The Movies of June, July, & August

After I’m caught up here, I think I’ll start writing again. But until then, I present to you…summer movies!

—June—

53. The Full Monty – 2.5 (normal, read:ugly, guys learn to be strippers for one show. kind of funny)

54. Chariots of Fire – 2.5 (can’t figure out until 1/2 way through the movie who I’m supposed to be paying attention to)

55. Nowhere Boy – 1 (I know I caught a few z’s during this. It goes nowhere – zing!)

56. Moonrise Kingdom – 4 (Wes Anderson does it again!)

57. Men In Black 3 – 2 (despite a pretty good impression of Tommy Lee Jones by Josh Brolin, this is just a blah sci-fi popcorn flick)

58. Jackass 3 – 2.5 (I shouldn’t have laughed as much as I did. Quite a bit of gross factor though)

59. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer – 2 (somewhere about 1/2 way into the movie it really starts to drag and loses its fun factor)

60. Princess Mononoke – 2.5 (middle of the road anime. not bad. not great)

—July—

61. The Amazing Spiderman – 3 (it was a fun movie that didn’t need to be made giving us the origin of Spiderman which we all already know)

62. Dark Knight Rises – 3 (Hurt by it’s own hype and the lack of cool batman scenes)

—August—

63. 2001: A Space Odyssey – 2 (There’s really not much to see here. Movie picks up and then drops you off on the way to psychoville)

64. Total Recall – 2 (bad remake is bad – there’s no mars!)

65. Ironclad – 2 (a medieval flick that just doesn’t quite let you care about any characters)

66. Merlin – 2 (made for TV movie that’s fun but lack of polish makes it seem goofy)

67. True Grit – 4 (this is the 2010 remake and it is all kinds of awesome)

68. Immortals – 2.5 (I thought this was fun in spite of being covered in an inch of CGI)

68. The Red Baron – 2.5 (boring, but not bad)

69. Conan The Barbarian – 2 (another useless remake)

70. The Outsiders – 3 (tragic movie without the redemption you so want it to have)

71. Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark – 4 (yes! Watching this as an adult has opened my eyes to some of the more subtle nuances of the film – ps. the Nazis aren’t Jones’ real rival here!)

72. Moon – 4 (probably one of my top 10 sci-fi movies of all time)

73. The Terminator – 3 (the use of puppets seems even more obvious with the special effects we have now, but the pure menace of Arnold as the Terminator makes this a thrill to watch)