Summer Days …. so far

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Only three weeks left until we say goodbye to the summer. In case you were too busy drinking tequila shots out of some bar fly’s navel, here’s a quick wrap up of the hot movies released (the ones that I watched) this summer … so far.

Transformers 2

Holy Crap that was bad.

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Great CG and somewhat entertaining acting from Daniel, Emma and Rupert. If you’re looking for cool effects and adolescence hormones going askew then this is the movie for you. From what I’ve been reading about the next and final installment in the Harry Potter saga, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (part I released in 2010 and part 2 2011) will  be more truer to the books. It’s a good thing too, because the books are way better.  When comparing the books to all of the films, the film lacks depth and cohesive story telling. Professor Snape is the Half-Blood Prince.

500 Days of Summer

It’s so easy to fall in love when the yummy yummy hottie thinking-man’s actor Joseph-Gordon Levitt is involved.  500 days proved to be the independent darling that the advertisements were pushing it to be. Levitt is heart-breaking and Zoey Deschanel his girlfriend (well at least for 500 days) is quirky and adorable. I was afraid the music numbers would get in the way of the movie, but it only enhanced the story. This is a great date movie for lonely girls and couples. And it’s not as gross and lovey-dovey as an adult time-travel who falls in love with an little girl and then knocks her up years later.  Here is a music video the two stars made, the song is called “Why Don’t You Stay Awhile” by Zoey’s band She & Him. Adorable.

G-Force

I didn’t watch this on principle. I love Zach Glaf-something Greek, so I don’t need to see him pay off his credit card debt by participating in this film. But, I will say that it was the #1 movie for two weeks, which tells me that parents don’t want to talk their kids, they’d rather have Guinea Pigs do it.

Funny People

Oh Apatow, will you ever make a movie that’s not 4hrs long? I was on the fence about this one. As I love the stand-up routines placed in the film, the actual story itself was a little dragged out. Apatow is great with comedy, but he does lack a dramatic element that could really round him out as a fantastic director. I think Knocked Up was a flook. Sandler has been trying to go down the Robin Williams/Tom Hanks road for a long time. I think he needs to keep walking. But, it’s definitely worth the price of a movie ticket. If anything you should check it out for the hilarious character  “Raaaaaaaaady!”  played by Aziz Ansari

What to look forward to:

GI Joe (8/7/09)

What! There are two black men in this action flick?! That means at least one of them has to live! I like them odds! What!? Joesph Gordon- Levitt is this flick too. Gimme my popcorn!

District 9 (8/13/09)

This Peter Jackson produced sci-fi film, about human and aliens, is going back to the basics effects-wise. There is CG, but for the fight scenes to make them more gritty and real, CG was minimal. This film directed by Neil Blomkamp (he’s done nothing that I’ve heard of, I just think he’s name sounds funny) tells the story of refugee aliens seeking a home on earth, but instead are confined to an area in South Africa called District 9. While trying to figure out what to do with them and how we can benefit from their weapons, a human gets infected with alien DNA and starts *gulp* changing!

Early screenings of this movie proved VERY promising. I trust Peter Jackson completely. He gave me LOTR, he can do no wrong.

District 9 Trailer