first time I heard about this movie, I was mildly interested, but the more I hear about it the more I want to see it.
The Proposal a distant possibly simply because Ryan Reynolds is cute. (Yes, I give into such nonsense every now and again.) More likely a subject for Netflix.
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen which promises to be a lot darker than numbero uno. I just hope they let Shia LaBeouf act instead of being whiny the whole time [Compare Transformers to Eagle Eye. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.]
My Sister's Keeper because I saw a preview and it looks interesting (Abigail Breslin? We'll see)
[Public Enemies looks interesting, but a bit too violent for my tastes. Probably not one for me. Which is too bad, because I'll miss out on the eye candy!]
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince just cuz. (Incidentally, I think HBP is at least tied for my favorite book in the series. I hope David Yates holds up!)
That somehow ended up being a lot lengthier than I imagined when I embarked upon my list-making. But that just goes to show that there are a lot of good movies coming out this summer! I'm excited. Although, I have to admit that we've already bypassed one of my biggest anticipations for the season (Star Trek). But I'm still looking forward to a good few months of cinema viewing, in addition to camping and hiking and all sorts of good summery things!
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Now see, I love late summer and fall more than the spring and early summer. I haven't planned on seeing Angels and Demons because I'm on a Dan Brown backlash--for example I will not be reading his book coming out later this year. But I enjoyed A&N more than the Da Vinci Code, and if the film gets good reviews, I may just go see it. This line of thought also applies to Harry Potter.
P.S. Excellent list. Also, I responded to your comment on my blog.
Let's hear it for finally having some good movies in the theatres! I very much enjoyed Star Trek, though there were a few parts that were just a little too convenient (an alternate timeline so they can deviate from the future story line all they want? Hmmm...but there's potential there). Some things to look for after summer is over: Sherlock Holmes (Winter 2009), starring Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson - I hear they've cut out Holmes' drug addiction. We'll see how that works out. Also a new Robin Hood (May 2010) directed by Ridley Scott, starring Russell Crowe as Robin, Cate Blanchett as Marian, and Matthew Macfayden as the Sheriff. There's a movie being made based on one of the books I mentioned in one of my blogs - Percy Jackson and The Lightning Thief. I hope that it's good! And I dare to hope that The Hobbit may yet come out during my lifetime (damn you Peter Jackson! Get on with it!). Anyway, I'm looking forward to some good films.
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