What I Want To See This Summer

It seems like every year, the summer movie season starts earlier and earlier. It's only a matter or time before the big Summer movies start mid-April.

Anyway, here's my comprehensive list for the summer movie season in which I'll have to take a second job to pay for them:

May 2:
Iron Man
Son of Rambow

May 9:
Speed Racer

May 23:
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

May 30:
Sex and the City: The Movie *

June 13:
The Incredible Hulk
The Happening

June 20:
Get Smart

June 27:
WALL·E
Wanted

July 4:
Hancock

July 11:
Hellboy II: The Golden Army

July 18:
The Dark Knight

July 25:
Step Brothers
X-Files 2

August 8:
Pineapple Express

August 15:
Tropic Thunder*

* Morbid curiosity

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Whatever sketch she's in, good or bad, she is the funniest person on the screen.

Movie of the Week: Horton Hears A Who

You know, I didn't think it was possible to overact in an animated feature.

Thank you, Jim Carrey for proving me wrong.

It was good. The story was spread a little thin as was to be expected.

I think the biggest problem with all the current Dr. Seuss films is that they are made for kids who never saw the cartoon versions from the 70's (yes, I am carbon dating myself).

So when I hear Jim Carrey as Horton is sounds wrong to me. I know that's my problem and not the filmmakers.

It was good enough, guess.

Movie of (Last) Week: Stop-Loss

Good movie that's hurt by bad acting.

I should say my friend and I had gone to the movies with the intention of seeing Horton Hears A Who so to go from being in the mindset for a Dr. Seuss movie to seeing a(nother) depressing flick of Iraq was a little jarring. But I won't hold it against the movie.

Ryan Phillippe was good but why does he always sound like he's clenching his jaw. Abbie Cornish was okay but her Texas accent was pretty bad. The best was (no surprise) Joseph Gordon-Levitt. I wish they had spent more time with his character arc (which towards the end happens behind the scene of the main storyline). Actually, it might have been a better movie with him as the lead but that's just my opinion.

It was good to see Victor Rasuk again who was good comic relief despite his character's personal tragedy.